Стэнли Чен — Книга 2: Красноречивые слова о сути океана высшего знания (Гьялцаб Чже о «Своде высшего знания» — Абхидхарма-самуччае), занятие 2

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Juan, Ben, and all the Mixed Nuts. Welcome Stanley and our beloved Geshe Michael Roach. Ben, I don't know if I want to take over your book, but...

Hi Geshe-la. I'm going to have Stanley do his homework, okay? Oh no, okay.

Let's go. Okay, I'll do that. It's going to be short and painful.

Do you know you look more Chinese in China? I don't know what it is. Yeah, I don't know.

You don't look like a Rimrock person now. I think it's the food. Okay.

Can you guys see the homework questions? Yes. Yes, okay, thank you.

Okay, welcome to Mixed Xuanzang Class slash Diamond Mining Class at CIM. So... Is it my own?

Okay, okay, good. So, October 23rd, I think, we did the first class on this new book, Abhidhamma Samutraya. The Mahayana version of Abhidhamma, instead of the Hinayana version of Abhidhamma Kosha.

And then, so this one is written by his brother, Master Arya Sangha. By Vasubandhu's brother, Arya Sangha. And then we are going to translate a commentary by Gyalsat J on this book, Abhidhamma Samutraya.

And then, we are just starting, so I'm gonna... Many of the questions today, it's about the background of the book. Number one, there are many companions.

Like, this is Abhidhamma Samutraya. Samutraya means companion, collection of things. But there are many famous ones.

Can any one of you tell me any one of the famous companions, which is not what we are translating? Shila Samutraya? Shila Samutraya.

Shila Samutraya. You mean, by who? There's a companion of practices by...

There's two of them, but one of them is by Master Shantideva, and the other one's by Junmei, Lord Atisha. Yes, yeah. Yes, yes.

So, Shantideva has, I think, two, and then Lord Atisha also has two. Anyone can tell me another author, famous, very famous, who... Dignaga.

Yeah, the companion of... Amarna. Amarna, yeah, your guy.

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He's adjacent to my guy, anyway. Close, we're big fans.

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Yeah, you are, we are. I think there's... Let me see.

There's another one, very famous, very famous. Everybody knows. Yeah, Venerable Pala, you got it.

Nagarjuna, by Nagarjuna. So, let me see if we miss it. So, we have Arya Sangha's companion on higher knowledge.

We have Nagarjuna's. We have two by Lord Atisha. And then we have two by Shantideva.

And we have another one by Master Dignaga. Yeah, that's it. Okay.

Second question. This is one of the mother books of Maidani school, Abhidhamma Chamuchaya. And it's one of...

Actually, one of the eight famous books on this series of Yogacara Bhoomi, which is actually Xuanzang's favorite book. It's the main book he went to India for. But Arya Sangha wrote eight of them.

It's in the same series. Anyone remember anything? Level, level, level, level, level, level, level, level, level, yeah, many levels.

It is, indeed. Yes, that's one of them. There are different levels.

The Bodhisattva levels? Yeah. If you have a Bodhisattva level, you might have...

Listener levels? Listener levels, yeah, yeah. We got three.

Just to save time. I think we got the idea. So let's look at them.

The cool thing is the Tohoku catalog has the Chinese translation of all these books. So I took them out. Nice.

So we have the many levels. If you are Chinese speakers, you can look at this. And then we have the levels of listeners.

We have the levels of Bodhisattvas. That's number three. Number four, we have a summary of presentations of Yogacara, Bhumis, yeah.

And then we have a summary of the collection of sutras. And then from the summary of the foundations, talking about the foundations. And then we have a summary of vow morality.

If I'm not mistaken, the Bodhisattva vows is from this part, maybe. The one that we usually use in the Chinese tradition. I don't know the other one.

And then we have the brief explication, number seven. And then number eight, we have a summary of the versions. That's all the eight books.

The interesting thing is in the Chinese translation of all of this, they are all put basically in one big book. Master Hsuan Tzu put all of them in one book. And then so you can see in the Chinese, they call it, all these books are just different volumes from the same big commentary.

So that's actually the number one commentary that Master Hsuan Tzu translated for the Manjushri School. Okay. And I realized that, by the way, that I really don't understand many of them.

It's interesting to figure out more. Geshe-la mentioned that it took him some time to figure out these books. Yeah, it is a little confusing.

Question number three. That's an interesting part. I don't know if you remember, but when Gyatso Jei, writing the commentary, he first, as a tradition, you bow down to some worthy object.

And then that indicates the main topic of your book. Like if you are bowing down to Manjushri, usually your book is about wisdom, which is supposed to be the topic of this book, Abhidhamma Samutraya, because Abhidhamma means higher knowledge. It's wisdom.

And what does Gyatso Jei bow down to at the beginning of the book? The holy ones of compassion. Right.

That's a very interesting thing. Why? Why is he bowing down to compassion instead of wisdom or Manjushri?

It's a mystery. Because this is a Mahayana Abhidhamma? Yeah, maybe.

Yeah. Then Mahayana has great teachings on compassion for sure. I don't know if you remember, but when I was preparing this homework, I realized this book was written by Master Asanga, who got to see the future Buddha, right?

Maitreya, Mr. Love. Because Asanga himself developed compassion. So I don't know if it's connected, because Arya Asanga, through developing compassion with that wounded dog, got to see Mr. Compassion from the future. Maybe it's related. I don't know. I'm just guessing.

So that's my guess. Yeah. And then, oh yes, Geshe-la, can you see the screen?

Yeah, I can. I'm okay. These are the paragraphs that Mr. Word helped me translate. And he told me, actually, you and him already translated it in his book.

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In his mind.

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It sounds fine. So do you want me to read it? Yeah, and there's a lot of mistakes in the carving.

I was there when this carving was made, and it's a very bad copy. And we have changed manuscripts. We're in a different manuscript now.

And it took Grandpa a lot of hours to fix it. So anyway, the first word is wrong. It should be de la dir.

Okay. Oh, I see. I have a newer version than I did.

Yeah, and from today we'll be working on a different carving. Okay. Do you want to see the English?

Because it's translated by you. I like it. Let's see.

He's not really going to describe the contents, but he's going to make a quotation from this ancient Diamond Way book that's a prediction of a sangha. Yeah, so the root text of Manjushri, the root secret book of Manjushri says, There will come a monk named Unstoppable. Good.

He will become a master in the many other classics. Let me see. Nice, okay.

Yeah, and the Tibetan is a mess, okay, in the footnote. Sorry, yeah. And I found a better version.

Yeah, so that's fine. Okay, there's another paragraph here. Oh, maybe you could read that because we're not...

I mean, it's fine if you guys want to just roll right through us, but it's moving so fast we don't even have the chance to read it, much less. Yeah. Do you want to read it, Stanley?

Yeah, mo shi jir. Jir, yeah, good. That's a pretty good translation.

I think we did do it before, right? Yeah, according to words. Yeah, that's a correct translation.

It's interesting that they say that this ancient, ancient book of Manjushri, Secret Book of Manjushri, which was written 800 years before Asanga came, predicted that he will come. And it predicted that he will have a relationship with Sarasvati, who is the goddess of music and poetry and composition. And why he has a connection to her, how he has a connection to her, I haven't read that history yet, but maybe we'll read it.

Shala means a white sandalwood tree. And there's a form of the goddess of poetry who comes from that forest, and her body is red color. But it's not Viva, right?

It's a different angel. It's a form of Sarasvati, yeah.

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Right, okay, okay.

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Who's sometimes connected to the goddess of war, but we don't have to talk about that. Well, thank you, Geshe-la. That's it.

That's the homework. All right, good. The point is that the author of our book, Asanga, is predicting that he will come.

The author of the Abhidharma Samuccaya was predicted to come 800 years before he came. And there's some interesting... we're not done with that, I think, right?

I still have a few lines to do. Can we show my screen, Seiji? Okay, I'm going to shrink.

I wish my tummy would shrink at this thing. Okay, so Stanley, do you want to read a little bit here? Yeah, sure.

DE YI NGAG GIS THUGS YIN NI NOT LIS DANG PO BSKYED PAR GYUR Oh, okay. SEMS PAR YUNG RING GNAS BYA CHOS NGU'I DE NI STONG ZHUGS CHE Nice. DE YI NGAG GIS THUGS NGAG means mantra.

THU means by the power of her mantra, maybe. He repeated Sarasvati's mantra. His mind became Sangpo.

His mind became pure. And that's the very common name of Je Tsongkapa. Tsongkapa is also hiding in this ancient sutra.

Okay. Asanga did the mantra of Sarasvati. His mind became pure, which is Sumati, which is Tsongkapa's name in Sanskrit.

And then he wanted to make the DEM PA YUNG RING GNAS. What's that mean, you guys? He wanted the teachings to stay for a long time.

He was trying to help the teachings to stay for a long time. Therefore, he did a DEM PA of the DO. He made an abbreviation.

He presented the Sutras of the Perfection of Wisdom on Emptiness, Prajnaparamita, Boroboromita. And he wrote eight books about it, right?

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Okay.

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And those are the eight books in Stanley's homework. Okay, Asanga wrote eight books on the meaning of the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras. Because he wanted those teachings to survive.

Let's keep going. Stanley, can you do one more? There's six lines here.

Yes. YUNG RING DE BA BYAS NYONGS NAS BTAGS NYID GCOGS BTAGS GYIS TE BYANG CHUB DAM PA THOB PA RGYUR Yeah, we're still talking about this prediction of Asanga in the ancient Sutra of Manjushri. And it says this SO BA means he will live for RGYA DANG SNGABS CHU, years.

LO means years. 150 years. He will live to 150 years old.

That's easy because he... Oh, he went for 50 years. He got an extra 50 years in one morning, so...

It's pretty easy. He'll live to 150. After his body GIC, the past tense is GZHIG.

After his body GZHIG, Yeah, more guys. Yeah, after he dies, he will go to the high YUL. Land of angels?

Yeah, and he will actually spend some time in sansaric bodies in sansara, but they will be nice rebirths. Okay, DE BA. He will spend some time in sansara in the deva realms, but he will have unusual happiness.

And then finally, this DAG NI CHEN PO, what's that Stanley? DAG NI CHEN PO. This Great Mahatma.

This great being, Mahatma, which means Arya Sangha. LTAR GYIS means he will come to the end and he will reach BYANG CHUB. He will reach highest enlightenment.

Okay, that's the prediction of of Arya Sangha in the root tantra of Manjushri, and it's predicting that he will become enlightened. It's predicting that he will come and that he will get enlightened. Here's the actual quotation from the ALL database.

Mixed nut rule is to go check and make sure it's all correct. It's all pretty good. The quotation is pretty good, pretty accurate.

Stanley, you can pick on somebody else if you want to. The famous world news guy. Famous world news guy.

Okay.

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Okay.

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DU MA DANG DEG PA DANG PAS DE DUG PA MAN PAS DE NUS KYANG THAG DAG PAR ZAN NAS Nice job. Nice job, Harsha. Very good.

What's lungtenpa mean you guys? Do you know? Prediction.

Yeah, lungtenpa means predicted. Asanga is predicted in this ancient sutra 800 years before him. Who is a predicted?

Master Arya Asanga, Togme. He went to the Geltsab. Who's the Geltsab?

The prince. He went to Maitreya. What's the irony here?

Geltsab is writing. Yeah, our region is talking about another... It's talking about Asanga who studied with the other region, which is Maitreya.

The coming Buddha. Coming Buddha. BYAMS PA means Maitreya.

Sometimes in ancient language, we don't say he learned from him. We say he learned at him. So you should get used to the word la.

Sometimes it will mean he studied at his feet. But in modern Tibetan, they'll say from him. What did he study?

Take Pachambo Chung Nganpa. Mahayana. Yeah, the Mahayana version of Abhidharma.

He studied the Mahayana version of Abhidharma. From sutras, apparently there was a sutra called the Hundred Thousand. That would probably be the Perfection of Wisdom in a Hundred Thousand Verses.

So he studied... So he's calling the Perfection of Wisdom sutra Higher Abhidharma. Here is...

Our author, Geltsab Je, is talking about the Hundred Thousand Verses on the Perfection of Wisdom as Higher Abhidharma. And he learned many versions, nam dang, of this Mahayana teachings, Take Pachambo teachings. And not only did he learn the Mahayana, he also learned what Stanley?

Take men.

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Men? I don't know.

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He learned the Hinayana teachings also. By the way, he learned all the Hinayana teachings from Maitreya. Tadak means all of them.

And sen means he listened. That's the honorific for tupa. He listened.

By the way, I want to make a point here. When you write the name of this book in English letters, you're going to write it like this. You can write it like this.

Okay? Abhidharma Samuchaya. That's how a mixed nut writes Sanskrit for English readers.

Now, if you're writing the Sanskrit for a Sanskrit scholar, it will be like this. And please, please, please understand the difference. There's other translation projects going on.

I look at them and I just close my computer. I can't stand it. I can't stand it for more than 30 seconds.

They are completely confusing the sound and the transliteration. Nobody in English says Abhidharma Samukakakaya. Unless you just had some drugs or something.

It's Samuchaya. And in the Sanskrit, we repeat the cha. It's Samuchaya.

It's Abhidharma Samuchaya. But we don't say that in English. We say Samuchaya.

So, please, please, please you guys understand the difference. For me, that's a test. If a person is not logical enough to understand this difference, then their translation will not be logical either.

You see what I mean? If they can't be logical with a small thing, I don't see how they can be logical with a translation. And I haven't seen anyone who does this correctly.

So, let's try. Yay! All right.

Boy, this is a long one, Stanley. Who's your unfriend? Oh, let me look at it.

Mr. Brian, the IT king of... I'll tell you what, for Brian, I'm going to split it up. Brian, can you speak or you're doing something else?

Suddenly, his tech went bad. We can't hear you, by the way. Oh, no.

Oh, suddenly. It's not working for him. Okay.

All right. If the tech guy is not working... Can you hear me now?

Now you're good. He's pretending to have tech problems.

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Cool. So, where should we start? The first one.

The first line.

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I think Brian is half Chinese now, so it should be easy. ,GZHIR TE PA, ,GZHES BYUNG RGYI, ,SDONG BRAL GYI, ,RTAN GOS DUS MA, Nice. What's cheers, Stanley?

Chi, chi che dak, for example.

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Do you mean quality?

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Yeah, so, cheer means generally speaking. Generally speaking. He wrote a lot of books of the Thekpa Chenpo and Thekpa Chungmu.

The Mahayana... Yeah, he wrote a lot of commentaries, ,GONG BRAL, on the Mahayana and the Hinayana. Okay.

He wrote many shastras, many classical commentaries, ,DUS MA RDZA'I PHYING, especially, ,KHYAD PAR DU, he wrote about the Chungmuba. What's that? Abhidharma.

But then he says Thekpa Chenpo. Yeah, great Abhidharma. Yeah, he wrote about the Mahayana Abhidharma.

Okay, and we got to get used to that. We got to get used to that. Abhidharma Kosha is the mother book of all Hinayana.

Then here's another Abhidharma book that's not Hinayana at all. That's the Abhidharma Samuccara. ,CHOS NUS PA'I GONG BRAL, He wrote, for example, ,THEKPA CHEN PO BSTOD PA, The Mahayana Sangraha.

The Mahayana Sangraha. Another great mind-only book. And he wrote ,THU MONG DANG THU MONG MA YIN PA'I GONG BRAL, He wrote common, shared and unshared books of the DANG NA, of the five, the group of five.

I take it to be the five books of the of his levels, of his levels books. It's eight books, right? But it's in five parts.

I take it to be the five parts of his levels commentaries. In general, he wrote all those eight levels books in five different sections. Because some of them, if you notice Stanley's homework, we had one A, one B, one C, like that.

,PHYIR DRAG TU, More particularly, he summarized all his level commentaries in a book about the path and the result of the path for people of three different tracks. Listener track, self-made Buddha track and Mahayana track. ,RTEN LA SPA BA, That book was called ,LON PA KUN TU, Oh, that's a book.

,'ABI DANG MA SEMS CAN, This whole paragraph here, these four parts, they're narrowing down what he studied, they're narrowing down what he wrote, and finally it's saying, in the end, it all comes down to this one book, ,'ABI DANG MA SEMS CAN, a whole lifetime, 150 years of hard work. It all comes down to this one book, which we are starting. Isn't ,RTEN LA a nickname for the five books of Maitreya though?

Yeah, it could be, but I think it's not here because it says he wrote them. You see what I mean? I take it to be the five parts of the, but it's a good question.

It's a good question. All right. It's not ,BYAM CHOS NA.

It's not the five books of Maitreya. All right. Stanley, who's up next?

Sorry Geshe-la, quick question. Is this saying that this Samutraya includes all his ideas about both Mahayana and Hinayana? It's implying that, yeah.

It's implying that. And it does. If you read the subject matter, there is a good amount of normal Abhidharma stuff in it.

Yeah. Like, yeah. Tama Manga is there.

We can see why Shensong loved this book. Maybe it was his most important book for him. Okay, please.

And we're interested in the copy from Dunhuang, right? This book was found in the caves in Dunhuang and that's why we're working on it. Okay, keep going.

Stanley, who's next? Let me pick on some SCIM people. Let me see.

Xiaoli from Chengdu. Hey, Chengdu. Mabudobu Amar.

Mabudobu Amar. Read it.

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I don't know how to read it.

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Just read it.

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Dancher? Dancher. Ba Tan Banke Banke De La Du Dei Tei Aiya, this is too hard to read.

Gai Dong Dang Tong Dang Gai Thank you. Your. Your.

Your. Your. Your.

Your. Your. Your.

Your.

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Your. Your.

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Your.

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Your. Don't. Don't.

Don't. Don't. Don't.

Don't. Don't. Don't.

Don't. Good. Because Diana, you have to introduce her to your friend word.

Because she is from the Mapudufu Heaven Paradise? No, because she can learn to read this stuff. Okay, this geng je, this shastra, this classical commentary has four topics, geng shi, four topics.

First we're going to cover the meaning of the sen, Stanley.

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The words?

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We're going to cover, why did he call it Abhidharma Samuccaya? Sen means ming, ming je, what's the meaning of the name? Why did he call it Samuccaya?

Then we're going to have the chak tsel lo of the gyur ken.

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Translator's prostration.

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Yeah, we're going to have the prostration by the translators. The Lodzawas, the ancient Lodzawas. Then we're going to have the shung gi dun, the meaning of the whole classical book.

Then we're going to have a juk gi dun, juk gi dun means we're going to wrap it up at the end. There'll be a wrap up at the end. Now, this is a classical Tibetan commentary structure.

You have to learn to split it up carefully in English because that shung gi dun is one half of one percent of this book. The meaning of the title. The translation, sorry, the prostration of the translators is .001% of this book. It's one sentence. Then the shung gi dun is 200,000 words. Then the conclusion is one page.

These ancient outlines of a book, a lot of translators just blindly create chapters. The first chapter is half a page. The second chapter is two lines.

The third chapter is 800 pages. The last chapter is one page. We're not going to do that.

We're going to be a little bit more sensitive. Anyway, here comes the meaning of the what Stanley?

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Name, the Zen.

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Why do you call this book Abhidharma Samuccaya? By the way, if you're in this class, you are very lucky. This is a 40-year project.

This is a 40-year project. You are here on the first few days. You're very lucky.

By the way, you're here on the easiest day. The other 39 years is going to be harder. Here we go.

Wait, Geshe-la, I thought you said 20 years. I just changed it. That's not the root text.

We have to do the root text. Oh, yeah, that's true. Oh, that's a long one.

Yeah, yeah, that's a long one. By the way, you owe me for all the hours I fixed your book these last couple of days. And I didn't do my other work, and all my other clients are yelling at me.

Like your partner. Okay, who's going to read the next part? I would like to ask Tina Lu from Kunming.

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Okay.

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I need to learn after teacher work, but I will try. Thank you. DANG PO NI YA DGA' GYIS GAR DU MA Forget the ma and say ah.

Ah bi. Ah bi, ah bi ni. Ah bi ni dang du ma la.

Juk kang, juk yang. Di, di, di bo ki. Skar, ah, kar du.

Mong par dang. Dar mar, ah?

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Yeah, dar mar.

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Dar mar ni i gi. Bi. Binam par ni, par i.

Nag si. Gi.

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Har, har nar.

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Yeah, shana.

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Shana, shana. Dang du ma la. Dang du ma la.

Junk, junk yang.

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Junk yang. Ah, this du kang. Du kang, du kang.

Ni, di, cho. Kyu, ah. Kos dang sar mud.

Dang sar mud.

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Sar yar. Suma. Samudchaya.

Sam, sam, samudchaya. Ni, ka, la, la.

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Kun li.

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Kun li bo.

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Juk pa ho.

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Juk pa ho. Thank you so much.

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Let's spend some more time with word, okay? Not bad, not bad. Okay, here's the first section.

The first section, he promised to explain the name of this book, okay? What's gyakar kye Stanley, do you know? Gyakar kye.

In the language of India, okay? And it means Sanskrit, okay? It means Sanskrit, okay?

India was called Gyakar because gyak means big country and kar means people wear white clothes. And the name for China is Gyanak, which means big country where people wear black clothes in the ancient times, okay? So gyakar, in the language of India, which is Sanskrit, let's talk about what does abhi mean?

Abhi, okay? And abhi means, he says, dun du ma la juk. Look, abhi has countless meanings, okay?

Abhi can mean many, many different things, okay? But gyak, in this case, in the language of Tibet, phuket du, in the language of Tibet, we can call it lumba, okay? Lumba.

Lumba can mean higher. And lumba can mean direct, okay? So the abhi in Abhidharma Samuchaya, in the title of this book, is Abhidharma Samuchaya.

And the abhi means higher and it means wisdom. We call it higher knowledge, okay? I like to translate it higher knowledge.

Now he's going to tell us what the word dharma means. He says, oh, dharma, now look, if you added other words to dharma like Abhidharma or other kinds of dharma, sudharma, or udharma, or sadharma, there's many, many additional words you can put on the word dharma, okay? NGES GCIG RNAMS PA'I NGES GCIG The word dharma changes meaning depending on the prefix letters you use.

Sudharma, for example, means highest dharma. Abhidharma means higher. There's many, many prefixes you can add to dharma, and that would mean many different things.

But here, dear, here, it means chuh. It means chuh. That's the meaning of dharma that means knowledge or teaching.

Chuh. Dharma here means teaching. Now he says, hey, you guys curious what's samutsaya?

What's samutsaya? By the way, the ancient Sanskrit is samutsaya. Samutsaya.

It's not even a cha. The cha is Sanskrit scholars in the West who can't pronounce it. There's no cha in Sanskrit.

It's tsok, samutsaya. Samutsaya. That means compendium.

He just explained the title of Stanley's book. It's the compendium of higher knowledge. It's the collection of higher knowledge.

He's going to give us a definition of higher knowledge. Very, very important for us. What does higher knowledge mean?

Who's going to read, Mr. Chen? Oh, okay. By the way Geshe-la, in the word kosha and samutsaya, does it make a big difference?

Not really. I mean, you could have had a Mahayana Abhidharma kosha, but his brother already used the word. But that kosha does refer back to the seven or eight great books of Abhidharma, Hinayana Abhidharma.

In that case, kosha would mean Hinayana.

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Okay.

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Because it refers back to the ancient collection. Okay, who's going to read this one, Mr. Stanley? Oh, let's pick on the emcee today for ACI.

Yeah. Janice. She's like, oops.

Stanley, you might have made a mistake. Okay, okay. Nice job, emcee.

Nice job, emcee. Thank you. Okay.

By the way, I don't know. Stanley, should I show something? I don't know.

Oh, please. I think I'll get in trouble, but I'm going to do it anyway. You know me, I can't control myself.

Let's see. You guys ready for a short movie? It's one minute, okay?

Less than one minute. You ready?

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Yes. Ooh, what's that?

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Oh, that's Adam. That's Adam Andrade, who's a mixed nut. He finished a 50-mile race today, and it took 10 hours.

He is one of the top runners in the race. They raced for 10 hours. He ran for 75 kilometers.

That's how tough mixed nuts are. He also ran a little bit for me. DEN DAG PA means ultimate.

DEN, ultimate Abhidharma. What is the ultimate Abhidharma? What's the ultimate meaning of Abhidharma?

He says, SA PA MED PA'I SHES RAB VIMALA WISDOM Unstained wisdom. That definition is the same as the Abhidharma kosha. We're going to have a lot of crossover here.

He says ultimate Abhidharma refers to perfect wisdom. Along with its RJES DANG RJES DANG means it's akutra mong with the stuff that helps you get to wisdom, like meditation, like concentration, like the books, like the ALL database. You can call them ultimate Abhidharma.

They are ultimate Abhidharma. If they are wisdom itself, if they are the perception of the ultimate nature of things, or if they help you get there, like the ALL database, we can call it ultimate Abhidharma. We can call it ultimate Abhidharma.

And BSTAN PA'I RGYUD PA'I GTAN BYED The sacred commentaries, the ancient commentaries, which explain ultimate wisdom, we can also call them Abhidharma. They are also Abhidharma. The real meaning of Abhidharma is the understanding of emptiness.

But the books which help you see the real meaning, we can also call them Abhidharma. We can also call them Abhidharma. Ultimate thing.

Ultimate thing. Who's going to read next? Let's get our new YSI organizer, Lisa.

Want to try? Just open your mouth. Everything will be okay.

Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

BYED DU BYED DU BYED DU BU'I BA MNGON PA KUN LAS MNGON PA KUN LAS RGYUD PA'I RGYUD PA'I BYA'O BYA'O Nice. Nice. Very good, Lisa.

All right. Here we go. Why do we call it compendium?

Why do we call this book Samuchaya? Why do we call it Abhidharma? We already found out.

Abhidharma means ultimate understanding of emptiness and the things that help you get there. But why do we call it the collection or the compendium? Why do we call it Samuchaya?

He says, BYED PA RGYUR BA'I DON means the ideas that we are going to discuss for the next 20 to 40 years. BYED PA RGYUR is future tense. The ideas that we're going to discuss with Stanley for 20 to 30, 40 years.

All of them are collected here. All those ideas are found in this book. This book is a collection of great ideas, especially about emptiness.

This book is a collection, Samuchaya, of great ideas about emptiness. But also LAM PAS BYED DUG PAS This book is also a collection because if you study it, all those understandings of emptiness will collect inside of your mind. There's two Samuchayas going on here.

This book is called Abhidharma Samuchaya for two reasons. Number one, all the ideas you hear here are coming from the Abhidharma teachings of the Buddha and other great masters of the past. But we are collecting those ideas inside your mind, inside your brain.

The real Abhidharma Samuchaya is your mind for the next 20 years. That's a beautiful, it's a beautiful explanation of the title. You are not studying the Abhidharma Samuchaya.

You are the Abhidharma Samuchaya. That's really cool. You are the treasure house.

You are the collection. We're going to collect all these ideas inside of your brain. It's a very beautiful, very beautiful explanation of the title.

That's why we call it Abhidharma Samuchaya. He finished the sentence. Who's going to read next, Danny?

I will have Sandy from Singapore. Hi.

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Hi. Hi Professor.

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Okay. Nice. BA YOD PA DANG PO DANG PO CHE BA'O Nice.

When we started the ALL project 35 years ago, when we type in a book, we will check the byte count. Byte count means how many digital bytes or bits. Eight bits for bytes, I think.

It means how many letters are in the whole book. How many letters are in the whole book. That's the byte count.

For every book in the ALL database, we will put the byte count in the catalog. It means you cannot change one letter in that book, or we can tell if you changed it. If you leave out one letter, you change one letter, we can tell from the byte count.

In ancient times they didn't have byte count, but still they had quality control problems. Because some people don't like some sentence, they take it out. Other people want to add a sentence because they have a lot of pride and they think they are as smart as a sangha.

In the ancient times, they will count the words in the whole book. They will put a word count inside the sutra. It's a quality control thing.

The original Abhidharma Samuchaya has five bamboo. Bamboo is a byte count. It's a word count.

I checked, okay Stanley? The first bamboo of your book is 11,786 syllables. If somebody changed one word, we can tell.

We can see there's a quality control problem in the book. Somebody tried to change the book. All of these ancient books, we have from ancient India, we have 4,600 books.

We have the byte count. We have the word count of every book. Your book is divided into five sections.

Each section is about 12,000 syllables. I went and checked and he's correct. He's correct.

He's giving you the byte count here. It means this book is pure. I have to say, I studied for many years the Abhidharma Kosha.

It's completely correct. Every single syllable is correct for two and a half thousand years. These books are pure.

These books have not been changed. Hopefully we can pass them on also. Let's go.

One more sentence, Stanley. We have a minute and a half and that's what life is made of. I think Stanley should be the last sentence.

Okay. Okay. When they translated a book from ancient India, like when Shensang or somebody translated the book in Chang'an, they had a special system so the reader can tell what's the subject of the whole book.

They had a special system. If the book is about emptiness, if it's a book about touching the diamond world, then at the beginning, the ancient translator from Sanskrit, they will put a special prostration. They will put a special bowing down at the beginning of the book.

This helps you understand what's the subject of this book. In this case, Stanley, they bowed down to Jampel. Who's that?

Jampel Yang. Manjushri. Manjushri.

Jampel. Okay. Jampel.

Manjushri. And not just Jampel, but Shunnu. Jampel Shunnu.

Jampel means Kumara Manjushri. This is the Manjushri as a young man like Stanley. In the beginning of this book, the ancient translators bowed down to Manjushri.

That's a sign that this whole book is about how to touch the diamond world. This book, which you're going to study for 20 or 25 years, it's a whole book, 20 years, how to touch the diamond world. If you guys in SCIM, if you can come to Stanley's Mixed Nut Classes, just come sometimes.

You can come for 20 years if grandpa survives. If grandpa don't forget all the words, then you can study how to touch the diamond world. You can go deeper for 20 years.

The classes are free. We hold these classes twice a week. I think it's amazing.

There you go. That's the Abhidharma Samuccaya. That's Stanley's book.

Found in the Dunhuang Cave. Translated originally. Did Shensang translate this book also, Stanley?

I think so, yeah. This one, yes.

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Okay.

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All right. Stanley, don't forget you have to translate the next three paragraphs. Okay.

You have to give us a nice homework for next time.

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Got it.

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Thank you very much, Geshe-la. Thank you. You're just putting your toe in the water in Los Angeles, now you have to swim to Japan.

Okay. Okay. All right.

Thank you for coming, you SCIM guys. It's nice to see you and thank you for coming. I know it's not easy but this will give you some feeling the source of all of the wisdom in the SCIM manual.

Okay. Back to you in staging. Dennis.

Oh, hey. Hi. Okay, remember we're going to have onstage workshop next.

That's 45 minutes from now. You will use the Zoom link that your AP has given you. And following your onstage workshop, be sure to come back to the main room for meditation class with a really wonderful meditation teacher.

Okay. See you then. And thank you for this class.

Loved it so much. Thank you, Geshe Michael. Thank you, Stanley.

Bye-bye, everyone.

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Thank you, SCIM guests. Wonderful to have you here as a part of the program tonight. I believe Dr. Word is standing by to teach any moment now on this link. Is that true, Dr. Word? Yes, it is. Great.

So stick around if you're participating in Dr. Word's class. Janice, it's wonderful to see you. Thank you, friend.

Thank you, Dr. Geshe Michael. Thank you, Stanley Sugeng.

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Thank you, all live translators, as always. Dr. Word, thank you for teaching tonight.

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Thank you, Ben Kramer, for your book.

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Word is a doctor. Thanks, Juan. Okay, everybody.

Thank you, Kramer. Thank you, everybody. So we are continuing with the Diamond Cutter Sutra.

And we're practicing pronunciation because we learned all the rules of the alphabet.