Сугэн Ши — Книга 2: Колесо жизни (первый принцип и подразделения зависимости), занятие 3

[Speaker 1]
Geshe Jigme Phutthep Uluwargi, Dukkhu Namdak Siddhachu Parshom, Idang Guru Ratnam Andalakam Niryathayami, Sangge Chudang Dzogkhi Choknamla, Jangchu Bhardu Dagni Khyap Suji, Dakhi Chudnyam Gyipe Sunamki, Dola Penchir Sangge Dukkha Parshom, Sangge Chudang Dzogkhi Choknamla, Jangchu Bhardu Dagni Khyap Suji, Dakhi Chudnyam Gyipe Sunamki, Dola Penchir Sangge Dukkha Parshom, Sangge Chudang Dzogkhi Choknamla, Jangchu Bhardu Dagni Khyap Suji, Dakhi Chudnyam Gyipe Sunamki, Dola Penchir Sangge Dukkha Parshom, Yay!

Homework! Boom! Homework time!

Let me share my homework. Okay, so we have gone into the new book and these are from the new books. What are the 10 limbs that the Aryas have reached as explained by Master Vasubandhu?

And why do we only have four parts? Anybody remember? Because the first eight are the the Yangdak, the pure path of the Arya.

[Speaker 2]
So it's divided into four but the first two are eight.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, and what are they? What are the four? I forget how he wrote them out.

Anybody? Then the knowledge and then the one with a lot of parts are the legs and then freedom and then the wisdom of the freedom. So the knowledge, the legs, the freedom as the result and the perfect wisdom of the freedom.

Perfect wisdom of the freedom and the legs consists of seven leftover branches. That's cool. That's cool.

Yeah, I love this. And which extraordinary trainings do the first and the second parts represent and what are the metaphors? So we are referring to the knowledge and the legs.

[Speaker 2]
He refers to wisdom as the knowledge, the rikpa and the legs, the shava, the morality and concentration.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah. And what are the metaphors that most of us used? What is the metaphor for the knowledge and what is the metaphor for the legs?

[Speaker 2]
Eyes and legs.

[Speaker 1]
Yes, eyes and the feet. Yeah, thank you. So the eyes, the knowledge representing the extraordinary training of wisdom and the feet represent extraordinary trainings of the concentration and morality.

And what are the two parts of the teaching of the dependence origination? Dangpo and and Geshe-la, we discussed about this why we say dangpo, right? I think is this, are you, were you referring to this one when you were saying that there was a meaning?

Yeah, you can say that. There's an overview and then it goes through the divisions. Yeah, yeah, that's the answer.

Yeah, wow, they just call it dangpo. Okay. Yeah, it's strange, but yeah.

Adi can also mean other things. I guess dangpo was a strange translation by the Tibetans. Yeah, even Adi also a bit, Adi is like great, big, but why becomes overview, I'm kind of confused here.

It can mean beginning with, like when we say la sopa in Tibetan, that's Adi. Oh, okay, I see. Wow, okay, thank you.

Now, Tibetan words, nandren.

[Speaker 2]
Literally pull somebody by the nose, but it means a guide.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah. And chok dak, chok dak. The two collections or the pure collection?

We, it looked like the two collections, but it was in a negative context. Material wealth?

[Speaker 2]
Yes, that's the one.

[Speaker 1]
Piles of money and stuff. Piles of money. Shravasti.

Yeah, you are right. And what does it mean literally? A place where you can hear stuff.

A place? Literally it means a famous place. Famous place.

Yeah, nyen means everyone heard of it. Famous place. Okay, yeah.

Okay, thank you very much. Nice job, Sugeng. Nice homework.

Thank you. It's going to go down in the future tinger. Okay, so be careful you guys.

What's going to happen to you guys 20 years from now? People, you will meet somebody in Argentina and they'll say, what about that third homework on the question, on the fourth homework? And you'll say, well, I have no idea what you're talking about.

Okay, Sugeng, I have a surprise for you today. Yay! And this is a little bit of a celebration for your new text, okay?

Yay! Here we go. Can you see?

Oh yeah, we are reading the biography. Yeah, and my proposal again is that we do it like once every term in your class, and we do it once every term in Stanley's class until we finish. And you can both use it in your book.

Yay! Cool, cool. Okay, who wrote this biography?

Yeah, here. This is Yongzhen Yeshe Gyeltsen. 1713-1793.

He wrote a huge two-volume book about the Lam Rim lineage. All the teachers in India, Tibet, and China. And it's very, very well written.

So, we're going to go read it. Yay. All right, who's your checker checker?

Can I invite, can I invite, let me see, how about Seiji? All right. I'm gonna, I'm gonna push this down.

Here we go. So, who will be the first one, Seiji?

[Speaker 3]
Yeah, okay, let's start with Vivian. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, thank you. chamling, chamling kepe chukyen yik kyi ngen say ngakpa. Good.

ngakpa here means praised, right? It's not the same spelling as tantra, okay? He is praised as the kepa, as the tsukyen of all the kepas in the dzamboling.

Great teacher? Tsukyen means crowning jewel. Oh, crowning jewel.

Of all the... He's the wise man? Yeah, of dzamboling.

Of the earth? Of this? Yeah, jambudvipa.

We can say of this planet or something. This planet.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
And yik kyi ngen is his name, which means friend of the wealth. Yik means the natural wealth of the earth. So, basu is the earth, but especially the natural wealth in the earth, like gold, silver, stuff like that.

And ngen means friend, so it means a friend of everyone on the earth, okay? Now, when he starts his biography, Yongzhen Yeshe Gyeltsen quotes one line of a poem that praises Vasubandhu, and he doesn't give us the rest, and he doesn't tell us where it's from. So, Grandpa Mike went, ar gong ye ye, went and got it for you.

Yeah. Now, this is a work by Tsongkhapa, where he praises the lamas of the lineage. And here it is.

Here's the whole verse. So, let's read the whole verse, okay? Okay.

Okay. Hey, is word there? Yes.

Can you find me B-R-N-Y-E-S, Brinye? Okay. I don't think it's to find.

That's a different spelling, okay? All right. Dzamling kyepa means, we finished this line, right?

Yes. Then he says, I'm also making supplications, su wan de, to Namdrol De, which is Vimukti Sena, who was a great middle-way teacher, okay? And he's calling him the bhagpa.

Oh, really? Yeah. Who found the middle way, if word agrees.

Yes, Geshe-la, it's the future tense. Oh, nice. Okay, good.

Who discovered the middle way, okay? Now, should I risk the money? Let's keep it cheap, 20 bucks.

Then, so he praises Vasubandhu, then he praises Vimukti Sena, and then he praises Vimukti Sena. And he calls them the three people who jepa the mik of the jikten. Who, who described, who discriminated the atma.

Nge, nge, like goje. Who broke up the teacher's eyes of the world, talking about the Buddha himself. No, who opened the eyes of the world.

Opened the eyes of the world. With a pre-nasal, it means to open, okay? Open.

So, but there's only two guys here. Yeah. There's Vasubandhu, and there's Vimukti Sena.

[Speaker 2]
Vimukti Sena the elder, and Vimukti Sena the younger?

[Speaker 1]
Hey, Nick! There's two Vimukti Senas. I see.

My trick question didn't work on Nick. So, the first one, the first Vimukti Sena gets to be the Arya who discovered the middle way. The second poor Vimukti Sena, he just gets to be the nice person who had a lot of faith.

Oh. All right. Which one's which?

Don't ask me. I'm assuming he mentioned the older one first. What's that?

Why did he combine Vasubandhu with Vimukti Sena? Oh, this is a long poem that, that, that Je Tsongkapa wrote, and he groups together people by their, their interests. Like what, what did they enjoy teaching?

And he, he's grouped these three together because they understand Mahayana. Especially, you know, so he's grouping them together. And, and it's a long poem, and there's many, many groups, okay?

He's, he's calling these three eye openers, okay? They, they must all be people who open people's eyes, okay? All right.

And here we go. Who's checking? Gilshay, please.

[Speaker 2]
I can't see who's on here. Oh, I'm the checker, sorry.

[Speaker 1]
You are a checker, thank you.

[Speaker 2]
Sorry.

[Speaker 1]
Don't worry. Yeah, that's, that's, yeah. The Kepa Chok, the supreme wise man, called Vasubandhu.

Now, now each new person in this biography book comes with a ni, and that means it's kind of like a header, like a chapter header. Ni is kind of, okay, let's talk about, let's, let me give you the biography of Vasubandhu, okay? He was Yung Cik with Bapa Thogme.

The main mother of the Arya without, without... Anybody else have a guess? Anybody else have a guess?

They have the same mother, he has the same mother. Oh, Bapa Thogme, I see. Yeah, he has the same mom as Arya Sangha.

Arya Sangha, okay. He trung from the same mother. Trung means born, okay?

Born. High, high, high language, okay? After Papa Thogme was trung.

Was born, after Arya Sangha was born. Yeah, he studied the Rigmes, which Adam knows so well. The logic?

No. The Vedas, right? The classical subjects, the five great classical subjects.

Okay, got it? Yeah. But did he study all of them?

I think so, no? He studied the Tumongas.

[Speaker 2]
Were shared?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, the shared ones, like, I don't know, the medicine, what do you call it, the fine arts, and what's the other one? Astrology? No, that was a minor science, I think.

[Speaker 3]
Oh, sorry.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, logic. And something else, I don't know, medicine, fine arts, logic, probably Sanskrit, I think. Oh, yeah, and Buddhism.

[Speaker 2]
I'm not sure.

[Speaker 1]
Anyway, we'll get it, we're going to have it in Adam's text today. So the point is, in those days, it was traditional to train someone in the general sciences. What do you call it in a college?

I'm getting my degree, I'm getting a, what do you call that?

[Speaker 2]
Liberal arts.

[Speaker 1]
Liberal arts, yeah, yeah, he studied the liberal arts, okay? And he doesn't mention he studied the Nanggirikne. Yeah, he didn't study, it doesn't mention if he studied the fifth one, he studied the first four, and then he dropped the chur.

[Speaker 2]
Then he got ordained.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, then he got ordained. And let's keep going, who's checking?

[Speaker 2]
Rivas.

[Speaker 1]
RIGS ZHIG LUNG PA NAG means a long time after the birth of a Sangha. His mom, which is the third line, his mom, YUM, his holy mother, who was a brahman caste, and her name, the ma's name, was ZEL BA'I TSUL KHRIMS, which means clear morality, okay? Or bright morality.

And I couldn't find it, maybe Word or somebody can find it in Sanskrit, but if I had to reconstruct it, I would say prasanna shila, okay? And she had done mun lams with lots of tu. With lots of power?

That she would be able to PHAL BA Protect? No. To...

Carry on? To increase, okay? To increase.

To spread the tenpa of the DGAL BA. The teaching of the Buddha. Yeah, and why did she want that?

If she had CAN GZUG GI STERN.

[Speaker 3]
Bodhichitta?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, she had bodhichitta. Well, how long did she have the wish? RING PO NAS.

From previous... long time? A long, long time.

By the way, don't get confused, there are two long times here. We started out the sentence with long time, which is a long time after the first kid. And the second long time is how long she had her bodhichitta, right?

Yes. And her bodhichitta was not only long time bodhichitta, it was CHE CHE RGYAS PA.

[Speaker 3]
Whoa. Very, very long time.

[Speaker 1]
No, the bodhichitta was RGYAS PA. It was very, very great. Yeah, it was very broad and huge.

Big bodhichitta, okay? And due to that, due to the power of her prayers, that she could spread the teachings, right? Those bodhichitta prayers, she dupa'd with a tramsay.

Dupa'd with a tramsay?

[Speaker 3]
With a brahman.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, she dupa'd with a tramsay. Married? At the time with a brahman.

Yeah, she got together with a tramsay. They don't say anything else, okay? Okay.

And then, CHE means born, okay? You first? But it differs from KHYA BA.

It differs from KHYA BA. KHYA BA means conception in Buddhism. SRED PA means when the baby comes out of the mother, nine months later.

So SRED PA comes nine months after KHYA BA. The rebirth happens at conception. But the SRED PA is the baby coming out, okay?

Okay. And that baby came out, KHYU, a boy, okay? A boy, a young man.

And he was SEM DANG DENG PA. Endowed with... Yeah, nice.

Special signs. He has special signs, okay? Like, and that, you know, holy beings are supposed to come out of the womb with marks on them.

At least a few marks, okay? What kind of marks did he have? Who's up next?

SRED PA. Word. Okay.

KHYOD DE BYED DRIN GYI SEMS TE Nice. Okay. KHYOD DE BYED, on the tongue of the child when he was born, there was GYI BA written, a letter A, which is supposed to be, since it's the first letter of the Sanskrit alphabet, it's supposed to indicate great mastery.

It was written with GYI HANG. Okay? And GYI HANG is a sacred yellow powder that comes from the bile stones of special cows.

Oh gosh.

[Speaker 2]
All right.

[Speaker 1]
Geshe-la, why G-H-I? G-H-I, I don't recognize this. It's just a Sanskrit corruption.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, okay. I see. Sounds very well.

[Speaker 1]
GYI HANG, yeah. And by the way, we have about 10 biographies of Vasubandhu. They're all taken from the same sources, probably Bhutan's history of Indian Buddhism, but they are slightly written differently, and you can use the differences to clarify things.

So for example, who is this? Bhutan Rinpoche, in his history, which is probably where our writer took most of it from, he says GYI HANG GYI. They used GYI HANG to write the letter.

Our text doesn't clarify that. It just says a GYI HANG letter. All right.

DRAM ZE RIG CHE LAS BYUNG BA LTAR He had other signs as you find in the RIG CHES of the DRAM ZES. RIG CHE?

[Speaker 3]
You find them in the VEDAS of the Brahmins.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, RIG CHE means VEDAS, meaning books that give you knowledge. Okay? VEDAS, okay?

So he had all the kind of special signs that you might see in the VEDAS, like this letter being written on his tongue when he popped out. I'm sorry, cancel that. Okay, cancel.

Hang on. I canceled that. It was written on his tongue.

And then they did a CHO GA according to the RIG CHES. A ritual. Yeah, they did a ritual so that he could have a low NOD.

A smart mind? Yeah, they gave him a special CHO GA. A sharp mind.

And then they trued him. Abhishekata samaya shriye hum. They bathed him.

[Speaker 2]
Then they cleansed him.

[Speaker 1]
They bathed him. Yeah, the baby. And then they kept him in the very TZANG DRA circumstances.

TZANG DRA means like almost... Enclosed? Enclosed?

Sterilized. TZANG DRA means almost sterilized circumstances. TZANG DRA means high hygiene circumstances.

And they SKYE, he was born. And they SING, they raised him. SING literally means to extend.

To make longer. It comes from RING. Okay?

But they raised him. Okay? Then what happened?

Oh, I have a long... I have a long study of this thing that they wrote on his tongue... that his tongue was written with.

And if you're interested, you can read it. About the cows. The cows.

Okay. Okay, we'll pick up here. Who's going to check?

[Speaker 3]
Krishnakashika, please.

[Speaker 1]
Yay! Yay! You guys can translate this together if you work on it.

NAR BSRIM PA means as he grew up. Okay? NAR BSRIM PA means as he grew up.

He studied... UK. He learned to write.

He studied C. Mathematics. Arithmetic.

And the other RIG CHE SHI. The four Vedas. The other four sciences.

[Speaker 2]
I'm sorry, you're right.

[Speaker 1]
It is the four Vedas. I was thinking it was the four sciences, but you're right. Four Vedas.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Artha Veda. I don't know. Shukla Veda.

Okay. Etc. He studied the Tumulir.

This should be RIG NE. Okay. Meaning the five sciences?

Yeah, RIG NE means five sciences. The common ones, the four. Medicine, Fine Arts, Logic, and Linguistics.

Right? Who taught him YUN NU NI? The mother herself.

Yeah, the mother herself trained him. LHAG PA LHAG means taught him. And he GONG DU CHUD everything.

GONG DU CHUD everything? Grasp. He grasped.

What's that? He grasped. And the CHE means she got him to grasp.

Okay. She got him to grasp everything. That's kind of cool that these two great, these two people who wrote over half the Geshe course brought up by this, they were trained by their mom, homeschooled in the great books.

How do you say GLONG? G-L-O-N-G-R? G-R-O-C-K.

Oh, it's an old word. All right, who's up, you guys?

[Speaker 3]
Rebecca.

[Speaker 1]
What is GYIS SIGS MEAN? What is GYIS SIGS MEAN? What's GYIS SIGS MEAN, you guys?

What's GYIS SIGS MEAN? Imperative?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, do it.

[Speaker 1]
Do it. Do it. Now, what he's going to do, we're going to read from the beginning, okay?

Then the yum, that's the following words to the se.

[Speaker 2]
To her son.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, this is a high word for se, you know? And it's a high word for mother, okay? And it doesn't mean bodhisattva here, it just means her son, okay?

Hey, poo.

[Speaker 2]
Hey, son.

[Speaker 1]
Hey, boy. Hey, boy. Hey, my boy.

Here, Kepa-ni, the reason I Kepa'd you.

[Speaker 3]
Further than the do you.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, the reason I went to the trouble of having you was not my end. It was not, let's go backwards from the second line. It was not to undertake jikten gi chalas.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, worldly activities.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, it wasn't for worldly goals. I didn't have you because I wanted to achieve worldly goals such as bellowing our rick.

[Speaker 3]
Growing our family.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, like continuing our...

[Speaker 3]
Lineage or line.

[Speaker 1]
Family line.

[Speaker 3]
Progeny.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah. Rather key, okay? Rather key, I Kepa'd you in order to bellow the gyelway tenpa.

[Speaker 3]
Oh, that's nice. In order to spread the teachings of the Buddha.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, that's why I Kepa'd you. Therefore, Yen-pe, you better rub the chung. Get ordained.

And jang the denu-tsum. Train yourself to the three bhaktas. Master the three bhittikas and go and tarwa the gyelway tenpa.

Spread the Dharma. Yes, spread the teachings of the victorious Buddha. Okay, that's a cool...

I wonder how old he was. Maybe I'll go and say it. One year old, yeah.

I'm going to do this. Okay, here we go. Who's up next?

Let's see.

[Speaker 3]
Let's do Katie Fetch.

[Speaker 1]
Yay, Katie Fetch. Speaking of kids. Yes.

Jai-ko-ne-na. Lendra-rap-tu-jung-tsam-ni-ne ken-lop-gi-tenpa-tar-dyu-we je-tsam-tra-sing-tra-wan tadak-mik-tre-tar-sung-wa sir-sak-ne-denu-tsum-la jang-pe-ke-pe-tu-tu-tsum-la Pulled to chimpang. Pulled to chimpang.

Okay, good. Okay, now, after his mother cooled him like that, after she exhorted him like that, he went to Nalanda and got rabtu chung. He went to Nalanda Monastery and he became a monk.

Okay, rabtu chung tsam nyi ne, from the moment he became a monk. Okay, tsam nyi ne means from the moment he became a monk. He sungwa.

Taught. No, BSR. Protected. Yeah, he kept his...

Vows. Yeah, che tsam means his vows. Okay, che tsam.

Che tsam means what are the conditions of the vow. It's called che tsam. It means the lines at which you break them.

Okay, we had chepa before as a vow, right? So he respected the che tsams of his vows as if he would his own miky debu.

[Speaker 2]
His own eyes.

[Speaker 1]
His own eyeballs.

[Speaker 2]
And eyeballs.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah. So debu means fruit, right? Eye fruits is Tibetan for eyeballs.

Okay. He protected even the cha shintawa. Even the most subtle.

Yeah, the most subtle conditions. The subtle conditions of the vows he had undertaken. Tadak means tam che.

All. All of them, as if he was protecting his eyes from something. Okay.

As he had been tempa by his kempo and his lopun dzu. Has been taught by his vow giver and all the other quorum people. All the other...

Excellent, excellent. Excellent. Yeah, nice job.

Nice job, Simgeng. Okay, now shir shak is an idiom. Shir shak means take that as a given.

Shir shak means take that as a given. Okay. So, you know, if you hire somebody in the monastery and you say, yeah, you're going to show up on time, you're going to be here when I ask you to, you're going to do what I ask you to do.

Shir shak. And that means all that's a given. And then you give them the real job.

Okay. So, shir shak means... What do you want to call it?

By default? It's the... Yeah, it's the default requirement.

Okay. Basic requirement. Yeah, and then you're going to do other stuff.

Okay. So, what was his shi? What was his kangpa in mik and kangpa, mik and shab?

Mik rikpa dang shab su denpa. Rikpa dang shab su denpa. Rikpa dang shab su denpa.

Oh, the knowledge and the feet? Yeah, it was on this guy's homework about five minutes ago. Yeah.

All right. Okay. So, his shab, the legs he was standing on, was his morality.

Morality and concentration. Yeah, so they want to point out that his success was due to that. He made morality his foundation.

Okay. Then he went on to jang da deng su. To teach the three pitaka?

Jang means study. Oh, study. Yeah, and he became a punso kepa.

Punso kepa. He became an absolute master. Okay.

Pultu chimpa and punso are the same thing. Okay. Pultu chimpa means best of the best.

Okay. He became a real master. Okay.

All right, who's up next?

[Speaker 3]
Tim, can you do it?

[Speaker 1]
Yay, Tim. Yay. chir kye druk tu me jung ne, ga che yul tu pep ne Good, nice.

He was thinking, I would like to study the Lumba Chashin Tawa.

[Speaker 3]
The Abhidharma books.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, Chul Lumba. I would like to study the books on the Abhidharma. I would like to figure out what they really mean, gong dun.

Okay. What they really have in mind. And I want to know even the most subtle ones.

Okay. And I would like to tokpa those points. I would like to have a personal realization of those points.

Okay. And I would like to shepa the depa chop kye. Chop kye.

Eighteen. Eighteen what? Ben Kramer, you got to help us out.

[Speaker 3]
Taking Abhidharma schools.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Okay, I would like to know each of the school's positions, ma depar.

[Speaker 3]
Boy, guys are cluttering for punishment.

[Speaker 1]
I'm mixed. Yeah, I want to know. I'm not going to mix them.

I want to know each one separately. I'm going to master eighteen separately. Okay.

That's a tall order.

[Speaker 2]
It is, but we did it.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Okay, Ben. And while I'm at it, I'm going to study my dupta and shanky dupta.

Oh boy.

[Speaker 3]
Oh, and other schools.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, which are as broad as the Gyatso. Or the ocean. But I'm going to paro to chimpa that ocean.

I will cross over to that ocean. Yeah, I will boro mido that ocean. Okay.

Go to the other side? Therefore, go to the end of the paragraph, he pepped to the kacheyu. He went to the country of the big mouths.

Yeah, in the old days it meant Kashmiri, North India. So Nalanda is in the West Bengal, right? Sorry, Bengal area.

So that's the far east of India. And he undertook, I guess it's about a thousand mile journey or 700 miles. He decided to go to Kashmir because that was the jungney of many kid groups.

The birth, the arising of many wisdom, people with wisdom and good practice. Yeah, great. That was the source, jungney.

The source. That's where a lot of great scholars had been pouring out of Kashmir. So he said, I'm headed for Kashmir, okay.

And I believe, I know a song I think studied in Dojok. It's where Thomas went. I forget the Sanskrit name.

Anyway, I'll let you know later, okay. So the ruins of Nalanda are in modern-day Bengal? Yeah, yeah.

Way over, way over close to Bangladesh actually, okay. Okay, what is that town, Dojok in Tibetan? Takshila?

Yes, what is it? Takshila? Takshila, you're right.

Yeah, Takshila. Yeah, Takshila. Yeah, good.

Yeah. I looked it up. Prasannashila was her name.

Great, yeah, I guessed it. Okay, where did you find it if I'm... I found it in some encyclopedia on the internet.

So you can check other sources. Okay, and you were going to say something else about it? No, the ne from the beginning of the text, although Nalanda says it's a form of the word nepa to find, in the Great Dictionary, they say it means to like honor or pay respects to.

It doesn't have it as a... So I don't know, there's a contradiction there. Let's look it up and see if it would match.

[Speaker 2]
Geshe-la, Nalanda is in Bihar.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, Bihar is over near West Bengal.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, just west of Bengal.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Yeah, I still say he found the middle way or, you know, I don't think it'd be such a big thing that he honored the middle way. Okay.

And so I agree with the corruption. Okay, what happened next? Who's reading, who's checking?

Nick? Sure. Okay.

Yeah, good. Then he ended up in the trung. He went to the feet of the great master named...

Dinsang is a terrible corruption of his name, which is Gendun Sangpo, which is Sangham Bandra, okay? He's a great Abhidharma scholar, okay? And first, okay, first, he studied the Nganpa De Dön.

The seven... Seven... Seven great books of Abhidharma, okay?

Which had been duped by the Drachombas.

[Speaker 3]
Collected by the Arhats.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, which had been put together by the Arhats. Don't forget they're all compilations, right? Yeah.

And he also studied the main points of the Dua Lungde Shi, the great four parts of the Vinaya taught by the Buddha, okay? Cool. Yeah, cool.

And there Vinaya Vastu, and we can look them up. There's four of them. Okay.

Which had been collected, gathered from people who had listened to things, and who said eva maya srutam.

[Speaker 2]
Srutam. This is what I heard.

[Speaker 1]
What did you hear? So, they had been collected and established, sat down. Okay.

And then he gathered them all into his own book called Chedak Chupa, Chimbo, okay? Oh, wow. Which is a small, huge compilation of all the seven books of Abhidharma, okay?

And all in all, he studied, must have been like a hundred thousand books, you know? Whatever, okay. By the way, in these biographies they tend to exaggerate wildly, and it's hard to get real information, but this author is more careful than the other ones, okay?

The other ones, it would be just one long string of exaggerations, but this is pretty good. I got you the seven books of Abhidharma from this master called Chen. Here's the verse of the seven.

Here's the names of the sevens for your footnotes.

[Speaker 2]
Oh, wow.

[Speaker 1]
And here's the Sanskrit. Yeah, and this is mistaken. Okay, and this is the name of Sangha Bhadra's book in Sanskrit.

Mahavipasha, okay? Mahavipasha, okay? The great explanation, okay?

The great and detailed explanation. And there's probably something there to do with Vaibhashika, okay? All right.

Okay, who's next? Checker.

[Speaker 3]
Chen, can you do it? Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. Okay, good. There were also other books before this one.

And there was the descriptions of the three baskets that were possessed by Sangha Bhadra. And there was the kosha, the treasure of separate sayings, which he was also taught by. These are earlier Abhidharma summaries, okay?

All right. Keep going. Okay.

Okay, that whole tencha, okay? All the great shastras like that, he sung them in his tuk. He speak them in his...

Sung, low tone, low tone, sung, sung. Oh. Zin.

Zin. Oh, possessed, memorized, possessed? He memorized them, okay?

These are thousands of pages, okay? He memorized all of them. And he understood all the ne.

Crucial. Marma hatha. All the pointing?

Yeah, crucial points. Without any tima. Mala.

Vimala, okay? Okay, without any stink of tropa means making mistakes, okay? Not the slightest whiff.

Of a mistake, okay? And moreover, he employed rikpa tramo. The subtle logic?

Good. To chepa these books very lekpa.

[Speaker 3]
Analyze.

[Speaker 1]
To examine. Analyze. Yeah, to examine these books very thoroughly.

And he tuk la chupa all of them. He, tuk la chu means he grasped all the contents. So by the way, this is all demonstrating his background in?

Wisdom?

[Speaker 3]
Vaibhashika?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, Abhidharma. He went to... Because the Abhidharmakosha is the system of Vaibhashika according to the Kachewas.

According to the Kashmiris. And that's what he brought home. Okay, just like Stan is doing.

Okay, who's next? Seiji?

[Speaker 3]
Oh, no. Chunsam.

[Speaker 1]
Uh-oh.

[Speaker 3]
I think he said, I think it's cholta.

[Speaker 1]
No, sultadak.

[Speaker 3]
Oh, sultam.

[Speaker 1]
Sultam. Sultam. Sultam.

Sultam. Sultam. Nice.

So he also practiced everything about how his teacher Sangha Bhadra taught the de-nyu-tsum, the tsul that he used to shepa, which means tul also, same. So he not only learned the contents, he learned the... Commentaries.

No. All of it. No, how to teach it.

How to teach things. Yeah, he didn't just learn from Sangha Bhadra the contents of the canon, of the three-part canon. He also practiced how he taught, everything about how he taught.

And then he became a kepa of teaching. Master at learning how to teach. Okay.

And because of that, he got dulja trang ne dewa. Untrungable duljas. Uncountable disciples.

Yeah, uncountable disciples.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Uncountable? Oh. Disciples beyond any number.

Okay. Disciples beyond any number. From Kacheyul.

From the Kashmiri. Yeah, in Kashmir.

[Speaker 2]
In Kashmir, all in Kashmir.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and he tended a lot of... he tended a monk to chew up to them. Yeah, he taught them a massive amount of dharma.

A lot of dharma. Using riklam. Logic.

Good. Yeah, using Vimala logic. Without...

without... no unstained logic. Yeah, nice, nice, nice.

So don't tell me logic's not necessary. We got three minutes. Let's use it.

Sure. Okay. Who's checking?

Errol. chenpo che pa ma ma dzun ne chom kyun pa mangpo dang shok ham sungway nu jin kyi yid kyu te de dak gi lobpong kyi la ten dang lekpam la sokpa yoy je tam je trok Oh, you guys had troke. You had a lot of trokes this week.

Somebody was choked this morning, or somebody was choked in Nick's text by their views. Still. Is it still?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, still.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, shepa means decided. It's a high, high word, okay? Then having made the holy decision to go to India.

What? To go to India? Oh, he was in India?

Nope, he was in Kashmir. Okay, so apparently in those days, Gyalgar was separate from Kashmir. So he decided to go back to India, but something happened.

He ran into some dews. Demons. Diktochen means evil.

It's a very rare idiom for evil. And they couldn't sepa, third line, in the middle. They couldn't sepa.

They couldn't stand it. That he was going to do gyelchenpo zepas. To spread good deeds.

For the tenpa. To spread the teachings. Good, yeah, yeah.

This great Mahatma, Dagnychenpo, was going to spread the Buddhist teachings, and they couldn't stand it. So they yigyur. They changed the minds of some chomkunts.

Bandits. Bandits. And also they changed the minds of some yakshas, who were supposed to be suing things.

They were supposed to be protecting him. And they were what we call border police, shogun. These yakshas were supposed to be protecting the place, like border police.

These demons changed their minds, and so they decided instead to troke. To steal. All the hlaten means images and paintings.

Of the lopen. Of the teacher. Meaning?

Vasubandhu. Good. And they also stole all his leg bombs.

[Speaker 3]
Books?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, all his books. Like Shensang was lucky, he got home with all the leg bombs. But Vasubandhu got robbed, all of them.

Yoje means all his stuff got stolen. All his possessions got stolen. Are we out of time?

Yes, we are.

[Speaker 3]
We're over.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. The exciting history will continue next time.

[Speaker 2]
It's called a cliffhanger, isn't it?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. Wow. Okay.

I tell you, it's fun to read a history book. And I have to say that the study of history is new. People in Asia didn't do it.

The Chinese did a great job. You know the year that the emperor was born. You know the day he was born.

But in India, they just could care less. So, the history books are pretty bad. So, this is one of the better ones.

Let's close with mandala. Mandala. Thank you.

I once asked Rinpoche Tsongkhapa's birth year. And he said it's between Atisha and Pabongka. Which is 941 years.

Thank you very much, Geshe-la. Thank you, Geshe-la. Next time we do it, we'll do it in Stanley's.

Thank you. Super fun. Thank you for coming.