Сугэн Ши — Книга 2: Колесо жизни (первый принцип и подразделения зависимости), занятие 26

[Speaker 1]
You got trucks, you got construction vehicles. I trust you in the bedroom, in my bedroom. Okay, Nick, we're gonna go to work.

[Speaker 2]
Alright. He couldn't be able to translate in another year, at most.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Time to get started.

[Speaker 1]
Dr. Shenton here? Yep, it's Soogung's turn. Hi, Shenton.

That's the brains behind the operation.

[Speaker 3]
Definitely.

[Speaker 1]
Alright, let's go to Soogung's text. Soogung, you want to give us an introduction to your text? Alright, yeah.

So, basically, this is the second book on the Wheel of Life. The first one was by Kejrop Tempah Dargih. It was, I would say, was a very good introduction to the topic, at least for myself.

So I got quite a holistic view of the whole wheel, about how we should understand the wheel going forward and going backward. And we focus a lot on the first link, which is very important. And I think it was almost half of the book.

And this second book is by Master Basubandhu. And as you might have noticed, he is a very interesting here. I would say very witty.

The way he described the wheel is, in fact, I'm very excited and very happy when we went through it. It felt that he was actually exploring this Wheel of Life from a lot of different angles, which is very uncommon. To me, I learned a lot of new aspects about the wheel that I have not known before.

And then to make it even more exciting is that nobody has done it before. And we are so lucky to have Geshe Michael to guide us. I think the first time in 2000 years that somebody attempted to translate this into English.

And we have completed the discussion on the first principles, on the first two lines. And then now we are embarking into the first link. We started to touch a bit on the first link.

Okay, nice summary, Sugeng. Thank you. Thank you.

Yeah, so this book is by the same author as Stanley. But in this book, he is showing his mind only, his real score. Let's look at how much we have reached.

Folio means one long, long, long page, both sides. So we have made good progress in this book. We also have been working on the biography of Vasubandhu from ancient sources.

And by the way, you guys, I was looking for a biography for Tim's new book, a biography of Asanga, Arya Asanga. I have to say the ancient biographies are the only ones. So you can have modern scholars, university scholars, they will try to make up more than the old biographies.

But usually they are just using the old biographies. So we are going to go directly to the old stories of Vasubandhu's life. And that's about all the real information we have.

Everything that you see coming out of a university or something, they are just recooking the old biographies. This is going to finish in 2028. But in my opinion, again, we could split it into two books, especially since we are using e-books nowadays.

We could finish one book in two years. And they will both be very valuable books. We are still looking for Sanskrit.

John Brady's team is working around the world trying to find the Sanskrit. And to be honest, about 90% of all the ancient Sanskrit was lost when India was attacked by the Mughals and then later by the British. So most of the early Sanskrit books were lost.

We only have what survived in the Himalayas and what survived in the Tang Dynasty, for example. Again, as Sugeng mentioned, this book is unique because there are no commentaries that I know about. So it's like we are on the ocean in a small boat.

And we are not going to get any help from anybody else. So we did the best preparation we could. We finished one of the newer commentaries on the Wheel of Life, which was written about 500 years ago.

But now we just have to work very hard. And we are going to have to try to understand this ancient book. We have no help.

Nobody understands it. Nobody ever wrote a commentary. And it's just going to be...

We have to use our wisdom and the experience of the books that we've covered to translate this book. There's the 12 links of the Wheel of Life. You can see the page numbers where they start, each link.

And as usual, as Sugeng said, misunderstanding. The first link is the star of the show. The whole wheel of the trouble in the kitchen is caused by misunderstanding.

All trouble in our life is coming from... We don't understand that things are coming from seeds. So the Wheel of Life, the Wheel of Suffering, the Wheel of Death, is caused by non-understanding seeds.

So that's the main topic. And in this term, 16, we are going to jump into a very deep explanation of the first link of the Wheel of Life, misunderstanding. And it's going to be super cool.

All right, but first, we're going to continue the biography of Master Vasubandhu. And I believe Sugeng, you translated ahead a little bit, right? Yeah, that was the homework.

Can you please read, and Nick is going to check your pronunciation. Okay, here we go. Okay.

Good, nice. Nick, do you want to comment on his translation, and I'm going to relax? Sure.

Just go slow. You guys can do it. Just go slow.

Okay. You know what to do, Mr. Sugeng. Vasubandhu.

Oh, he already translated it. Oh, it's right there, sorry. You got to comment on his translation.

Nick's going to go through word by word and make sure it's in the English. Okay. Okay.

I would say, first of all, in English, we wouldn't really say after the place when Master Vasubandhu went. We would just say after he went. After he went, okay.

Yeah, yeah. Well, I guess I should start with a positive. Wait, Nick.

Nick, translate this phrase. NYANG NGAN LEN DE PA'I SA Just that piece. Translate that piece.

Oh, at. Yes, yes, yes. So, instead of...

that says the place where he went in his final nirvana. Yeah. In that spot.

On that spot. So, this instead of after the place, this would say at the place where Master Vasubandhu went to his final nirvana. And this, it says, yeah, the students with lots of faith.

Nice. Good. Built a stupa.

Yeah. To place his body. Yeah, the rest is good.

Yeah, kudung means a tomb, and that's correct. But, he missed a katang. Oh, katang.

Yudho. Oh, which is there now. Which still stands.

Yeah, it's still there. You can still go to India and see it. Who's talking is Yongzhen Yeshe Gyeltsen, a Tibetan, in 1775, okay?

So, he wrote this biography of Vasubandhu in about 1775, which was how many years after Vasubandhu died? About 1500 years. Yeah, it's about 1500 years later.

And he says, hey, you guys, if you just climb over Mount Everest, you know, you walk down there, you can see that stupa. It's still there. How he knew it's still there, I don't know.

Okay, good. Tata'ang yu means it's still there now. Okay, Dr. Kramer is going to discuss the next sentence, and first let's have Dr. Kramer, let's have Sugen read it. Okay. Go slow, go slow. Take your time.

Relax and go through each word.

[Speaker 3]
Okay. Yeah, unbelievably great, is sweet. Lopun, maybe not the students, but who instead of the students?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, Lopun means Acharya, Acharya.

[Speaker 3]
So, oh, I see, that's the great master. Oh, let's see. Oh, they have the ability, nice, good to keep teaching.

Yeah, that's nice. Good. Oh, you just started this one, huh?

Yeah, so, do you know Samba, Sugen?

[Speaker 2]
Samba?

[Speaker 3]
Samba, by, yeah, by thinking.

[Speaker 2]
By thinking, okay.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah. Yeah. Hey, Ben.

[Speaker 1]
The last of the, the last of the yogas of D.Y. Oh, Chulam Elgar. Samki Mi Khyapa.

[Speaker 3]
Oh, Chulam is Samki Mi Khyapa?

[Speaker 1]
Oh, sorry. Inconceivable, inconceivable.

[Speaker 3]
Oh, okay, not the last.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, those students were inconceivable.

[Speaker 3]
Oh, cool. Well, you know, yeah, this is hard for me. You know, Tonche, that's easy at least, right?

Sugen? Yeah, all, all.

[Speaker 1]
All day, all day. Among them. Among them all?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, among them. Yeah, good, among them.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah. Yeah, good. Oh, you translated that last part.

Yeah, good. Okay, great. So, you just skipped the middle part, right?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and by the way, Sugen, it would be the four greatest, okay? The four greatest, okay. Yeah, the four greatest, yeah.

What's Dagny Chembo in Sanskrit, you guys? Dagny Chembo. Mahatma.

Mahatma, like Mahatma Gandhi, okay? Great, great being, okay? All right, nice translations, Sugen.

It looks good.

[Speaker 2]
Geshe-la?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah?

[Speaker 2]
When, would the first part of it be students of the great master himself or something like that?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I should translate it. So, there came to be students of this great master who were fully capable of preserving the teachings, and those four, those students were unbelievable, okay?

And the greatest, there were four among them who were the greatest, okay? So, the big point here is that he trained those students well enough that they could carry on the lineage, and that's what Mixed Nuts is trying to do, okay? He trained them well enough that they could carry on the lineage, okay?

That's what the NUPA means. They were qualified. They had the ability to carry on the lineage, okay?

All right, Sugen's going to read. Utpala's dying to correct the corrector.

[Speaker 2]
It's so easy. He never makes a mistake.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, he does. You have to catch him. Good.

Nice. Nice. Okay, so we're supposed to be meeting four great masters who were unbelievable masters, and had the ability to carry on the lineage.

The first one was a Kepa of Dulwa. What's that mean, Sugen? He was a Kepa of...

Nice, yeah. Allison's text, right? And his name was Yindenu.

The light, quality light? What's it in Sanskrit, you guys? Gunaprabha.

Yeah, Gunaprabha. Okay, the author of the Vinaya Sutra. What should you always say, Sugen, after you say, Gunaprabha was the author of the Vinaya Sutra.

What should you always say after that? It's not a... Yeah, it's not a sutra.

It's just... Oh, it's not a sutra. It's like the Yoga Sutra.

It's not spoken by an enlightened being. All right. The second master was Lodro Tenpa.

Anybody know the Sanskrit? I'm sorry. Mati Sthira.

Yeah, Sthira Mati. Good. Sthira Mati.

Sthira Mati. Which means like steady mind or something. And he was the master of ngemba.

The Abhidharma. Nice, yeah. There came a master of tsema.

The logic, the clear thinking. Good, yeah. Clear thinking.

His name was Chokyi Lungpo. Ah, the big naga. Yeah.

Nice, perfect, big naga. Wasn't he the one riding on the cave wall, I guess? And then there came Master Namdrol De.

Okay. Word, you know this name? Parasena?

I don't know. Vimukti Sena, I think. Vimukti Sena, yeah.

He was a master of parchen. Parchen. Parchen is what, you guys?

[Speaker 2]
Perfection of wisdom.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, perfection of wisdom. Orubodhamindo. And usually that means lower middle way.

All right. So, there's the four great masters. Now, you know, tradition says they were direct students of Vasubandhu.

Scholars might argue about it. But sometimes it doesn't really matter that they were direct or not direct. They were the great masters who came pretty soon after Vasubandhu and carried on his lineage.

All right. Let's keep going. And Hasso is dying to correct Sugeng.

I watched Hasso debate two Geshe candidates and beat both of them one time in India. You're never going to live this down, Hasso. Wow, amazing.

Okay, nice. So, first he's going to, of those four masters, our author wants to talk a little bit about yin den u. Who's that?

The Gunaprabha. Gunaprabha, yeah. And don't forget he was the dulwa master.

The Vinaya, Master Vinaya Sutra. Yeah, and he was born in a place in India called Mathura, which is still there, and it's close to the Taj Mahal. So, I gave you a map here.

And he was born in north central India, okay, in a place called Mathura. What was his caste? You see, that's a big important, the first thing you say about an Indian for the last 2,000 years or 5,000 years, you tell what caste are they.

What's his social caste? He's Tramse. Tramse, a Brahma.

He's a Brahma, yeah, he's a Brahma. Which means he was like born into the high, high caste, like, what do you call, Kohens or Levies, right, in the Jewish tradition. This is the high, high teacher caste, okay.

Brahman. He was born as a Brahman. When he was chung chung...

When he was young? Yeah, when he was just a little guy, he became a kepa. Kepa, or the master?

Yeah, he already mastered all the Rig Nes. Ah, the Veda. No, well, that's all the sciences, the classical sciences.

Five major sciences, five minor sciences. It just means he mastered every major topic of knowledge in his time, okay. And by the way, when you read a lot of biographies, you start to understand some of them are just what you're supposed to say about a great man, and some of them are real information, like writing on the cave wall or something like that.

And so, this person here, you can see it for every master. Oh, he was born into a high family. He mastered everything when he was young.

Unfortunately, it doesn't give us much information sometimes. We're waiting for some real hard information. All right, Mr. Word, will you check him on the next paragraph?

[Speaker 2]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
Yes. Okay, we're taking it slowly, slowly, slowly.

[Speaker 3]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
He erupted Chum.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Do you know Raptor Chum? He was ordained? Yeah, he left the home life.

He was ordained. He left the home life. Into what?

The Gelug Tenpa. Teaching of the Gelug is... It's just Buddhist teachings.

It's just a really nice way to say it. Buddhist teachings. Yeah, by the way, he could have been ordained as a Jain monk.

You see, so what it means is he got ordination, but a Buddhist ordination. Okay, keep going. And then, shing here means and, not field.

It's just saying what kind of monk he became. Nenpar Dzog. Dzog was like complete, so Nenpar Dzog means...

Nenpar. It's like, he was a fully ordained monk. Yeah, he took four ordinations.

Yeah, as opposed to just a novice. Yeah. And, you know, Yik Nyen.

Yik Nyen is the Master Vasumandu? Yeah. Was his what kind of teacher?

Dzog. Dzog, a master teacher? Yeah.

His supreme teacher. Supreme teacher. Chung Du is a...

It means, like, put himself in front of him, like at his feet or something. Yeah. Good.

Yeah. And he studied what? The Denusum.

Do you know those three things? Three classics? Yeah, the three baskets.

The three... The three baskets. Yeah, the three divisions of...

Yeah, Tripitaka. Tripitaka. Exactly.

The three collections of teaching. And he... He jang them.

Master? Memorized? Practiced, mastered.

Yeah, okay. And then, in the Tekpa Champo Lam. In the path of the Mahayana.

Right. Perfect. And Sen is honorific for to...

To hear. He hear. He learn.

He listen. Yeah. Yeah, he wholly listened to those Rimpas, for the Lam.

The steps of the path of the Mahayana. Yeah, so he studied the Lam Rim, all the steps to the path. And then...

So I guess you go to the end now. And then he janged. Again.

He also master. Memorized. Yeah, and Tadak we had earlier for...

How many? How many of the sutras did he practice? Tadak.

Similar to Tom Che. Oh, a lot. A lot.

Many. Each and every. It's like...

Each and every. Supposed to be like he mastered everything. Yeah, and that's...

Each and every of the Mahayana sutra. Perfect. Yeah.

I'll just make one comment. And by the way, Word, I'm very proud that you guys are... You guys are helping him without any preparation.

And it's really... It's amazing. The author of this biography is writing a huge book.

It's two volumes. It's about 2,000 pages about the masters of the Lam Rim. This biography was taken from one of the best books of biography, which is...

This book is actually giving the life stories of all the great teachers of the tradition, which became the Lam Rim, later. So, that's why it says Lam Rim here. So, Lam Rim didn't exist in those days as a separate topic.

But he listened to all the topics of the Lam Rim. Okay, cool. All right.

I don't know who's there. Adam, are you in the mood to take him through a sentence? Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, I think...

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, totally. If you get stuck, just ask Eva, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Oh, yeah. David, you want to help?

[Speaker 1]
Thank you. Okay, cool. By the way, I got to show off my other grandkids.

Wow. Look, it's a picture of you. Can you see it?

That's Eva. That's my beautiful granddaughter, Eva.

[Speaker 2]
Wow, so beautiful. Deep in meditation.

[Speaker 1]
Adam, we got to make a painting.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, I know there's a service I could send that off to do it.

[Speaker 1]
Let me do it, okay?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, that sounds good. That's me.

[Speaker 1]
That's you, yeah. That's us next generation mixed nuts. Okay, what's Depa Chokde, you guys?

Oh, Adam, help him out. What's Depa Chokde? We had it in Ben's first text.

[Speaker 2]
The 18...

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, nice, nice. The 18 groups of what, Ben Kramer? Yeah, the 18 groups of school, yeah.

He learned all those. Oh, go ahead, Adam.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, he learned all those individually without mixing them.

[Speaker 1]
Nice, wow, great. Cool. That's hard.

Yeah. The 18 by bicycle schools? Yeah.

Is that right? Which is difficult, and he didn't mix them up. He became a master of the dual of...

[Speaker 2]
Oh, sorry, I want to help Sue Gang here.

[Speaker 1]
Go ahead.

[Speaker 2]
Hey, I'm not Sue Gang. Yeah, you're not Sue Gang. We're helping...

Here's Sue Gang, just here. So we're talking to them. Ken?

You know Ken?

[Speaker 1]
Ken is what? He's master, or smart? Understood.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, understood. The Ching... Dowa?

Dowa Boon?

[Speaker 1]
Dowa is the Vinaya, right?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, Dowa Boon Day, right? Wouldn't those all go together?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, Boon Day is just an exaggeration, okay? It's the collection of... The 100,000 books.

100,000 books of Vinaya, is that right?

[Speaker 2]
Yep. Okay. And the Tuk Lasung.

Tuk is to carry in your heart, right?

[Speaker 1]
Oh. Yeah, and here it means specifically to memorize.

[Speaker 2]
And then the... Tuk Lasung. So let's say Sungte Gyuntu.

[Speaker 1]
This Gyuntu means what, Adam? What does gyu mean, or gyun?

[Speaker 2]
Like a stream?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and gyu means all day long. Oh, that's right.

[Speaker 2]
Khatun is to recite, right?

[Speaker 1]
To recite. Yeah, if Ben Kramer can give me the Sanskrit, I'll give him $50.

[Speaker 3]
Oh, so jaya.

[Speaker 1]
Yay, 50 bucks. That's the most favorite mistranslated word in the Yoga Sutra. Khatun means recite.

Why jay, Adam? Jay?

[Speaker 2]
Because he finished it. He completed it. He exhausted it.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and also jay is the high, polite word for he did it. Okay, so jay is the... What do we call the 12 Deeds of the Buddha?

Zepa Chunyi. The Zepa Chunyi, yeah. So zepa is the high, high, polite word.

So he honorably recited every day like thousands of pages of Vinaya Sutras, Vinaya books, the ancient books. Very nice, Adam. Nice job.

Let's make him suffer some more. Stanley, you want to try? Come on.

[Speaker 3]
Oh, wow.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, Hasso, you help him out, okay? If Stanley gets stuck, you help him out.

[Speaker 3]
You mean read it?

[Speaker 1]
You're going to help Sugeng read it, and Hasso is going to help you help Sugeng. Okay. Sugeng, you want to help?

Help you? Okay. Wait, wait, wait.

Stanley, Stanley. He says sin is shing. Okay.

Help him. Nice. Okay.

We got to go slow. Okay, Stanley? Hasso, Stanley, this is a Mexico-China collaboration to help Singapore.

I think Ben Kramer is going to have to help also. Okay, Tetar, what's lopa mean, you guys?

[Speaker 3]
Lopa.

[Speaker 1]
Read. Read. Yeah, how to read.

So don't forget, in a culture which has no public schools, it was a big deal to learn how to read. Okay, so he studied lopa. And then he topa and samba.

Contemplate. Contemplate. Listen and contemplate.

Nice, the first two of the three methods of learning scripture. Okay. You guys don't know pongwa samten, and it's a new word for you guys.

Pongwa samten means practice of meditation by going to Diamond Mountain, or by going out in the isolated place. This pongwa doesn't mean to give up something. It means to go out in the empty place and practice meditation.

He learned meditation. Samba. He exerted himself at doing that.

He worked really hard. Hey, Nick, why zeppa? Because they're honoring him.

He worked his honorable ass off. Okay. And he paro to chimba.

Again. He get into the other side? Yeah, good.

This is the literal meaning of paramita. Paramita. He paramita.

He went to the other side of the gyatso. The ocean. Of the drupta.

Ben's text. Of the drupta.

[Speaker 3]
Of the siddhanta?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, siddhanta. English? The existing schools of his time.

Both rung and shen. Us and others. Own and others.

Yeah, Buddhist and non-Buddhist. Not only he mastered them, he crossed the great ocean, Pacific Ocean, of the philosophy systems of his time. He knew all of them.

Buddhist and non-Buddhist. Cool? And...

I'm going to go to this part. Adam, what's ting ngen dzin gyi go?

[Speaker 2]
Where is this? The Singapore Concentration. The Door of Meditative Concentration.

[Speaker 1]
Nice. Perfect. Perfect.

How many doors? Gya.

[Speaker 2]
Eight.

[Speaker 1]
Not gye. Gya.

[Speaker 2]
Oh. A hundred. Sorry.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, and not just a hundred. Gya tag mumbo.

[Speaker 3]
Many.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, many hundreds. He opened many hundreds of doors of deep meditation. In his own thug.

[Speaker 2]
In his own... Am I still...? Yeah, go for it, Adam. In his heart?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, in his own holy heart. This is a high word for what? Sim.

This is the honorific for sim. In his holy heart, he opened hundreds of doors of deep meditation. Trung is the polite word for gye.

[Speaker 2]
To start? To give birth?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, nice. Nice. How do you say birthday of a high person in...

Ting chen. Trung kar. Trung kar.

Like the birthday of a... When you celebrate Tsongkhapa's birthday or something, it's called Trung kar. The star of Trung that he was born on.

Now, Adam, he's going to give you the names of some of the doors of deep meditation. The first one in the third line in the middle is called sung. Anybody who went through the Medicine Buddha with us, you better know this.

[Speaker 2]
Dharani?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, Dharani. He mastered mantra. That was the first...

By the way, mantra here doesn't mean om om om or something like that. It means the deeper power of mantra. He mastered it.

And he mastered popa. Popa means courage. Okay?

Spiritual courage. Spiritual courage. You guys are lucky to have your little elves with you.

And then he mastered... Adam, what's the number shepa? Anybody?

Abhisnya. Abhisnya. True knowledge?

Anybody else? Ability to see the future, things like that.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, Abhisnya.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, all the kinds of clairvoyance. He could read other people's minds. He could see the future.

Stuff like that. The point is, he worked so hard in his meditation practice that he actually developed all of these deeper spiritual skills. All right.

Haso wants to do one by himself and make Sugeng suffer. Let's go. Haso, be hard on him.

Don't be polite. I like your suit, by the way. Nice pronunciation.

Okay, let's go through it slow, Haso. By the way, if Haso works hard, he's going to be the unlucky number 13, I think. But here we go.

Let's take it slow. What's hlakpar mean? You guys know hlak tong, for example.

Personal? No, responsibility? Yeah, it does mean that, but here it means especially.

Especially. Sugeng, if you don't know this word, I'm going to pull the rest of your hair out. Base?

The HQ, the base? He's kidding, Haso. He relied on the men.

Anybody? Advices. Yeah, and mengak often means personal advices.

It's like you get in the car with your Lama and he says, look, frankly, you talk too much. It's something your Lama says to you personally. He mastered all the mengak of Yignyen.

Master Vasubandhu. Yeah, he got personal advice from Master Vasubandhu by studying with him personally. Master Vasubandhu informed him of all his faults personally.

And because of that, Haso, he lam rim du, or lam rim dro, same thing.

[Speaker 3]
Where is dro?

[Speaker 2]
Ah. I mean, he mastered the steps on the path? Yeah.

Not mastered, but achieved?

[Speaker 1]
Progress? Yeah, he... Walked through.

He traveled through the steps of the path. And he got to Phagpa.

[Speaker 2]
Arya, saw emptiness early.

[Speaker 1]
Yay, yeah, he reached that level. Sato, okay. Then his name, Yondanur.

[Speaker 3]
Got the name of light of good qualities?

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, but that name became Phagpa.

[Speaker 3]
Phagpa. Famous, I know.

[Speaker 1]
In how many places? Chokun.

[Speaker 2]
Many? Hundreds?

[Speaker 1]
All directions. Yeah, all the directions of India, east, west, north, south. People talked about him.

Oh my God, he's such a master. His name, which now he got a new name, Phagpa. Arya?

Gunaprabha. Okay, now we got to change his name. Arya Gunaprabha's name spread throughout all of India.

Okay, cool. Yay, he's already becoming famous. Wow, this is a long run.

Let me pick on somebody. Hey Nick, who should I pick on? Gibson, I think we should pick on Gibson.

Let me cut it, it's too long. Okay, good, here we go. Okay, Gibson, help out Singapore.

Okay. RGYAL BA'I BSTAN PA LA BYA BA ZHES PHYIR THUB PA LUNG DE ZHI NAS THAMS CAD RGYUL PA RGYAL BA RGYA MTSOR BA'I SNYING PO ZHES BYA BA'I THAN CHUD CHEN PO ZHES TE Okay, I'll give you guys a suggestion, Gibson and Sugeng. What made him famous?

And now you go ahead and translate. Okay. You lead him too, Gibson, I'll shut up if I can.

[Speaker 3]
Okay, so RGYAL BA'I BSTAN PA.

[Speaker 1]
In the Buddhist teaching? The teaching of victors?

[Speaker 3]
Yeah, teaching of the victor. So, ZE, ZE is the honorific word of the doing, right? I think so.

[Speaker 1]
Of the what, sorry? The do. To do.

[Speaker 3]
The do, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, BYA BA ZE means what? He wanted to BYA BA ZE for the RGYAL BA'I BSTAN PA.

[Speaker 3]
BYA BA ZE. BYA BA is like a D.

[Speaker 1]
He wanted to make some important contribution to the Buddhist teaching. He decided, well, I want to make some big contribution to the Buddhist teaching. Therefore, CHER.

Therefore, CHER. Now let's go to the verb at the end, Gibson. He ZE.

He do. Composed. He did.

Composed.

[Speaker 3]
He composed the following sutra.

[Speaker 1]
Great Shastra. Yeah, Great Shastra. Yeah, great commentary.

What's its name? RGYAL TSUL DUA RGYAL TSUL NING PO.

[Speaker 3]
DUA RGYAL TSUL.

[Speaker 1]
DUA RGYAL TSUL. Ocean of.

[Speaker 3]
The Ocean of the Minaya. Essence of the Ocean.

[Speaker 1]
Essence of the Ocean of Minaya. Yeah. Yeah.

And. And that book. DUPA.

All the NET.

[Speaker 3]
DUPA. Summarize all the. Crucial point.

[Speaker 1]
Nice. Which crucial points? LUNG DE SHI.

[Speaker 3]
The four great. The four group of. Scripture.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, the great four groups of scripture. Okay. What are they?

I don't remember. LUNG DE SHI. Huh?

Yeah, four. By the way, if you guys want to. We can go to.

Can you still see my screen here?

[Speaker 3]
No.

[Speaker 1]
No. Can you see Gopher? No.

[Speaker 3]
No.

[Speaker 1]
Oh, I'm sorry. Let me do it. I got to switch here.

Hang on.

[Speaker 3]
Always worth it.

[Speaker 1]
We're going to go search for it in. Now, if it's me, I will use the great dictionary. Which was masterfully.

Worked on by Mr. So we're going to look up LUNG DE SHI. Okay. Can you guys see Gopher?

Yes. Yes. And we're going to use.

For me, personally, I would use the great dictionary. Because it's going to have a good definition, I can tell you. And here we go.

Note how long it takes. Count. Count.

So again, count how many seconds it takes. Are you ready? Okay.

This dictionary is thousands of pages. One, two, three, go. Finished.

Okay. Okay. Wow.

Okay. Now, that's a. I want to go to a better reference.

So, here we go. Here it is. Ta-da.

Okay. And there's the definition of the four groups of the sutras. Okay.

Of the four groups of the teachings. Okay. Now, if you notice, there's two separate definitions.

Number one and number two. So, the first one is the four great divisions of Vinaya. And the second one is the four great divisions of sutra.

Okay. Which one are we supposed to be having here? Well, we assume it's.

Oh, it was. Probably Vinaya, yeah. I think.

Let's see. I'm sorry. It's messing up.

[Speaker 3]
We're talking about Gunaprabha, so we hope it's Vinaya.

[Speaker 1]
It does say du-wa lung-de-shi. Yeah. The text says du-wa lung-de-shi.

Okay. So, I want to show you guys something cool. Okay.

I block out that four. Okay. I block out that part in the blue color.

And then I go and paste it into our text. Okay. Here we go.

Are you seeing the text now?

[Speaker 3]
Yes.

[Speaker 1]
Yes.

[Speaker 2]
What is the command you use so you can get the folder path?

[Speaker 1]
You use command X. Thank you. And it gives you the reference automatically.

Okay. So, there's your footnotes again. Okay.

Sure. And that's what I do for hours and hours before I teach a class. So, he wrote...

He composed a great shastra called Essence of the Ocean of Vinaya. And it included all the crucial points of the four groups of Vinaya scriptures. Now, again, let's read the four groups.

And I think... Let's keep going. Again.

Nice. These are the four ancient groups of the Vinaya Sutras. So, dulwa lung de shi means the four great groups of Vinaya scriptures from the Buddha's time.

Okay. The first one is called lung nam je. It means the divisions according to the word of the Buddha on dulwa, on Vinaya.

And then there's the... And then there's the Vinaya vastu, which is the foundation of Vinaya. Lung shuwa, the statements on Vinaya.

And lung chen zik means miscellaneous teachings on Vinaya. These are the four great divisions of the teachings on Vinaya by Lord Buddha 2,000 years ago. 2,500 years ago.

All right. We can do one more, Nick? Yeah.

Yeah, we have one and a half minutes or so. All right. That's no problem then.

I'll be the... I'll help you, Sugeng. Go for it.

Thank you. Okay. Yeah.

Good. His book, which the technical name is The Essence of the Ocean of Vinaya, came to be called duway do. Sugeng?

Vinaya Sutra. Yeah. It came to be called duway do.

It came to be called the Vinaya Sutra. Yeong Sudrak means everybody calls it Vinaya Sutra. Okay.

The original name is The Essence of the Ocean of Vinaya. Okay. And people respect it as a gyelway gadang kyepar merpar.

Anybody? A mistaken word of the victors? What's kyepar mean?

Feature? Without... Undistinguished or something?

Or without distinction? Yeah. People beat it with the same authority as the gyelway gadang.

The word of the victors. Yeah. It's indistinguishable from...

Yeah. Yeah. People treat it...

That's why they call it...

[Speaker 3]
Sutra.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, Sutra. That's why they call it Vinaya Sutra. People respect it as being as authoritative.

And by the way, in a Buddhist monastery today, you don't study the Vinaya... the four parts of the Vinaya scriptures that we just talked about. You just study Guna Prabha.

Okay. It's good enough. All right.

So, tenpa la rab tu chungwa. Anybody who got ordained in Buddhism, all of them believe this book is sema.

[Speaker 3]
Authoritative.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, good. It doesn't mean correct perception here. It means it's good as gold.

Okay? It's 100% correct. Okay?

And they treat it the same as dulwa lu. Oh, sorry. It's like a mic for studying dulwa lu.

It just had the wang che of the mic.

[Speaker 2]
Like the eye.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, if you've got this book, you've got eyes to see the original Vinaya scriptures. Okay? This is your eyeballs to see the meaning of the original Vinaya scriptures.

Okay? Sangye kyi denpay dunme. It's a real dunme for the denpa of the sangye.

The lamp which illuminates the teachings of the Buddha. Nice. Yeah.

And all of the key and dupas.

[Speaker 3]
Yeah, all of the wise and accomplished masters.

[Speaker 1]
Of the past. Ngun chungwa. Whoever came in the past.

All of them. I believe this is sibo, which is a very rare word that means it's their favorite flavor. And it's related to dang chen dzin.

Chen dzin. And chen dzin are similar. But I still would like to check her carving.

Okay? Everybody treats it like their favorite Vinaya book. Cool.

All right. And by the way, Nick and Ben, maybe you can help Sugeng find a good carving of Yongtsen Yeshe Gyeltsen's two volume history of the Lama and teachers. Okay?

Sure. We input it. It took us years to input it.

We had trouble getting it done. And it's kind of messy. So if you can find a good carving, that would be very valuable.

There is a bad handwritten copy, and there's a bad computer done copy. If you can find a carving, it would be great. Okay.

And if you check folio 92, and it starts with dulwa, you got the right one. Okay. All right.

Cool. So, Geshe-la, this will be the last class for this term for the biography. And for the homework.

I got it marked for you. We're going to do one more class on the biography. Okay.

And you want to give me the next. Yeah, let me see what's a good. That's too difficult.

I'd like you to translate this one. So, again, it starts at the bottom of page 51. Okay.

So, I want you to skip the next section, and go to the section after that, and try to translate it. Because the section between is very complicated. All right.

That's your homework. And I'll see you next time. I hope you're right.

Okay, I'll see you guys tonight. Anything else, Nicholas? No, just wanted to say thank you to you and to everybody for coming.

And, yeah, please come back. We'll be here again at 5.30 p.m. Arizona time. The world standard time, since it never changes, I guess.

Don't forget to go to yoga. Oh, yoga is tomorrow. Yoga starts tomorrow.

Take a nap.

[Speaker 3]
Let me see.

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