Тим Ловенхопт — Книга 1: Совершенство мудрости, занятие 16

[Speaker 1]
You're up in Seattle, right?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Cool. How's the weather up there? Is it still fall or is it going to be too cold?

[Speaker 2]
It's beautiful out still, honestly. It's very dry is the only thing. I'm having to water the plants a lot, but other than that, absolutely no complaints.

[Speaker 1]
I've never been to Seattle, so I'm looking forward to go someday.

[Speaker 2]
Oh yeah, yeah. Let me know if you go. I would love to, I don't know, like give suggestions, all that kind of thing.

[Speaker 1]
Cool. It looks like you're an outdoorsy type person, so I would certainly hit you up for all of those recommendations.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, yeah, of course, of course. You're going to be following my stuff. Oh my god.

Is it chilly there, Tim?

[Speaker 1]
Not too bad. It's like in the mornings, and it was low 50s this morning. Hey guys, everyone, I'm going to get started.

Thank you. Quiet on the set. Quiet on the set.

That was fast. Yeah, I'm trying to share it with there. Okay.

No, that's fine. I got it. All right.

All right, guys. Here we go.

[Speaker 2]
Oops, not that.

[Speaker 1]
Why isn't Zoom showing me the screenshot? It's not so much that, it's I can't find the... Oh, here, I can...

I can't find my presentation to share. That's my problem. Here it is.

Got it. Okay, guys, here we go. Can you guys see that?

It's sort of in a small...

[Speaker 2]
Recording in progress. Wow.

[Speaker 1]
So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn off my mic. I know. I turned off mine.

You turned off yours? Okay, cool. Well, I got mine muted.

All right, cool. All right, here we go, guys. Hey, that dog was alive.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, I know. I thought maybe you were harvesting it for medicine.

[Speaker 1]
All right. Can you guys hear me all right?

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, great.

[Speaker 1]
That's a polite way to say shut up. All right. Here we go.

So, in our discussion of what is considered the main sutra that is explained by the dual of realization, we learned that a commentary in the perfection of wisdom tradition exhibits certain characteristics. What seems to be the magic number in this discussion and how does it relate to the order of the ideas presented?

[Speaker 2]
Eight.

[Speaker 1]
Juan says eight. What is the correct line? 8,000.

No, he says eight. Yeah, so Juan's close. So, the first one is...

This is the problem. I'm sorry. All right.

The number is eight. But... So, what does eight mean in this case?

Eight verses. Not eight verses. Eight pages.

Not eight pages.

[Speaker 2]
Eight versions of the perfection of wisdom sutra?

[Speaker 1]
Yes. It's not eight versions. Nope.

It's not eight dollars. Eight dollars? Nope.

It's eight chapters. Wow, okay. Sorry.

No, that's all right. Thank you. So, there's eight chapters.

And what is the particular feature about those eight chapters? Like, we repeated it several times. Those eight chapters express...

The eight topics. Eight topics. Okay, cool.

Thank you. All right. That seemed a lot easier when I wrote it.

All right. Here we go. So, in the perfection of wisdom vocabulary, what is the name What is the name given to the English equivalent of chapter and then the English equivalent of topic or idea in Tibetan?

No, Tibetan. Oh, so a chapter is... Oh, sorry.

Topics is nopal. Nopal, yes. And for those of you who are not mixed nuts in learning Tibetan, what's the ACIP transliteration of both of those Tibetan words?

Oh, very good. So, the first one, kub.

[Speaker 2]
Yay.

[Speaker 1]
You've got kub there.

[Speaker 2]
That's in the chat.

[Speaker 1]
You've got kyab. No yatak. Oh, there's no yatak.

Yep, you're right. See, that was my test to see if anyone actually...

[Speaker 2]
Oh, I see. I'm sorry. I ruined everything.

[Speaker 1]
I want to know you actually didn't because...

[Speaker 2]
Extra credit.

[Speaker 1]
I didn't do it on purpose. I can't see the chat. Is it in the chat?

[Speaker 2]
Sort of.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, yeah. So, Rebecca, you're correct if I were actually correct in writing the Tibetan. So, it's actually just that.

All right. Next question. In the structure of the Jeweler Realization, we find the eight realizations divided up into three groups.

First, what are these realizations really about? And secondly, just to know the structure of the text, what are the names of the three groups? Probably, but that's not the answer I'm looking for.

What are the eight realizations? What is this about? Why do we have eight realizations in the Jeweler Realization?

To get enlightened. Yes, correct. That is not an incorrect answer.

What does this book help us do besides getting enlightened?

[Speaker 2]
Seeing emptiness directly.

[Speaker 1]
Right. Okay. Seeing emptiness directly.

And so, what are the eight realizations? Divided by... Before you see emptiness directly, from seeing emptiness directly, and after you see emptiness directly?

No, this is before the three groups. Oh. My understanding, and correct me if I'm wrong, is that there's eight realizations, like stages of seeing emptiness.

But what school are we in? Lower Middle Way. Right.

So, there are stages up to seeing emptiness directly, and apparently helps us see emptiness directly. And then, what are the three groups of the eight chapters? Oh, listeners?

No, no. Those are three groups. You guys are really good at...

Yeah. One of those days. What's the first group?

Wow. How about that in Tibetan? Can we translate it?

Three knowledges. The three knowledges, right. How many chapters are included in the three knowledges?

Oh, I thought that was the whole book. You got it. It's really easy.

It's right in your face. Three. All right.

Very good, good. All right. The next group is called...

What is that in English? Four... Reparations.

Four activities. Applications of practices. Yeah, yeah.

And how many chapters are in the four practices? Four. Good job.

All right. Somehow, this homework is... And then, the last one is called the Chukku.

What is that? One chapter. One chapter.

Yes. And what is it in English? Body of the Dharma.

Dharmakaya. Dharmakaya, Dharma body. Just one.

Yes. Three plus four plus one is eight. All right.

The magic number. All right. Okay.

What about some words? Trangne. Fixed number.

Oh, yeah. Fixed number. Correct.

No more, no less. Fixed number. Not to be confused with Trangne.

What does that mean? Interpretation. To be interpreted or literal or figurative.

Yes, literal or figurative. And because today is today, you are my mommy. Good job, guys.

Pulling teeth a little bit, but I'm somehow... Somehow, it wasn't as good as it could have been, I guess. All right.

Cool. Are you ready? I'm ready, but you have something to show me.

Oh, I do have something to show you. So what I have to show you is not a new translation, but it's what we went over. And what I'm really interested in is making sure that I have the format of the debates down correctly to make it easier as we're going along.

So making sure that I'm learning it correctly so I can move faster. So that's what we're going to do here. Oops, not that one.

[Speaker 2]
There it is. All right. There it is.

Can you guys see that?

[Speaker 1]
Okay. You can see that, yes. So here we go.

The reddish just notes to myself. Okay. Yeah, there's an outside chance that it could be two of us, maybe.

But we're going to ignore that. Could be two of us today. Yeah.

But he said Maine, so that kind of implies one. All right. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
We can't hear you, Geshe-la. But if Tim can, that's really the important part.

[Speaker 1]
Let's see here. Can you hear me now? Yeah.

Yes. Quite. Yay.

All right. ,'O NGA RDOG DUS PA BYED CHEN, Oh. Unless considered to be a sutra in the Perfection of Wisdom.

That's just a preliminary translation of that. That's a good translation. Are you telling me it's one of those three sutras?

Yeah, why would you say that? Good. Because it is explained by Lord Maitreya and Master Sangyong in your organization.

Is that what the talk was? No. Just because it's...

You see what I mean? If it's just to say it was explained by... You have to repeat the Drup-je-chu.

Why would you say that? Then you have to repeat the first part of your explain. Because they are the main sutra explained by the Jewel of Realizations.

You see what I mean? Rather than explained by... Yeah.

I would say Jewel of Realizations. Yeah, I was just going to say. Yeah.

Okay. Good. So far, so good.

I would put two line spaces between the end of the last debate and the next. Yeah. I don't usually add, they say.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
I just say, I put it in italics. Yeah, I disagree. And then you have to copy your talk from the one above.

The final sentence, yeah. I think you have to make it plural. They are the main sutras, yeah.

Oh, it is the main sutra, right? Was it just one? Okay.

I disagree that the main is explained by the Jewel of Realizations. I would say a main sutra, okay? Because it also applies...

Yeah. And I would change it up above. Okay.

This is kind of what you said, I was just... Yeah, it is two main sutra of that type. You see, you can, you don't have to repeat the whole.

And then two line spaces, comma, that type, comma, and then two hard returns. Yeah, and then the long because, okay? It's kind of hard to see.

I got to push this down so you can see it. Yeah, good, good. Thank you.

Because... One, two, three, four, five. Um...

Yeah, the subject of sentence is in Wendokien, okay? Okay. So you have to say, it is two, one, a main one of that type or something like that.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, because the jewel of realizations, that's the subject of sentence. Right, okay.

Yeah, after because. Because the jewel of realizations, and the best solution, because it is, you can say because it's entirely appropriate for the briefer, for the jewel of realization, to step forth if you end up up. Using the eight topics, expressing the chapters.

Exactly, yeah, okay. Okay, good, and there's a sheet, right? Yeah, and there are many, I would do a semicolon there.

Yeah, and there are also many other commentary. By the way, you're gonna catch this dull at the end, so you could have said, because it is a sutra, which is entirely appropriate, or something like that, you see what I mean? You gotta figure out how to say it.

Yes, yeah, okay. Yeah, and to step forth, it's meaning, that's a million. Yeah, let me see.

,GAL GANG TU MA YIN PA'I RTOG, The commentaries are possessed by the sutra, or it is a sutra, which has, and it also has many of sort of, you see what I mean? Yeah, and it also has many authoritative commentaries that do this as well, good. And I would correct the word delpa in the last line of the Tibetan.

Who's gonna tell me? Oh, G-R? Yeah, that delpa means connected, right?

Delpa, like tendrel. Yeah. Good.

All right, and somebody's been making that mistake in this book so far. By the way, I repeat that the text that we use for this book, and it was the first book we ever input for ACIP, was this book, because it's the most important book in the Geshe course. And it was handwritten.

It was a handwritten copy. We did not have a carving. And so it has a lot of errors in it.

And there's a perfect carved copy in- St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg. We just have to figure out how to talk into giving us a copy, some scans, okay?

And I don't know how we're gonna do that in the current climate, but wouldn't it be nice if they would do something? Might be nice to reach out to them and say, you know. Maybe they're not even paying attention to the library right now.

It might need, you know, whenever the government needs money, they cut their funding. So it might be a good time to reach out to them. It might be a bad time, I don't know.

We do have some students in St. Petersburg, so, you know, you could give it a try, right, John Brady? In your free time. Okay.

Go ahead. Just a quick, I've had some requests over the last, recently and over the last couple of days. If we're not, this includes me, if you're not currently talking, just try to stay muted, especially if you have any texts or typing or, you know, texts coming through, just trying to thank you.

Okay. Now I disagree with what, Tim?

[Speaker 2]
Well, he disagrees with, that this is a sutra that, he disagrees with this part, right?

[Speaker 1]
He disagrees that the sutra is, oh, it has, no, he disagrees that there's commentaries. What's the sutra we're talking about? We're talking about the breather.

Is it Dodupa? Okay, yeah. Okay, good.

Yeah, so he disagrees with the second half of our last reason, which is what? That it has, that the sutra has many authoritative commentaries that are set up in this way with eight chapters and eight topics. Yeah, so Mixed Nuts Diamond Cutter Classic Standard with a debate, a dialectic text, is to say, is to repeat the whole reason.

You see what I mean? So we want to make it extremely clear. So we say, I disagree with the, I disagree with the second part of your reason.

Okay? Are we going to say the second part of your reason and that's enough? No, I always like to help.

And I'll tell you what it, how I would say it. I disagree with the second part of your last reason, colon. It's not the case.

And I would put a colon instead of semicolon. Okay. It's not the case that the, what did you call the sutra, short reason?

The brief first sutra. It's not the case that the brief first sutra, and then you fill in the rest. Has many authoritative commentaries, which are, which...

I would say something like, which, you know, which do the presentation that way, or something like that. Make their presentation that way. It's not the case that the brief first sutra makes its presentation that way.

Okay, good. And then, still in italics. So I don't agree with the second part of your last reason.

And then I capitalize its. Okay. It's not the case that the brief first sutra, what was the argument?

Has many authoritative commentaries that make their presentation in that way. Presentation in that way. Italicize the whole thing, except for the title, yeah.

And take out your three dots. That was to remind me that I'm finished. Okay.

Good. I don't agree with the last part of your last reason. It's not the case that the brief first sutra has many authoritative commentaries that make their presentation that way.

And by the way, it's mixed, not standard, in a dialectic text that's written in debate format, that we spell out everything for the reader. We go in and fill in everything. He said, I disagree with the last thing.

And we're going to write the whole thing out every single time. And we're never going to leave the reader doubting where they are. Okay.

And that's a lot more work. And that's our standard. Okay.

Okay. Then, and okay, your next sentence here after two line breaks, right? Or what do you call them?

Returns, after two returns. And now you can abbreviate, you see. It is true that, it is so the case, because that is so the case.

This is so the case? Yeah. This is either one.

Okay, that is so the case. Then you can cut that entire sentence here. You can cut this whole sentence.

Right before it, right? Yeah. Good.

That is so the case, because master, you know, if it's me, I'll say dumb master. And then I put him in as a footnote? Yeah, composed a commentary.

Okay. He only says the master. Acharya.

And it could be anybody. So now we're going to have a footnote that says, this is referring to Master Haribhadra. And then you give the bibliographical information for the book that he wrote.

LOP PUN GYIS DUD DANG There's a mistake in the Tibetan up above. You tell me. Does it have to do with the word do?

No, oh, sorry. No. That's Simmer Funk.

[Speaker 2]
I have no idea.

[Speaker 1]
Well, there's a subject to the sentence. It should be a... Gyi, with a Sa.

Yeah, it should be instrumental. Okay. Right now, it doesn't make sense.

Yeah. Okay, good. Yeah.

And again, I repeat that there'll be a lot of errors in this because it was handwritten. It was actually lithograph. And that would make a nice story in ALL newsletter.

But they made a flat piece of stone and they wrote the... Yeah. And then they laid the paper on it and took an imprint from one by one, over and over again.

And there was thousands of pages. That's going to take him 56 years to... And those are...

There's one at Ken Rinpoche's room. In Ken Rinpoche's. There's a copy there.

That's one of the copies. They're very rare now. They're very, very hard to get.

The paper was handmade in Bangla, in a refugee camp. Baxa refugee camp. All right.

That is so the case because the master composed a commentary explaining...

[Speaker 2]
It makes a lot more sense for you to do this.

[Speaker 1]
I would say composed for example. You see? And there's something...

You have to justify, right justification. Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
I just want to do it.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, there. Yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. I'll fix that.

[Speaker 1]
And just go back and put a hard return after case in it. Yeah, never use those other kinds of returns, please. I have to take them all out.

Okay. And our standard by the way, is that the right margin will be indented also. Okay.

So you have to grab this thing, this little triangle.

[Speaker 2]
And then pull it. Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
I made a macro. Yeah. So it has to be the same as on the left.

Yeah. Catch that number. Catch that number.

Yeah, you're good. Okay. Okay, this is Mixed Nuts Standard.

So because the master composed for example, a commentary called... This is Stokes Law. Who can tell me...

It's not reasoning. Easy... Is it logic?

Easy realization? Yeah, easy to understand. Okay.

He wrote a book called Easy to Understand, which is always not true. When they give it a title like that, you know it's a hard book. He's just trying to suck people in.

Easy to understand, explain the sutra, amongst other... I was trying to get this on there.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
The logic of the syntax is not quite right. He composed, for example, a commentary called Easy to Understand. Explaining the sutra.

Did anyone say that? No, we just... Oh yeah, explain the sutra.

And he wrote other such commentaries as well, or something like that, because he didn't write other commentaries on this situation. Yeah, and by the way, the English is, you know, it's one thing to understand the Tibetan. It's another thing to express it totally correctly in English.

It's not easy. Okay. Okay.

And I might just suggest that the footnote number should be at the end of the sentence, okay? And that's a call that you have to make. At the end, right here.

Yeah, I would put it there personally in this case. I would never make it italicized. If you want to go there, I'll teach you how to make a footnote, okay?

But we've never done that. But it's something we should do. You want to do it?

I'm happy to do it. Let's do it. And I do hundreds and hundreds of these, so it's like second nature to me.

So you hit insert, and then you hit footnote. It should be up above in your... Yeah.

Yeah. And then you just hit hard return. Yeah.

And I don't know, maybe Lubella can help you how to do this, but you're going to have to make sure it's in full justification. Yeah. And you're going to have to make sure it's still in 12 point Palatino.

So it's not going to be... Palatino little type. Yeah.

Exactly. Yeah. Okay, good.

Good. Can you type? It doesn't look right.

Okay. Yeah. Are you in bold, I think?

No. You're not? No, you're not in bold.

Okay, good. You should not be in bold. Okay.

So I grab a sexy, interesting two words from the sentence that I'm writing the footnote to. And here I would say the master composed. And I do that in italics.

Lowercase c, colon. Then the single space, take it out of italics, about your footnote. How would you...

How do you want to... How do you want to... What's the information you want to convey to your reader?

What I want to convey? Yeah, the master mentioned here is Master Haribhadra.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
And maybe the Tibetan verse opens up. By the way, I would say the master mentioned here is the sage, is the Indian sage. Because I don't want to repeat master.

See what I mean? It's cloying. The master mentioned here is the Indian sage, Haribhadra, who has also composed two great commentaries essential to the current composition, period.

Two spaces. Two spaces, yeah. Oh, are we going to have that?

Oh, no. Yeah. We are going to have two spaces.

Oh. And you cannot talk me out of it. So it's possibly not a typewriter.

All right. Just be quiet there. And respect these 1950 things.

Let's see, who has also composed a great exercise of current composition. The commentary here may be found... Now, when you're writing your first footnotes of hundreds to a text, you have to repeat a few times.

This information may be found in the Sanskrit bibliography. In the Sanskrit bibliography. Correct.

Although Kurt is the corrector. Intrigue. In the Sanskrit bibliography attached, included in the, I would say included in the appendices, included in the appendices to this volume, D-I-C-E-S.

Where is love? Where did it go? Look up master.

Search for master. There's a couple masters here. Sorry.

No, it's... There you go. Okay.

No, it's... The commentary... Well, we don't want to repeat here.

So, the commentary described may be found. Or the commentary listed.

[Speaker 2]
We're talking about the... We're referencing the quote, correct? We're citing the quote?

[Speaker 1]
It's not a quote. Oh, sorry. Okay.

No, we're just mentioning the book. Okay. The commentary described may be found in the Sanskrit biography, included in the appendices at entry.

And then before this goes for final editing, we put two percentage signs, if I'm correct. Yes, please. Okay.

Okay. And then I put a placeholder ampersand until I finished the bibliography entry. I'm sorry, this at sign.

Yeah. Period. Yeah.

Oh, no. Then I always put in parentheses, space parentheses, ACIP, IP, digital, text, lowercase. And then ampersand, you're going to have to find...

Oh, the number's up here. It's TD4569. Something else I'm missing.

Oh, we don't have to include the page number because we're not referencing a page, right Utpala? No, we just have it.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Okay. That's it. That's how I would write the footnote.

And then I immediately, I do my housekeeping as I go, and I do not save it for 12 years from now. So I do not continue the translation until I go at the end of the book. Until I have the entry into the bibliography, which is a lot of work.

It's hundreds of hours of work. But I just have a housekeeping rule. I don't go on until I finish the bibliography entry.

I don't save it for tomorrow. I don't save it for the end of today. I do it immediately.

And if you get in the habit, the book is easy to publish. It's easy to publish the book. You don't have to spend a year cleaning it up or something.

Okay. So, if we were really responsible. You wanna?

You wanna? Do I wanna? You have to.

Let's put it that way. Let's, let's. I'll probably find it in the collected footnotes, collected bibliography entries.

Yeah. Now I'm gonna show you something, Tim. Okay.

So you gotta give me the script. Oh, again, one thing real quick. Or Tim.

We always put a zero before the number, the. It's 41 numbers now. Yeah.

Okay. Five numbers now. Sorry.

We switched to five numbers when we got over 19,999 texts. We're up to about 16,000 books now. Okay.

So where we would go now. Here's what you do when you have to make a bibliography. Okay.

And I know this is not interesting for the audience. I'm gonna teach it once. I'm not gonna do it again.

All right. And Tim will remember.

[Speaker 2]
And so will the rest of us.

[Speaker 1]
So I'm in his text again. And I'm just gonna open my, I'm gonna go to my, oh man, let me get rid of this. Thanks for teaching me that.

And this. Okay. So I'm gonna go open.

This is where I keep all, these are all the bibliography entries we've ever done. Right here, all put together. So all the books we've published, seven books.

It's about 3,000, 4,000 pages now. We have finished bibliography entries. So to save yourself time, you go to the post and you see if the bibliography entry you need is in there.

And you search for 569.

[Speaker 2]
Yeshela, you're not using the new one I sent you a few days ago.

[Speaker 1]
I think I did load it in here.

[Speaker 2]
Well, that said February.

[Speaker 1]
So the one I sent you is May. Okay. Understand.

I'll go back and share that. Okay.

[Speaker 2]
I thought- And those are up in Dropbox for those playing along.

[Speaker 1]
Let's go back and make sure. I thought I put it in here, Utpala. I thought I loaded it.

Yeah. Isn't that it from February? No.

No. Oh, let's pretend it is. Okay.

Oh, yeah. Okay. What's your catalog number?

Give me your catalog number. It's 4529. 4529?

Or 4569. I don't think it is. 4569?

Oh, I used the catalog to the 10 years of playing that. You have a new problem. That's the catalog number of the catalog, the Tibetan catalog.

So we're going to have to search for part of the title. Okay. Well, let's search for Senggye Sambul.

Let's search for Haribhadra. Okay. So we're going to search for Haribhadra.

I don't think I've ever done this. Okay. This is his commentary to the 8,000, right?

Is it? Oh, we want the Dordupa, right? Hey, Geshe-la, we cannot see your screen.

We just see the marching text. All right. Let me take you there.

What's the title? You look for the word, okla, or la, or search. No, I've got two books that we've published that have Haribhadra in the bibliography.

So I'm just trying to see if one of them is it. You're talking about easy to understand. Okay.

Thank you. This is not it, because this is a commentary to 8,000 verses. So let's go look for another one.

Okay. That's his commentary to the Myintukyen. And this is his other commentary.

Okay. I don't think we have done it. Yeah.

Yeah. We've never cataloged this book. Get rid of the catalogs.

Okay. And we got to do it from scratch. Hee, hee, hee.

Yay. So you're going to go to the very end of your huge book. By the way, how should we do this?

Oh, we don't even know where we're putting this book.

[Speaker 2]
The first- Put it at the very end. Doesn't matter. Just put it at the end.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. The first of the eight chapters is massive, and it will take three English books just for the first chapter. And there'll be 400 to 500 pages each.

So that's why his book's taking 56 years. So we're going to go to the end of the whole thing, which is the eight chapters. And this document is already 1,000 pages before we add any translation.

And we already have one book here. Oh, can you guys see my screen? Yeah.

Does it say Bibliography? Yeah. It does.

Yes, yes. Yeah, right now we can. Why is it not showing here?

Because- Oh, because you're hooked up to it. Because I'm stealing it. There we are.

Oh, there's some movies that I didn't see. Oh, yes. All right.

I already started a bibliography for the Sanskrit of his book, okay? And now we're ready for S2, which is your new one, okay? Now, we have to go find it with Gopher, all right?

So I'm going to change my sharing screen to a more general share screen, right? And now you should be able to see my search, okay? So that was called tokla, right?

Sla, like coleslaw. Wow. So let me get rid of this.

Sorry, we were listening to some good music before you guys came. And here, those of you who haven't seen John Brady's database in action, I think you can appreciate how amazing it is, okay? So we're going to...

Now, and I want to say one thing. Framing the search, setting the search definition is the whole key. If you frame the search wrong, you can never find what you want, or it'll take three years, okay?

If you craft the search carefully, it takes less than two seconds to get your answer. So you want to take an hour, or you want to take two seconds?

[Speaker 2]
Two seconds.

[Speaker 1]
That means you have to stop and think carefully about how you're going to frame the search, okay? Anybody want to give me any suggestions? What clues do we have so far about this book we're looking for?

It's in the tenure. What was the... It's in the tenure.

Yeah, it's in the tenure. What's its name? Easy to understand.

Easy to understand. That might be a nickname, okay? But we'll start there.

And then you're going to lose hair in looking for it, which is what happened to me. And I'm looking forward to seeing you guys do that also. So, DOK LA.

Okay, there we go. Now, I'm going to hit every mention of easy to understand in the whole tenure, which is 210,000 folios, or 420,000 pages. Do you want to go through and...

Okay. Let's look in perfection of wisdom texts. No.

No. In two lines? Yeah.

You have to use what we call... By the way, you can impress your friends at cocktail parties. Boolean search function.

Boolean means find one word near another word. It's just a fancy name. People will think you know something that you don't, which is kind of my specialty.

So, we're going to have a Boolean search. We're going to craft a Boolean search, which is this near that. And by the way, that's the power of the ACIP database.

That's the ultimate power of the ACIP, because Tibetan and Sanskrit lend themselves perfectly to Boolean searches. There's no data in the world which is more friendly to Boolean searches than Tibetan language. Why?

It might be DOK BAR LA BA. It might be DOK NA LA BA. It might be DOK GIS LA BA.

It might be DOK LA LA BA. But those two syllables are going to be there, DOK and LA. Easy?

Understand. So, we'll start with easy to understand, but if we don't find it. Now, I need something to search near it.

And I'm looking for the title. I'm looking for the title.

[Speaker 2]
Like something like Shakyamuni Buddha or something like that.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah. In the language of Tibet. Every single title in the Tenggir, every Tibetan title in Tenggir, almost, with very few exceptions, is introduced with the words, PHOS SKYES DU, in the language of Tibet.

So, I just saved myself like a week of searching. Did you choose SKYES DU instead of PHOS? Yeah, you're exactly right.

I have to change the parameters from OR to, this is called, what do you call it? Proximity search. I want it within two lines.

All right. And by the way, the DOK LA will definitely be within two lines of the PHOS SKYES DU. All right.

Now, tell me search field. Are we searching the Tenggir, Kangyur, or Sumbu? Tenggir.

Tenggir, yeah. Indian commentary. Okay.

So, you go down here, Tenggir. All right. And that's all.

You could go to the Perfection of Wisdom Commentaries section of the Tenggir, but why waste your time if you have a search program that can search 10,000 pages in a second? Why? If it's on your computer.

If you're doing it online, you want to focus. Online? Because it's not safe to keep it online, because somebody could take out all the mentions of a certain person that they don't like.

Some hacker from any unfriendly place. No, I mean from Dropbox, for example. Or the ALL data.

We do not want the data stored online. It can be there temporarily for searches, but we don't want to store the data online. Okay.

It can wipe out a person's name forever. A good hacker can do it in two minutes and change every book. Okay.

And that's the future of textual study. When governments change, books may change. Smart, independent scholars have to keep it on their computers.

Okay. Five minutes, boss. It will come.

Okay. So I think we're ready to search. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun.

Okay. Somebody time it. Five, four, three, two, one.

Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Is that it? This book is also called Easy to Understand, but it's a commentary to Sangha Dupa.

Guhyas Manja. Okay. It's not our book.

There's another book from Tengyur called Easy to Understand. And by the way, go down to the bottom, bottom, bottom, bottom. There's only one match in the whole Tengyur.

Okay. So therefore, the actual title does not include the words Dopa Lama in that order together. So let's split them up.

Let's say Dopa Lama. Let's try Dopa Lama. And by the way, it's not case sensitive.

You can set it to case sensitive, but we have it. OM MANI PADME HUM It helps if you do a mantra. No.

Now, if it's me, I'll do LA by itself. Okay. We're going to get all the books that are easy.

It could be 10 books, but it's not going to kill us. Now, if it's me, I'll go down here to see what section I'm in. I'm in a section called...

Oh, by the way, this you just have to read Tibetan well. This is a commentary on the Bodhisattva Vows. Okay.

And it's catching baslap. So I'm going to cut the prefix letters off of here. I put a space in front of that.

I see. I won't hit any BSLs. Okay.

And this program is extremely powerful for Tibetan. And it would take a lot of... It would take a long time to program anything nearly as powerful.

Okay. Here we go. There's another lot, but that's a different one.

Could you put a space after that? Yeah, you could, but I'll show you something. You could put a space after slav like coleslaw, but then you're going to have to put this.

Right. Okay. All right.

And you got to know these things. And Geshe-la should teach this somewhere. All right, here we go.

That's not it.

[Speaker 2]
That's not it. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
By the way, you can look down here in the box at the bottom in the gray, it tells you which section of the Tengu you're in. And we're in the Tantras. So if you see Diamond Ray down there, just hit return again.

Just search again. As with our book is not in the Tantras. So keep your eye down there.

What's it going to say down there when we hit our book? What section of Tengu are we looking for? Perfectionism.

Yeah, Shershen, Shershen, Perfectionism. So keep your eye down here. And Diamond Ray.

Nope. We don't want it. I don't care what it's about.

There's only two matches. Uh-oh. Now, sometimes it has a short name that somebody gave it.

That's not the real name. Okay. And talk is going to be too many.

You know, there were another thing. So what's the strategy now? We're almost out of time, right?

Yeah. Go to the catalog and search on Haribhadra. Yeah, great, great.

Let's go search all the books that Haribhadra wrote. Okay. And then we can go to Sengye.

Sorry. Sengye Song. Okay.

Or Seng Song. It's either Sengye or Sengye. It's Sengye.

It's Sengye. Okay. Oops, sorry.

Or sometimes it's Seng Song. Okay. And now we're not going to go to the Tengu itself.

We're going to go to the catalogs to the Tengu. And I would use the catalog here's all the catalogs to the Tengu, okay? I put them in one place, right?

So now we should hit all the commentaries ever written by Haribhadra that are in the Tengu, okay? And we'll hit it in four or five Tengus. Our Tengu is Derge, but there's four or five editions of it.

There's one. We are out of time. Just so you know, again.

Yeah, that's not it. And here you just have to scan, okay? You got 18 choices and you have to scan.

This is Getomba, okay? This is, I'm going to look in the Dupadroi. Was it supposed to be to Dupa?

This is it. Yeah. Look at the end of the line.

Dupadroi. Dupadroi. Hey, we did it.

Yeah. Here we go. And then we'll continue next time about how to follow up.

This is going to be a new show. So we've confirmed that there is a commentary in the Tengu called that. And then we're going to have to go find it.

And that's not hard now because now it's called the correct name and not the nickname. Okay, cool. And is it going to be four, five, six, nine?

Oh no, that's the catalog. Sorry. Four, five, six, nine is the native, yeah.

The final volume of the Tengu, yeah. Okay, cool. This is the part that takes many, many, many hours.

And to do a... And by the way, nobody in the world does this. Nobody in the world, in no university, nowhere, do they know how to do this.

And it's a mixed nuts thing. Like, we're just awesome. Okay, all right.

Geshe-la, was that the native catalog to the Derge? No, it's the native catalog to another one. Down at the Serti.

This is a Tengu that was written in gold letters with gold water. And it's called the gold-written Serti, okay? Actually, Nick, you're correct.

And we'll do it next time. But we would go until we hit the Derge catalog. But it doesn't matter, Nick.

We've confirmed that it exists.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
Then we'll search for it under its proper name, which is not easy to understand. Actually, that's part of its name, but it's not the main name. Thank you for doing that, Geshe-la.

That's amazing. Says a commentary to the Jewel of Realizations in which I use the brief Perfection of Wisdom to make some points. It's still a commentary to the Avisamharankara, but he uses the Dodupa.

Okay. Okay, cool. All right, yay.

Okay, how much... By the way, God bless, John Brady's here. Will you come up and just show your face?

You guys at home, you should do three prostrations, or four. We could not translate any of this stuff. It would be completely impossible if we didn't have John Brady.

And before the database was created, I spent days searching through books for these things, manually, page by page. I would spend days, and now it takes two minutes or something. So, you should all call John Brady.

What's the best way to thank John Brady? Send money. Send money.

Go to the Asian Legacy Library website. Sign up for all the money you stole from Geshe Michael by answering questions. And send it to John Brady.

Okay, see you guys in five minutes. Let's do it.