Сокровищница высшего знания, курс 01: введение в Абхидхармакошу (Аризона, 2014), занятие 2

[Speaker 1]
So we're going to do a second night of Dhamma Kosha. And just before we start, are you guys ready? I have a small announcement, a nice announcement for you.

So what you see here is in the red, I believe, right, Nicole? The purple is Dharanam's property. I believe it's 1,060 acres.

1,040. And it covers the two mountains that you see behind here, and the other side of the mountain on the left, and the whole valley behind the mountain on the right, where the 30 retreat cabins are. And it stretches back here a ways also.

And the dark, the blue thing is the road from the temple up to the middle of the retreat valley, that zoom line that used to be up there. Come on. There you go.

The blue line is the road that goes up to the Dharanam house, which is the historical house here. There's a historic house on the property, which is protected by the federal government. And it was a guard house for guarding the spring in the days of Dharanam.

Dharanam, who was captured here. So there's some Dharanam there. But as you can see, you see the dark purple part?

It's owned by somebody else. So to get from here to the retreat valley, you have to cross someone else's property. And I think in Arizona, correct me, David, it's legally, they have to let us through.

But there can be all kinds of strange things happening. And it's up for sale. And we weren't really thinking about buying it, because we were busy with this other project.

But I'm happy to announce that yesterday, one of the students, not one of the sponsors, donated $50,000. And we're going to make an offer on it. I think we'll get it.

But I wanted to congratulate them. And they want to stay anonymous, so if you're bored, you can try to figure it out. It's not the school, okay?

And it's one of the students here. So you're cool, wherever you are. You're still anonymous.

That's where the sovereign Jews walk down to their gate. It's on the property just down the street. We're going to make an offer.

We'll see if they pick it. It's a little less than they want. All right.

So let's start. There's also some nice water up there. It's a nice water tank.

And it's usually full. It's from the local water. It's like an hour-and-a-half issue.

It's an open tank. If you've ever walked to the fork from the students' gate, that's probably the most open water tank in the school. I hope they pick it.

I don't know. All right. We're on the first...

I don't know what page it is. It's called Shinmei Yeshi. Would you give me just a single glance?

Can you see that? You okay? Face straight?

So Charlie Lau is continuing to bow down to the great figures in our lineage. And as Mr. Wu said today, I like when he said, this place has lineage. And we do have lineage.

And a very pure lineage. And a strong lineage. There's 20,000 pages in the 36 courses that are used at Dandenong.

And there's not a single word there that's not from the classics. So 20,000 pages of the classics. And nothing is taught here that doesn't come directly from those classics.

So I think that's awesome. So here's... He's bowing down.

He's continuing to bow down to the masters of the lineage before he starts his explanation of Abhidharmakosha. Written by Mr. Wu. Mr. Wu showed him with a red hat today. All right. Here we go. Shinmei Yeshi means...

Shinmei means Vimala.

[Speaker 2]
OK.

[Speaker 1]
Vimala means Vimala. OK. No impurity.

Totally pure. It means totally pure. Shinmei.

Yeshi means wisdom. So in the Abhidharma, the idea of purity and impurity is vital to the Abhidharmakosha. Saktye Sattva Mechen Naramanto Dvihichitna Saktye Kanchi Keda Lhasa Nidhya Vajra Sakyamani Dhammada Dvimasena Srimad Bhagavatam Nibbhoham These are the opening lines of the philosophical part.

And it divides all things in the universe into pure and impure. What's pure and what's impure, you will be surprised. But later, because we won't get that far.

OK. So Shinmei Yeshi means immaculate wisdom. Chen, you know from Chen Wei-Sing.

Eyes, honorific, high word for eyes. Sur, you know from cancer. Yeah, in cancer it means form of representation, but it also means a corner.

I guess because you put the old campus in the corner. So it can mean retired. Start dictionary entry, the word sur, Z-U-R, did we do that already?

Okay, start dictionary entry, the word sur, S-U-R, Z-U-R, it means a corner of something. So we were studying, for example, in orthography, wasur or asur is a corner which is slipped off of the letter A and attached to other letters to make a long Sanskrit vowel. Oh, I'm sorry, that's a different word.

Wasur is used to make, to differentiate the homonyms. So sur means a corner. So it came to mean former.

What is sur sum? What's a sur sum then? No, sur, yeah, three quarter, den, den is asana.

What's sur sum? Sur is sum. So what's the Sanskrit for sur?

Corner, okay, corner. Sur corner means three angles formed by your body when you're doing a trikonasana. You try to find it.

There are three angles in you, there are three corners formed by your body when you're doing a trikonasana, okay? So sur means a corner. But it can also mean like just a glance from the corner of one's eyes, like cat's there and I'm looking at Hector and I go like this.

Ready? Watch. It's not, I'm not hitting on you.

No, we're still here. No, just watch, okay, just watch. It's like, that's like sur chi, okay?

A sur, it's a glance. Side-long glance, something like that, okay? Sur chi ki kya, even with just a side-long glance, okay?

Ma lu means all. Che means things that exist. Rang chi tsen ni, say rang.

Rang chi tsen ni, say rang tsen. Rang tsen. Chi tsen.

Chi tsen. Rang tsen. Rang tsen.

Chi tsen. Chi tsen. Rang tsen and chi tsen is one of the big teachings of the second school of ancient India, which is?

The South Shraddhika. The South Shraddhika, the logic school or the perceptual theory school. And they will say, rang tsen and chi tsen is a big teaching for them, okay?

And I'm going to explain it, and it's hard to hear the explanation of it, okay? So you know tsen ni means what? Definition.

Definition or definitive quality. And rang means? Self.

Self. And chi means? Out.

You don't teach it up? Not chi. Quality.

General. So it's general quality and specific quality, or self quality. And it means, in the South Shraddhika school, the idea of car and a Ford Explorer outside.

Where does the first one exist? In your head. In your head.

That's the chi tsen. Chi tsen means, quote, car. And the quote is important, okay?

Someday you'll go there. Car. So-called car.

Jung would call it an? Archetype. Archetype, okay?

In your mind, car. The idea of car, okay? Then when you see one car, that's called rang tsen.

It means the manifestation of that archetype in a real reality. A car. So get the difference in English.

Crucial for understanding emptiness is the difference between car and a car, okay? Car is an idea. A car is a car out there, okay?

Got it? Which is the rang tsen? A car or car?

A car. A car is rang tsen. A manifestation of that concept in real reality.

Chi tsen is? Car. Car.

With no a, no ga, okay? Now, sexier question. Are they different?

You can talk about it in the background. So, with a single glance, he sees the rang tsen and the chi tsen of every existing thing. He sees the archetype of it in countless beings' minds.

And then he can see all the cars that are parked anywhere. And when David Stubb becomes a Buddha or if he's not already, he will identify the ones that are parked in the handicapped zone. With a single glance.

Okay. Chi tsen means perfectly. Chi tsen, as they are.

Man jai, say man jai. Man jai. Man jai means, jai means mixed up, mixed together.

And man jai means distinct from each other. It's not like he sees clumps of things. Whoever he's going to bow down to here doesn't see all the ideas of things and reality of things in clumps.

He sees them separately in the minds of countless living beings. And in the world that we live on. All at the same time.

Man jai, man jai. Man jai. Tsen war.

What's that mean? Let me talk to you about this thing. Clarity.

Total clarity. With total clarity. Tsen war.

Sik pa. Like Chenre's Sik. To see.

To see. The honorific. High honorific.

Okay. High, polite speech. You say, sik means to see.

And then he said one before that. You abhi see. Higher.

You abhi see. Got it? Like an abhi dharma.

Higher. What's abhi? Higher.

Higher. Okay. Higher.

You abhi see. Okay. We don't know who he's talking about yet.

This is a Tibetan poetic device. You say, guess who with a single glance sees all the things in the earth. Both in the minds of people and in reality.

You know. Without missing them. And each with total clarity.

Guess. Guess who's the Mara Wangchuk. Wangchuk means Ishvara, right?

Ishvara means absolute lord. Absolute lord. Wangchuk.

And then Mara means, you know it's from Chedak Mara. By Bashika. It's the Bashika.

In by Bashika. Even in modern Hindi, Basha means what? Language.

Yeah. And in Indonesia, for example, the word for their language is Basha. Basha.

It means language. So, Mara Wangchuk is lord of speakers. Lord of speakers.

Lord of those who speak. Okay. Who's he talking about?

Jampeyang. Manjushri. Manjushri.

Okay. Manjushri. Technically, Jampeyang means?

Manjukosha. Say Manjukosha. Manjukosha.

Manjukosha. Okay. Yeah.

It means gentle voice. So, Manjushri has two names, right? Jampeyang.

Manjushri. Or Manjukosha. Sorry.

Jampeyang, which means Manjukosha. Okay. Manjukosha.

And we're going to get an explanation of that name shortly. Okay. Alright.

It means gentle voice. Gentle voice. Speaks to you about emptiness softly in your ear.

Okay. Gentle voice. So, he's bowing down.

Dood means I bow down. I bow down. I bow down to gentle voice, who is the lord of all teachers, who sees with complete clarity, unquickly and distinctly from each other, just as they really are, things as they exist in people's minds, and things as those mental images express themselves in the world, with a single glance.

Okay. And he's bowing down to Manjushri. Okay.

There's a vital word in the second line, and there's a vital word in the third line that makes this a pun. I'll give you the first one. The word in the second line that's a pun here is cho.

Which is what? Dharma. What's the word in the third line?

[Speaker 2]
Mun.

[Speaker 1]
Say Mun. Mun means Abhi. Cho means Dharma.

He's poking fun at us. Can you figure out? I hid the word Abhidharma in his voice.

Okay. Got it? You see all Dharmas with complete and great Mun, Abhi, clarity.

Got it? And then some people never do.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Let's go to the next verse, okay? By the way, I want you to tune out. It's very late.

[Speaker 2]
I'll take an extra half hour.

[Speaker 1]
It's actually 8.30, okay? Keep us extra long.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, keep us long. Please, please.

[Speaker 1]
Let's see. Okay. I don't mind.

I can go all night. I just don't mind.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah.

[Speaker 1]
I don't want to be like Ori. I love you, Ori. She thinks people clap at the end of her class because it was a good class.

She thinks people clap at the end of her class because it was a good class. Okay. Gyalwe, Gamche, Malhe, Kunjinbar.

Gyalwe, Gamche, Malhe, Kunjinbar. Say Gyalwe. Gyalwe.

Gamche. Gamche. Malhe.

Kunjinbar.

[Speaker 2]
Kunjinbar.

[Speaker 1]
He's also showing off here. He started each line of this verse with the word Gyalwe, which in Sanskrit is... Jinr.

Jinr, right? Jinr. Jinr.

Short... Not Jinr. E is for Chinese.

But in Sanskrit there's a long E and a short E, right? So, Jinr. Victorious one.

Like Jai, Jairam, Jairam means victory, right? It comes from Ji. Jinr.

Okay. Jinr means victorious Buddha. So he's making a pun because...

He's making a pun. He's showing off his poetic skills because he starts each line with the same word. Gyalwe, Gyalwe, Gyalwe, Gyalwe.

Gamche means high dharma, holy dharma. Malhe means all of it. Kunjinbar.

You hold all of those dharmas. What does it mean to hold a dharma? It means to go to a class about a subject, take good notes, and be able to pass it on to the next person.

That's holding a dharma. Understand? Now that's what it means to be a dharmahobla.

And if you don't remember, or you don't take good notes, and you can't explain it to somebody tomorrow, you're not a zimbab. You're a non-zimbab. You broke the lineage after two and a half thousand years.

Don't do a real thing. Now there's an R at the end of the first line. Which is called the Daini grammar case.

And you should learn it someday when you have a three-year retreat, and you're a dharmahobla. Daini grammar case means, as. We elected her as president of the country, or something.

We elected her as, in Tibetan it's an R, at the end of the word president. President Tori. We elected her.

It means as president. So here it means, as a holder of all the high dharmas of the victorious Buddha. Say, Lung Ten.

The verb comes next in English. Say, Lung Ten. Do you know Lung Ten Ma?

We talked about it in the Vajrayana class this time of year. And it was a while back. It's down to your foot.

This is where somebody who's a high lama walks up to you and says, you're going to make it in three lifetimes. Definitely. That's called Lung Tenpa.

Lung means to, the word. Tenpa means to give the word. And oftentimes they will touch your body.

Sometimes with your foot. And sometimes with your hand on your hand. And they will say, you know, you got it in three lifetimes.

You're a Buddha in three lifetimes. They give you a, what do you call that? Foretell.

Foretell. Prophecy? OK.

So here, who prophesied? Yao Yi Qi. The Buddha's another self.

OK. It's the Ni in, for example, Domeni. Domeni.

Kongshu. Domeni means shunyata. The shunyata.

It came into English as T-I-O-N, shun. OK. But here it means the Buddhas themselves.

Lung Tenpa. Who? Whoever they're talking about.

As what? They foretold that they would become Buddha in three lifetimes. No, first life.

First life. That they would preserve the Dharma. They would preserve the Dharma.

OK. Like John Rennie preserved 141,000 texts in St. Petersburg. OK.

He's Zimba now. Where are you? OK.

Small job. For 14 years. OK.

That's Zimba. OK. He preserved them.

at the stage of death, or at the stage of an inner-baptist equation. The second one is called ché. It's a very unusual word.

It means to proliferate. In the way that of start-dictionary entry, ché, M-c-h-e-d, is a very, kind of a rare word that means to proliferate. And we see it in Tantra, in the expression, nán ché tótsum, which means, in the state of death, or going into the state of perceiving emptiness, you perceive, when there's, when sent to the central channel, you have a vision of illumination, and then you have a vision of proliferation, and then you have a vision which is called attainment.

Because you're close to attaining the direct perception of emptiness, nán ché tótsum. The second word is called ché. And when it was taught to me, I didn't have a dictionary.

I had a monk, for 25 years, in my house. And if I didn't know a word, I went upstairs and bribed him with a cup of tea. And I said, Rinpoche, what's this ché mean?

And then he gave me this long explanation. So I remember going up with a cup of tea. I said, what's this ché mean?

I don't understand this ché. He said, when there's a forest fire, and one tree starts on fire, and then the huge wind comes, then the fire, what do you call it? It spreads exponentially.

That's ché. That means ché. And dictionary.

Chépa. So chépa means to proliferate wildly, exponentially. There's a very famous Vṛndāvana Dharma, which we'll learn about in teaching.

The twelve ayatamas, the twelve senses. The seats of the senses. Which we'll get to later.

So ché means to proliferate. To proliferate. What's ku?

Body. So what do you think ku ché means?

[Speaker 2]
Emanation body.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, you would think it means emanation body. But it is the honorific for twins.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
It's the high, high, high word for twins. Ku ché. Ku ché.

The split of the body. Okay? Ku ché.

Who's he talking about? Sangha.

[Speaker 2]
Yeah, Sangha.

[Speaker 1]
So they're also called ku ché ni. We don't call them Vṛndāvana Dharma. We just call them ku ché ni.

Everybody knows who you're talking about. The twins. Were they twins?

No. Were they brothers? Yes.

Half-brothers. Half-brothers. Sin?

Mom. Mom. Good.

Okay. So ku ché. So first he kind of bows down special to the Sangha.

Master Sangha. But then he says, You know, really, both of you. Meaning Master Vāsudeva and Master Sangha.

Ku ché. Jengdang. Say jengdang.

Start dictionary entry. Je-su dang-wa. Je-su dang-wa.

Je-su. Ra-ja-ta-ja-du-ma-je-sa-je. Sa-shuk-yu-su.

Au-ba-ra-ta-da-la-dang-wa. Ba-wa. Ba-kyang-wa.

Je-su dang-wa. R-J-E-S-S-U-V-A-S-U-B-R-A-N-G-B-A. Okay?

This is the word. Je-su dang-wa. And you should learn it.

Je-su is the translation in Tibetan of anu. In Sanskrit. A-N-U.

Okay? Like anusara. Anusara.

Yoga. Right? But anu means behind or following.

Okay? And then... So anusara literally means following after.

After. Je-su. Dang-wa means to follow.

So je-su dang-wa means to follow after somebody. To follow behind someone. Or to follow after someone.

And it is abbreviated to jen-na. Say jen-na. Okay?

By the way, I repeat that I'm doing this test carefully. And that's the way it's going to be. Fifteen years.

Okay? You can count it off. You're going to get words.

I'm sorry. And I'm going to explain each word. And then if you don't like that, come to a DCI program, and you can hear me explain the pen over and over.

Okay? Okay. Now, classic example of jen-na.

Okay? Say ge-pe jen-na. Ge-pa means what?

Faith. Faith. So ge-pe jen-na means those who believe in something because they have faith in the teacher.

Or they have faith in Buddhism, or something like that. They act on a spiritual teaching because they have faith. Okay?

They're called ge-pe jen-na. Then, the other kind of student is called re-pe jen-na. What's the first part?

Reasoning. They think it out. Okay?

What do you call it? They figure it out. They follow the process of figuring out that something is true.

They don't believe it. They don't go for it just because the teacher said it.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
If Buddha says something, should you ge-pe jen-na or re-pe jen-na? Can you trust the Buddha?

[Speaker 2]
No, you can't.

[Speaker 1]
He will teach four schools. Three are wrong. Okay?

Alright? So you can't be a ge-pe jen-na in Buddhism. It's always a liability.

You don't just follow someone from faith. You figure out that what they say is correct. Okay?

Based on everything they said before. Based on your personal experience. Based on what's logical.

Should you follow that course of action or not? In Buddhism, you are required not to follow someone just because they're the lama or they say so or like that. You are required to think it out and accept it only if it makes sense to you.

Okay? So you tell me, in scripture, is ge-pe jen-na considered higher or is re-pe jen-na considered higher? Re-pe jen-na.

Re-pe jen-na. Okay? The ones who can sit there and figure out why that's correct are preferable.

Because David, John, will accept anything you say. And then the next teacher, they'll accept anything they say. Even if contradicts.

Even if contradicts each other because they're not logical. They just like the person. Okay?

And that's dangerous. That gets into problems. So we are encouraged to tear apart everything every teacher ever tells us.

You're right. That doesn't make sense, Geshe-la. You know?

And you're supposed to judge. Okay? That's called re-pe jen-na.

Okay? Here, these are the jedams of kuche. Yeah, the twins.

The brothers. Okay? Meaning all the people who ever came out to them.

You are the latest jedams of the kuche. Got it? You are the latest followers, followers of the kuche.

Of Master Sangha and Master Sangha. Okay? Got it?

Cool? Che means along with all your followers. This is an ancient word.

Dong-so means... Master Naropa got in trouble because he didn't want to be a dong-so. With his parents.

More specifically, something else. They wanted a prince. They wanted a grand prince.

That was the function of princes and kings forever. Their first job is to have a baby. Okay?

And if you create a baby to follow the... To keep the mind, keep the mind. To maintain the mind.

You're called a dong-so. Dong-so means somebody who keeps the family mind. Okay?

Here... Then they say... Dong-so de-we-she.

De-we-she is an abbreviation for... De-we-shin-yen. De-we-shin-yen.

Ge-wa means... Virtue. Virtue.

Shin-yen means... Friend. Okay?

Kalyana Mitra. Okay? Kalyana Mitra.

Dala Mitra's name means Dala Friend, right? Kalyana means goodness. Okay?

Kalyana Mitra. It's abbreviated into that to... Ge-she.

Ge-she. Ge-she. So this is the word for ge-she.

Ge-she was a... It's been a title for about... 500 years.

But before that, for 500 years, it was a title for any teacher. It was called a ge-she. Okay?

Like ge-shi-po-to-wa. Like they cut down on ge-shes. They didn't get a degree from someone else.

They were a spiritual guide. It means spiritual friend. Soon, for those of you who care, which is almost...

I don't know. It's again a Danish word for this. As.

Okay? As. Nye means definitely.

Definitely, you are spiritual teachers who have maintained the family life of the gyalas. Jinas. Of the buddhas.

Okay? Who are they talking about? The two brothers.

Okay? Got it? And in fact, it was predicted that you would do so by the buddhas themselves.

Got it? That's the whole verse. So now, having bowed down in the last verse to Manjushri, he's now bowing down to Je Tsongkhapa.

No, sorry. Master Hara. Master Hara and Master Vasubandhu.

Why didn't Guru Raksha today talk about the two miniatures on Je Tsongkhapa's shoulders? One Manjushri and one more like Chenrezig, Avalokiteshvara, Bhanu. Why didn't they bow down to Chenrezig?

Huh? Who you bow down to traditionally is meant to indicate the subject matter of the book. So the main subject matter of this book is wisdom and emptiness.

The subject of Abhidharma, the main subject of all Abhidharma, is emptiness and wisdom.

[Speaker 2]
Okay?

[Speaker 1]
Although they don't even call it emptiness. We'll get there. Okay?

So therefore, he only bows down to Manjushri. And then he goes straight to Master Tsongkhapa and Master Vasubandhu. Okay, who's next?

Tenmei Khorlo Je Tsongkhapa was born in Los Angeles in the year 4000 B.C. Tenmei Khorlo means... What's Khorlo?

[Speaker 2]
Wheel.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, Tenmei means firm. Okay? Firm wheel.

Steerer Chakra. Steerer Chakra. In Sanskrit.

And it's a name for... What is that? Manjushri.

It's a nickname for Manjushri. A rare nickname for Manjushri. If you ever see it again, you'll be lucky.

Tenmei Khorlo means the step-fast wheel. And it's a nickname for Manjushri. Okay?

Tenmei Khorlo. Who? Je Tsongkhapa.

So he's bowing down to... Now he's bowing down to Je Tsongkhapa. Okay?

You are... You are... You are who?

You are Manjushri himself. You are Manjushri. Okay?

Tenmei Khorlo. You are the Tenmei Khorlo. Who's Pekar?

Who's... Pekar is a short... It's an abbreviation for Pekar Kharpo.

White Lotus. White Lotus. Okay?

Pekar Kharpo. Pekar Zimba. Holding the White Lotus.

Which is an allusion to... Who holds the White... Manjushri's got a sword, man.

It's Avalokiteshvara. Chenrezig. Avalokiteshvara.

Okay? Loving eyes. Chen...

Chen means eye, right? Chenrezig is to look. Look at my eyes.

Look. Look. Okay?

It means to look at someone who is like... It means to look down with kind of affection. High...

With deep affection. That's called Chenrezig. And sig means to look.

So Chenrezig. What's the down in Sanskrit? Abhak.

What's the look? Lokak. And then Ishvara means...

The person... The Lord who looks down. It means...

Avalokiteshvara is always looking out at everybody. And... I understand that in Chinese it can also mean looking at the world, right?

Something like that. Taking care of the world. Then he mentions Losang Gyatso.

Losang Gyatso... Rudolf should talk about him today. The great 5th Dalai Lama.

Is he saying Ngapa? Ngapa. Chenpo.

Ngapa Chenpo. Ngapa Chenpo. Ngapa means number 5.

Chenpo means big. They don't call him the 5th Dalai Lama in Tibet. They call him Big 5.

Ngapa Chenpo. So here is his monk's name, Losang Gyatso. By the way, his full monk's name is Ngawa Losang Gyatso.

But he was called the Big 5th. Ngapa Chenpo. He really unified the country for the first time.

He built a... Potala Palace. And he was very ecumenical.

He learned Nyingma. He learned Kadu. He was very unusual.

And he was criticized during his lifetime for being so supportive of all the groups of Buddhism. And Ulasan has been to his... has supported the...

a temple where he went and where he practiced. So, he's bowing down to Losang Gyatso. Why?

The 5th Dalai Lama wrote a great commentary on Abhidharma. That's why he's bowing down to the 5th Dalai Lama. He wrote a good commentary on the Abhidharmakosha.

It's been typed in by... John Burgey. And we have it.

We can go look at it from time to time. When we get stuck in the next 15 years, we can go check out the 5th Dalai Lama's Abhidharma commentary. When we have a question, we have it.

We can search it in a few seconds and go look for answers to questions. Very famous commentary. Then he says, Yonzin Ke...

Say Yonzin?

[Speaker 2]
Yonzin Kebab. Kebab.

[Speaker 1]
I want to do. I want to do. OK.

Yonzin is an important word. You will learn it whenever I start the Lower Middle Way School, which will also take 15 years. So, we need a college in Sedona.

Because that's another 15-year project. I've never taught you the Lower Middle Way School. In the monastery, it's 12 years.

OK? And there's a whole discussion of Yonzin in there. There's a whole subject.

Yonzu Zimba. Yonzin means... Star Dictionary entry.

Yonzu Zimba. Which means to completely hold. Yonzu Zimba means to hold completely.

OK? And it's always abbreviated to Yonzin. Say Yonzin.

In the ancient times, Yonzin meant your spiritual mentor. OK? The one who was your personal teacher.

It was called your... It is your Yonzin. OK?

But in Tibet, it took on a new meaning. Especially in the last four or five hundred years. It means a tutor to the Dalai Lama.

It's called Yonzin. OK? A tutor to the Dalai Lama is called Yonzin.

So Dalai Lama is usually selected as a small child. Five years old. Three years old.

And then they apply their Yonzin. OK? In this generation, I mean around 19...

I don't know. 1930s? 1940s?

Two Yonzins were selected. Captain Tigger and Captain Ying were selected. Tina Rinpoche was my teacher's teacher.

Ling Rinpoche gave me a new alphabet initiation in New York City. And I was his driver for a day. So that means Yonzin.

Yonzin means a mentor. What do you call that? A tutor.

A tutor. Yonzin. Kepa means you were a master tutor.

Who? Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong is called...

His other name is Jamyang Kepa. Say Jamyang. Jamyang.

Kepa. Kepa. He put his years in here.

1648 to 1721. I like him because he wrote a book about how to paint the life of Je Tsongkhapa in... you know, 80 scenes at that time called Tsongkhapa Je Tsongkhapa.

OK? He's one of the most famous textbook writers in the history of Tibet. Unfortunately, he came from Jebul Road today.

And... he's called... he's unbelievable.

Just unbelievable. And he wrote, I believe it's 12 volume called Je Tsongkhapa. OK?

So... John Brady also typed that in. I don't know when he had time.

But... It's one volume per... It's at least 8 volumes.

Because I've gone and looked at it. And then we have it. We can use it.

If you're interested, we can go look at that sometime. So it will take 20 years to finish this text. OK?

But... So that red book is his... The last third is a translation of one of his texts.

OK? Very famous. Chaudhary Chitra.

He wrote a book on how to paint the... how to paint Tsongkhapa. And he wrote a book on how to paint Tsongkhapa.

OK, let's do... Let's keep going. I don't care.

I can do it all. I love it. I don't want to do anything else.

I have to do other stuff. I wish somebody else could do the other stuff. OK, we're on the next verse.

It says, children... Who else is going to help me along here probably? God bless you.

He saved me a lot of time. OK, children means what? Abhidharma.

Abhidharma. Ocean. With the er on the end which is the marketing in this case which means...

Into. OK, here it means into the ocean of the... Abhidharma.

Into the ocean of the Abhidharma. Let's go to Juk. You know Juk because you know I just said Jukpala Jukpala.

You know Jukpala Jukpala. Abhidharma. Entering into.

Entering into. OK. You know Ka because you know Dhaumjor Nye Ka.

A big, long, real general sub-letter. Dhaumjor means vision and fortune. Nye means to find it.

Ka? Difficult. Difficult.

D-K-A Difficult. B-K-A Word of the Buddha. The word of the Buddha.

As in Kanye. He translated Word of the Buddha. Kanye.

OK. So this Ka you have to be careful if you're translating. This Ka means this Ka.

Juk Ka means it's hard to enter. Enter here means to like go on a journey across the sea like Columbus from Portugal to wherever. What is that?

Bahamas or something. I don't know. OK.

That Juk Juk here means to to enter the ocean but in the sense of to make a long journey on the ocean. To cross the ocean in a tiny ship is called Juk Ka. That's a hard thing to do.

That's a hard thing to do. OK. Especially if it's run long.

By your own power. Yeah. By your own power.

Without any help. Here it means without any help. Generally it means freedom.

Like national freedom or like that. There are newspapers called Rang Rang. It means freedom.

Self determination. Rang Rang. Self power.

But here it means without any money to help you out. On your own. OK?

On your own. Rang Rang. Yang?

Bud. Bud? OK.

There are three buds in Tibet if you care. Yang, Yang and Ang. OK.

This is one of them. Yang. It's difficult to enter it's difficult to make that journey across the ocean of the Abidjana.

Abidjana. On your own. Bud.

Shingen. Gateway Shingen. Spiritual teacher.

Spiritual teacher. Shingen. Kepa.

Wise. Master. Kepa.

Tepun. You know from the Rajyogini standard that it means ship captain. You have it in your prayer right now.

The ship captain. It's called Tepun. Who's a famous Tepun?

Do you know that story? Lord Buddha? Lord Buddha was a famous Tepun when he was on a ship with the 500 merchants and went to Sri Lanka to buy jewels.

That's a long story. OK. Kepa.

Tepun. This Tepun means if you rely on. If you depend on.

OK. Those of you who care about Tibet God bless you. Bud Tepun means to depend on.

Bud Tepun means to rely on medicine or on a teacher. I think it might be misspelled here. I think this ten would make more sense.

We have to look at a card. We have to go to some cards. We have to compare two or three cards and see if it was this ten.

It makes more sense but this is OK also. If you take yourself to a ship captain meaning a spiritual guide who is well trained. Then Gonggeng you want to say Yixingyuan.

You can get the Nor. Nobu. Jewels.

Sometimes it's shortened to Nor. OK. You can go get Nobu.

That's what people did on ships in the Buddhist time. The only reason you got on a ship was to go to Sri Lanka and travel. Jewels.

OK. And there's a joke in Buddhist scripture it's called Rinchen Say Rinchen. Rinchen.

Lingla.

[Speaker 2]
Lingla.

[Speaker 1]
Lep. Lep. Rinchen.

Rinchen. Marang. Marang.

No you got to say Marang. Marang. Rinchen.

[Speaker 2]
Rinchen. Lingla. Lingla.

Lep. Lep. Rinchen.

Rinchen. Marang. Marang.

[Speaker 1]
So Sri Lanka is cool because there are just some geographical oddity but there are gemstones lying all over the place just on the surface of this ground. I went with people we just picked them up. We stopped in the car we picked up crystals on the side of the road.

And uh it is truly a Ratna Deepa a jewel island. OK. It really is.

And it's a source of many gemstones. All blue topaz comes from mostly comes from Sri Lanka. So anyway the joke in Tibetan is he journeyed he risked his life to go to the jewel island.

He walked he walked it and came back without you know bending over and picking some up. OK. It means like to do a three year retreat or something.

You know you're at the jewel island and I picked them up. You know. It means of course none of our people did that.

But it means to waste a good opportunity. You know you were there why didn't you just pick some up. OK.

It's an old Buddhist joke. OK.

[Speaker 2]
Nobody is laughing.

[Speaker 1]
This is not just a play on word. This is a Chittamani.

[Speaker 2]
Wish fulfilling gem.

[Speaker 1]
Yishin means whatever you want. Yishin means whatever you want. Not only a jewel.

What jewel? Gongdung, Ningbo, Dupa. Dupa means it contains the Ningbo the heart the essence the essence of the golden golden means what the Buddhas had in mind really their deep inner what do you call that?

Like what was their motivation or what was driving them when they taught the Abhidharma the Perth Dharma OK. What was driving what inner impulse dharmic impulse from deep inside their heart and when they taught the Abhidharma what was their what was their inner I don't know feeling or what did they have in mind what did they have in mind is Gongdung what did they truly have in mind is Gongdung OK. Here Gongdung the essence of the Gongdung is being compared to a wish a wish fulfilling jewel OK.

Good. You can go to the island and get that jewel if you it's difficult Rangwang hard to do it on your own you need a senior very senior you need a teacher you need a good teacher then you can go because that's a big one ship captain they can steer the boat and you just relax in the back and they take you there got it? a good teacher got it?

OK. Now the next part is hard say Mekshe Mekshe you understand? say more Mekshe Me and Wulao should have a good time we had a really good Dharma party in Xiamen and we did Mekshe Nyingbo for five days straight and we had a good time what's Mekshe Nyingbo?

the essence of the essence of five explanations and that's Tsongkhapa's text on Mainomi schools and on how to so Mekshe here means good explanation good explanation Mekshe Gyantzen you know Gyantzen? you know Dosan Chigi Gyantzen who's Dosan Chigi Gyantzen? Gyantzen means victory banner it literally means victory sign right?

sign Gyantzen so you have to understand victory banner in ancient India wasn't like a plan it was more like a parasol it was more like one of those patio umbrella things to tell you the truth it has a lot of scratchy stuff on it but it's basically a patio umbrella and you could only raise it if you won a war when you win a war you're supposed to walk into the underground city with this parasol and it's like haha we won a war it's like a Superbowl winner thing okay that's called Gyantzen okay Semor means the tip the tip of something Semor means the tip Semor means at the tip or on the tip Chippa a lot of the retreats talk about Chippa offerings Chippa Jali I will offer I will offer I will offer on the tip of the staff of a victory banner the wishing jewel which you can get which contains the precious essence of all the true intent of the Buddhism the thought of the Dharma which you cannot get on your own by attempting to cross the ocean but rather should obtain by relying upon the wise Chippa of your teacher got it? okay but you don't know the whole joke yet you studied a lot of it the eight verses okay the eight verses big lamas in Tibet often teach this when they have only one day to teach somewhere because people are too busy so they teach that's the first line may I consider all of these as being more than a wish given jewel how can anything be more valuable than an Aladdin's lamp?

[Speaker 2]
okay

[Speaker 1]
so there's a thing in English called Aladdin's lamp right it's a special lamp if you rub it you can get anything a genie comes out this spirit comes out and you can ask them for anything and they have to give it to you that's called Aladdin's lamp it's a lamp special lamp it comes from Arab culture Aladdin and in my high school there were a lot of jokes about guys who asked for something and got something unexpected i can't tell you one of them in public but if the boys want to know talk to me later so you you ask it for something right so so in the lion diamond lion right goji in his book he says people are better than a wishing joke why because sometimes you don't know what to ask for like my teacher would get upset with us he said i have to teach all the time and you never request to me properly you just come to class and half the time you don't come and you never like really properly ask me for teaching and what

[Speaker 2]
was our answer yeah like

[Speaker 1]
until you teach it to us we never heard of what you teach we don't know what to ask for we don't have people in your life that you can serve and be kind to and be nice to and be patient to us then they are better than a wishing joke because they give you the best thing in the universe and you don't even have to understand what it means you don't have to know what to ask for you're just better so you should know what that means people are better than wishing jokes better okay because they give you a chance to do that okay in the commentary to that by a guy named Geshe Chakawa who's familiar to all of you he wrote another mojo he recorded it he gives a commentary to it which Geshe typed it in and in that commentary he tells you how to activate a wish giving joke and he tells you how to get one and he goes you go to the wash in Diamond Mountain okay and you might be the one out there I don't know and and you pick a stone out of the dirt out of the mud okay and then you wash it with special liquids you wash it and then you put it on top of the tip of a pole of a victory on the 15th of the month on a pole and then you sit there all night and you do special prayers and then it turns into a wish giving joke got it just in case you need one

[Speaker 2]
this is

[Speaker 1]
how you make a wish giving joke okay and you have to make offers to the joke you have to make offers to the tip of the below the victory that activates the joke why did he say it here he says I'm going to offer to the wish giving joke on the top of the pole of the victory diamond okay with my words I will offer okay and you'll get one of those jokes that you get only if you go on a good trip with a good captain to learn the joke okay why did he

[Speaker 2]
say that if he

[Speaker 1]
teaches you abhidharma you'll be able to activate it he'll activate the abhidharma for you abhidharma will give you anything you want but you need someone to turn the switch on it someone has to what do you call it turn on the router someone has to plug it in I will plug in the router for you and then abhidharma will come alive for you abhidharma is a dormant wishing charm if you get teachings on it then it goes on top of the victory banner and it activates the abhidharma and you get enlightened he says I'm going to turn on the abhidharma switch I'll do it she'll

[Speaker 2]
turn the abhidharma switch on

[Speaker 1]
the abhidharma switch on the abhidharma switch on the abhidharma switch the abhidharma on the abhidharma switch the abhidharma switch the abhidharma switch on the abhidharma switch on the abhidharma switch on the abhidharma on

[Speaker 2]
the

[Speaker 1]
abhidharma on the abhidharma on the abhidharma on

[Speaker 2]
the abhidharma abhidharma on

[Speaker 1]
the abhidharma switch abhidharma switch on the the abhidharma switch on the abhidharma switch on the abhidharma on the abhidharma switch on abhidharma switch on the abhidharma switch on abhidharma switch on the It's not, it's not in the center of my book. It's in the center of my book. Okay, here we go.

Okay, now I'm ready to start the book. Let's do a little bit. Let's do, like, 15 minutes, okay?

We'll split the difference. 15 minutes. I know your thoughts are strong.

I'm sure he's very wise. He said, I know, everyone's is very strong. It's true.

So, uh... De la gye chok yi nian shak. Okay, say, yi nian.

Yi nian. Shak. Shak.

Yi nian. Yi nian. Shak.

[Speaker 2]
Shak.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, very difficult pronunciation for those of you who are learning Tibetan. B-D-Y-I-G, right? How hard is it for you to remember?

Because the B changes to Y. Wow. So, yi nian means, uh...

Master Vasubandhu, okay? And then he puts the word shak after it. What's shak?

Shak means feet. And oftentimes, when you're... We will say Master Vasubandhu, right?

In Tibetan, we'll say Master Vandu's holy feet. But it means the grave. Okay?

When you say foot, which is fa, as in... Don't bother me now. The four padas of the Yoga Sutra.

The four chakras. But you'll see, like, Krishna Jaya Pada. Or Naropa Pada.

It means the grave. But literally, it's the holy feet. Okay?

So when you say, will Duncan shak, it means the grave will Duncan. Okay. All right.

Khenchog means supreme master. The supreme master Vasubandhu. He zepa the number dzu.

He wrote zepa the number dzu. Yeah. Chu number dzu.

Say chu.

[Speaker 2]
Chu. Number. Number.

Dzu.

[Speaker 1]
Chu.

[Speaker 2]
Chu. Number. Number.

Dzu.

[Speaker 1]
Now, among philosophers, even in modern Conventions, we don't say, chu number dzu. We say, hey man, what are you studying these days? You say, dzu.

I was in Paris, and people were going around there saying, what?

[Speaker 2]
I thought they were Burmese.

[Speaker 1]
I said, I don't know. Do you ever go somewhere and say, what? And I asked my friend, you know, what's a what?

They said, it's weed. But in Paris, they want to say it different. Yeah.

So when you're a real Dharma student in Tibet, and somebody says, what are you studying? You say, dzu.

[Speaker 2]
Dzu.

[Speaker 1]
I'm studying the kosh, man. I'm on the kosh. Got it?

What are you doing? I'm on kosh. And that's a big deal, because it's one of the last subjects in the Geshe course.

If you're on the kosh, you're like a big deal. You have a good shot every month. What are you up to?

How do you know? I was just on the kosh. All right.

Remember dzuki, gongden. Gongden means the true intention or the real meaning of the gongden. Cephala dzupa jate.

Let's start. Let's start explaining the real meaning of the Asagama course. The author's talking.

Who's the author? Talk to Choney Lama. Choney Lama.

Jate. They are on Tsaric Sikton. Now, why do I like Choney Lama, and why did I jilt the first dharma for Choney Lama?

He's so methodical, and he's so clear, and he does a brilliant thing at the beginning. Here's the first dharma I'll explain. He says, Tsaric Sikton na ngepa ngepe chedu.

So that all you guys can learn the root text well. Okay? The poetry.

The Abhidharma Kosha poetry, the root text which is written in poetry, such as, Like that. You hear the poetry, right? It is totally unintelligible.

Nobody can understand it. It's code. It's all code.

When I was growing up, the first dharma was teachers, you know, Ling Rinpoche. There was a big lama in the back seat. His name is Rathore.

He was not Rathore Rinpoche. And I'm like driving, you know, and Rathore Rinpoche says, Oh, Ling Rinpoche, Mike, I was Mike. I was 26 years old.

Mike knows Abhidharma. You know, Ling Rinpoche said, They told me not to talk to him. They said, Don't say anything to him.

Just drive. You know, I drove him to LA. I said, Why?

He said, He's a European. Don't talk to him. And then in India, they put the big shot in the front.

They put the VIP in the front of the car. That's the fact. So they put him next to me.

And I'm like, I'm like driving, and I'm like, Don't talk to him.

[Speaker 2]
All right. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
And then, Khenpo Rinpoche says, Oh, He knows Abhidharma. And he's like, Oh, really?

[Speaker 2]
And then he gives me a sign.

[Speaker 1]
And I said, I'm like, Khenpo Rinpoche said, Namo namde jjung qi la, wang jyu shi la, hi yang lo. These are the opening lines of the second chapter, which I had just studied the night before. Namo namde jjung qi la, which is the five acts towards the fourth.

Namo namde jjung qi la, wang jyu shi la, hi yang lo. And the four towards the two. That's the opening lines of the second chapter.

It's total code. It's totally code, you know. So, you can't understand the Ashram of Kosha unless you have a commentary.

It's not possible. Nobody can, okay? It doesn't matter how good your Tibetan is or your Chinese.

You need a commentary. By the way, the next... Then he was very impressed.

I told him what it meant. And he was, oh, really? And then he said, how old are you?

And I was really scared and I said... I meant to say 26 and I said 62. And he goes, uh-huh.

And then I said, no, no, I mean 26. And he said, uh-huh, you're gonna live a long life. And then all of a sudden I was in the back house, see?

And we talked the whole way.

[Speaker 2]
We talked for four hours.

[Speaker 1]
And it was awesome. And suddenly I'll tell you this story.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
And he turned out to be very sweet. Anyway... Uh...

Jupiter Chak, why did I mention him? Oh, yeah.

[Speaker 2]
Uh...

[Speaker 1]
You can't understand the Abhidharma Kosha without a commentary. So, Choney Lama says, but you should get familiar with the root text. I should explain the verses.

I'll tell you what I'll do. Let's make a deal. I'll stick the root text into each section where it goes, which very few Tibetan authors will do.

You see, he's very organized. He says, let's tell me the verses, where they go, and I'll explain around them. I'll explain around them.

Which is very beautiful. Nobody, very few Tibetans would be so considerate. Some, they will often leave the root text in without telling you.

And then you have to pick through and find it. But he says, I'm going to give you the actual verses. I'll put the verses in where you need them.

I'll supply you with the verses. Don't worry. Okay?

So that you can learn the root text. I will put them at their appropriate, respected places. I will put the root text.

Okay? Verses. Mmm...

We're almost done. Okay? Hang in there.

I'm sorry. It's hot. But you ain't going to get this anywhere else.

Okay? Because they've done a really shimmy-chimber job. And then I'll explain the verses to you.

So why don't we just throw a verse at you? Like, nah-ho-la-mi-den-shi-la. The five actors, the two, and the four.

You see? Well, I'll throw you the verse, and then I'll explain what it means. Which is very beautiful.

Very important. Okay? So let's do a little bit.

Di-la-tsen le-gi-den-na shen-mi-den-na ju-gi-den-she-pao. I'm going to divide my commentary into an explanation of the opening of the text, and then the text itself, the body of the text. And then I'll explain the conclusion of the text.

Okay? So he's very... The conclusion of the Abhidharmakosha is very heavy.

It's very heavy. He... He...

He... He passes on Lawrence Buddha's prediction about the destruction of the Dharma. In the closing lines, he describes the death of the Dharma in this planet, and how it will go.

How it will die in this world. And it's very heavy, and it's very sad. That's the...

We'll get to that in 15 years, don't worry. And then... But then I'll explain you the opening lines, which are very sweet, how we get into it.

Okay? By the way, I don't personally believe, and many novices have said they don't believe that thing. If we work hard, the Dharma will live forever, right?

So we don't have to worry. Let's try to do these two, okay? The meaning of the name, what?

The meaning of the name, what? Abhidharmakosha. Abhidharmakosha.

What does Abhidharmakosha mean? And then... What's the gyur in Kamyar and Tengyur?

Translated, right? It means changed. Changed money means gyur also, you see?

To change money or to change words is to translate, okay? What's chak-tel-o? So what's gyur-pi-chak?

[Speaker 2]
Translator.

[Speaker 1]
No? But you're close. She said bow to the translator.

Translator always bows down. In a Tibetan text from ancient India which has been translated into Sanskrit, the translator always bows down. Mu Laoshi was talking about this extraordinary translator who came to the tower in Xi'an and he told me this beautiful story like the emperor for three generations, the third being a lady, a lady, they sat in the tower and translated for generations and that's how they got their Kamyar and Tengyur.

So he lived there, he teaches in that place. So it's kind of cool, I think. There's some kind of thing going on here, maybe.

Anyway, so those lo-tao, what's lo-tao? Those master translators of ancient times who labored for 700 years in Tibet. You think ACIP is the wrong country?

These guys who translated those half a million pages, they were something. So, but there was a decree, a royal decree that said before, at the beginning of a translator of a text from ancient India, the translator is required to do a prostration. And depending on who they prostrate to, we will know the subject of the book.

Okay, that was just a decree, that was a law in those days. So the Tibetan translator of Abhidharmakosha, he has to make a vow, he has to bow down to something. So we're going to discuss the Girpichag, the translator's bow down, obeisance.

We're required, it's required to be there. And it will tell us what's the subject. Is it love?

Is it emptiness? Is it meditation? Is it secret teachings?

We'll know from the prostration. I at least want to do it entirely because it's good luck. And then we'll stop for tonight.

It's very short. For the first, meaning the title of the text, we will... Tenche means Shastra or Shastra.

I was ragging on Westerners who can't tell the difference between a long A and a short A in Sanskrit, which is like not knowing the difference between B and K or something. Ahinsa. OK.

Ahinsa means really violent. OK. Anyway.

So, why did I say that? Shastra with a short A means a sword. Shastra with a long A means a classical combatant.

Guess which one we're talking about. Shastra. Tenche means Shastra.

If you translate a lot of tenches and put them together, you could call it Tengyur. Which means Tenchu Gyurwa. Tengyur is Tenchu Gyurwa.

The translated classical combatants of ancient India. 3,700 survived. John Purdy finished that.

OK. Good job. Tenchu Ji.

Gyakhe means... This is cool. There are two Gya.

Gya means... Like Gyatso means big leg, wide leg, broad leg. Gya means...

Gyakho means fat for example. OK. So, Gya means wide.

And there are two big countries in the world. Gyanak and Gyakha. Gyanak means the wide black country.

Gyakha means the wide white country. And Gyanak means China. China.

And Gyakha means India. OK. Because in those days people in China often wore black clothes.

Like pajamas. And people in India wore white ones. So the name in Tibet for China is Gyanak.

And in India is Gyakha. Unfortunately, when it's used as an adjective either one, they will split it to Gya. And you don't know if it's China or India.

OK. He's about to tell you the Gyakhe. Gyakhe means the language of wide country.

OK. Sam, I'm going to give you the name of this book in Gyakhe. Guess which one.

Yeah. Sanskrit. So Sanskrit, language of India is Gyakhe.

OK. Gyakhe. OK.

Gyakhe. OK. Gyakhe.

Sam, I'll give you the title in Sanskrit. And then, Pokhe Bgyur. But they will translate it into Pokhe.

Tibet is called Pokhe. OK. And then the Buddha says the Jesuits came out and called it.

They heard the Tibetans call it Pokhe which is spelled Pud and they heard Tubud. Somehow they heard Tubud and it got misnamed Tibet forever. OK.

So Pokhe is the Tibetan name for Tibet. Pokhe means Tibetan language. OK.

Pokhe means to call or to yell. And Tibetans named their country Pokhe because you can stand in the holy land. The Indian border.

And you can call into Tibet and talk to people. Your feet can be in the holy land and you can yell across the border. So they call Tibet, yell.

That's cool, right? Like stone straw or something like that. It's like calling the country stone straw.

It's a stone straw from the holy land. India is considered the holy land. Pokhe Bgyur.

So I'm going to just give you the title and then we'll stop. Eventually I'll give you the title. I point out to you yesterday I said we had a Dhanka which means a choice how to spell Pokhe or Pokhe.

He has chosen the retroflex which in ACIP is shown with lowercase letters. Low s, lowercase s, lowercase h means turn your tongue back. Koshan.

Our author Choney Lama has selected Koshan. He prefers Koshan. Abhidharma Koshan.

Say Garika. Garika. Garika means set into verses, written into poetic verses.

So the full name of the Abhidharma Koshan in Sanskrit is Abhidharma Koshan Garika. What's Madhyamaka Abhidharma Garika? Entering the middle way in verses.

If it's in poetry we call it Garika. Garika means set into verses. Garika.

Sejal. So that's the name in Sanskrit. Now he's going to translate it for you and you get to go to bed.

I just figure if you die tonight at least you heard the title. Sorry. Again, here we go.

Now, it's a pedagogical method, an educational method in Tibetan scripture, especially written by a monastic, to present certain parts of the information in the form of a debate. Now, it's not as extreme as in the Umachitra, which is why it took us 11 years to get to the first quarter. But he's going to do a few...

He'll present the information in the form of a debate. Because he wants to sharpen your mind. He's going to present it like a debate.

So, let's go. Are you ready? Sejal.

Chö Chö. Sejal Chö Chö. And then he said, Ba-ba-ba-ba.

Chö Chö Chö. When you debate, when you hear Chö, what do you have to do? You talk like this.

Chö Chö Chö. Yes. Like that.

You look like a little rabbit or something. Give it away. Okay.

Try it again. Don't do this. This is the sign of a third brain.

You gotta be like a cobra. You know what a cobra is? A poisonous snake.

Give it away. In the monastery, the blood will spread out. If you go along the gate, the blood will spread up and you spray blood on the guy's face.

It's a lot of fun. What's xie jia? Yeah, anything you could ever know.

All knowable things. Which means all the stuff in the universe. Can you know everything in the universe?

Who knows everything in the universe? Yeah, past, present or future. So they call it xie jia.

The explanation is xie jia, which I'm not gonna do a dictionary entry for. But it's a synonym for existence. Che, xie jia.

You, zhen qi. These are all definite synonyms for existence. Let's consider the whole universe.

Let's consider it. In the beginning of a debate, you have to limit your scope. Let's talk about all the stuff in the universe.

Let's limit it to that. Okay, got it? Okay, xie jia, zhen qi.

Deng zhen dian qian, the name of this shastra, classical commentary, pok ke ke du gyur tso yu te. Yu te. Gyur tso yu te means there is a fang fa to translate this text.

There's a method. You can translate this text. You can't.

Why? Then you have to give your reason, right? You gave your major...

Sorry. What do you call that? The thing you want to prove.

Assertion. Your assertion. Now he's gonna give his premises.

Okay, here we go. Because abhi means... Higher.

And dharma means...

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Knowledge.

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And kosha means... Treasure chest. And karaka means...

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Translated. Xie jie. Okay?

[Speaker 1]
You can't translate it. Consider all the stuff in the universe. This book's name can be translated.

Why? Because abhi means higher. Niru means knowledge.

Kosha means treasure. And karaka means... Translated.

Okay, guys? Like, it's cool. If you know...

The baby is very excited. It's like...

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Alright?

[Speaker 1]
So that's abhidharmakosha.

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Okay?

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Rather than saying... Abhi means blah blah blah... Okay, we'll pick up tomorrow.

By the way, he's now going to... Discuss... Why did they bother to put this transcript...

At the beginning of the text. Why bother... To repeat the original name in Sanskrit...

And none of the rest of the book. Every book... Every one of the...

4600 books... From India which reached Tibet... And were finished by John Brady's crew...

Last year. Every one of them... Has the Sanskrit name at the beginning.

Which itself is an invaluable... Dictionary. Because you get the Tibetan...

And you get the Sanskrit. Say Shenja. Shenja means...

What do you call that? Yeah, it's like side by side. Like you see the translations of the Bible or something...

Or you see the Chinese and English... Or the Hebrews... They did a great...

Yeah, why do we do parallel time? I'm going to give you homework for today. Tell me tomorrow.

Why would they leave the Sanskrit name in the book? And nothing else. No more Sanskrit.