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IOL Tib J 675
- Record Id:
- 040-003688475
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003652467
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100105881045.0x00003a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- TEI
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOL Tib J 675
- Title:
- Tibetan manuscript
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- International Dunhuang Project
Stein Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003652467
040-003688475 - Is part of:
- IOL Tib J : Tibetan manuscripts from the Stein Collection.
IOL Tib J 675 : Tibetan manuscript - Hierarchy:
- 032-003652467[0715]/040-003688475
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOL Tib J
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 3 folios/panels
- Digitised Content:
- https://idp.bl.uk/collection/AD623F2D0D1644A4A305CFE570DDB829
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Tibetan
- Scripts:
- Tibetan
- Start Date:
- 0750
- End Date:
- 1000
- Date Range:
- 0750-1000
- Era:
- CE
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International Dunhuang Project
Stein Collection
IOL Tib J 675
Tibetan manuscript
Contents
Tibetan manuscript from Dunhuang
Language(s): Tibetan
Title:Ch. 73. VII. 5b, Pothī; 49.9 c. x 9.1 c.: foll. 3, numbered (letters) 1-3; ll. 7 and 8: dbu-med, same hand as 193.
Fragment of a treatise on the morality (śīla) and the 'discipline' (saṃvara) of the Bodhisattvas. No title, no colophon.
Begins: ‘de la tshul khrims ni mngon par mthong ba'i them skas /nges par legs pa'i rgyu yin pa'i phyir /gang dag mngon bar mthong ba lha dang myi'i bde ba dang /nges par legs pa byang chub rnam gsum mngon bar 'grub par 'dod pa rnams kyis sdom ba yang dag par blang bar bya'o //ci lta zhe na tshul khrims ni sa gzhi dang 'dra ste 'jig rten dang 'jig rten las 'das pa'i dge ba'i lo tog sna tshogs bskyed pa'i gzhi yin ba'i phyir ro /
/tshul khrims ni gru gzings dang 'dra ste /theg pa rnam gsum gi rten byed cing 'gro ba rnams 'khor ba'i rgya mtsho chen po nas sgrol zhing mya ngan las 'das pa'i grong khyer du phyin par byed pa'i phyir ro /
/tshul khrims ni mar mye lta bu ste /....yid bzhin gi nor bu rin po che lta bu yin te /........byug pa dang 'dra ste /....rgyan dang 'dra ste .... ’‘'Morality is the ladder to reach insight because it is the cause of supreme happiness (naiḥśreyasa). The men who desire to realize insight, divine and human happiness, supreme happiness, threefold Bodhi [Śrāvaka°, Pratyeka-buddha°, Buddha-bodhi?] must take the discipline (saṃvara samādāna). What is [morality]? Morality is like the Earth, because it is the soil which produces the harvest of mundane and supramundane happiness. Morality is like a ship because, being the support of the threefold Vehicle, liberating the creatures from the ocean of Saṃsāra, it leads to the city of Nirvāṇa. Morality is like a lamp,...like a miraculous jewel (cintā-maṇi)...like an ointment,...like an ornament....' ’
Fol. 2a, l. 1 begins a chapter entitled: āśaya-viśeṣa-nirdeśa , bsam pa'i khyad par bstan pa/
Fol. 3b, l. 3: ‘ci phyir dus drug gi tshe /lhag par bslab par gzung bar gsungs zhe na /dus drug po 'di la myi ma yin ba rnams myi'i 'jig rten na rgyu zhing 'gro ste /gang dag sdom ba myed pa dge ba myi spyod pa rnams la 'tshe bar byed /.... ’
‘'One must "seize" (that is, repeat) the Abhiśikṣās six times [three times during the day, and three times during the night]: because at these six times the "non-human" beings (amānuṣa) go wandering in the world of men and hurt those who are "undisciplined"....' ’
Ends, without colophon or rdzogs-so, with the description of the protection against the 'non-human' beings.
Explicit:Colophon:References
Physical Description
same paper and handwriting as ITJ 2 and 193Form: pothiMaterial: paperSupport: manuscript, ink on paperPaper Layers: 2?
Laid lines (min): 13
Laid lines (max): 13
Materials: manuscript, ink on paper
Extent: 3 folios/panelsDimensions (leaf): 9.1 × 49.9 cm.Foliation:Pagination type: letter-numerals
Layout
Columns:1
Columns per panel/lines per page: 8
Hand(s)
History
Origin: 0750-1000DHMG.(Dunhuang Mogao) DHMG.17.
Provenance and Acquisition
Stein 1906-8
Created from IDP database, msContents from TEI (P4) records of Great Britain, India Office, Library, Louis de La Vallée Poussin, and Kazuo Enoki: Catalogue of the Tibetan Manuscripts from Tun-Huang in the India Office Library,. Oxford: Published for the Commonwealth Relations Office [by] Oxford University Press, 1962.
Record created by Ulrich Pagel 01/01/97
Modified by Sam van Schaik 01/03/16
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