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In general, there are four kinds of treatise (Tib. བསྟན་བཅོས་བཞི་, tenchö shyi, Wyl. bstan bcos bzhi) :

  1. a treatise that imposes order on what appears disorganized (Tib. འཁྲུགས་པ་བསྡེབ་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་, Wyl. khrugs pa bsdeb pa'i bstan bcos);
  2. a treatise that elucidates difficult points (Tib. གབ་པ་འབྱིན་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་, Wyl. gab pa 'byin pa'i bstan bcos);
  3. a treatise that brings together scattered elements (Tib. འཐོར་བ་སྡུད་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་, Wyl. thor ba sdud pa'i bstan bcos); and
  4. a treatise that is composed with a view to practise (Tib. སྒྲུབ་པ་ཉམས་ལེན་གྱི་བསྟན་བཅོས་, Wyl. sgrub pa nyams len gyi bstan bcos )<ref>Khenpo Kunzang Palden | Khenpo Kunpal,
    [[Drops of Nectar ]] | [[''The Nectar of Manjushri’s Speech'']], a Detailed Commentary on [[Shantideva]]’s [[Bodhicharyavatara]] | [[''Way of the Bodhisattva'']], p.35/36, Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group, published by Shambhala, ISBN 978-1-59030-439-6.

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Further Reading

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Category of Texts Category of Shastras Category of Enumerations Category of 04-Four