four_kinds_of_treatise
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In general, there are four kinds of treatise (Tib. བསྟན་བཅོས་བཞི་, tenchö shyi, Wyl. bstan bcos bzhi) :
- a treatise that imposes order on what appears disorganized (Tib. འཁྲུགས་པ་བསྡེབ་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་, Wyl. khrugs pa bsdeb pa'i bstan bcos);
- a treatise that elucidates difficult points (Tib. གབ་པ་འབྱིན་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་, Wyl. gab pa 'byin pa'i bstan bcos);
- a treatise that brings together scattered elements (Tib. འཐོར་བ་སྡུད་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་, Wyl. thor ba sdud pa'i bstan bcos); and
- 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.
References
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Further Reading
For a more elaborate classification see:
- Appendix 2 in Wisdom Nectar: Dudjom Rinpoche’s Heart Advice, pp. 354-364, The Tsadra Foundation Series, ISBN 10 1-55939-224-X, and:
- Dudjom Rinpoche, The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, Wisdom Publications, pp.88-109, ISBN 0-86171-199-9.
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