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# The Exemplary Tale of Puṇyabala 1.1

བསོད་ནམས་ཀྱི་སྟོབས་ཀྱི་རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པ 1.1

- **Language:** Classical Tibetan

### [1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.avadana.punyabalavadana*bo.1.1)

༄༅༅། །རྒྱ་གར་སྐད་དུ། པུ་ཎྱ་བ་ལ་ཨ་བ་དཱ་ན། བོད་སྐད་དུ། བསོད་ནམས་ཀྱི་སྟོབས་ཀྱི་རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པ། བམ་པོ་དང་པོ། སངས་རྒྱས་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །འདི་སྐད་བདག་གིས་ཐོས་པ་དུས་གཅིག་ན། བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མཉན་དུ་ཡོད་པ་ན། རྒྱལ་བུ་རྒྱལ་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཚལ་མགོན་མེད་ཟས་སྦྱིན་གྱི་ཀུན་དགའ་ར་བ་ན་བཞུགས་སོ། །དེ་ནས་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཀྱིས་དགེ་སློང་རྣམས་ལ་བཀའ་སྩལ་པ། དགེ་སློང་དག་འདི་ན་མི་བླུན་པོ་ལ་ལ་དམ་པའི་ཆོས་མ་ཡིན་པ་གསུམ་དང་ལྡན་ན་སྦྱིན་པ་དག་མི་སྦྱིན་ཞིང་བསོད་ནམས་དག་མི་བྱེད་ལ། ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཡང་དག་པར་བླངས་ནས་གནས་པར་མི་བྱེད་དེ། གསུམ་གང་ཞེ་ན། འདི་ལྟར་ཆགས་པ་དང་སེར་སྣ་དང་བག་མེད་པ་རྣམས་ཏེ། དགེ་སློང་དག་འདི་ན་མི་བླུན་པོ་ལ་ལ་དམ་པའི་ཆོས་མ་ཡིན་པ་གསུམ་པོ་འདི་དག་དང་ལྡན་པས་སྦྱིན་པ་དག་མ་བྱིན་ཞིང་བསོད་ནམས་དག་མ་བྱས་ལ། ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཡང་དག་

> Homage to the Buddha.  
>   
> Thus did I hear at one time. The Blessed One was staying in Śrāvastī, in Prince Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍada’s park. At that time, the Blessed One said to the monks, “Monks, when certain foolish men possess three traits at odds with the sacred Dharma, they do not practice generosity, do not engage in merit, and do not maintain discipline after taking it on. What are these three traits? They are attachment, miserliness, and carelessness.  
>   
> “Monks, because some foolish men possess these three traits at odds with the sacred Dharma, they do not practice generosity, do not engage in merit, and do not  
> — Ruth Gamble & Tenzin Ringpapontsang, The Exemplary Tale of Puṇyabala

> maintain discipline after taking it on. As a result, when their bodies fail and they die, they will fall into lower realms and be reborn in the hell realms.  
>   
> “Monks, those worthy people who have three qualities of the sacred Dharma practice generosity, engage in merit, and maintain discipline after taking it on. What are these three qualities? They are nonattachment, freedom from the stain of miserliness, and conscientiousness. Monks, those sublime beings who have these three qualities will practice generosity, engage in merit, and maintain discipline after taking it on. As a result, when their bodies fail and they die, they will meet happy destinies and take birth in the higher realms, among the gods.”  
>   
> These words were proclaimed by the Blessed One. After the Well-Gone One had said these words, he, the Teacher, went on to say this:  
>   
> “Due to miserliness and carelessness,  
> You do not practice generosity.  
> Therefore, with a mind that yearns for merit,  
> You should practice generosity.  
>   
> “The fears of the miserly are such that  
> Due to their fears of hunger and thirst,  
> They do not give in this life.  
> Thus, these childish ones are tainted  
> By their fear-induced lack of generosity,  
> Both in this world and in the hereafter.  
>   
> “But those who forsake miserliness  
> Will give when it is right to give.  
> So for them, death is not really death.  
> They are like well-provisioned travelers.  
>   
> “Those who give what is hard to give up,  
> Making offerings, large or small,  
> Of what is very hard to relinquish,  
> Such people  
> — Ruth Gamble & Tenzin Ringpapontsang, The Exemplary Tale of Puṇyabala

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## Translations (1)

- [The Exemplary Tale of Puṇyabala](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.avadana.punyabalavadana*bo~en-84000.1.1) — Ruth Gamble & Tenzin Ringpapontsang, English

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