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# Popular Quotations from The Treasury of Abhidharma

Translation of [ཆས་མངན་པའ་མཛད་ཀྱ་ཚག་ལའར་བྱས་པ (ཆོས་མངོན་པའི་མཛོད་ཀྱི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo)

- **Language:** English
- **Date:** 2004 CE
- **Translator:** [Adam Pearcey](https://indike.org/pramana/person/adam-pearcey)
- **Extent:** 20 passages, 278 words
- **Text:** partly digitised
- **Source:** lotsawahouse · Adam Pearcey (tr.), Popular Quotations from The Treasury of Abhidharma, Lotsawa House (version… · CC BY-NC 4.0 (Lotsawa House); shown with attribution on a non-commercial site

## Contents

- [p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p1)
- [p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p2)
- [p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p3)
- [p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p4)
- [p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p5)
- [p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p6)
- [p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p7)
- [p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p8)
- [p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p9)
- [p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p10)
- [p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p11)
- [p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p12)
- [p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p13)
- [p14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p14)
- [p15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p15)
- [p16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p16)
- [p17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p17)
- [p18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p18)
- [p19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p19)
- [p20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p20)

## Text

### [p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p1)

Popular Quotations from The Treasury of Abhidharma

### [p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p2)

by Vasubandhu

### [p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p3)

ལས་ལས་འཇིག་རྟེན་སྣ་ཚོགས་སྐྱེ། །

### [p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p4)

From karma the various worlds arise.

### [p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p5)

Chapter 4, verse 1

### [p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p6)

འཕགས་པ་མིན་ཡང་ཕ་མ་དང༌། །  
ནད་པ་དང་ནི་ཆོས་སྨྲ་དང༌། །  
སྐྱེ་མཐའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ལ། །  
ཡོན་ནི་གཞལ་དུ་མེད་པ་ཡིན། །

### [p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p7)

Even though they are not Āryas,  
Offerings to one’s parents or the sick,  
To Dharma teachers, or bodhisattvas in their final birth  
Are without measure.

### [p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p8)

Chapter 4, verse 118

### [p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p9)

ཕྲ་རྒྱས་སྤངས་པ་མ་ཡིན་དང༌། །  
ཡུལ་ནི་ཉེ་བར་གནས་པ་དང༌། །  
ཚུལ་བཞིན་མ་ཡིན་ཡིད་བྱེད་ལས། །  
ཉོན་མོངས་རྒྱུ་ན་ཚང་བ་ཡིན། །

### [p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p10)

Not having abandoned their subtle potential,  
Proximity to objects that provoke them,  
And thinking in a way that is mistaken—  
With these, the causes for afflictions are complete.

### [p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p11)

Chapter 5, verse 34

### [p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p12)

གང་ལ་བཅོམ་དང་བློ་ཡིས་གཞན། །  
བསལ་ན་དེ་བློ་མི་འཇུག་པ། །  
བུམ་ཆུ་བཞིན་དུ་ཀུན་རྫོབ་ཏུ། །  
ཡོད་དེ་དོན་དམ་ཡོད་གཞན་ནོ། །

### [p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p13)

Things which, when destroyed or mentally dissected,  
Can no longer be identified by the mind,  
Such as pots or water, are relative;  
All else besides is ultimately existent.

### [p14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p14)

Chapter 6, verse 4

### [p15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p15)

ཚུལ་གནས་ཐོས་དང་བསམ་ལྡན་པས། །  
སྒོམ་པ་ལ་ནི་རབ་ཏུ་སྦྱོར། །

### [p16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p16)

Observing discipline, and having heard and contemplated the teachings,  
One applies oneself intensively to meditation.

### [p17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p17)

Chapter 6, verse 5

### [p18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p18)

སྟོན་པའི་བསྟན་པ་རྣམ་གཉིས་ཏེ། །  
ལུང་དང་རྟོགས་པའི་བདག་ཉིད་དོ། །  
དེ་འཛིན་བྱེད་པ་སྨྲ་བ་དང༌། །  
སྒྲུབ་པ་བྱེད་པ་ཁོ་ནའོ། །

### [p19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p19)

The teaching of the Buddha has two aspects:  
The elements of scripture and realization.  
These are maintained only through teaching  
And through practice.

### [p20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.abhidharma.abhidharmakosa*bo~en-pearcey.p20)

Chapter 8, verse 39

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