[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Buddhist philosophy (śāstra)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana) › [The Middle Way school](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka) › [Madhyamakahṛdayakārikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.madhyamakahrdaya) › [དབུ་མའི་སྙིང་པོའི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.madhyamakahrdaya*bo) › Popular Quotations from The Heart of the Middle Way # Popular Quotations from The Heart of the Middle Way Translation of [དབ་མའ་སྙང་པའ་ཚག་ལའར་བྱས་པ (དབུ་མའི་སྙིང་པོའི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.madhyamakahrdaya*bo) - **Language:** English - **Date:** 2004 CE - **Translator:** [Adam Pearcey](https://indike.org/pramana/person/adam-pearcey) - **Extent:** 8 passages, 119 words - **Text:** partly digitised - **Source:** lotsawahouse · Adam Pearcey (tr.), Popular Quotations from The Heart of the Middle Way, 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.madhyamaka.madhyamakahrdaya*bo~en-pearcey.p1) - [p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.madhyamakahrdaya*bo~en-pearcey.p2) - [p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.madhyamakahrdaya*bo~en-pearcey.p3) - [p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.madhyamakahrdaya*bo~en-pearcey.p4) - [p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.madhyamakahrdaya*bo~en-pearcey.p5) - [p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.madhyamakahrdaya*bo~en-pearcey.p6) - [p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.madhyamakahrdaya*bo~en-pearcey.p7) - [p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.madhyamakahrdaya*bo~en-pearcey.p8) ## Text ### [p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.madhyamakahrdaya*bo~en-pearcey.p1) Popular Quotations from The Heart of the Middle Way ### [p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.madhyamakahrdaya*bo~en-pearcey.p2) by Bhāviveka ### [p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.madhyamakahrdaya*bo~en-pearcey.p3) བྱམས་པ་དང་ནི་སྙིང་རྗེ་དང་། ། ཤེས་པ་ཆེན་པོས་བརྒྱན་པ་ཡི། ། སངས་རྒྱས་ས་བོན་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས། ། དེ་ཕྱིར་མཁས་པས་དེ་མི་གཏང་། ། ### [p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.madhyamakahrdaya*bo~en-pearcey.p4) The seed of buddhahood is bodhicitta, Adorned with love and compassion And great wisdom; The wise therefore do not forsake it. ### [p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.madhyamakahrdaya*bo~en-pearcey.p5) Chapter 1, verse 1 ### [p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.madhyamakahrdaya*bo~en-pearcey.p6) ཡང་དག་ཀུན་རྫོབ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་སྐས། ། མེད་པར་ཡང་དག་ཁང་ཆེན་གྱི། ། སྟེང་དུ་འགྲོ་བར་བྱ་བ་ནི། ། མཁས་ལ་རུང་བ་མ་ཡིན་ནོ། ། ### [p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.madhyamakahrdaya*bo~en-pearcey.p7) Trying to reach the great mansion Of the authentic nature of reality Without the steps of the authentic relative Is not an approach the wise should take.\[1\] ### [p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.madhyamakahrdaya*bo~en-pearcey.p8) Chapter 3, verse 12 --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.madhyamakahrdaya*bo~en-pearcey](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.madhyamakahrdaya*bo~en-pearcey) · Pramāṇa