འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 7.1
English (machine translation) 7.1
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7.1
Bhagavān, therefore, a bodhisattva who seeks nirvāṇa should seek the pacification of conceptual thought, and through that, one will attain nirvāṇa. Bhagavān, this is the genuine proclamation of Dharma.' [Bampo 7, the last] Then the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara addressed the Bhagavān: 'Bhagavān, a bodhisattva should not train in an exceedingly great number of dharmas. Bhagavān, if a bodhisattva thoroughly grasps and thoroughly realizes a single dharma, Bhagavān, all the dharmas of a Buddha are in the palm of their hand. What is that single dharma? Namely, mahākaruṇā. Bhagavān, through mahākaruṇā, all the dharmas of a Buddha are in the palm of the bodhisattvas' hand. Bhagavān, it is just as, for example, wherever the precious wheel of a cakravartin king goes, all divisions of the army go there as well. Bhagavān, in the same way, a bodhisattva…'
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- The Dharma Council — David R. Kittay, English
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- འཕགས་པ་ཆོས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡུད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ — Classical Tibetan