Bodhicaryavatara 1.12
Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā 1.12
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- Sanskrit
1.12
nanu nātmārthaṃ granthapraṇayanaṃ dṛṣṭam, na ca svayaṃkṛtenaiva ātmani viśeṣādhānam, tāvataḥ saṃskāraviśeṣasya prāgevātmani vidyamānatvāditi / atrāha-
One might object: “The composition of a text for one's own sake is not seen, nor does a special quality arise in oneself by what is produced by oneself alone, since that much special latent impression already existed in oneself beforehand.” To this, he says:
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Linked texts (2)
- Bodhicaryāvatāra — Śāntideva, Sanskrit
- བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་དཀའ་འགྲེལ — Classical Tibetan