[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Tibetan canon (Kangyur & Tengyur)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet) › [Kangyur (translated words of the Buddha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur) › [General sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde) › [འཕགས་པ་ལེགས་ཉེས་ཀྱི་རྒྱུ་དང་འབྲས་བུ་བསྟན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354) › [Teaching the Causes and Results of Good and Ill](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000) › notes.57 # འཕགས་པ་ལགས་ཉས་ཀྱ་རྒྱ་དང་འབྲས་བ་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.57 Teaching the Causes and Results of Good and Ill notes.57 - **Language:** English ### [notes.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000.notes.57) 57. The Chinese reads 為人舌短者從屏處盜罵尊長中來 “As a human, having a short tongue comes from having disparaged venerable elders in private” (Taishō 2881, p. 1381a20). Even though 屏處 means a solitary place or a place far away, here it seems to refer to “where the elders cannot see/hear you,” i.e., saying bad things about your teachers behind their backs. - [Previous: notes.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000.notes.56) - [Next: notes.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000.notes.58) - [Up: notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000.notes) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000.notes.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000.notes.57) · Pramāṇa