Сейджи Арао — Книга 2: Мастер Шантидева, занятие 3

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Курс: Seiji Arao — Book 2: Master Shantideva (Diamond Cutter Classics) — «Руководство к образу жизни бодхисаттвы» Мастера Шантидевы
Урок: занятие 03 — Fall '22 — Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life — Seiji Arao — Class 5
Ведёт: Геше Майкл Роуч; перевод/чтение: Сейджи Арао
Дата и место: осень 2022; место не указано
Источник: YouTube, канал Diamond Cutter Classics, плейлист PL1KVm5jgTljSp6vDnCG3LZlYhA2STM3UR; расшифровка TurboScribe
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[Говорящий 2]
Hey, Katie, can you hear me? I can hear you. Oh, okay.

[Говорящий 1]
Cool, cool. All right. What?

Did we say 7.30? I think it's 7.35. Ah, okay. Because we go until 8.30. Yeah.

[Говорящий 2]
Ah, okay, okay. All right. Never mind.

Go make a sandwich. Make a smoothie or hug your baby. Yep.

Yeah. You ready? Yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
Totally illegal. Oh. Make the channel shut down.

Okay, I'm trying to stop it. I can't stop it. Okay, okay.

Sorry. The theme for your book, Seiji. Yay.

That's your song, Seiji. It means to start your class. I think so.

[Seiji Arao]
All right. By the way, I'm very excited to hear about Master Shantideva. Awesome.

Let me...

[Говорящий 1]
Okay, last quiz. Yeah. Hey, how come you didn't get me a car?

I'm really irritated. I think right now, Matthew's the only one who has a Cybertruck. All the Takahashis have fancy cars, except grandpa.

All right. Can you guys see my screen? Mixed nuts, Master Shantideva?

Awesome. So. We started checking...

Master who?

[Seiji Arao]
Master Shantideva?

[Говорящий 1]
Oh. Oh. Wow.

Oops. Sorry. So, Shantideva, we started looking at his biography.

Very exciting.

[Seiji Arao]
So, question one. Do you guys remember the three lineages that Lord Atisha was the holder of? Please include who it came from and some of the well-known holders of that lineage.

[Говорящий 2]
Maitreya.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, uh-huh, yes.

[Говорящий 2]
The far-reaching.

[Говорящий 1]
Uh-huh, no, yeah, widespread, yes.

[Говорящий 2]
The Bodhisattva, widespread, yeah. Manjushri on the other side. Arya Nagarjuna.

[Seiji Arao]
Who are the famous people on the Maitreya one?

[Говорящий 2]
Well, it's Asanga.

[Seiji Arao]
Yeah. Yeah.

[Говорящий 2]
I'm assuming, yeah.

[Seiji Arao]
Yeah, Arya Asanga and his brother, Vasubandhu.

[Говорящий 2]
Masubasubandhu.

[Seiji Arao]
Second one.

[Говорящий 2]
Uh-huh. I can't remember. I think you said it.

Oh, Arya Nagarjuna, you mean, for Manjushri? Yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah.

[Seiji Arao]
And then the third one, anyone remember? Also came from Manjushri. Uh-huh.

Blissem [?] through Shantideva. We didn't go deep in India.

[Говорящий 1]
No, the Ringgijupila [?]. Oh, you're getting ahead of the questions. That's my vocabulary.

But yes, you're right.

[Seiji Arao]
Okay. Question number two. What is the method for achieving the wish?

Oh, is Tim here? No. That follows the perfection of wisdom.

Please mention the different parts.

[Говорящий 1]
Seven-step cause and effect method?

[Seiji Arao]
Yeah.

[Говорящий 2]
Changing stuff.

[Говорящий 1]
Sorry? You want to go through the seven? Yep, or eight.

Equanimity is zero. Remembering our mothers. Remembering their kindness.

Paying back the kindness. Four and five are up to debate. But I think in this method, he said to love them first.

[Говорящий 2]
Yep.

[Говорящий 1]
And have compassion for them. And then take personal responsibility for everything. And then bodhichitta, which is, I guess, the effect of the cause and effect.

[Seiji Arao]
Right, right, right. Yay, thanks, Word. Sure.

Number three. What is the second method for reaching the wish that is mentioned here?

[Говорящий 1]
How does this relate to exchanging yourself and others? This is at the very end of the text. It is exchanging self and others.

Stalks? It is.

[Seiji Arao]
We didn't mention it yet.

[Говорящий 1]
Stalks in array. Ew. Jewel trees around a small retreat cabin.

That's the sutra. Right, yeah.

[Говорящий 2]
That's what it's called. Right, right, right.

[Говорящий 1]
Well, it was a more general Lojong definition. He was saying, yeah, the sutra of the grove of jewel trees. Where you think of the false self-cherishing, how good it is to take care of others.

I'm guessing he's about to mention that it is exchanging yourself and others.

[Seiji Arao]
I was thinking, it's the guiding principle of exchanging yourself and others, right? Because you're working against self-cherishing and for taking care of others. Okay, vocabulary.

Gyu.

[Говорящий 2]
Lineage. Lineage, yeah.

[Seiji Arao]
Gyungye Mang'angchung.

[Говорящий 1]
Seven step cause and effect. Seven step cause and effect. Yeah.

[Seiji Arao]
Tangpog Kepe De.

[Говорящий 1]
Sutra of stalks. Yeah. Actually, I wanted to see, did we land on the official name being this?

I'm trying to find it. I'm trying to find it. I'm trying to find it for you guys, because it's kind of hidden in the Kangyur.

So give me some time.

[Говорящий 2]
Okay. Go ahead.

[Seiji Arao]
All right. So that, that is it. And this is the next chapter, which may help me.

Thank you.

[Говорящий 1]
I'm sorry. Okay, I have to find it some other time. Okay.

[Seiji Arao]
Oh, sorry.

[Говорящий 1]
Show me your screen. Yeah. Who helped you?

Nick. Oh, he should be pretty good then. Yeah.

Okay. Okay. You want to read, Seiji?

[Seiji Arao]
SEMS CAN THAMS CAD KHON PA'I THES TSUL TE LA NI BDAG GZHAN NYAMS BYAS DGOS NAS BLO SBYONG BA ZHES SBYOGS PHYIN DE MAN SNGAGS SU'I KHUR BA LA BLO SBYONG DU DUS MA'I PHYIS BYAS KYANG SBYOR DU Nice.

[Говорящий 1]
Good reading. What's SEMS CAN THAMS CAD, Seiji?

[Seiji Arao]
People, everyone, living beings.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah. And then DER BA means I want to give them. This is an old word for to give.

So DER BA. I want to give them PHAN PA and DER BA.

[Seiji Arao]
Happiness and...

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, we call it help and happiness. All the time. Okay.

I'm sorry. They give us happiness and help. They are like a YI ZHING GYI...

[Seiji Arao]
A wish fulfilling jewel.

[Говорящий 1]
DAG NI ZHING GYI PHAN PA YI ZHING GYI PHAN PA RANG LA SNGAGS PA DGOS DU PHAN PA RANG LA means for me. They are like a wish-giving jewel. DAG NI SEMS CAN THAMS CAD LA YI ZHING SNOG PA LAS LHAG PA'I DON CHOG DU PAS SANGS PA'I DAG TU BYED PAR DZIN PA ZHUGS May I...

what? Eight verses of Diamond Lion, right? I want to...

I should see that all people are like a wishing jewel for me. They can give me everything I need if I treat them with compassion. PHAN DE LTAR BA, they will give me everything.

NOBOD LA I should gom that's tabu. I should gom that they are NOBOD TABU. NOBOD TABU, kind of cute.

BUBU I should gom that they are like a NOBOD. Like a wish-giving jewel. Like a wish-giving jewel.

What is it in Sanskrit? CHIN TU MA NI CHIN TU MA NI Like all money bring you. And CHIN TU means mind.

PA RUS GYI RGYA BA YANG PHYI THAG PHYI THAG PHYI THAG It came directly to my head. I think so. To consider something.

NOBOD LA GOMS NAS BYAMS PA SKYE YONG GI BYAMS PA SKYE You should try to get that kind of love which is called YI WONG. Affectionate love? Well, everyone looks...

I don't know how do you say that. Beautiful love sounds weird in English. It does sound weird.

It means where your child appears to you very stunning and beautiful. How do you say that? Love?

Affectionate love? No, it's visual. Enduring is pretty good.

But anyway, you get the point. Every mother... You don't know how many times Geshe Michael has been told by parents that, Look, I'm not bragging.

But when I look at all the other kids in their class, they're just the most smart one. I don't know what it is. I swear I'm quoting like 20 parents.

So that's YI WONG. They strike you as... No, not precious.

YI WONG means... It does mean beauty. Attractive, beautiful.

They look better to you than all the other kids. How's that? That's called YI WONG love.

Most lovely, something like that. Ask Noor what's about my tree [?]. SKYE DE SKYE DE Then DE LA BRTEN NAS Seiji, what's that mean?

That's the ten that means rely. So you build on that and you go up to SNYING RJE.

[Seiji Arao]
We're going to compassion.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, and this is that list of seven cause and effect steps. That leads you to LHAG BSAM.

[Seiji Arao]
Personal responsibility.

[Говорящий 1]
That leads you to CAN GZUGS KYI SEMS. The wish or bodhichitta. Nice. Now, you don't get there all at once.

You got to RIM GYI, RIM GYI.

[Говорящий 2]
Okay.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, you practice them. You go up through that ladder one by one. RIM GYI BSGOM STE This whole approach, BSOD means approach, or this whole methodology, is referred to as BDAG GZHAN NYAM RJE Equalizing and exchanging.

Yeah, there's the word. Equal rights and exchanging myself and others. It's two steps.

NYAM RJE is two different words, completely two different words. This is two practices. BDAG GZHAN NYAM PA BDAG GZHAN RJE BA It's called BDAG GZHAN NYAM RJE.

See that everyone has an equal right to happiness, is the first half. BDAG GZHAN NYAM PA BDAG GZHAN RJE BA means therefore you should exchange yourself with others. To translate this as exchanging yourself and others is a mistake.

It's two different ideas. It's two different practices. It's BLA and BLA.

Learning to think that everyone has an equal right to happiness is the first half. And then learning to exchange my concerns, or learning to think of you as me and me as you, that's the second one. And together those were called LOD ZONG.

[Seiji Arao]
The instructions for developing good heart.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, give me a bad translation.

[Seiji Arao]
Mind training.

[Говорящий 1]
Mind training. You will be brainwashed after mind training. Okay, Xie Zhiqing [?].

Sort of cool you guys, you know it now.

[Seiji Arao]
Advice. It's an excerpt, isn't it?

[Говорящий 1]
Extra teachings with things on the side? Yeah, they are whole huge subjects derived from another subject. And the first book ever printed on a computer in Tibetan was ACIP's publication of the Circle of Serenade [?].

Two volumes in there. It's a beautiful book from which the Mind-Only teaching came. We saved that book.

GON NAS LOD ZONG XIE ZHAO CHING Now, if you took all the LOD ZONGs and you wanted to distill the sweetest advice from that, well, that would be LOD ZONG DUN DUN MA.

[Seiji Arao]
The seven, oh, right, right, seven-point instruction.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, the seven-topic instruction on training your heart in bodhichitta. PHYI'I SKYE ZHES KYANG BYAS DU That's what they call the book or the instructions. So in general, the instructions are called LOD ZONG.

The big element in them is BDAG GZHAN YAM BYAS. But if you want to talk about an actual book or a written teaching, it's LOD ZONG DUN DUN MA, which you studied in ACI course 14. 14, yeah.

In the Quaker churches. I think Nantic was there.

[Seiji Arao]
I think this is just before the Crown of Knives, actually, in course 14.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, let's go to the next paragraph. Can I ask a quick question?

Yeah, go ahead, go ahead. It's listing love, compassion, and personal responsibility in bodhichitta. Doesn't it kind of seem like it's talking about the seven-step practice?

It is. Well, this paragraph starts halfway through. Okay, so, yeah.

So does it make sense then that, yeah, that first half he's finishing up the discussion of the seven-step, and then he starts talking about... Okay. Yeah, I split it into two paragraphs because it was so long.

So we had the last... The last paragraph in Seiji's last class was MAR SHES DRIN DRIN DRIN So, the first three steps of the seven. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Realize that your mother... Think about what they did for you, try to repay it. Those three came in the last paragraph.

Yeah, before this assignment, yeah. Okay. Okay.

All right, that's it for my homework. Oh, okay, okay. I'm sort of...

I just really want to get this jewel tree thing nailed down. Hang on, boom, boom. Oh, Venerable Chigme put it in the chat.

Oh, you did? What's the title? House of the Jewel Trees.

Oh, yeah, it's better than Stalks in Array, right? Oh, yeah. I don't know.

Anyway, don't get me going on that. Bad translations. Can you see...

You probably can't see my screen yet. Let's hang on. It's coming, it's coming.

Okay. Hang on. Seiji, why don't you pick on somebody else since it's your last class, I think.

Let's have some fun and bother other people.

[Seiji Arao]
Okay. These two, yeah. So we're starting the...

Oh, yeah, okay. Let's see. Oscar, are you translating?

[Говорящий 2]
You want to go for it? Yes, thank you. Thank you.

Okay.

[Говорящий 1]
Dorjetan, good.

[Seiji Arao]
Nice. Nice. RTZA BA'I LAM MA BSGOM PO ZER LIM PA ZER LIM PO BDAG LA RGYAS CHEN CHU BA BYIN TSE PAS Good.

DRIN CHEN LAM MA GRUG LA CHAGS ZE LO Nice, nice, nice.

[Говорящий 1]
So, there's a custom in English where when there's an important book, you say the book of blank, you know? So, for example, the Book of Mormon is the Bible for the Mormon people. So, there's an important book that we call the Book of Kadam.

Okay. The Book of the Kadampas. That's the name of the book.

It's a history book. And it contains a lot of the lojos inside. So, it's called Kadam Lekpam.

It means the Book of the Kadampas. Lekpam means the book or the volume. It means the Book of the Kadampas.

So, RGYUD RIM means if you want to know the stages in the lineage or the separate generations of the lineage, we can go to the Kadam Lekpam. And then he quotes this verse and a half, six lines from the Kadam Lekpam. So, I'm going to supply the numbers here.

First was? Manjushri. Yeah, Manjushri.

Then there was? Dharma. No, Lodru Misepa.

[Говорящий 2]
Okay.

[Говорящий 1]
A never-ending wisdom. And by the way, he's going to tell us later, that was Shantideva's secret name. So, unending wisdom is Shantideva.

So, according to this, he was the first lineage holder after Manjushri himself. He got the teachings from Manjushri. And then there's Eladari, who is Eladari.

And then there's Pahul Dorje. And I don't know the Sanskrit names. You can look them up.

It's probably... Padmasambhava? Vajrashurya or something like that.

And then there's Chandrasekhar Rinpoche, the great bodhisattva. Sorry. Or it could be just the great bodhisattva.

Then there's my root lama. You got two fours there, didn't you, Michael? Aha.

I can judge it's the bodhisattva named Rinpoche. And then my own root lama, who was Serlingpa. What's his name?

Rudipa. Dharmakirti? No.

Suvarnadvipa? Suvarnadvipa. Suvarnadvipa, the lama of the Golden Island.

Which is... Which is where, Sugeng? Sumatra.

Sumatra in Indonesian. And that's where... By the way, yeah, his name was also Dharmakirti, so it's very confusing.

Atisha's teacher's name who taught him the bodhichitta lineage, that he went to Indonesia to get, was also called Dharmakirti. So there's two Dharmakirtis. Okay, but sometimes we call him Suvarnadvipa, which means Golden Island.

Why is the island called Dvipa? It separates the water islands. Dvipa means water.

Dvipa means it cuts the water in half. So that's the name for an island. Dvipa.

No, in Sanskrit. Dvipa. Okay, good.

DAG LA RGYAS CAN PHYIR PA RGYAL CAN PHYIR PA RGYUN TSE PAS By the way, this is the third lineage, right? There's the wisdom lineage from Manjushri. There's the compassion lineage from Maitreya.

And then there's this third lineage, which is mainly dakshen nyamje. For exchanging self and others. Okay, mainly.

[Говорящий 2]
It came down to Manjushri as well.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, I believe it also came down to Manjushri. No, this is the lineage. The sixth.

If the Lama from Indonesia is being called the Root Lama, who wrote these verses? He says, my root Lama gave it to me. Now Seiji, normally grandpa would have gone and got this verse for you to check and make sure it's quoted correctly.

This is mixed, not standard procedure. We never use a quotation without checking it. What we saw in this term was that many quotations have mistakes in them or misspellings.

I wanted to show you how to go, just for fun, okay? We're going to go get this quotation together, all right?

[Seiji Arao]
Okay, thank you.

[Говорящий 1]
Here we go. Now I'm going to go... Now, somebody tell me the first thing you do when you're looking for a quotation.

[Говорящий 2]
Make a good context for the search. Go for it.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, you're going to go for it, but the key to successful searching is to design the search. Designing the search is the key to everything. You design the search badly, you won't find what you're looking for.

Or you'll find 10,000 hits. You've got to be clever. So you've got to stop and think.

What's a word... Suppose I want to find this quotation and I use the word dumb. Which means and.

We already established in one of our previous classes that there are three million occurrences of this word in the database. So Seiji, which part of this verse should we use?

[Seiji Arao]
I would go for eladari, right?

[Говорящий 1]
That's a great answer. Go for something weird in the verse. Go for the weirdest word in the verse.

And hope that there's not a lot of them in the database. If you want to make the... You could start with a weird word.

And then you could add a proximity search for another weird word. Because what's the odds that those two weird words are going to be in the same sentence? So if we do eladari, what's another word?

I mean, most of these words are very common, I'm afraid.

[Говорящий 2]
Orgy.

[Говорящий 1]
Well, we can look for lodru misepa. It's kind of good luck. Because that's the name of...

[Seiji Arao]
Shantideva. Master Shantideva.

[Говорящий 1]
Eladari. Shouldn't you be careful with eladari? Isn't there a high probability of it being misspelled as well?

Exactly. I was about to say that. But let's see.

It's also not likely to be... There's not... Physically on the carving, it won't be very weird.

It's short, so eladari. So let's say near lodru misepa.

[Говорящий 2]
That's a boolean?

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, now boolean. I'm searching for two words in the same sentence. Then I have to define how close together.

Well, I want them within two lines of each other. And where am I going to search? You always have three basic choices.

What are they Seiji? Kangyur, Tengyur, Sungbum? Define those three.

[Seiji Arao]
The original teachings, the commentaries, and... Oh, Tsongbung, the ones...

[Говорящий 2]
Indian commentaries.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, Tengyur is Indian commentaries. Oh, right. Kangyur is spoken by Lord Buddha.

Now we have 990 books spoken by Lord Buddha. That's Kangyur. We have 3,700 Indian commentaries.

4,600 total books from India. How many has ACIP located and imprinted? Every single one.

Every single one. And that's kick-ass. And that took 20 years of hard work.

And it's done. There's no missing books. Okay, got it?

Somebody should kiss me already. Connie, you should kiss somebody. Now, if I'm looking for a book about the Kadampas, will I go 2,500 years ago to the Buddha's time?

Will I go to ancient India? Or will I go to Tibet where the Kadampas lived? Okay, we're going to go to the Sungbum, which is the Tibetan commentaries.

Because Kadampas were the early Tibetan Buddhists. So those books, books about the Kadampas won't be in India. They'll only be in Tibet.

Okay, good. And these were the first hippies, like the Diamond Mountain Volunteers. No, they were.

These were the great, brilliant, very, very creative people. Very, very beautiful, excited young people in Tibet who brought Buddhism to Tibet. And they kicked butt.

All right, so where is that? Sungbum. Here it is.

So I'm defining where we're going to search. I think we're set, okay Seiji? Assuming two things.

Assuming the quotation is spelled right, and assuming we have this book in the database. We might not, by the way. About that.

[Говорящий 2]
We have 16,000.

[Говорящий 1]
We've catalogued 16,000 books. I'm sorry. We've input 16,000 books, completely.

But there's 300,000 to do. The Kadam Lekbam is input, and I can't, I don't believe we've created a path for it and stuff. You're breaking my heart.

Let's take this search. Okay. This is the book we're in.

We just put the book we're in. So skip that one. I'll go next file.

This is another Lamrim history book. That's not the one we want. Yeah.

This is not Kadam Lekbam. I don't think it's in the database yet. Yeah, it's not in the database.

We can prioritize it just because we need it now for this test. Yeah, we're pretty weak on the Kadampa books. Yeah, it's not in the database yet.

So we can't check it yet. I'll grab it and put it at the top of the list because Seiji needs it. Now Seiji, I'm not going to go find all the Sanskrit names for the Lamas in here who came from India, which is all six.

Because number seven is who?

[Говорящий 2]
Bhattacharya.

[Говорящий 1]
He's the segue between Tibet and India. So how are you going to find the Sanskrit of these names? Let's try Lodru Misepa, which is kind of auspicious because...

Shantideva's secret name, Lodru Misepa. Well, not so secret, but just nobody knows about it. Modu Misepa.

Okay, got it? We're going to check in an extraordinary Tibetan Sanskrit dictionary by Lokesh Chandra. Extraordinary.

Perfect dictionary. And input by John Campbell under his direction. And it is perfect.

The input is perfect. So if you ever take a yoga class from him... Today was it?

Tomorrow. You should kiss his feet while you're at it. It's an extraordinary reference book and it's an extraordinary input, John.

It's perfect. And I never say that, do I? Okay, here we go, Lodru Misepa.

Ta-da! Akshaya Mati, a Bodhisattva. Okay, Akshaya Mati.

Cool? Akshaya means never-ending. Never works out.

Mati means mind, wisdom. Okay, so Seiji, I thought you might want to get their original names. The Tibetan names are translations of their names.

Like roach would be bu. Sok bu, dirty bug. Luckily, we're not translating that one.

I bow down. What's this jinchen? What's another way to say that?

Jinchen. My kind Lama. Kachin?

Yeah, Kachin. Yeah. Yay!

It's specifically the kindness of your Lama. All right, Seiji, who's up next?

[Seiji Arao]
Let's see. Isabel, you want to go again?

[Говорящий 2]
Oh, yeah. Okay.

[Говорящий 1]
Okay. Okay. Okay.

[Говорящий 2]
Okay. Okay.

[Seiji Arao]
Okay.

[Говорящий 2]
Okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. God. Oh, wow.

Oh, wow.

[Seiji Arao]
Oh, Joe, Jay, now, Jay, low.

[Говорящий 2]
Oh, my.

[Seiji Arao]
Well, not yet.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, good. As this verse says, This lineage are basically an exchange of self and others. It begins with the protector Manjushri.

Then it goes... What's the nang mean, you guys? Nang, it's a verb.

Nang. He nangded... He granted it.

It's a high, high word. It means he granted it. He granted it to the gyel se shiwa shak.

[Seiji Arao]
To the bodhisattva Shantideva?

[Говорящий 1]
Shantideva. Then this de means, in a lineage tree, it means, and he granted it to... And he granted it...

Okay, it's going to be like that. He granted it to Master Eladari. Then he granted it to who?

Paul Dungy. Dungy. Simon Moyer.

He granted it. He gave it to Master Maha Sri Ratna. Bodhisattva.

[Seiji Arao]
Great jewel? Maha Sri?

[Говорящий 1]
Maha means what, Seiji? Maha. Big?

[Seiji Arao]
Big.

[Говорящий 1]
What's Sri mean? Shining or glory?

[Seiji Arao]
Oh, great shiny jewel?

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, like Sri Pratabhi Jyotish or something. Yeah, shiny jewel, the bodhisattva. By the way, we nowadays spell bodhisattva with two Ts.

But in the ancient times you could... It was a dum-ka. What's a dum-ka?

We had it tonight. It was an optional spelling. So you don't change it.

You don't change it when you see it in an ancient book. It's a mistake to correct it, which happens a lot. Okay, bodhisattva Shiva.

Now, if you took that name, Seiji, Maha, Sri, Ratna, bodhisattva. Maha, Sri, Ratna, bodhisattva. Four parts, right?

And you translated it into... Okay, dude. Yeah.

What's Ratna? Well, let's start with Maha. What is it in Sanskrit?

In Tibetan, yeah, chenpo. What's Sri? My...

Helm? Yeah, glory. Yeah, bell.

What's Ratna? Rinchen? Or Norbu.

And then bodhisattva is chenpo sembah, right? So he says, if you want to put that in Tibetan, that last name, it's what, Seiji? It's what, Seiji?

Chenpo. Rinchen bell. It's that name.

Chanchu sembah chenpo rinchen bell. He gave it to him. He granted it to him.

He granted it to our Gumbo Seligmar, to our protector, Suvarnadvipa, golden island guy from Sumatra, the island of Sumatra. And he still has a lot of influence there. Nang.

And he nang it to Jowo. Yeah, to Atisha. All right, Seiji, who's up next?

[Seiji Arao]
Let's see. Vanessa, do you want to go?

[Говорящий 2]
It's me? Yep. Let me try.

All right, teacher. Cho. Gyal.

Gyal. Gyal se. Gyal se.

Hai. Hai. Sengi narang ino.

[Говорящий 1]
Nice. Seiji, translate the whole sentence while Grandpa relaxes.

[Seiji Arao]
All right, something about Shantideva. Let me see. Of this...

[Говорящий 1]
Sempa means never-ending. Lodru means wisdom.

[Seiji Arao]
Never-ending wisdom, is a...

[Говорящий 1]
Oscar is going to help you. Go, Oscar.

[Seiji Arao]
Arya Shantideva, Master Shantideva.

[Говорящий 2]
Here, the name Lodru Misepa.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah. Akshayamati.

[Говорящий 2]
The one called Akshayamati. Sorry, not in Spanish. It's the Bodhisattva.

Gyal se shi wakhle.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah.

[Говорящий 2]
Sen is name.

[Seiji Arao]
Bodhisattva Shantideva.

[Говорящий 2]
Nangdrang is synonym.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, we had nangdrang many times in whose text today? Sugan. Sugan.

We had nangdrangs for what word? Synonym. For misunderstanding.

Yeah, marimba. We had seven, eight, nine, twelve. Okay, so here it is.

He says, look, when you see in the lineage tree, you see that Manjushri, the first human who got this teaching was Lodru Misepa. That's Shantideva, he said. That's just another name for Shantideva.

Cool. Okay, who's next to be tortured? Yay!

So glad I'm not a student anymore. I want.

[Seiji Arao]
Dinara, do you want to go?

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah. Hi. Hi.

Hi. Hi.

[Говорящий 2]
Hi. Hi. Hi.

Hi. Hi. Hi.

Hi. Hi. Good.

Thank you. Thank you.

[Говорящий 1]
Yay, nice. Very good, okay. What's RGYUD mean you guys?

Lineage. Yeah, with a B it means lineage, okay? Then what's RIM GANG like?

[Seiji Arao]
Oh yeah.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah, these steps in the lineage, these six or seven steps in the lineage. Why don't I give you the nampar tarpa of these lamas? What's that, Nick, you guys?

What's nampar? That's the biography. Yeah, what's it mean literally?

The liberation, the story of freedom. Yeah, it's funny, the word for biography in Tibetan is freedom. Let me tell you the freedom of Shantideva, and it means I'll tell you his life story.

The way you say life story in Tibetan is freedom.

[Говорящий 2]
But only for practitioners or teachers?

[Говорящий 1]
Almost anybody, but mostly teachers, yeah. Let me tell you the liberation, meaning the life story. By the way, this is a huge line in this book, and he reaches it on folio 146B.

It's here that he promises to write the... The work. This is where he starts the biographies of all the lamas of the Lamrim, and it's huge.

It's 2,000 pages, and it's stunning. It's really beautiful. And some people have tried to translate it sloppily, and it's online as something, Lives of the Masters or something.

It's a mess, but anyway. You can get the basic information sometimes. Nambatapani.

Now, let's start the Nambatars. Yay! Thank you.

Well, we're going to have to wait for Shantideva, because before him we got Tonpa, and we got Jampeyang. Who's Tonpa? The teacher?

Yeah, the Buddha. Tonpa Wangpo, Lord Buddha. And then we got Jampeyang.

We got two biographies before we had Shantideva.

[Seiji Arao]
Manjushri. The Buddha Manjushri.

[Говорящий 1]
Nagarjuna's sin means... I already told you guys those. I already told you guys those two.

Biographies? Yeah, he did. That's why he's on page 146.

He starts out with those two biographies. He starts out with those two biographies. So he says, look, I already gave you the first two biographies.

So what's the next one, you guys? Shantideva.

[Seiji Arao]
Shantideva.

[Говорящий 1]
And this is where it starts, with no chapter heading, no marker, no word to indicate. This is where we start the biography of Shantideva. We still have a little time.

Stacy, you can actually put your toe in the water. Shab-sen-kut-pa. Yay!

[Seiji Arao]
Okay.

[Говорящий 1]
Oh, who's reading?

[Seiji Arao]
Let's see.

[Говорящий 1]
Uncle Nick's going to shut this down. He's like, Nick, there was these guys at Princeton called proctors. They were unofficial police of the university.

Every time we played rock and roll concert, they would come and shut it down. You know what I'm talking about? Nick is our project.

Let's do this in perpetuity.

[Seiji Arao]
Alex, reverse, please. Oh, are you translating? Oh, no.

Who else do we have? Rob?

[Говорящий 1]
No, okay, Rob.

[Говорящий 2]
Yeah. Gyal-way-shi-wa-la.

[Говорящий 1]
Gyal-say? Gyal-say-shi-wa-la. Gang-du-jung-pa?

Jung-pay? Jung-bay? Your name.

Stop there. Translate that, you guys. Jung-pa is high on it.

He took his holy birth. As for which country, he took his holy birth. Good.

By the way, when you're talking ancient India, you better say kingdom or something. Some of those kingdoms you could walk across in five minutes. When they say Xuanzang went to 110 countries, it's not.

It's kingdoms. Some of them were very small, like B.O.C. or something. He did go through many kingdoms.

So where was he born? Seiji, who's reading? Read this.

[Seiji Arao]
Rob.

[Говорящий 1]
Rob. Okay, Dorje. Dorje Dengi.

[Говорящий 2]
Nope. Not sure how to pronounce that. Choke.

Choke. Choke. Choke.

[Говорящий 1]
Choke. Choke. Choke.

Choke. Choke. What was the first one?

Vajrasana. Yeah, which is the modern... Bodh Gaya.

Bodh Gaya. What does Vajrasana mean? The seat of the diamond seat.

And that's the original meaning of Yoga Asana. It was exercises to help you meditate for a long time. So even the city where the Buddha got enlightened is called Vajra Diamond Seat, the Seat of the Diamond.

Is the ass a coincidence? Asana. No.

The root for ass, your ass, is ass, to sit. Got it? This is your sitter, your ass.

Awesome. Okay. Very good.

Okay, Dorje Deng Gyi, off to the new direction of Dorje Deng, West. Yeah, to the west of modern Bodh Gaya, there's a little locality called Yul Kormosang. And Seiji, what does SKT mean?

[Seiji Arao]
Sanskrit.

[Говорящий 1]
No, it means Seiji has to go do the dirty work and find the Sanskrit. Okay?

[Seiji Arao]
All right.

[Говорящий 1]
Grandpa's not doing that stuff anymore. I'm retiring from that. Vajra Mandala?

No, I mean Vajra. Okay, who's reading next, Seiji?

[Seiji Arao]
Let's see. Joy? Joy Chen?

[Говорящий 2]
Hi, Joy. Hi, Seiji. You?

There? You there? There?

Yab kye? Yab pok. Oh, right.

Yab kye pok te wei ko cha. Nice. Te wei ko cha.

Ko cha thang. Nice. Continue?

Keep going, please, yeah. Okay. Yim jor je ne yor.

[Говорящий 1]
Myeong jor. Myeong jor.

[Говорящий 2]
Myeong jor mey rupar.

[Говорящий 1]
Mey rupar.

[Говорящий 2]
Mey rupar. Yep. Je?

Jarpa. Jarpa. Jarpa.

Jarpa. Sik yor. Nice.

Sik yor. Pathe. Pathe.

Niki. Rasu. Sesu.

Sesu. Delse. Nice.

Admi. Admi. This comes.

This comes into kuchung.

[Говорящий 1]
Yay. Great job. Great song.

Okay. What? Okay.

You there in that locality, his father, by the way, YAB YUM, right? YAB YUM. Holy Father, Holy Mother.

High honorific. His holy father was the gyelpo.

[Seiji Arao]
The king.

[Говорящий 1]
Named Gyeway Gocha, which is probably something like Shubha Varma or something. You're going to look it up, Seiji. Now, here's the cool part.

His mother was a chukhu of Dorje Nangyurma. Wow. Oh.

What's that? Angel of Diamond. She was an emanation.

She was said to be an emanation of the Angel of Diamond. We don't get her. They don't give us her personal name.

They call her the one who was emanated from Vajrayogini. It's so beautiful, right? I didn't know that.

Okay. DRAG PA ZHIG RGYAS PA DE NYID had a se.

[Говорящий 2]
They both have a son.

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah. The two of them had a prince or a holy son. That was the DAG NYID CHEN PO, the Mahatma, which is the bodhisattva whose biography we're talking about.

Here's a cool part. He went into her body some shindu. Consciously?

Yeah, he chose her. He chose her. Isn't that beautiful?

It's like, look, if I see anyone around India, let's use her room. Nice. We still have some time, Seiji.

You got another person?

[Seiji Arao]
Yeah. Let me see. Lindsay?

Lindsay?

[Говорящий 1]
Okay, Lindsay.

[Говорящий 2]
Can you point out where to start? Oh, it's at the top?

[Говорящий 1]
Yeah.

[Говорящий 2]
AH CHI BAI GO CHA CHE TAG THUN PEI NO PO NA KYI SKYE SKYE SING SKYE SING What was that? Thank you. Thank you.

SKU NA RA MO NA RAGNE RAGNE Thank you. KA LA CHELA Thank you. KA SKAD PA'I PHU DUS KHYIM Great.

[Говорящий 1]
The child was given the name SHI BA'I DGO CHA, the armor of peace. The armor of peace. Peaceful armor.

It's probably Shanti Varma or something. SHES LTAG Here's the correct spelling of LTAG, meaning giving a name, like very important in Madhyamaka literature. Here you see the real use of it, to give a name to a child.

KHYIM PA'I DNGOS PO RNAMS KYIS SKAD ZING means they had all the material things they needed to give him a happy childhood, like a little electric car to drive around in his parents' lawn. That's a sign of a well-pampered prince. ZING KUN NA means age.

It's a very difficult word. KUN NA means age. DRAM MO means from a young age.

So KUN NA DRAM MO doesn't mean his holy body was sick with something subtle. It means from a young age. He learned all the Rig Veda, the classical sciences.

There's five Buddhist sciences. There's five minor sciences, like architecture, fine arts, music, stuff like that. He learned all of them.

Not only did he learn them, he became a kipa. The master. And PHUL TU CHIN PA means kick-ass, or number one, or amazing master.

PHUL TU CHIN PA means he became a number one real thing master. PHUL TU CHIN PA That's a time gun. Well, that's a good place to stop.

We stopped at Maitri's age here. Yeah, it's about Maitri's age. They're about to describe his little car.

I'm not complaining. I love that car. I think it's so cool.

I wish I had you as a dad.

[Seiji Arao]
He is loving that car, I have to say.

[Говорящий 1]
And I wish I had Nora as a mom. I mean, mom uses the stuff. Maitri, Seiji gets it.

We're good, you guys. Thank you so much, Geshe La. Why am I teaching you the biography every week?

Because I don't have time to write the commentary yet. I'm being honest.

[Seiji Arao]
Of course.

[Говорящий 1]
But I'll try to do it before the next class. All right, we'll see you guys.

[Seiji Arao]
Well, this is the last class, I think.

[Говорящий 1]
I know.

[Seiji Arao]
Next term.

[Говорящий 1]
I planned it that way. Okay. All right.

See you guys. By the way, tomorrow, Nick, you've got to announce some change of schedule, I think. Oh, Alison's class is going to go in the afternoon and Gibson's class will be in the morning.

That's not all. Oh, there's a special Q&A session. There are two special Q&A sessions.

So bring all your toughest questions in the morning to Venerable Ellie, Venerable Jigme. And she'll help you frame those questions for how you can ask them to Geshe La later. So we have a total of six classes tomorrow, right, Nick?

I think we should say that. So, yeah, please do look at this. Thank you, Geshe La.

Look at the schedule. You're going to see that there's a class at six. Then there's a Q&A session.

Then we're back for another class. We're going to have three classes in the morning. Yeah.

So instead of yoga, there's going to be a third morning class. Yeah. Arizona time.

World standard time. And we do this so that you guys get a Q&A session with Geshe Michael at the end. Okay.

Yeah. So get ready for all of that. And, hey, thank you, translators, for coming up with us and translating us.

Again, you guys are amazing. New interpreters. You guys are incredible.

And thank you, tech team, also, for archiving these videos and everything else you do, starting the classes and ending them. And we'll talk more tomorrow. Thank you, Nick, for being the boss again.

Yay. Good night, guys. Thank you, Geshe La.

See you tomorrow. Thanks, Geshe La. Good night.

See you tomorrow. See you tomorrow.

[Говорящий 2]
Bye.