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Commentary on Toh 2271 — Tengyur
Context
Toh 2271 belongs to the Treatise Collection (Abhidharma-pitaka) in the Tengyur collection of the Northern Transmission Mahayana tradition. This is among the most profound philosophical materials of the Buddha Dharma, where the learned scholars (pandita) and spiritual masters of Tibet systematized theories of consciousness, dharmata, and the path of practice from the Mahayana perspective.
The Tengyur is the treatise canon, a collection of commentaries, expositions, and philosophical works by Buddhist sages. Here, each phrase of the scriptures is analyzed in detail, helping students of Buddhism understand more deeply the intention of the Teacher, Shakyamuni Buddha. The Northern Tibetan tradition, with its rigorous method of logical reasoning (pramana-vada), regards the treatise canon as indispensable on the journey to liberation.
Main Content
Although the title of the text has not been fully recorded, Toh 2271 in the context of the Tengyur often concerns the fundamental dharmata of consciousness (cittavibhaga) and the distinction between ignorant consciousness (avidya-vijnana) and the lucid awareness of the bodhisattva (bodhisattva-jnana). These are essential concepts in Yogacara, one of the two principal schools of the Mahayana.
According to this tradition, consciousness is understood not as a fixed entity but as a continuum of manifestations (alaya-vijnana), the storehouse consciousness that contains all karmic seeds (karma-bija). The treatise analyzes how impure dharmas (akusala-dharma), such as greed, anger, and delusion, arise from failing to perceive emptiness (sunyata) correctly, and how the earnest practice of the three wisdoms (tisso panna) — hearing the Dharma, reflecting, and meditating — removes ignorance.
The distinctive point of this teaching is that it not only indicates that afflictions must be eliminated, but also guides the way to transform consciousness so that it becomes “the mind that gives rise to no mind” (acintyachittam), a mind of wisdom, signless and free from anticipatory realization.
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