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EXPOSITION OF A SCRIPTURE FROM THE TENGYUR TREATISE COLLECTION (Toh 2767)

Context

Toh 2767 is a scholastic treatise appearing in the Tengyur, the treatise collection of traditional Tibetan Buddhism. The Tengyur, also called Bstan 'gyur, is the most complete collection of treatises and commentaries on the Buddha Dharma, compiled and translated from Sanskrit into Tibetan around the eighth to thirteenth centuries at great Buddhist institutions such as Nalanda and within the Tibetan kingdom.

Although the precise title of this scripture/treatise has not been fully provided, its position in the Tengyur indicates that it is a profound scholastic work, possibly related to Mahayana Buddhist philosophical issues such as the nature of mind (citta-svabhava), the theory of emptiness (sunyata), or the Buddha's skillful means of teaching.

The Tibetan tradition, especially the Gelug, Kagyu, Nyingma, and Sakya schools, has maintained the continuity of these treatises as sacred scriptures, using them as the basis for profound practice and study of the Buddha Dharma for more than a thousand years.

Main Content

The specific content of this work has not yet been fully translated into Vietnamese in the available document. However, based on its position and context within the Tengyur, this work certainly belongs to the field of Mahayana Buddhist scholasticism, where earlier sages used rigorous reasoning to illuminate aspects of the Dharma.

In the Tibetan tradition, Tengyur treatises often explore themes such as the nature of mind and cognition (Madhyamaka, Yogacara), the path of practice according to the Mahayana, the relationship between conventional mind and the true mind, the role of loving-kindness (metta, karuna) and bodhicitta in the process of liberation, as well as the teaching methods of the Buddha Tathagata for beings at different levels of spiritual development.