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Exposition of Toh 3567 — Northern Tibetan Mahayana Tradition
Context
Toh 3567 is a treatise of the Northern Transmission Canon, belonging to the Tengyur (Bka' 'gyur), the collection of treatises and commentaries by eminent Indian masters. The Northern Tibetan Mahayana tradition, especially through the Tibetan path, preserved important works of masters such as Nagarjuna, Asanga, Vasubandhu, and later scholars. These treatises are not only explanations of scripture but also practical guides for cultivation and realization.
Although the title of this scripture has not yet been fully translated, according to the classificatory principles of the Tengyur, treatises usually revolve around core subjects: the theory of emptiness (sunyata), the nature of mind (sems nyid), the path of practice of the bodhisattva, or methods of meditation for attaining buddhahood. They are doctrinal statements and practical methods inherited through the lineage from Shakyamuni Buddha to the Tibetan patriarchs.
Main Content
The treatises in the Tengyur are especially built upon three pillars: (1) Form and mind (rūpa-citta), the relationship between material dharmas and consciousness; (2) Methods of practice, the stages from abandoning greed to generating bodhicitta; and (3) Unconditioned wisdom, the understanding that all dharmas lack any enduring self-nature.
According to the Mahayana tradition, the aim is not merely to escape suffering for oneself, as in the Hinayana, but to attain awakening for the boundless benefit of sentient beings. The bodhisattva ideal, that is, the cultivation of immeasurable compassion, the wisdom of emptiness, and the resolve to become a Buddha, is the foundation of all Mahayana practice. The treatises of the Tengyur guide individual practitioners in how to perceive that there is no true distinction between oneself and others, from which genuine compassion arises.
At the same time, the Tengyur also discusses Buddha-nature, the idea that all sentient beings have the capacity to become Buddhas.
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