རྟོན་པ་བཞི། | Glossary of Terms
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རྟོན་པ་བཞི་པོ།
- རྟོན་པ་བཞི།
- rton pa bzhi
- rton pa bzhi po
- catuḥpratiśaraṇa
- pratiśārana
- pratisaraṇa
- catuspratisaraṇa
- Term
- four reliances
- རྟོན་པ་བཞི།
- rton pa bzhi
- catuspratisaraṇa
A bodhisattva should (1) rely on the meaning, not the expression; (2) on the teaching, not the person; (3) on wisdom, not on normal consciousness; and (4) on discourses the definitive meaning, not on the interpretable meaning.
Relying on meaning rather than words, relying on wisdom (jñāna) rather than consciousness (vijñāna), relying on the definitive meaning rather than the provisional meaning, and relying on the teaching (dharma) rather than a person.
- four reliances
- རྟོན་པ་བཞི།
- rton pa bzhi
- catuḥpratiśaraṇa
The reliance on the meaning but not on the letter, the reliance on wisdom but not on consciousness, the reliance on the sūtras of definitive meaning but not on the sūtras of implicit meaning, and the reliance on the true state of phenomena but not on the person.
- four reliances
- རྟོན་པ་བཞི།
- rton pa bzhi
- pratiśārana
To attain higher realizations and final enlightenment, the bodhisattva should rely on the meaning (of the teaching) and not on the expression (arthapratisāraṇena bhavitavyaṃ na vyañjanapratisāraṇena); on the teaching and not on the person (who teaches it) (dharmapratisāraṇena bhavitavyaṃ na pudgalapratisāraṇena); on gnosis and not on normal consciousness (jñānapratisāraṇena bhavitavyaṃ na vijñānapratisāraṇena); and on discourses of definitive meaning and not on discourses of interpretable meaning (nītārthasūtrapratisāraṇena bhavitavyaṃ na neyārthasūtrapratisāraṇena) according to the order in this sūtra. The usual order, “teaching-reliance,” “meaning-reliance,” definitive-meaning-discourse-reliance,” and “gnosis-reliance,” seems to conform better to stages of practice.
- four reliances
- རྟོན་པ་བཞི།
- rton pa bzhi
- pratisaraṇa
See UT22084-071-014-34.