བསྒོམ་པ་རྣམ་པར་བསྒོམ་པ། | Glossary of Terms

The Sanskrit term is rendered in this text and in the Hundred Thousand as bsgom pa rnam par bsgom pa, suggesting an analysis or investigation of cultivation rather than its destruction or negation, in contrast to its rendering as bsgom pa rnam par ’jig pa, literally “the destruction of cultivation,” in the Tibetan translations of the Ten Thousand, Eighteen Thousand, and the Tengyur version of the Twenty-Five Thousand. We have chosen “breaking down” in order to retain the widest range of possible meanings: “examination,” “analysis,” “exposure,” “deconstruction,” “destruction,” “annihilation,” “elimination,” or “unraveling,” with respect to false appearances. For more details, see UT22084-026-001-1463 and UT22084-026-001-4159.