རྣམ་པར་དགོད་པ་བཞི། | Glossary of Terms
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རྣམ་པར་དགོད་པ་བཞི།
- rnam par dgod pa bzhi
- caturvyavasthāna
- caturvyavasthānatā
- Term
- four determinations
- རྣམ་པར་དགོད་པ་བཞི།
- rnam par dgod pa bzhi
- caturvyavasthāna
These concern: (1) establishing the sacred doctrine (chos gdags pa rnam par ’god pa), (2) establishing the truth (bden pa gdags pa rnam par ’god pa), (3) establishing reason (rigs pa gdags pa rnam par ’god pa), and (4) establishing the vehicles (theg pa gdags pa rnam par ’god pa). See the Śatasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitābṛhaṭṭīkā, Toh 3807 (Degé Tengyur vol. 91, F37.a); also Edgerton, p. 516.
- four presentations
- རྣམ་པར་དགོད་པ་བཞི།
- rnam par dgod pa bzhi
- caturvyavasthānatā
The four presentations are (1) a presentation of doctrine representations (the divisions of the Buddha’s teachings), (2) a presentation of truth representations (one, two, four, up to an infinite number of truths), (3) a presentation of reasoning (rig/rigs pa, yukti) representations (from contingency, function, logical proof, and the nature of things), and (4) a presentation of vehicles (three).
Pāli vavatthāna; Ñāṇamoli 1976 “definition”; Thurman 2004 “classification.”