84000 Glossary of Terms

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གཙུག་ལག | Glossary of Terms

  • གཙུག་ལག

  • gtsug lag
  • śāstra
  • ārṣa
  • Term
Publications: 1
  • treatise
  • གཙུག་ལག
  • gtsug lag
  • śāstra
  • ārṣa
Definition in this text:

gtsug lag generally refers to a “sacred science or text, (relevant to the ṛṣi) […] or further, sciences or texts of the brahmans” from which the sense of treatise (śāstra) is derived. In Buddhism, gtsug lag is defined broadly as gsung rab (“scriptures”), gzhung lugs (“treatises”), and dam chos (“the sacred Dharma”) (see R. A. Stein’s Tibetica Antiqua III in McKeown 2010, pp. 126–29). Here it refers particularly to the teachings (scriptures, treatises, doctrine?) of the materialists.