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UMA CHIDUN current - The Knowledge Base

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RGYUD LA RANG 'BRAS CHOS SKU'I THUN MONG MA YIN PA'I RGYU<br />

MED PA'I PHYIR,<br />

And it is true that self-made Buddhas lack any extraordinary form of the<br />

two collections. Once something is an extraordinary form of the two<br />

collections, then it must always act as a unique cause for a specific result:<br />

the dharma body. And the fact is that no unique cause for the specific<br />

result of the dharma body exists in the mindstream of a self-made Buddha.<br />

KHYAB STE 'GREL PA DON GSAL LAS, YANG DAG PAR 'GRUB PA'I<br />

NGO BOS BYANG CHUB CHEN PO 'BYIN PAR BYED PA'I PHYIR NA,<br />

SNYING RJE CHEN PO LA SOGS PA TSOGS YIN PAS, ZHES GSUNGS<br />

PA'I PHYIR,<br />

And this is necessarily the case because, as the commentary called <strong>The</strong><br />

Meaning Illuminated states,<br />

Great compassion and the rest are referred to as “the collection,” insofar as—by the very nature of what they do—<br />

they produce the great enlightenment.$<br />

[$<strong>The</strong>y produce the great enlightenment: <strong>The</strong> quotation is found at f. 91a in this commentary (ACIP digital text<br />

TD3793) by Master Haribhadra on Lord Maitreya’s <strong>The</strong> Ornament of Realizations. In this version of the text, the<br />

word ‘byin here is given as ‘dzin, but the meaning remains the same.]<br />

DE'I RGYUD LA TSOGS GNYIS KHYAD PAR CAN MED KYANG, TSOGS<br />

TZAM NI YOD DE, TSOGS PHAL PA YOD PA'I PHYIR DANG,<br />

Now even though these beings do not possess the two collections within<br />

their mind streams in an extraordinary form, they do possess some kind of<br />

collection. And this is true because they have a more common form of<br />

these collections.<br />

MDZOD 'GREL LAS, BSKAL PA CHEN PO BRGYAR BYANG CHUB KYI<br />

TSOGS DAG LA SPYAD PAS BSE RU LTA BUR 'GYUR TE, ZHES GSUNGS<br />

PA'I PHYIR,<br />

It is also true because the commentary to <strong>The</strong> Treasure House says,<br />

You become one of those who resembles a rhinoceros if you work at the collections for enlightenment for the

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