Epistles
Advice from the great Indian Buddhist masters in the form of letters written to rulers and others (Toh 4158-4202)
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Toh 4158 Translation not Started
The Precious Garland, A Letter to the King
རིན་ཆེན་ཕྲེང་བ། · rin chen phreng ba/
Rājaparikathāratnāvali
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Title variants
- རྒྱལ་པོ་ལ་གཏམ་བྱ་བ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཕྲེང་བ།
- rgyal po la gtam bya ba rin po che'i phreng ba/
- Ratnāvali
Tibetan translation:
- bod kyi lo tsa ba dge slong klu'i rgyal mtshan
- Jñānagarbha
Revision:
- bod kyi lo tsA ba pa tshab nyi ma grags
- Kanakavarman
Toh 4159 Translation not Started
Extensive Commentary on [Nāgārjuna’s] “The Precious Garland”
རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཕྲེང་བའི་རྒྱ་ཆེར་བཤད་པ། · rin po che'i phreng ba'i rgya cher bshad pa/
Ratnāvaliṭīkā
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Tibetan translation:
- Vidyākaraprabha
- zhu chen gyi lo tsa ba ban+de dpal brtsegs
Toh 4160 Translation not Started
Advice called “The Wish-fulfilling Jewel of Dreams”
རྨི་ལམ་ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུའི་གཏམ། · rmi lam yid bzhin nor bu'i gtam/
Svapnacintāmaṇiparikathā
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Tibetan translation:
- Śrīratha
- lo tsa ba dge slong grags 'byor shes rab
Toh 4161 Translation not Started
Advice on Generosity
སྦྱིན་པའི་གཏམ། · sbyin pa'i gtam/
Dānaparikathā
Toh 4162 Translation not Started
Advice on Transmigration
སྲིད་པ་ལས་འདས་པའི་གཏམ། · srid pa las 'das pa'i gtam/
Bhavasaṃkrāntiparikathā
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- Śrīratha
- lo tsa ba dge slong grags 'byor shes rab
Toh 4163 Translation not Started
Advice Universally Proclaiming the Seven Good Qualities
ཡོན་ཏན་བདུན་ཡོངས་སུ་བརྗོད་པའི་གཏམ། · yon tan bdun yongs su brjod pa'i gtam/
Saptaguṇaparivarṇanākathā
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Tibetan translation:
- Gaṅgādhara
- zhu chen gyi lo tsa ba dge slong rin chen bzang po
Toh 4164 Translation not Started
Advice on Ethics
ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་གཏམ། · tshul khrims kyi gtam/
Śīlaparikathā
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- Janardhana
- zhu chen gyi lo tsa ba rin chen bzang po
Toh 4165 Translation not Started
A Running Commentary on the “Advice on Ethics”
ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་གཏམ་གྱི་འགྲེལ་པ། · tshul khrims kyi gtam gyi 'grel pa/
Śīlaparikathāvṛtti
Toh 4166 Translation not Started
Advice on the [Two] Accumulations
ཚོགས་ཀྱི་གཏམ། · tshogs kyi gtam/
Sambhāraparikathā
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Tibetan translation:
- Gaṅgādhara
- zhu chen gyi lo tsa ba dge slong rin chen bzang po
Toh 4167 Translation not Started
Advice on the Eight Inopportune States
མི་ཁོམ་པ་བརྒྱད་ཀྱི་གཏམ། · mi khom pa brgyad kyi gtam/
Aṣṭākṣaṇakathā
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- zhu chen gyi lo tsa ba dge slong shakya 'od
- Ajitaśrībhadra
Toh 4168 Translation not Started
Advice Like a Chest of Jewels called “Eloquent Explanations”
ལེགས་པར་བཤད་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ཟ་མ་ཏོག་ལྟ་བུའི་གཏམ། · legs par bshad pa rin po che za ma tog lta bu'i gtam/
Subhāṣitaratnakaraṇḍakakathā
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- dge slong shakya 'od
- Rudra
Toh 4169 Translation not Started
Advice on Abandoning the Four Mistakes
ཕྱིན་ཅི་ལོག་བཞི་སྤང་བའི་གཏམ། · phyin ci log bzhi spang ba'i gtam/
Caturviparyaya[parihāra]kathā
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- Upādhyāya Buddhabhadra (II)
- zhu chen gyi lo tsa ba dge slong rin chen bzang po
Toh 4170 Translation not Started
Advice for the Degenerate Era
རྩོད་པའི་འདུས་ཀྱི་གཏམ། · rtsod pa'i 'dus kyi gtam/
Kaliyugaparikathā
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Tibetan translation:
- zhu chen gyi lo tsa ba dge slong shakya 'od
- Ajitaśrībhadra
Toh 4171 Translation not Started
Advice on Isolation
དབེན་པའི་གཏམ། · dben pa'i gtam/
Vivekakathā
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- zhu chen gyi lo tsa ba dge slong dge ba'i blo gros
- Atīśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna
Toh 4172 Translation not Started
Advice on Being Respectful Toward the True Dharma of the Śrāvakas and Those who Teach the Dharma
ཆོས་སྨྲ་བ་དང་དམ་པའི་ཆོས་ཉན་པ་ལ་གུས་པར་བྱ་བའི་གཏམ། · chos smra ba dang dam pa'i chos nyan pa la gus par bya ba'i gtam/
Dharmavacanasaddharmaśrāvakasatkṛtyakathā
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- lo tsa ba dge slong shakya 'od
- Ajitaśrībhadra
Toh 4173 Translation not Started
Advice [in the form] of Categorical Statements
ཆེད་དུ་བརྗོད་པའི་གཏམ། · ched du brjod pa'i gtam/
Udānakathā
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- lo tsa ba tshul khrims rgyal ba
Toh 4174 Translation not Started
Advice on the Meaning of Impermanence
མི་རྟག་པའི་དོན་གྱི་གཏམ། · mi rtag pa'i don gyi gtam/
Anityārthaparikathā
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- Kaśmīri Vināyaka
- lo tsa ba grags 'byor shes rab
Toh 4175 Translation not Started
Advice Teaching to Proper Path
ལེགས་པའི་ལམ་བསྟན་པའི་གཏམ། · legs pa'i lam bstan pa'i gtam/
Supathadeśanāparikathā
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- Atīśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna
- lo tsa ba chen po dge slong rin chen bzang po
Toh 4176 Translation not Started
A Teaching on the Path of the Ten Virtues
དགེ་བ་བཅུའི་ལས་ཀྱི་ལམ་བསྟན་པ། · dge ba bcu'i las kyi lam bstan pa/
Daśakuśalakarmapathanirdeśa
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- Buddhākaravarman
- bod kyi lo tsa ba dge slong chos kyi shes rab
Toh 4177 Translation not Started
Alleviating Sorrow
མྱ་ངན་བསལ་བ། · mya ngan bsal ba/
Śokavinodana
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- zhu chen gyi lo tsa ba dge slong shakya 'od
- Ajitaśrībhadra
Toh 4178 Translation not Started
A Teaching on the Path of the Ten Non-Virtues
མི་དགེ་བ་བཅུའི་ལས་ཀྱི་ལམ་བསྟན་པ། · mi dge ba bcu'i las kyi lam bstan pa/
Daśākuśalakarmapathanirdeśa
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- zhu chen gyi lo tsa ba dge slong shakya 'od
- Ajitaśrībhadra
Toh 4179 Translation not Started
Verses [From the Sūtra] of the Application of Mindfulness of the Sacred Dharma
དམ་པའི་ཆོས་དྲན་པ་ཉེ་བར་གཞག་པའི་ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ། · dam pa'i chos dran pa nye bar gzhag pa'i tshig le'ur byas pa/
Saddharmasmṛtyupasthānakārikā
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- zhu chen gyi lo tsa ba gtsang de ben tra rak+sita
- Dharmākara
Toh 4180 Translation not Started
A Teaching on Observed Objects [endowed] with the Five Qualities of Desire
འདོད་པའི་ཡོན་ཏན་ལྔའི་ཉེས་དམིགས་བཤད་པ། · 'dod pa'i yon tan lnga'i nyes dmigs bshad pa/
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- Dharmaśrībhadra
- zhu chen gyi lo tsa ba rin chen bzang po
Toh 4181 Translation not Started
A Letter Sent to the Monk Prakāśakumāra From Ārya Avalokiteśvara
འཕགས་པ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་གིས། དགེ་སློང་རབ་གསལ་གཞོན་ནུ་ལ་སྤྲིངས་པའི་ཕྲིན་ཡིག · 'phags pa spyan ras gzigs dbang phyug gis/_dge slong rab gsal gzhon nu la springs pa'i phrin yig
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- lo tsA ba ban de dpal brtsegs
- Sarvajñādeva
Toh 4182 Translation not Started
Letter to a Friend
བཤེས་པའི་སྤྲིང་ཡིག · bshes pa'i spring yig
Suhṛllekha
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- zhu chen gyi lo tsa ba ban da dpal brtsegs
- Sarvajñādeva
Toh 4183 Translation not Started
Letter of a Message to a Student
སློབ་མ་ལ་སྤྲིངས་པའི་སྤྲིང་ཡིག · slob ma la springs pa'i spring yig
Śiṣyalekha
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- zhu chen gyi lo tsa ba ban de dpal brtsegs rak+si ta
- Sarvajñādeva
Toh 4184 Translation not Started
Letter to the Great King Kaniṣka
རྒྱལ་པོ་ཆེན་པོ་ཀ་ནིས་ཀ་ལ་སྤྲིངས་པའི་སྤྲིང་ཡིག · rgyal po chen po ka nis ka la springs pa'i spring yig
Mahārājakaniṣkalekha
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- Vidyākaraprabha
- zhu chen gyi lo tsa ba ban de rin chen mchog
Revision:
- A tsAr+ya dpal brtsegs
Toh 4185 Translation not Started
Letter called “The Graded Path Toward the Purification of the Precious Mind”
སེམས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་རྣམ་པར་སྦྱང་བའི་རིམ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་སྤྲིང་ཡིག · sems rin po che rnam par sbyang ba'i rim pa zhes bya ba'i spring yig
Cittaratnaviśodhanakramanāmalekha
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- Ācārya Dulopa
- lo tsa ba dge slong chos kyi shes rab
Toh 4186 Translation not Started
Letter to a Spiritual Teacher
བླ་མ་ལ་སྤྲིང་བ། · bla ma la spring ba/
Gurulekha
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- Vinayacandra
- bod kyi lo tsa ba dge slong chos kyi shes rab
Toh 4187 Translation not Started
Letter to a Son
བུ་ལ་སྤྲིང་བ། · bu la spring ba/
Putralekha
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- Mahājana
- bod kyi lo tsa ba mar ba chos kyi dbang phyug
Toh 4188 Translation not Started
The Letter [Like a] Spotless Jewel
དྲི་མ་མེད་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་སྤྲིང་ཡིག · dri ma med pa rin po che'i spring yig
Vimalaratnalekha
Summary
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Title variants
- དྲི་མ་མེད་པ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་སྤྲིང་ཡིག་ཅེས་བྱ་བ།
- dri ma med pa rin po che'i spring yig ces bya ba/
- Vimalaratnalekhanāma
Tibetan translation:
- Atīśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna
- lo tsa ba dge slong tshul khrims rgyal ba
Toh 4189 Translation not Started
A Letter to King Candra
རྒྱལ་པོ་ཟླ་བ་ལ་སྤྲིངས་པའི་སྤྲིང་ཡིག · rgyal po zla ba la springs pa'i spring yig
Candrarājalekha
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- bod kyi lo chung gnubs tshul khrims shes rab
- Mitrayogin
Toh 4190 Translation not Started
An Extensive Explanation of the “Letter to a Friend” called “Clear Words”
བཤེས་པའི་སྤྲིང་ཡིག་གི་རྒྱ་ཆེར་བཤད་པ་ཚིག་གསལ་བ། · bshes pa'i spring yig gi rgya cher bshad pa tshig gsal ba/
Vyaktapadāsuhṛllekhaṭīkā
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- zhu chen gyi lo tsa ba ban+de dpal brtsegs
- Sarvajñādeva
Toh 4191 Translation not Started
A Commentary on the Difficult Points of the “Letter of a Message to a Student”
སློབ་མ་ལ་སྤྲིང་པའི་ཕྲིན་ཡིག་དཀའ་འགྲེལ། · slob ma la spring pa'i phrin yig dka' 'grel/
Śiṣyalekhaṭippaṇa
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- Sugataśrīmitra
- lo tsa ba dge slong tshul khrims rgyal mtshan
Toh 4192 Translation not Started
A Running Commentary on the “[Letter of a] Message to a Student”
སློབ་མ་ལ་སྤྲིང་པའི་འགྲེལ་པ། · slob ma la spring pa'i 'grel pa/
Śiṣyalekhavṛtti
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- Vinayacandra
- bod kyi lo tsa ba dge slong chos kyi shes rab
Toh 4193 Translation not Started
A Teaching on the Eight Different Kinds of Suffering for the Brāhmaṇi Dakṣiṇāmbāya
ལྷོ་ཟ་མོ་ཚངས་དབྱངས་ལ་སྡུག་བསྔལ་གྱི་བྱེ་བྲག་བསྟན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ། · lho za mo tshangs dbyangs la sdug bsngal gyi bye brag bstan pa zhes bya ba/
Toh 4194 Translation not Started
A Letter to the Tibetan Ruler, People, and Monastics
བོད་རྗེ་འབངས་དང་བཙུན་རྣམས་ལ་སྤྲིང་ཡིག · bod rje 'bangs dang btsun rnams la spring yig
Toh 4195 Translation not Started
The Lamp Producing Faith
དད་སྐྱེད་སྒྲོན་མ། · dad skyed sgron ma/
Toh 4196 Translation not Started
The Garland of Examples
དཔེའི་ཕྲེང་བ། · dpe'i phreng ba/
Dṛṣṭāntamālya
Summary
No summary is currently available.
Tibetan translation:
- lo tsA ba ban de tshul khrims yon tan
- Dharmaśrībhadra
Revision:
- dge slong rin chen bzang po
Toh 4197 Translation not Started
A Monograph on Subduing Nāgas From the Perspective of an Absence of Suffering
མྱ་ངན་མེད་པའི་སྒོ་ནས་ཀླུ་བཏུལ་བའི་ལེའུ། · mya ngan med pa'i sgo nas klu btul ba'i le'u/
Aśokamukhanāgavinayapariccheda
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- dge slong shAkya 'od
- Ajitaśrībhadra
Toh 4198 Translation not Started
Inviting the Saṅgha
དགེ་འདུན་སྤྱན་དྲང་བ། · dge 'dun spyan drang ba/
Saṃghāmantraṇa
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- zha lu lo tsA ba
Toh 4199 Translation not Started
Inviting the Sthavīra Elders
གནས་བརྟེན་སྤྱན་དྲང་བ། · gnas brten spyan drang ba/
Sthaviropanimantraṇa
Toh 4200 Translation not Started
The Hierarchs of the Teachings
བསྟན་པའི་གཏད་རབས། · bstan pa'i gtad rabs/
Summary
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Tibetan translation:
- 'gos lo tsA ba gzhon nu dpal
Toh 4201 Translation not Started
The Prophecy of the Arhat Saṅghavardhana
དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ་དགེ་འདུན་འཕེལ་གྱིས་ལུང་བསྟན་པ། · dgra bcom pa dge 'dun 'phel gyis lung bstan pa/
Toh 4202 Translation not Started
The Prophecy Concerning Khotan
ལིའི་ཡུལ་ལུང་བསྟན་པ། · li'i yul lung bstan pa/
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