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In general, there are '''four kinds of [[treatise]]''' (Tib. བསྟན་བཅོས་བཞི་, ''tenchö shyi'', [[Wyl.]] ''bstan bcos bzhi'') : 
# a treatise that imposes order on what appears disorganized (Tib. འཁྲུགས་པ་བསྡེབ་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་, Wyl. '''khrugs pa bsdeb pa'i bstan bcos ''); 
# a treatise that elucidates difficult points (Tib. གབ་པ་འབྱིན་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་, Wyl. ''gab pa 'byin pa'i bstan bcos'' ); 
# a treatise that brings together scattered elements (Tib. འཐོར་བ་སྡུད་པའི་བསྟན་བཅོས་, Wyl. '''thor ba sdud pa'i bstan bcos ''); and 
# a treatise that is composed with a view to practice (Tib. སྒྲུབ་པ་ཉམས་ལེན་གྱི་བསྟན་བཅོས་, Wyl. ''sgrub pa nyams len gyi bstan bcos '')<ref>[[ Khenpo Kunzang Palden|Khenpo Kunpal]],
 [[Drops of Nectar |''The Nectar of Manjushri’s Speech'']], a Detailed Commentary on [[Shantideva]]’s [[Bodhicharyavatara|''Way of the Bodhisattva'']], p.35/36, Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group, published by Shambhala, ISBN 978-1-59030-439-6.</ref>

==References==
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==Further Reading==
For a more elaborate classification see: 
*Appendix 2 in ''Wisdom Nectar: [[Dudjom Rinpoche]]’s Heart Advice'', pp. 354-364, The Tsadra Foundation Series, ISBN 10 1-55939-224-X, and: 
*Dudjom Rinpoche, ''The [[Nyingma]] School of Tibetan Buddhism'', Wisdom Publications, pp.88-109, ISBN 0-86171-199-9.  

==Internal Link==
*[[Teachings on 'Nectar of Manjushri's Speech' (MP3), an Overview]]

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