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'''Collection of Advice''' ([[Wyl.]] ''gtam tshogs'') — one of the main categories of [[Nagarjuna]]'s writings. | '''Collection of Advice''' (Tib. གཏམ་ཚོགས་, [[Wyl.]] ''gtam tshogs'') — one of the main categories of [[Nagarjuna]]'s writings. | ||
This collection refers to texts by Nagarjuna in which he provides advice to householders and the ordained on how to follow the Buddhist path. These instructions are likened to Buddha's first turning of the Wheel of Dharma. | This collection refers to texts by Nagarjuna in which he provides advice to householders and the ordained on how to follow the Buddhist path. These instructions are likened to Buddha's first turning of the Wheel of Dharma. | ||
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*[[Precious Garland]] -- advice on how to conduct one's life and how to construct social policies that reflect Buddhist ideals. | *[[Precious Garland]] -- advice on how to conduct one's life and how to construct social policies that reflect Buddhist ideals. | ||
*[[Letter to a Friend]] -- a concise and comprehensive introduction to the entire path and practice of Buddhism. | *[[Letter to a Friend]] -- a concise and comprehensive introduction to the entire path and practice of Buddhism. | ||
*[[Tree of Wisdom]] -- commentary of manners or moral maxim. | *[[Tree of Wisdom]] -- commentary of manners or moral maxim. | ||
*[[A Hundred Wisdoms]] | *[[A Hundred Wisdoms]] | ||
*[[Drops for Healing Beings]] | *[[Drops for Healing Beings]] | ||
*[[Commentary on Bodhichitta]] (Skt. Bodhicitta-vivarana; Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་བ་, Wyl. ''byang chub sems kyi ‘grel ba'') | |||
*[[Commentary on Bodhichitta]] (Skt. Bodhicitta-vivarana; Wyl. ''byang chub sems kyi ‘grel ba'') | *[[Sutrasamucchaya|Anthology or Compendium of Sutras]] (Skt. Sutrasamuccaya; Tib. མདོ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ་, Wyl. ''mdo kun las btus pa'') | ||
*[[Sutrasamucchaya|Anthology or Compendium of Sutras]] (Skt. Sutrasamuccaya; Wyl. ''mdo kun las btus pa'') | |||
===Other Collections=== | ===Other Collections=== | ||
*[[Collection of Middle Way Reasoning]] | *[[Collection of Middle Way Reasoning]] | ||
*[[Collection of Praises]] | *[[Collection of Praises]] | ||
Revision as of 16:17, 22 November 2011
Collection of Advice (Tib. གཏམ་ཚོགས་, Wyl. gtam tshogs) — one of the main categories of Nagarjuna's writings.
This collection refers to texts by Nagarjuna in which he provides advice to householders and the ordained on how to follow the Buddhist path. These instructions are likened to Buddha's first turning of the Wheel of Dharma.
The Texts
The texts in this collection include:
- Precious Garland -- advice on how to conduct one's life and how to construct social policies that reflect Buddhist ideals.
- Letter to a Friend -- a concise and comprehensive introduction to the entire path and practice of Buddhism.
- Tree of Wisdom -- commentary of manners or moral maxim.
- A Hundred Wisdoms
- Drops for Healing Beings
- Commentary on Bodhichitta (Skt. Bodhicitta-vivarana; Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་བ་, Wyl. byang chub sems kyi ‘grel ba)
- Anthology or Compendium of Sutras (Skt. Sutrasamuccaya; Tib. མདོ་ཀུན་ལས་བཏུས་པ་, Wyl. mdo kun las btus pa)