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'''Merit tending to happiness''' (Tib. བསོད་ནམས་ཆ་མཐུན་ , [[Wyl.]] ''bsod  nams cha mthun'') means [[virtue|virtuous actions]] performed in conjunction with a belief in the real existence of the self, both of persons and phenomena. Such actions are productive of happiness in [[samsara]] but do not lead beyond it. They are therefore to be contrasted with "[[Merit tending to liberation|virtuous actions tending to liberation]]", which produce liberation from samsara.<ref>[[Khenpo Yönga|Yönten Gyamtso]]: Vol. 1 of the Great Commentary on the ''[[Yönten Dzö|Treasury of Precious Qualities]]''.</ref>
'''Merit tending to happiness''' (Tib. བསོད་ནམས་ཆ་མཐུན་, ''sönam chatün''; [[Wyl.]] ''bsod  nams cha mthun'') means [[virtue|virtuous actions]] performed in conjunction with a belief in the real existence of the self, both of persons and phenomena. Such actions are productive of happiness in [[samsara]] but do not lead beyond it. They are therefore to be contrasted with "[[Merit tending to liberation|virtuous actions tending to liberation]]", which produce liberation from samsara.<ref>[[Khenpo Yönga|Yönten Gyamtso]]: Vol. 1 of the Great Commentary on the ''[[Yönten Dzö|Treasury of Precious Qualities]]''.</ref>


==Alternative translations==
==Alternative translations==

Revision as of 09:19, 26 January 2018

Merit tending to happiness (Tib. བསོད་ནམས་ཆ་མཐུན་, sönam chatün; Wyl. bsod nams cha mthun) means virtuous actions performed in conjunction with a belief in the real existence of the self, both of persons and phenomena. Such actions are productive of happiness in samsara but do not lead beyond it. They are therefore to be contrasted with "virtuous actions tending to liberation", which produce liberation from samsara.[1]

Alternative translations

References

  1. Yönten Gyamtso: Vol. 1 of the Great Commentary on the Treasury of Precious Qualities.

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