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'''Ten dharmic activities''' (Tib. ཆོས་སྤྱོད་བཅུ་, ''chö chö chu'', [[Wyl.]] ''chos spyod bcu'') — ten activities related to the [[Dharma]], mentioned in [[Maitreya]]'s ''[[Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes]]'' (''Madhyantavibhanga''): | '''Ten dharmic activities''' (Tib. ཆོས་སྤྱོད་བཅུ་, ''chö chö chu'', [[Wyl.]] ''chos spyod bcu'') — ten activities related to the [[Dharma]], mentioned in [[Maitreya]]'s ''[[Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes]]'' (''Madhyantavibhanga''): | ||
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==Texts== | ==Texts== | ||
*[[Jigme Lingpa]], '''The Tree of Virtue: A Discourse on the Ten Dharmic Activities''' | *[[Jigme Lingpa]], '''The Tree of Virtue: A Discourse on the Ten Dharmic Activities''' | ||
Revision as of 08:00, 21 June 2021
Ten dharmic activities (Tib. ཆོས་སྤྱོད་བཅུ་, chö chö chu, Wyl. chos spyod bcu) — ten activities related to the Dharma, mentioned in Maitreya's Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes (Madhyantavibhanga):
ཡི་གེ་འབྲི་མཆོད་སྦྱིན་པ་དང༌། །
ཉན་དང་ཀློག་དང་ལེན་པ་དང༌། །
འཆད་དང་ཁ་དོན་བྱེད་པ་དང༌། །
དེ་སེམས་པ་དང་བསྒོམ་པའོ། །
སྤྱོད་པ་དེ་བཅུའི་བདག་ཉིད་ནི། །
Copying texts, making offerings, charity,
Study, reading, memorizing,
Explaining, reciting aloud,
Contemplating and meditating—
These ten activities
Bring merit beyond measure.
- Maitreya, Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes, chapter 5, verse 9
Texts
- Jigme Lingpa, The Tree of Virtue: A Discourse on the Ten Dharmic Activities