Scholasticism Series
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བོད་ཡིག (4)
Drepung Monastery
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Knowledge is as infinite as the stars in the sky;
There is no end to all the subjects one might study.
It is better to grasp straight away their very essence—
The unchanging fortress of the dharmakāya.
Texts on the subject of scholasticism, including warnings of the limitations of intellectual understanding:
Advice
Prayers
His Holiness himself identified seventeen of the most paṇḍitas associated with Nālandā Monastery (Nāgārjuna, Āryadeva, Buddhapālita, Bhāvaviveka, Candrakīrti, Śāntideva, Śāntarakṣita, Kamalaśīla, Asaṅga, Vasubandhu, Dignāga, Dharmakīrti, Ārya Vimuktisena, Haribhadra, Guṇaprabha, Śākyaprabha and Atiśa) and commissioned a thangka (scroll painting) depicting them. He then composed this prayer to accompany the image in 2001.
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