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Texts on the subject of scholasticism, including warnings of the limitations of intellectual understanding:

Advice

  • On the Ignorance of the Learned by Dodrupchen Jigme Tenpe Nyima

A candid, somewhat comical description of what it means to take a limited and superficial approach to scholarship, which Jigme Tenpe Nyima tells us is based on his own experience.

Rituals

  • An Appeal for the Prosperity of Teaching and Studying the Five Major Scriptures by Pari Lobzang Rabsal

Adapted from Könchok Tenpe Drönme's "The Summoning Hook of Wish-Fulfilment: An Appeal for Prosperity", this is a rite to summon the conditions for teaching and studying the five major texts (bka' pod lnga) of Gelug scholasticism.

Songs and Poems

  • Many Are the Scholars Who Travel Empty-Handed to the Realm of the Dead by Khenpo Chime Rigdzin

A poem warning monk-scholars of the risk of pursuing the path of intellectual study alone at the expense of the kind of deeper practice that brings genuine attainment.

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