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Nicholas Weeks
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Je Tsongkhapa has a commentary on Asanga's Ethics Chapter that Tatz has translated. If anyone competent in Tibetan has the inclination, would you please re-translate these verses from Je Rinpoche's conclusion:
[Concluding Verses]
To achieve buddhahood one enters the Greater Vehicle:
This must be a set rule for all efforts.
The basics of this path are resolve and implementation:
Take them on and affirm them accordingly.

To say, as some do, though not training as bodhisattvas,
That they yet have a path to the omniscient state,
(98b) Though not proposed by the buddhas, their sons, or the learned,
That the vajra vehicle and that of the perfections
Differ in prohibitions and in their injunctions
Is the height of folly, merely a flight of fancy:
The basics of the general Greater Vehicle,
The good and stainless path, for these unlucky ones disappears.

If you set about to enter the vajra vehicle,
First create the thought of awakening and take the vow,
Which are the topics of the immaculate scriptures
As explained by Maitreya, Nagarjuna, and Asanga;
Take on the practice of six perfections as the basis,
And then the path of Vajrayana in addition.
That is the best-vehicle path that is not deficient;
Others only delight those who are foolish.
May all seek, find & follow the Path of Buddhas.
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The Ethics Chapter of what text, may I ask? The Yogacarabhumi sastra?

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Huifeng wrote:The Ethics Chapter of what text, may I ask? The Yogacarabhumi sastra?

~~ Huifeng
Right, the Bodhisattvabhumi sub-section. Je Tsongkhapa's commentary on about 30 pages of Asanga's work is titled Basic Path to Awakening according to Mark Tatz.

Was Je Tsongkhapa's text translated into Chinese from the Tibetan?
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My mistake, I was thinking that the quoted passages were entirely from the Yogacarabhumi. I thought that tracking down the Sanskrit or Chinese could be possible. I am not sure if the Tibetan text has been translated into Chinese or not.

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