By Tony Duff
The Sutra of the Recollection of the Noble 3 Jewels is a compilation of the Buddha's teachings referred to as "the recollections". The reminiscences are familiar all through all Buddhist traditions as a fashion of remembering the 3 Jewels and deepening religion in them. This publication is a very whole choice of every little thing had to research, perform, or even translate the Sutra.
The booklet starts off with 3 chapters of creation which clarify: the origins of the Sutra; the numerous translation concerns raised via the Sutra; and the way to check and guidance the Sutra. those chapters comprise a wealth of fabric amassed and organized in a single position by means of the writer after years of research of the Sutra. They comprise whatever for everybody. There are discussions of religion and the way to arouse it utilizing the Sutra. There are wide discussions of translation that are a must-read for an individual doing translation paintings from Tibetan Buddhist texts; they conceal very important problems with translation that experience now not been visible in print thus far. Then there's useful information on the way to learn and comprehend the Sutra. there's additionally a piece on how you can entry the magic of primary truth utilizing the Sutra.
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Although the meaning of the original Indian texts was generally very well represented in the Tibetan translations, and sometimes perfectly so, the translation work did have its problems and was, when you look at the details, not perfect. The problems were documented by order of the king at the time for the sake of people like ourselves who, in the future, might need to know about these things. They were documented in a text called The Second Tome on Grammatical Composition and the text was preserved in the Various section of the Tibetan Translated Treatises (its title meaning that is was a second treatise on language coming after Thumi’s original set of treatises that gave form to Tibetan language).
He went to India and studied Indian languages extensively, then returned to Tibet where he created a form for the already-existing, spoken Tibetan language. In doing so, he retained the Tibetan spoken language but gave it a form that allowed Indian Buddhist texts, written in Sanskrit and its variations, to be translated into Tibetan language to a remarkable degree of accuracy12. Contrary to popular belief, he did not make the Tibetan language into a carbon copy of Sanskrit and, as a result, many problems were encountered during the task of translating Indian Buddhist texts into Tibetan language.
The Buddha’s teachings on the meaning of the Three Jewels are important to the topic of taking refuge. One way to get a feel for them is to look at the listings made in Indian Buddhist literature in which the qualities of the Three Jewels are explained to be equivalent to six qualities of jewels. 1) The Three Jewels are “byung bar dkon pa ‹› rare in occurrence” because they are only discovered when beings have accumulated sufficient merit to meet with them, which is similar to jewels being very rare and difficult to find.