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The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment

Tsongkhapa Losang Drakpa
1402 (Tibetan) · Classical Tibetan
Tibetan Buddhist lamrim manual · Tibetan Gelug Buddhism

Tsongkhapa's 1402 great treatise on the stages of the path to enlightenment

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Attribute The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Mid)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Relational
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Relational
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Relational
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Multiple
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Both
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Non-Theistic
Observer · Moral Authority Tradition
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Relational
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Relational
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment

The graduated stages of the path.

Space

The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment

The cosmological space of the six realms.

Matter

The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment

The graduated body of the practitioner.

Observer

The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment

The stage-by-stage progressing meditator.

Energy

The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment

Energies of method and wisdom.

Information

The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment

The graduated stages of the path.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment

Tsongkhapa's Lamrim Chenmo: foundational text of Gelug Tibetan Buddhism; one of the most important systematic Buddhist texts overall.