ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྡོམ་བཞི་

OT

[828] lta ba bkar btags kyi phyag rgya bzhi ste/ 'dus byas thams cad mi rtag pa/ zag bcas thams cad sdug bsngal ba/ chos thams cad stong zhing bdag med pa/ mya ngan las 'das pa zhi ba ste bzhi'o/ ...

JV

four aphorisms

IW

lta ba bkar btags kyi four seals ཕྱག་རྒྱ་བཞི་, the four summaries of the dharma, four dharma emblems [= {ཆོས་རྟགས་ཀྱི་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་བཞི་}, {'du byas thams cad mi rtag pa}, = all conditioned things are impermanent {zag bcas thams cad sdug bsngal}, = everything that deteriorates is suffering {mya ngan las 'das pa ni zhi ba}, = nirvana is peace {chos thams cad stong zhing bdag med pa'o}, = all things are selfless and open the four seals, = {phyag rgya bzhi};

RY

The Four Summaries of the Dharma, the four dharma emblems. Syn {chos rtags kyi phyag rgya bzhi}. the four seals. Syn {ཕྱག་རྒྱ་བཞི་}. The four main principles of Buddhism. These four main principles marking a doctrine as Buddhist are: 

1) {འདུ་བྱས་ཐམས་ཅད་མི་རྟག་མི་རྟག་པ་}, All conditioned/compounded things are impermanent; 

2) {ཟག་བཅས་ཐམས་ཅད་སྡུག་བསྔལ་}, all defiling things (defiled with ego-clinging) are suffering; 

3) {ཆོས་ཐམས་ཅད་སྟོང་ཞིང་བདག་མེད་པའོ་}, all phenomena are empty and devoid of a self-entity / identityless. 

4) {མྱ་ངན་ལས་འདས་པ་ནི་ཞི་བ་}, nirvana is peace