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Malcolm Smith

Malcolm Smith

American former American football player

Jul 20, 2026

3:21
Yeah.
3:22
So w- it's really more proper to call it the bodhichitta series, if you will, or division.
3:28
The de really means more like division than series anyway.
3:31
But some of these translations we're stuck with just because other translators have used these terms, and so we're just lazy, and so trying to, uh, sort of force people to use proper language just doesn't necessarily work.
3:44
So anyway, specifically, we have two important Sanskrit words, dhārmin and dharmatā.
3:53
These are well known to anybody who's studied any kind of Buddhist epistemology or Madhyamaka.
3:59
So, for example, when we're reading a text which has detailed arguments, you will always see the author will put down the dhārmin sound is the dharmatā impermanent because it is compounded.

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54:49
Yeah.

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