- gol sa/
- ID:
- T45076
- གོལ་ས (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
- > gol sa/ (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
Places where one goes astray from a path, or gets sidetracked. This is often used in reference to the various metaphorical “paths” in Buddhism, and refers to views or misunderstandings that cause one to accidentally get off the path, and stray down a side route.
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- English
- Author:
- Chris Hatchell
David Higgins Lexicon of Tibetan Buddhist Topics and Terminology
- is part of the compound
- gol sgrib/
- is a partial synonym of
- 'khrul pa/
Passages
Passage
gol sa nyi shu rtsa gsum la/ bcu phrag dang po ni/ [229]
(1) byang chub kyi snying po'i gol sa gsum/
(2) bsam gtan gyi gol sa gsum ste drug/ [231]
(3) chos nyid lam gyi gol sa bzhi ste bcu/ [234]
bcu phrag gnyis pa la/
(4) ye shes chen po bde ba'i rnam pa la chags pa'i gol sa gcig
(5) re smon gyi mtha' la gnas pa'i gol sa gnyis te/ gsum [240]
(6) lung gi gol sa gsum ste drug/ [241]
(7) rgyu'i gol sa gcig ste bdun/ [243]
(8) ting 'dzin thob pa 'bras bu'i gol sa gsum ste bcu'o/
chos kyi gol sa gsum la/
(9) chos la chos mi 'byung ba dang/
(10) chos la chos mi ltos pa dang/
(11) chos kyis chos mi rtogs pa gsum/
Note
The following is the outline of Rong zom pa's elaboration on 23 spiritual pitfalls. (Introduction to the topic is on 206.3)
by David Higgins
Passage
17 med pas bslus pa'i byis pa ri dwags bzhin [19a]
smig rgyu'i chu la skoms pas snyeg par byed
tha snyad 'khrul pa'i tshig la don re bas
so so'i grub mtha' chos kyis bdag tu bcings
rim brgyad blo yi gol sa ma chod pas
don gyi snying po rnal ma mthong ba med
Note
According to Rdzogs chen thought (as articulated in this poetic text by Klong chen pa), the pitfalls are generally associated with intellectual frameworks and hence apply only to the lower eight yānas but not to Rdzogs chen.
by David Higgins
passage translation (English)
The three pitfalls are as follows: when there is addiction to bliss, one falls into the realm of desires. When there is a grasping for lucency and the compulsion to subjectivize it, one falls into the realm of aesthetic forms. When one makes non dividedness into an intellectual construct and is thus not free from the intellect, one falls into the realm of formlessness.
Note
In general, 'Ba' ra ba says that "Anything you try to establish with the belief that it must be the definitive answer is a pitfall" [224]. In this passage, 'Ba' ra ba [279] discusses three pitfalls pertaining to the three realms. This follows Yang dgon pa.
by David Higgins
, (118b).
passage translation (English)
Arising, abiding, freeing, in these three, arising and freeing flow uninterruptedly.
There being no interruption, the gap between cause and effect is cut off.
There being no cause and effect, the abyss of saṃsāra is cut off.
There being no abyss, where could there be any pitfall?
Note
Klong chen pa indicates that the idea of a place one falls is only an intellectual construct, linked with static notions of cause and effect and perdurance. In Rdzogs chen thinking, pitfalls are generally associated with intellectual systems which characterize the lower eight yānas (but not Rdzogs chen). See the entry from Gnas lugs mdzod kyi 'grel pa {116501:19a}.
by David Higgins
Other Dictionaries
1. Jeffrey Hopkins Dictionary
Hopkins' Translations: place where one can go wrong; place of possible error; place of deviance
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2. Dan Martin Dictionary
turnoffs on the road to Enlightenment, side-tracks. = lam gol (Skt. unmārga), taking the wrong way. Perhaps = Skt. vivarta, to turn away, go astray. Or, utpatha or vipatha, wrong route.
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3. Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary
1) point/place of going astray, point at which one can go wrong, place of possible error, place of error. 2) deviation/s, straying, way of going astray, error, potential error, misdirection, misunderstanding, perversion. 3) a place to stray into, sidetrack, falling place 4) rampant confusion. See also ནོར་ས་, ཤོར་ས་, གོལ་ཤོར་
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4. Ives Waldo Dictionary
1) place of error or wrong path {gzhung lam bor nas, a place to stray /fall/ err /go astray/ go wrong; 2) cliff; 3) deviation, straying, error, misunderstanding, perversion, rampant confusion
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5. Jim Valby Dictionary
mistake, pitfall, misunderstandings, going astray, perversions, deviation (from the state of contemplation due to distractions), errors, strayings, sidetracks, deviations
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- English
6. Richard Barron Dictionary
pitfall; (point of) potential error/ misdirection/ going astray/ deviation; potential for error
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- English
7. bod rgya tshig mdzod chen mo
[376] 1༽ ནོར་སའམ་ལམ་ལོག་པ། ... གཞུང་ལམ་བོར་ནས་གོལ་སར་འཕྱན་པ། ... 2༽ གཡང་ས། ...
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8. dag yig gsar bsgrigs
- is related to
- gol/
འཆུག་སའི་མིང་སྟེ། ལམ་གོལ་སར་བློ་སྒྲིམས་ཤིག་ཅེས་པ་ལྟ་བུ།
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- Tibetan
9. dung dkar bod rig pa'i tshig mdzod chen mo
འདྲ་པོ་སྟེ་ངོ་མར་ནོར་འཁྲུལ་ཡོང་སའི་གཞི་དེ་ལ་གོལ་ས་ཟེར།
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- Tibetan
10. Thupten Phuntsok Dictionary
(１) ནོར་སའམ་ལམ་ལོག་པ། གཞུང་ལམ་བོར་ནས་གོལ་སར་འཕྱན་པ། (２) གཡང་ས།
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- Tibetan
11. smon lam tshig mdzod chen mo
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1.ནོར་སའམ་ལམ་ལོག་པ་སྟེ།
- Model Sentence
(དཔེར་ན།) གཞུང་ལམ་བོར་ནས་གོལ་སར་འཕྱན་པ་ཞེས་པ་ལྟ་བུ།
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- Tibetan
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2.གཡང་ས།
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- Tibetan
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gol sa/ has 3 other terms directly related to it, which are presented here.