What is sems tsam, 'i in Tibetan reference

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What is sems tsam, 'i in Tibetan reference

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Dear Dharma friends,

Could you explain what is sems tsam, 'i when referring to a Tibetan text in an article or book? Does it mean: leaf/folio, number?

Thanks
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thomaslaw wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 2:02 am Dear Dharma friends,

Could you explain what is sems tsam, 'i when referring to a Tibetan text in an article or book? Does it mean: leaf/folio, number?

Thanks
I thought sems meant mind

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thomaslaw wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 2:02 am Dear Dharma friends,

Could you explain what is sems tsam, 'i when referring to a Tibetan text in an article or book? Does it mean: leaf/folio, number?

Thanks
It refers to the cittamatra section of the translations of Indian commentaries in the Tibetan canon.
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Thanks.

It seems this is about a name of a text, which the full indication is: P 5540, sems tsam, 'i

P is Peking edition (Otani), followed by the text number 5540, and then the name of the text (sems tsam, 'i = cittamatra ?)

Is this correct?
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thomaslaw wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 4:11 am Thanks.

It seems this is about a name of a text, which the full indication is: P 5540, sems tsam, 'i

P is Peking edition (Otani), followed by the text number 5540, and then the name of the text (sems tsam, 'i = cittamatra ?)

Is this correct?
"sems tsam" is the "Cittamatra" section of the bKa' 'gyur.
"'i" is the volume letter in the Tibetan alphabetic system of marking volumes in a multi-volume edition. In this case, it refers to volume 111 in the Peking edition of the bKa' 'gyur.
P 5540 is the reference number of the text in the Otani catalogue of the Peking edition of the bKa' 'gyur.

In this case, the reference is to རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པའི་ས་ལས་གཞི་བསྡུ་, or yogācārabhūmau vastusaṁgrahaṇī: https://web1.otani.ac.jp/cri/twrpe/peki ... &re_num=-1
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ratna wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 7:56 am
thomaslaw wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 4:11 am Thanks.

It seems this is about a name of a text, which the full indication is: P 5540, sems tsam, 'i

P is Peking edition (Otani), followed by the text number 5540, and then the name of the text (sems tsam, 'i = cittamatra ?)

Is this correct?
"sems tsam" is the "Cittamatra" section of the bKa' 'gyur.
"'i" is the volume letter in the Tibetan alphabetic system of marking volumes in a multi-volume edition. In this case, it refers to volume 111 in the Peking edition of the bKa' 'gyur.
P 5540 is the reference number of the text in the Otani catalogue of the Peking edition of the bKa' 'gyur.

In this case, the reference is to རྣལ་འབྱོར་སྤྱོད་པའི་ས་ལས་གཞི་བསྡུ་, or yogācārabhūmau vastusaṁgrahaṇī: https://web1.otani.ac.jp/cri/twrpe/peki ... &re_num=-1
Thank you very much indeed, Ratna. :namaste:
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