Contents: Complete Nyingma Tradition From Sutra to Tantra: Books 1 to 10 Foundations of the Buddhist Path |
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Preface to the 1986 Tibetan Publication of the Root Text and Outline, by Nor-drang Orgyan |
ix |
A Biography of the Author, Choying Tobden Dorje, by Golok Nor-de |
xiii |
Foreword to the English Translation, by Hungchen Chenagtsang |
xxiii |
In Memoriam, by Zenkar Rinpoche Tubten Nyima |
xxxi |
Translator's Introduction |
xxxiii |
The Extensive Commentary: Books 1 to 10 |
1 |
The Introduction |
3 |
The Main Text-A Brief Presentation |
25 |
Book 1: Discipleship |
45 |
1. The Characteristics of Qualified Spiritual Masters |
47 |
2. The Characteristics of Worthy Disciples |
55 |
3. The Stages of Spiritual Apprenticeship |
58 |
4. Forsaking Misleading Companions |
71 |
Book 2: Transmission of Buddhism |
81 |
1. How Buddhism Is Taught |
82 |
2. How to Listen to Buddhist Teaching |
111 |
3. The Six Styles of Faith, the Foundation of the Sacred Buddhist Doctrine |
119 |
Book 3: Our Precious Human Life |
131 |
1. The Difficulty of Attaining a Free and Fully Endowed Human Life |
132 |
2. The Difficulty of Finding Such a Life, Based on Examples and Numbers |
139 |
3. The Nature of the Leisure and Endowments of Human Life |
141 |
4. The Need to Fully Grasp the Essence of Human Life Now That You Have It |
144 |
Book 4: Reflection on Death and Impermanence |
153 |
1. Impermanence, Briefly |
154 |
2. Impermanence, in Detail |
155 |
3. Examples to Illustrate Impermanence |
160 |
4. Advice to Be Diligent Because of Impermanence |
165 |
5. Signs of Success in Meditation on Impermanence, and Its Benefits |
167 |
Book 5: The Workings of Karma |
171 |
1. The Nature of Action, Karma, and Consequences |
172 |
2. Corrupting Acts and Their Consequences |
173 |
3. Ennobling Acts Consistent with Goodness and Their Consequences |
181 |
4. Acts Consistent with Freedom and Their Consequences |
186 |
Book 6: The Flaws of the Round of Rebirth |
189 |
1. The Suffering from Heat and Cold in the Hells |
190 |
2. The Suffering from Hunger and Thirst among Starving Spirits |
206 |
3. The Suffering among Beasts of Burden |
209 |
4. The Suffering from Birth, Aging, Sickness, and Death among Humans |
211 |
5. The Suffering from Conflict among Demigods |
216 |
6. The Suffering from Death and Falling among Gods |
217 |
Book 7: Taking Refuge and the Lesser Way |
223 |
1. How to Take Refuge, the Foundation for All Vows |
224 |
2. How to Keep the Seven Kinds of Individual Liberation Vows |
242 |
3. The Foundation, Paths, and Results of the Hearers' Way |
291 |
4. The Foundation, Paths, and Results of the Solitary Sages' Way |
305 |
Book 8: The Foundation of the Middle Way |
315 |
1. The Doctrine's Final Cycle, and an Explanation of Ultimate Truth and Relative Truth |
317 |
2. The Doctrine's Middle Cycle, the Buddha's Past Lives, and Mental Training by Means of the Four Immeasurable Aspirations |
354 |
3. The Actual Uplifting of the Mind to Sublime Awakening |
389 |
Book 9: The Path of the Middle Way |
411 |
1. Bodhisattva's Training-the Three Kinds of Ethical Conduct |
414 |
2. The Six Transcendent Perfections |
443 |
3. The Thirty-Seven Facets and Ten Stages of Awakening on the Four Paths of Training |
501 |
Book 10: The Result of the Middle Way |
529 |
1. The Support and Nature of the Path of No Further Training |
530 |
2. The Path of No Further Training |
531 |
3. The Special Characteristics of the Path of No Further Training |
564 |
The Root Verses: Books 1 to 10 |
571 |
The Outline: Books 1 to 10 |
649 |
The Concise Commentary: Books 1 to 10 |
681 |
The Golden Key to the Contents: Books 1 to 25 |
785 |
Author and Translator's Afterword |
797 |
Notes |
845 |
Works Cited by the Author |
849 |
Index |
855 |