Based on Atisha's Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment
The concise teaching presented here begins with a discussion of love, compassion, and immeasurable love and compassion, or bodhichitta. Rinpoche introduces the reader to methods from the Buddhist tradition for cultivating bodhichitta. Here Rinpoche distills the essence of Atisha's Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, which is in itself a concise teaching. Finally Rinpoche describes the Bodhisattva Vow and its role on the Buddhist path. A modern translation of the root text, A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, is included.
The Indian scholar and saint Atisha reintroduced pure Buddhism into Tibet in the eleventh century. His Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment sets forth the entire Buddhist path within the framework of three levels of motivation and is thus the source of the graduated approach to spiritual practice of all four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Cultivating True Compassion Bodhicitta and the Bodhisattva Vow, Thrangu Rinpoche, Paperback, 75 pp, 2014, $9.00
Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche is a renowned Tibetan Buddhist master known for his deep compassion and the clarity of his teachings. He was selected by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to serve as the principal tutor to His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje.
Thrangu Rinpoche is a full holder and teacher of the Kagyu Vajrayana lineages. He founded the Namo Buddha retreat center in Nepal, has established two shedras (monastic universities) in Nepal and India, and serves as Abbot of Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia. He also built Tara Abbey, where nuns receive a full dharma education qualifying them to become khenpos or teachers. Thrangu Rinpoche teaches extensively throughout Asia, Europe and the United States. He has centers in Maine and California, and is building the Vajra Vidya Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado.
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CONTENTS: Cultivating True Compassion Bodhicitta and the Bodhisattva Vow
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Developing Love and Compassion
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1
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Cultivating Bodhichitta
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15
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The Training in Bodhichitta
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31
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The Bodhisattva Vow
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45
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Appendix A: The Root Text
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55
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Glossary
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67
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Bibliography
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73
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