The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma represents meditation master Chgyam Trungpas greatest contribution to Western Buddhism. This three-volume collection presents in lively, relevant language the comprehensive teachings of the Tibetan Buddhist path of the hinayana, mahayana, and vajrayana. This work will resonate with new students of Buddhism as well as the most senior students.

The second volume, The Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion, presents the bodhisattva teachings of the mahayana. At this point, having trained and seen the benefits of looking within, the student begins to shift their focus outward to the broader world. Formal entry into the mahayana occurs with taking the bodhisattva vow. Mahayana practitioners dedicate themselves to the service of all sentient beings, aspiring to save them from sorrow and confusion, and vowing to bring them to perfect liberation. This stage of the path emphasizes the cultivation of wisdom through the view and experience of emptiness, or shunyata, in which all phenomena are seen to be unbounded, completely open, ungraspable, and profound. From the ground of shunyata, compassionate activity is said to arise naturally and spontaneously. In addition to mindfulness and awareness, the mahayanist practices lojong, or mind training, based on the cultivation of the paramitas, or transcendent virtues: generosity, discipline, patience, exertion, meditation, and prajna, or knowledge. As a component of lojong, tonglen, or sending and taking, is practiced in order to increase maitri, or loving-kindness. Other topics covered in detail in this volume include bodhichitta, skillful means, Buddha nature and basic goodness, Madhyamaka, the ten bhumis, the three kayas, and more.

Chogyam Trungpa ((1940-1987) - Buddhist meditation master, teacher, and artist - founded Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, the first Buddhist-inspired university in North America; the Shambhala Training program; and an international association of meditation centers known as Shambhala International. He is the author of numerous books, including Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, and The Myth of Freedom.

Contents: THE PROFOUND TREASURY OF THE OCEAN OF DHARMA VOLUME TWO: The Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion by Chogyam Trungpa
Editor's Introduction	ix
Pronunciation of Sanskrit and Tibetan	xv
PART ONE Awakening the Heart
1. A Glimpse of Wakefulness	3
2. Love, Vision, and Warriorship	12
3. Doubt and Delight	20
PART TWO Buddha Nature
4. Enlightened Genes	31
5. Basic Goodness	40
PART THREE Preparing the Ground
6. Cultivating Wholesomeness	51
7. Expanding Your Practice	54
8. Cutting Ego Fixation	60
9. Awakening Your Enlightened Genes	69
10. The Spiritual Friend	78
PART FOUR Making a Commitment
11. Indestructible Wakefulness	89
12. Planting the Moon of Bodhi in Your Heart	97
13. Cultivating a Mahayana Mentality	99
14. The Seven Mahayana Exercises	104
15. Taking the Bodhisattva Vow	107
16. Becoming a Bodhisattva	116
17. Joining Profundity and Vastness	121
PART FIVE Emptiness and Compassion
18. Emptiness	129
19. Discovering a World beyond Ego	134
20. Emptiness and the Middle Way	142
21. Realizing the Emptiness of Ordinary Reality	149
22. Experiencing Reality in Its Fullest Sense	159
23. Contemplating Emptiness	171
24. Awakening Unfabricated Perception	180
PART SIX Bodhisattva Activity
25. Paramitas: Techniques of Nongrasping	193
26. Applying Emptiness to Everyday Life	203
27. Generosity	206
28. Discipline	214
29. Patience	229
30. Exertion	238
31. Meditation	249
32. Prajna	256
PART SEVEN Mind Trainng and Slogan Practice
33. Introduction to Mind Trainng	273
34. Undermining Aggression	282
35. Point One: The Preliminaries, Which Are a Basis for Dharma Practice	289
36. Point Two: Resting in Ultimate Bodhichitta	291
37. Point Two: Trainng in Relative Bodhichitta	302
38. Point Three: Transformation of Bad Circumstances into the Path of Enlightenment	317
39. Point Four: Showing the Utilization of Practice in One's Whole Life	338
40. Point Five: Evaluation of Mind Training	347
41. Point Six: Disciplines of Mind Training	357
42. Point Seven: Guidelines of Mind Training	368
43. Additional Mind-Training Instructions	378
PART EIGHT The Bodhisattva's Journey
44. The Paths and Bhumis	383
45. Very Joyful: The First Bhumi	389
46. The Second through Tenth Bhumis	397
47. Complete Radiance: The Eleventh Bhumi	420
Appendix 1: Never Forget the Hinayana	433
Appendix 2: The Practice of Oryoki	435
Appendix 3: The Heart Sutra	437
Appendix 4: Prajna Dialogues	439
Appendix 5: Forty-Six Ways in Which a Bodhisattva Fails	443
Appendix 6: The Root Text of the Seven Points of Mind Training	447
Appendix 7: Outline of Teachings	451
Glossary	469
Sources	483
Resources	493
About the Author	495
Credits	501
Index	503