Quintessence of the Stages of Path - Part V (Yeshe Gyaltsen)

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Part I.     Guru Devotion & Small Capacity

Part II.    Medium Capactiy

Part III.   Sacred Heart of Awakening

Part IV.   Training of the Heroes & Heroins of Awakening Heart 
Part V.     Calm-abiding, Special Insight & Tantra

       (2) The Last Two Transcendental Means in Particular

            (a) Serene Abiding which is by Nature Mental Stabilization

            (b) Outstanding Insight which is by Nature Superb Wisdom

       The Special Trainings of the Adamant Vehicle

       Conclusion

Tibetan Text

Homage to Lama Tsongkhapa

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Quintessence of the Stages of Path - Part IV (Yeshe Gyaltsen)

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Part I.   Guru Devotion & Small Capacity 

Part II.  Medium Capacity 

Part III. Sacred Heart of Awakening 
Part IV.  Training of the Heroes & Heroines of Awakening Heart

  (1) The Excellent Practices of the Victors’ Heirs in General
     (a) The Six Transcendental Means to Mature One’s Own Continuum  
          Enriching Generosity | Serene Discipline    |   Forbearance
          Diligent Vigor           | Mental Stabilization | Superb Wisdom
     (b) The Four Pastoral Skills to Mature Others’ Continuums
Part V.    Calm-abiding, Special Insight & Tantra

Jataka stories - Prince Sattva Fed His Own Body to a Mother Tiger
Mogao Caves, 580 C.E.
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Quintessence of the Stages of Path - Part III (Yeshe Gyaltsen)

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Part I.   Guru Devotion & Small Capacity 
Part II.  Medium Capacity
Part III. The Sacred Heart of Awakening
 1. Seven Cycles of Premise and Conclusion
 2. Exchange Self-Adoration with Other-Cherishing
Part V.  Calm-abiding, Special Insight & Tantra
Part IV. Transcendental Means & Pastoral Skills 

Quintessence of the Stages of Path - Part II (Yeshe Gyaltsen)

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Part I. Guru Devotion & Small Capacity 

Part II. 

   The Path which is also Common to Beings of Medium Capacity

       a. Cultivating a Mind which Seeks to Achieve Liberation 

            i. The Distaste for Cyclic Existence in General

            ii. The Suffering Unique to Each Realm 

       b. True Nature of the Path Approaching Liberation

Part III. Sacred Heart of Awakening 

Part IV.  Training of the Heroes & Heroins of Awakening Heart
Part V.    Calm-Abiding & Special Insight
Tibetan Texts

Quintessence of the Stages of Path - Part I (Yeshe Gyaltsen)

[Presented here is a draft translation of a hymn of prayers which summarizes the practices of the Stages of Path (Lamrim) with one-hundred stanzas. It was composed by the Most Venerable Yeshe Gyaltsen, tutor to His Holiness the 8th Dalai Lama and founder of Dip Tse Chok Ling Monastery. Among numerous writings in this genre, it is marked with unique characteristics including personalized tone, experiential message and approachable language. May our hearts be moistened by the blissful nectar of sacred teachings!] 

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Dip Tse Chok Ling Monastery, Dharamsala, India 

四念中觀歌釋 (夏•噶丹嘉措)

༄༅། དྲན་པ་བཞི་ལྡན་གྱི་སྒོ་ནས་ཁྲིད་ཟབ་མོ་རྒྱུན་དུ་སྐྱོང་བའི་ཚུལ་ཐར་འདོད་མཛེས་རྒྱན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ།།

第一正念- 念師即佛;  第二正念- 念已即聖;  

第三正念- 念眾即母;  第四正念- 念顯即空.                                                                                                                                       

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樂求解脫者之美飾

– 由具四正念法門護育甚深續流之引導

夏日倉•噶丹嘉措大師著

南無古如曼殊廓咔耶!           

頂禮上師文殊童子菩薩!

此中, 為欲由具四正念之門而禪修甚深道中觀正見甚深引導者, 說前行正行結行三門.

A Commentary on the Song of the Four Mindfulness

Rongwo Monastery (f. 1301), the Seat of Sartsang Tulkus

Note:   This is a experiential commentary by Shar Kelden Gyatso  on His Holiness the 7th Dalai Lama Kelsang Gyatso's  A Song of the Four Mindfulness, which can be found at Sravasti Abbey's Website. 

Outlines: 1. Recognizing Buddha in Guru; 2. Recognizing the Divine in One's Own Self
                 3. Recognizing Mother in All Living Beings
                 4. Recognizing Emptiness in All Phenomena
                 5. Tantric Practices   

English & Chinese Translations     

輪涅平等正見引導簡釋 (金厄·洛卓坚赞)

English Translation

༄༅༅། །སྲིད་ཞི་མཉམ་ཉིད་ཀྱི་ལྟ་ཁྲིད་སྙན་བརྒྱུད་རྗེ་བཙུན་འཇམ་དབྱངས་ཀྱིས་བླ་མ་དབུ་མ་པ་ལ་གནང་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།།

上師鄔瑪巴授
輪涅平等正見引導

南無阿日雅曼殊師利耶. 

頂禮聖者文殊師利菩薩!
依于種種緣起理, 如實體性此中示.


皈依積資凈諸障, 緣起順逆次第修.
由身語意聖本性, 并及甚深諸教授,
具幸善修菩提者, 三摩地中住本定.
身語意三蘊聚中, 無處我者得成立,
除此余處亦無我, 具幸善修菩提者,
無我實義理當知. 五蘊六界及六處,
現空輪迴涅槃等, 種種緣起皆無我.
生滅住等皆遠離, 有無是非亦超出,
離戲無別甚深寂, 善知此者般涅槃.          


此暨至尊文殊親授上師鄔瑪巴之輪涅平等正見教授. 善哉!

金厄·洛卓坚赞(智幢)大師著               
輪涅平等正見引導簡釋

依于種種緣起理, 如實體性此中示.

Equanimity of Samsara and Nirvana (Lama Umapa's Guide to the View of Emptiness)

This meditation instruction on Emptiness was said to be bestowed upon Lama Umapa and Lord Tsongkhapa in their meditative visions by Lord Manjushiri himself. The commentator, Chen'nga Lodro Gyaltsen (15-century) received it from Lama Umapa and Lord Tsongkhapa directly.

  Quiet a few features mark this pithy teaching unique among the writings of Guide to the Madhyamaka View. For example,

• Meditation on the twelve-links of dependent origination was included in actual practices, 

• Calm-Abiding was taught in a form of Tantric practice, in other words, recognizing the sacredness innate to the body, speech and mind of the practitioner herself, 

• Meditation on the selflessness of person was preceded by the meditation on the selflessness of phenomena, or more precisely, regarding the practitioner's body, speech, mind and her Five Heaps.

It was translated on the auspicious day of the First Turning of the Wheel of Dharma, 08/06/2016. May all sentient beings realize the equanimity of samsara and nirvana, and abide on the non-abiding transcendence!            

A Tale of the Profundity (The View of Emptiness by Analogy)

༄༅༅། །གསང་བ་བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་ཟབ་མོའི་གཏམ་བརྗོད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།།
A Tale of the Profundity
(1st Draft, 08/06/2016)

Still Life Mirror, Daniel Sprick 2004

In this text, 14th-century Buddhist master Chen'nga Lodro Gyaltsen told a story with eighteen analogies to lead the Aspirants of Enlightenment realize and practice the distinction and reconciliation between the realm of prevalent disguise and the realm of genuine fact, also known as “the Conventional” and “the Ultimate.” 

The ineffable mystery of metaphor and analogy seems inevitable on the journey of seeking the sheer being, in other words, the Nature of Dharma, as the Buddha said: 
 a drop of dew, or a floating bubble,
 a flash of lightning, or a flickering lamp,
 a illusion, a phantom, or, a dream ...

Link to English Translation 

Text List

(August, 2016)

Available
(Click titles to read)

Puja & Prayers 

• A Commentary on the Prayers of Maitreya (Drakpa Shedrub)
• Praise to the Thirty-Five Buddhas (Dharmabadra)
• Extensive Puja to the One Thousand Buddhas of the Fortunate Eon (Lobsang Norpu Sherab)
  賢劫千佛禮供發願七支儀軌 - 甘霖普降福芽萌發 (善慧智寶 造)
  
• Brief Puja to the Sixteen Arhats & Meditative Means to Attain Seven Profound Wisdoms
  供請十六大阿羅漢護教略儀 及 依于兜率百尊之七甚深般若成就法 等

Meditation Instruction 

• Wisdom Meditation based on Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga (Lobsang Norpu Sherab)
• Meditation on Equinimity (Trichang Rinpoche)
• Pithy Instruction on the Madhyamaka View (Khedrup Je)
• A Tale of the Profundity, the Unsurpassable Mystery  (Chen'nga Lodro Gyaltsen)
• A Guide to the View Bestowed by Manjugosha: The Equanimity between Samsara and Nirvana (Chen’nga Lodro Gyaltsen)
  輪涅平等正見引導簡釋 (金厄·洛卓坚赞) 
• Commentary on the Song of the Four Mindfulness (Shar Kelten Gyatso)
  四念中觀歌釋 (夏日倉•噶丹嘉措) 
• Quintessential Lamrim in Verses (Tsecholing Yongtzin Yeshe Gyaltse)
• Part I.     Guru Devotion & Small Capacity 
• Part II.   Medium Capacity
• Part III.  The Sacred Heart of Awakening
• Part IV.   Training of the Heroes & Heroins of Awakening Heart
• Part V.     Calm-Abiding, Speical-Insight & Tantra  

Scriptural Commentary

• A Commentary on Nagarjuna's Reasoning Sixty （Gyaltsab Je）
• A Explanation of Path and Ground (Drakpa Shedrub) 
• Outline of A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (I-V) (Lobsang Jinpa)

           

                                            Upcoming

• A [Sutric] Commentary on the Song Recognizing My Mother
  -- Lamp of Words (Kunchoe Jinmey Wangbo)
  In Tibetain: ལྟ་བའི་གསུང་མགུར་གྱི་འགྲེལ་པ་ཚིག་གི་སྒྲོན་མེ་བཞུགས་སོ།། 

• A [Tantric] Commentary on the Song Recognizing My Mother-- The Weapon Destroying the Hostile Army of Selfness-Adherence and the Bestower of Light Opening Fortunate Lotuses (Lobsang Yeshe Denpa Rabgyel)In Tibetan: ལྟ་བའི་ཉམས་མགུར་ཨ་མ་ངོས་འཛིན་གྱི་འགྲེལ་པ་བདག་འཛིན་དགྲ་དཔུང་འཇོམས་པའི་མཚོན་ཆ་སྐལ་ལྡན་པདྨོ་བཞད་པའི་ཉིན་བྱེད་ཅེས་བྱ་བ།།
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Brief Puja to the Sixteen Arhats

• Short Title:  Brief Puja to the Sixteen Arhats
• Language:    English,中文 & བོད་ཡིག །
• Update:     March. 8, 2015
• In Tibetan:  གནས་བརྟན་ཕྱག་མཆོད།། In Chinese: 供請十六大阿羅漢護教略儀
• Download:    Google Drive

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Meditation on Equinimity

• Short Title:  Meditation on Impartiality
• Author:     Trichang Rinpoche III
• Language:    English
• Update:     March. 1, 2014

Excerpted from:

The Compendium of Short Notes on Mind Training

• In Tibetan: བློ་སྦྱོང་གི་སྐོར་སོགས་གསུང་ཐོར་བུའི་རིགས་རྣམས་ཕྱོགས་གཅིག་ཏུ་བསྡེབས་པ་བཞུགས་སོ།།
• In Chinese:  赤江仁波切著《修心短章集》所出之平等心修法
• Download:    Google Drive

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Praise to the Thirty-Five Buddhas

• Short Title:  Praise to the Thirty-Five Buddhas
• Author:     Dharmabadra, the Most Revered
• Language:    English 
• Update:     March. 11, 2014

Full Title:

The Flow of River Ganges 

-- A Hymn of Praise to the Thirty-Five Tathagatas

• In Tibetan: བདེ་བར་གཤེགས་པ་སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་ལྔ་བསྟོད་པ་རབ་ཏུ་བྱེད་པ་གདྒའི་ཆུ་རྒྱུན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ།།
• In Chinese:  烏曲達摩跋達著 《三十五佛如來寶贊 - 恆河流長》
• Download:    Google Drive 

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Wisdom Meditation based on Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga

• Short Title:  Wisdom Meditation based on Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga
• Author:     Lobsang Norpu Sherab, the Most Revered
• Language:    English 
• Update:     March. 13, 2014
• Full Title:  

Bestowing Supreme Wisdom
-- The Meditative Means to Attain Wisdom Relying on the Lama Practice of
Deva's Host of the Blissful Land (Ganden Lhagya)

• In Tibetan: དགའ་ལྡན་ལྷ་བརྒྱ་ལ་བརྟེན་ནས་ཤེས་རབ་སྒྲུབ་སྐོར་ཉམས་སུ་ལེན་ཚུལ་ཤེས་རབ་མཆོག་སྩོལ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ།།
• In Chinese: 善慧智寶大師著 依兜帥百尊成就勝慧之修法 - 般若加持
• Download:    Google Drive 

A Explanation of Path and Ground

• Short Title:  A Explanation of Path and Ground
• Author:     Drakpa Shedrub, the Most Revered
• Language:    English & བོད་ཡིག །
• Update:     March. 10, 2015

  Full Title:

 Delighting the Wise
-- A Presentation of Grounds and Path 

• Tibetan: ས་ལམ་གྱི་རྣམ་གཞག་མཁས་པའི་ཡིད་འཕྲོག་ཅེས་བྱ་བ།།
• In Chinese:  扎巴謝珠著 地道建立--智者心喜
• Sutric Portion:    Google Drive 
• Tantric Portion:    Google Drive

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--Sutric-- --Tantric-

A Commentary on Nagarjuna's Reasoning Sixty

• Short Title:  A Commentary on Nagarjuna's Reasoning Sixty
• Author:     Darma Rinchen, Gyaltsab Je
• Language:    English,中文 & བོད་ཡིག །
• Update:     July. 31, 2015

Full Title:

Completely Curshing the Fool's Opinion

-- A Commentary on Arya Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka Reasoning Sixty

• In Tibetan: འཕགས་པ་ཀླུ་སྒྲུབ་ཀྱིས་མཛད་པའི་དབུ་མ་རིགས་པ་དྲུག་ཅུ་པའི་ཊཱིཀྐ་མུ་ཅོར་སྨྲ་བ་རྣམ་པར་འཐག་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ།།
• In Chinese: 賈曹杰著 六十正理論釋--廣破愚說
• Download:   Google Drive 

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Outline of A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (I-V)

• Short Title:  Outline of A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life
            (Chapter I-V)
• Author:     Lobsang Jinpa, Venerable, Abbot Emeritus of Kyikang Monastery
• Language:    English 
• Update:     Nov. 15, 2014

• Excerpted from:
  The Quintessence of Prince's Harbor
  -- An Extensive Explanation of A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life  
• In Tibetan: བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པའི་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ་རྒྱལ་སྲས་འཇུག་ངོགས་ཀྱིས་སྙིང་པོ།། 
• In Chinese: 入行論大綱（一至五品） 摘自洛桑勤巴著《入行論大疏-佛子津渡心要》
• Download:    Google Drive 

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Pithy Instruction on the Madhyamaka View

• Short Title:  Pithy Instruction on the Madhyamaka View
• Author:      Gelek Pelzang, Khedrup Je
• Language:    English & བོད་ཡིག །
• Update:      Feb.2, 2015

• Full Title:
  The Profound Path of Dialectic-Madhyamaka School
  -- A Pithy Manual called Guide to the Madhyamaka View

• In Tibetan:  དབུ་མ་ཐལ་བགྱུར་བའི་ལུགས་ཀྱི་ཟབ་ལམ་དབུ་མའི་ལྟ་ཁྲིད་ཅེས་བྱས་བཞུགས་པའི་བེའུ་བུམ་མོ།།
• In Chinese:  中觀正見引導短札 -- 中觀應成宗之甚深道 （克珠杰） 
• Download:    Google Drive 

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Extensive Puja to the One Thousand Buddhas of the Fortunate Eon

• Short Title: Extensive Puja to the One Thousand Buddhas of the Fortunate Eon
• Author:    Lobsang Norpu Sherab, Venerable
• Language:   English, 中文 & བོད་ཡིག །
• Update:    May. 15, 2015

• Full Title:
  Majestic Rain of Nectars Nourishing the Bud of Merit
  -- A prayer to the One Thousand Buddhas of the Fortunate Eon Including Homage, Offering and so forth
• In Tibetan:
  བསྐལ་བཟང་སངས་རྒྱས་སྟོང་ཕྲག་གི་ཕྱག་མཆོད་སྨོན་ལམ་དང་བཅས་པ་བསོད་ནམས་ཀྱི་མྱུ་གུ་འཕེལ་བར་བྱེད་པའི་བདུད་རྩིའི་ཆར་ཆེན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ།།
• In Chinese:
  賢劫千佛禮供發願七支儀軌 - 甘霖普降福芽萌發 (善慧智寶 造)
• Download:    Google Drive 

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A Commentary on the་Prayers of Maitreya

• Short Title:  A Commentary on the Prayers of Maitreya
• Author:     Drakpa Shedrub, the Most Revered
• Language:    English & བོད་ཡིག །
• Update:     March. 8, 2015

• Full Title:  
• The Excellent Road toward Tushita the Heaven of Joyful Deities -- An Explanation of the Aspritional Prayers of Bodhisattva Maitreya
• In Tibetan: བྱམས་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ་གྱི་རྣམ་པར་བཤད་པ་དགའ་ལྡན་དུ་བགྲོད་པའི་ལམ་བཟང་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་།།
• In Chinese:  彌勒菩薩慈氏願王釋
• Download:    Google Drive 

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