The Foundation of All Good Qualities

The Foundation of All Good Qualities

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A translation of and commentary on Tsongkhapa's Foundation of All Good Qualities (Yon tan gzhi gyur ma) by the late Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen. The book contains a translation of the root verses. The Foundation of All Good Qualities covers the essential stages from cultivating devotion to one's spiritual teacher through the practices of beings of small, medium, and great spiritual capacity - including refuge, karma, the four noble truths, renunciation, bodhicitta, and the six perfections. The text serves as both a daily recitation and systematic guide for Tibetan Buddhist practitioners following the Geluk tradition's approach to spiritual development.

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Gyeltsen, Geshe Tsultim. The Foundation of All Good Qualities: A Commentary on the Verses of Lama Tsongkhapa. Translated by Losang Gyaltsen. Edited by Rebecca McClen Novick. Long Beach, CA: Thubten Dhargye Ling Publications, 2006.

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Yon tan gzhir gyur maཡོན་ཏན་གཞིར་གྱུར་མ།

The Foundation of All Good Qualities (Yon tan gzhi gyur ma) is a concise lamrim text by Je Tsongkhapa that outlines the graduated path to enlightenment in 14 verses. It covers the essential stages from cultivating devotion to one's spiritual teacher through the practices of beings of small, medium, and great spiritual capacity - including refuge, karma, the four noble truths, renunciation, bodhicitta, and the six perfections. The text serves as both a daily recitation and systematic guide for Tibetan Buddhist practitioners following the Geluk tradition's approach to spiritual development.

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Yon tan gzhir gyur maཡོན་ཏན་གཞིར་གྱུར་མ།

The Foundation of All Good Qualities (Yon tan gzhi gyur ma) is a concise lamrim text by Je Tsongkhapa that outlines the graduated path to enlightenment in 14 verses. It covers the essential stages from cultivating devotion to one's spiritual teacher through the practices of beings of small, medium, and great spiritual capacity - including refuge, karma, the four noble truths, renunciation, bodhicitta, and the six perfections. The text serves as both a daily recitation and systematic guide for Tibetan Buddhist practitioners following the Geluk tradition's approach to spiritual development.

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Gzhi - The foundational basis of both saṃsāra and nirvāṇa. It is often used as a synonym for tathāgatagarbha and dharmadhātu. Tib གཞི་  

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Bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt बोधिचित्त  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Ch 菩提心  

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Geluk - The Geluk tradition traces its origin to Tsongkhapa, who propagated a modified version of the Kadampa lojong and lamrim teachings. It is the dominant tradition of Tibet, having established its control of the government under the figure of the Dalai Lama. Tib དགེ་ལུགས་  

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