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This book is an essential companion volume to the root text of Śāntideva's The Way of the Bodhisattva, translated by Helena and Wulstan of the Padmakara Translation Group. While Patrul Rinpoche (1808–1887), the celebrated author of The Words of My Perfect Teacher, did not compose a work on the Way of the Bodhisattva, he taught it constantly, over one hundred times from beginning to end. His close student, Kunzang Pelden (Khenpo Kunpal, 1862–1943) compiled these pith instructions over many years and created this famous Tibetan commentary to the Chonjuk (སྤྱོད་འཇུག་ for short, Bodhicaryāvatāra in Sanskrit). It is an extensive word and meaning commentary (tshig don gyi 'grel pa) with a topical outline (sa bcad). Kunzang Pelden was a Nyingma scholar and teacher associated with Katok Monastery and a distinguished student of both Dza Patrul and Ju Mipam Gyatso, as well as an important lineage holder of the Longchen Nyingtik.
This text organizes the text into four parts, which are now common when taught in contemporary Buddhist settings:
- 1. Generating Bodhicitta: Chapters 1-3
- 2. Protecting Bodhicitta: Chapters 4-6
- 3. Perfecting Bodhicitta: Chapters 7-9
- 4. Dedicating Merit for the Benefit of Others: Chapter 10
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