The Path to Enlightenment

The Path to Enlightenment

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Descriptionངོ་སྤྲོད།

In this extensive teaching, the Dalai Lama beautifully elucidates the meaning of the path to enlightenment through his own direct spiritual advice and personal reflections. Based upon a very famous Tibetan text, this teaching presents in practical terms the essential instructions for the attainment of enlightenment. Its direct approach and lucid style make The Path to Enlightenment one of the most accessible introductions to Tibetan Buddhism ever published. His discourse draws out the meaning of the Third Dalai Lama's famous Essence of Refined Gold as he speaks directly to the reader, offering spiritual advice, personal reflection,s and scriptural commentary. He says in practical terms what the student must do to attain enlightenment.

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Dalai Lama, 14th. The Path to Enlightenment. Translated and Edited by Glenn H. Mullin. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1995.

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https://www.shambhala.com/the-path-to-enlightenment-2648.html

Texts Translated

1. Dalai Lama, 3rd, (bsod nams rgya mtsho). byang chub lam gyi rim pa'i khrid gser gyi yang zhun. Dharamsala: bod gzhung shes rig par khang, 1996.

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Byang chub lam gyi rim pa'i khrid gser gyi yang zhunབྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་གྱི་རིམ་པའི་ཁྲིད་གསེར་གྱི་ཡང་ཞུན།

Essence of Refined Gold is one of the Third Dalai Lama's most popular written works. It extracts the heart of Lama Tsongkhapa's Great Exposition of the Stages on the Spiritual Path. Although brief, it summarizes the meaning of all Buddha's teachings and is easily put into practice. (Source: The Path to Enlightenment, preface)

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Generating the Bodhisattva Spirit (Dalai Lama, 14th 1994)

Dalai Lama, 14th. "Generating the Bodhisattva Spirit." In The Path to Enlightenment, translated and edited by Glenn H. Mullin, 133–49. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 1995.

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Byang chub lam gyi rim pa'i khrid gser gyi yang zhunབྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་གྱི་རིམ་པའི་ཁྲིད་གསེར་གྱི་ཡང་ཞུན།

Essence of Refined Gold is one of the Third Dalai Lama's most popular written works. It extracts the heart of Lama Tsongkhapa's Great Exposition of the Stages on the Spiritual Path. Although brief, it summarizes the meaning of all Buddha's teachings and is easily put into practice. (Source: The Path to Enlightenment, preface)

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• Preface7
• Foreword9
• Translator's Introduction11

• The Path to Enlightenment
  • 1: The Nature of the Instruction25
  • 2: Three Perspectives on Practice45
  • 3: Where the Guru and Disciple Meet53
  • 4: The Human Situation75
  • 5: The Levels of Spiritual Application81
  • 6: Death and the Lower Realms87
  • 7: Seeking a Place of Refuge97
  • 8: The Laws of Karmic Evolution105
  • 9: Hinayana Realism119
  • 10: Generating the Bodhisattva Spirit133
  • 11: The Practice of the General Mahayana151
  • 12: Vajrayana167
  • 13: A Summary of the Path175

• Appendix I: A Lam Rim Preliminary Rite185
• Appendix II: Biography of the Third Dalai Lama201
• Glossary223
• Notes231
• Bibliography235

Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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