Transforming Adversity Into Joy and Courage: An Explanation of the Thirty-seven Practices of Bodhisattvas

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Descriptionངོ་སྤྲོད།

A practical and inspiring guide for developing our ability to be happy and benefit others this commentary on The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas by Gyalsay Togme Sangpo is studied by followers of all schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

The root text gives in thirty-seven short verses the essential practices leading to enlightenment. Gyalsay Togme Sangpo (1295-1369) was renowned as a bodhisattva in Tibet and revered for living according to the bodhisattva ideals and practices that he taught. He inspired not only his direct disciples but also generations of practitioners up to the present day.

This extraordinary commentary by Geshe Jampa Tegchok clearly explains the popular practice of exchanging oneself with others for developing love and compassion for all living beings. It lays open the methods for doing glance stabilizing and analytical meditations and offers an in-depth discussion of the nature of emptiness. All the essentials are here for transforming our attitudes and developing courage and joy. (Source: Shambhala Publications)

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Tegchok, Jampa. Transforming Adversity Into Joy and Courage: An Explanation of the Thirty-seven Practices of Bodhisattvas. Edited by Thubten Chodron. Boulder: Snow Lion Publications, 2005.

Table of contents

Preface 7
Introduction: The Buddhist World View by Thubten Chodron11
1. Setting the Stage 23
2. Freedom and Fortune 33
3. Listening, Thinking, and Meditation 47
4. Creating a Conductive Environment 63
5. Being Mindful of Impermanence 67
6. Spiritual Friends 85
7. Refuge: A Safe Direction 101
8. Creating Causes, Experiencing Results 113
9. The Four Noble Truths 121
10. Generating the Altruistic Intention 155
11. Courageous Compassion 165
12. Transforming Unfavorable Circumstances into the Path 205
13. Meditation on Emptiness 221
14. The Bodhisattvas' Training 277
The Root Text 293
Outline of The Thirty-seven Practices of Bodhisattvas 299
Glossary 303
Suggested Reading 311

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Thogs med bzang po (ཐོགས་མེད་བཟང་པོ་). rgyal sras lag len so bdun ma [རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ།]. [The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva].

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Gyalse Tokme Zangpo's (1295–1369) highly influential work on Mind Training (blo sbyong) that outlines the training of a bodhisattva in a series of thirty-seven verses is still very popular today with Buddhist practitioners around the world. The colophon states: "This was composed at the Jewel Cave of Ngulchu by the monk Tokme [Zangpo], expounder of scripture and reasoning, for the benefit of myself and others." Since he gathered together all the paths of the bodhisattvas and composed them in the form of thirty-seven verses, the title is clearly fitting.

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Thogs med bzang po (ཐོགས་མེད་བཟང་པོ་). rgyal sras lag len so bdun ma [རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ།]. [The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva].

Classical WorksAbout this item

Gyalse Tokme Zangpo's (1295–1369) highly influential work on Mind Training (blo sbyong) that outlines the training of a bodhisattva in a series of thirty-seven verses is still very popular today with Buddhist practitioners around the world. The colophon states: "This was composed at the Jewel Cave of Ngulchu by the monk Tokme [Zangpo], expounder of scripture and reasoning, for the benefit of myself and others." Since he gathered together all the paths of the bodhisattvas and composed them in the form of thirty-seven verses, the title is clearly fitting.