Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: Final: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 23)

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Series: Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (23 tracks)
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1Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: Introduction: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 1)
2Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: Emptiness: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 2)
3Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: Shentong: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 3)
4Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: Lamdre: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 4)
5Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: Free All Beings from Suffering: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 5)
6Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: Stanzas 1–3: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 6)
7Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: Selfishness Prevents the Development of Compassion: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 7)
8Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: Stanzas 4–8: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 8)
9Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: Stanza 9: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 9)
10Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: Emptiness of the Self: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 10)
11Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: Emptiness of the Aggregates: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 11)
12Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: Everything Depends on Parts: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 12)
13Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: Emptiness in the Mind Only School: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 13)
14Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: The Three Natures-Mind Only: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 14)
15Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: Alaya Fundamental Consciousness-Mind Only: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 15)
16Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: Rejecting Fundamental Consciousness: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 16)
17Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: The Mind Is Just a Designation: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 17)
18Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: The Lion's Roar: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 18)
19Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: Dependent Origination: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 19)
20Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: Twelve Links of Dependent Origination: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 20)
21Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: Causes of a Happy Mind: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 21)
22Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: Bodhicitta: Teaching by the 14th Dalai Lama (Part 22)

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“This Mind of Awakening claims to be the highest ideal in the great vehicle.

So with a certain self-absorbed effort, generate this Awakening Mind.
The merits that are obtained by the simple generation of the Mind of Awakening
If it were to assume a form, it would extend beyond the limits of space
A person who meditates for a moment in the Mind of Awakening
The amount of merit he obtains from this, not even the conquerors can measure it.
A precious mind that is free from afflictions, this is the most excellent and only jewel
It cannot be damaged, nor stolen by such thieves as the Mara of the afflictions
And since the aspirations of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are unbreakable
In the same way, those who plunge into the mind of Awakening must hold fast the thought
Even with amazement one must strive, as was explained here, in the previous lines."
Therefore oneself will perform the great enlightened actions of Samantabadra.
Praising the Mind of Awakening hailed by the excellent conquerors,
The incomparable merits that I have obtained today for this act,
Through this, may all sentient beings sunk in the waves of the ocean of existence
Travel the path traveled by the leader of the bipeds."

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Dalai Lama, 14th. "Nagarjuna's Bodhicittavivarana: Final." Part 23 of 23. Radio City Music Hall, New York, 2010. Translated by Thupten Jinpa. Video, 10:04. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzNHS1_x93w.
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Nāgārjuna (slob dpon bdag nyid chen po 'phags pa klu sgrub). bodhicittavivaraṇa [बोधिचित्तविवरण]. byang chub sems kyi 'grel pa [བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་པ།]. [A Commentary on Bodhicitta (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 664 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=664&typ=2.
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The Bodhicittavivaraṇa (Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་པ།, Eng. Commentary on the Awakening Mind) is a foundational Mahāyāna text comprising 112 verses, originally composed in Sanskrit, preceded by a prose introduction, traditionally attributed to the second-century master Nāgārjuna. This work serves as both a comprehensive Madhyamaka analysis and a practical guide for cultivating bodhicitta in its two dimensions: conventional bodhicitta as the compassionate aspiration for all beings' enlightenment, and ultimate bodhicitta as the direct realization of emptiness (śūnyatā). The text grounds ethical aspiration in ontological analysis, demonstrating how understanding the empty nature of phenomena naturally generates universal compassion, while also refuting competing philosophical positions including Vijñānavāda idealism, the tīrthika conception of self, and the śrāvaka understanding of the skandhas. Although scholarly questions persist regarding its authorship—particularly given the text’s apparent tantric elements, critique of Vijñānavāda, and absence of citation by Nāgārjuna’s principal commentators Buddhapālita, Candrakīrti, and Bhāvaviveka—the Bodhicittavivaraṇa has exerted profound influence across Indian and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. Its remarkable interpretive flexibility has allowed it to serve as a scriptural foundation for diverse philosophical schools and contemplative practices, from strict Prāsaṅgika philosophy to mahāmudrā and mind training (lojong), making it an essential text for both monastic and lay bodhisattvas throughout the history of Mahāyāna Buddhism.



Puṇya - The positive energy or potential created through performing good deeds, such as generosity or kindness. In Buddhism, accumulating this positive force is seen as essential for finding happiness in future lives, and crucial as a foundation for following the spiritual path. Skt पुण्य  Tib བསོད་ནམས་  Ch 福;功德  

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Kleśa - Often referred to as poisons, these are a class of disturbing or disruptive emotional states that, when aroused, negatively affect or taint the mind. Skt क्लेश  Tib ཉོན་མོངས་  Ch 煩惱  

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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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Nāgārjuna (slob dpon bdag nyid chen po 'phags pa klu sgrub). bodhicittavivaraṇa [बोधिचित्तविवरण]. byang chub sems kyi 'grel pa [བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་པ།]. [A Commentary on Bodhicitta (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 664 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=664&typ=2.

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Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of the Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt महायान  Tib ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།  Ch 大乘  

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Madhyamaka - Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. Skt मध्यमक  Tib དབུ་མ་  Ch 中觀見  

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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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Saṃvṛtibodhicitta - Relative bodhicitta (Skt. saṃvṛtibodhicitta; T. kun rdzob byang chub kyi sems) is the altruistic wish to become a fully enlightened Buddha in order to help all other beings who are suffering. It has two aspects: the strong wish and aspiration to become enlightened, and then actually engaging in the practices of the bodhisattva that lead to Buddhahood, like generosity and patience. Skt संवृतिबोधित्त  Tib ཀུན་རྫོབ་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་  Ch 世俗菩提心  

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Paramārthabodhicitta - The direct realization of the true nature of reality, specifically emptiness, as an essential part of the path to enlightenment for the sake of all beings. Skt परमार्थबोधिचित्त  Tib དོན་དམ་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་  Ch 勝義菩提心  

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Śūnyatā - The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics. Skt शून्यता  Tib སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་  Ch 空;空門  

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Śūnyatā - The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics. Skt शून्यता  Tib སྟོང་པ་ཉིད་  Ch 空;空門  

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Karuṇā - The profound wish for all sentient beings to be free from suffering and the causes of suffering. It is a core virtue in Buddhism and, in the Mahāyāna tradition, develops into 'great compassion' (mahākaruṇā), the driving force behind the pursuit of enlightenment for the benefit of others. Skt करुणा  Tib ཐུགས་རྗེ་  Ch 悲  

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Śrāvaka - The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases. Skt श्रावक  Tib ཉན་ཐོས།  Ch 聲聞  

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Mahāmudrā - Mahāmudrā refers to an advanced meditation tradition in Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna forms of Into-Tibetan Buddhism that is focused on the realization of the empty and luminous nature of the mind. It also refers to the resultant state of buddhahood attained through such meditation practice. In Tibet, this tradition is particularly associated with the Kagyu school, although all other schools also profess this tradition. The term also appears as part of the four seals, alongside dharmamūdra, samayamudrā, and karmamudrā. Skt महामुद्रा  Tib ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ།  

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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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Nāgārjuna (byang chub sems kyi 'grel pa slob dpon klu sgrub). bodhicittavivaraṇa [बोधिचित्तविवरण]. byang chub sems kyi 'grel pa [བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་པ]. [A Commentary on Bodhicitta (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 665 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=665&typ=2.

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Ātman - Though it can simply be used as the expression "I" or "me", in Indian thought the notion of self refers to a permanent, unchanging entity, such as that which passes from life to life in the case of people, or the innate essence (svabhāva) of phenomena. Skt आत्मन्  Tib བདག་  Ch 我;灵魂  

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