Bka' gdams glegs bam

བཀའ་གདམས་གླེགས་བམ།

bka' gdams glegs bam

The Book of Kadam

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Bka' gdams glegs bam pha chos bu chos. (Kadam Lekbam Pachö Buchö). In Tibetan, "The Book of Bka' gdams, Dharma of the Father and Sons" originating with the Indian

master Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna a seminal work of the Bka' gdams sect of Tibetan Buddhism, being the primary text of the oral-instruction (man ngag) lineage organized into its present version by Mkhan chen Nyi ma rgyal mtshan (Kenchen Nyima Gyaltsen) in 1302. "Dharma of the Father" refers to Atiśa's responses to questions posed by his foremost Tibetan student 'Brom ston Rgyal ba'i 'byung gnas (the two "fathers" of Bka' gdams); "Dharma of the Sons" refers to Atiśa's responses to questions posed by Rngog Legs pa'i shes rab and Khu ston Brtson 'grus g.yung drung (Kutön Tsondrü Yungdrung), the spiritual sons of Atiśa and 'Brom ston pa. (Source: "Bka' gdams glegs bam pha chos bu chos." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 123. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)

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bka' gdams glegs bam [བཀའ་གདམས་གླེགས་བམ།]. [The Book of Kadam].

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Tibetan	'brom ston rgyal ba'i 'byung gnas, comp. Bka' gdams glegs bam. Gangtok: Sikkim Research Institute of Tibetology, 1977.

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Bka' gdams glegs bam las btus pa'i chos skorབཀའ་གདམས་གླེགས་བམ་ལས་བཏུས་པའི་ཆོས་སྐོར།

The Book of Kadam. One of the most cherished teachings stemming from Atiśa and Dromtönpa is the collection of esoteric oral transmissions enshrined in The Book of Kadam. This volume includes the core texts of The Book of Kadam, notably the twenty-three-chapter dialogue between Atiśa and Dromtönpa that is woven around Atiśa's Bodhisattva's Jewel Garland, as well as complementary texts that illuminate the history and practices of the Kadam tradition.

 

Bka' gdams glegs bam las btus pa'i chos skorབཀའ་གདམས་གླེགས་བམ་ལས་བཏུས་པའི་ཆོས་སྐོར།

The Book of Kadam. One of the most cherished teachings stemming from Atiśa and Dromtönpa is the collection of esoteric oral transmissions enshrined in The Book of Kadam. This volume includes the core texts of The Book of Kadam, notably the twenty-three-chapter dialogue between Atiśa and Dromtönpa that is woven around Atiśa's Bodhisattva's Jewel Garland, as well as complementary texts that illuminate the history and practices of the Kadam tradition.

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The Book of Kadam

The Kadam school of Tibetan Buddhism emerged in the eleventh century from the teachings of the Indian master Atiśa and his principal Tibetan student, Dromtönpa. Although it no longer exists as an independent school, Kadam’s teachings were incorporated into the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism and are still prized today for their unique practical application of the bodhisattva’s altruistic ideal in everyday life. One of the most cherished teachings stemming from Atiśa and Dromtönpa is the collection of esoteric oral transmissions enshrined in The Book of Kadam. This volume includes the core texts of the Book of Kadam, notably the twenty-three-chapter dialogue between Atiśa and Dromtönpa that is woven around Atiśa's Bodhisattva's Jewel Garland, as well as complementary texts that illuminate the history and practices of the Kadam tradition. (Source: Wisdom Publications)

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Kadam - The Kadam tradition, which traces its origin to the teachings of Atiśa, was the first of the so-called New Schools of Tibetan Buddhism, traditions which arose during or after the Second Propagation of Buddhism (phyi dar) in the tenth century. Tib བཀའ་གདམས་  

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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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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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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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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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