Bodhisattvādikarmikamārgāvatāradeśanā/Full text
Atiśa's Teaching on Entering into the Path of a Bodhisattva Beginner is a comprehensive daily practice manual for beginning bodhisattvas. After finding a qualified teacher and generating bodhicitta, practitioners should maintain complete humility and dedicate all actions to benefiting others. The daily routine includes elaborate dawn prayers with the seven-limb practice (prostrations, offerings, confession, etc.), meditation sessions combining śamatha and vipaśyanā while viewing phenomena as illusion-like, and dividing meals into four parts for offerings, personal use, charity, and feeding animals. The practice is structured around six daily sessions totaling 54 moments of continuous spiritual activity, with the understanding that dedicated practitioners have no fixed sleeping schedule since they're constantly generating merit for the benefit of all beings.
| Reference | Atīśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna (slob dpon dpal mar me mdzad ye shes). bodhisattvādikarmikamārgāvatāradeśanā [बोधिसत्त्वादिकर्मिकमार्गावतारदेशना]. byang chub sems dpa' las dang po pa'i lam la 'jug pa bstan pa [བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་ལས་དང་པོ་པའི་ལམ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་བསྟན་པ]. [A Teaching on Entering into the Path of a Bodhisattva Beginner (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3293 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3293&typ=2. |
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| People | Atiśa, Naktso Lotsāwa Tsultrim Gyalwa, Slob dpon dpal mar me mdzad ye shes |
