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བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་གྱི་རིམ་པའི་ཁྲིད་གསེར་གྱི་ཡང་ཞུན།
byang chub lam gyi rim pa'i khrid gser gyi yang zhun
Essence of Refined Gold
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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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byang chub lam gyi rim pa'i khrid gser gyi yang zhun [བྱང་ཆུབ་ལམ་གྱི་རིམ་པའི་ཁྲིད་གསེར་གྱི་ཡང་ཞུན།]. [Essence of Refined Gold].
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Essence of Refined Gold is among the Third Dalai Lama Gyalwa Sonam Gyatso's most widely read works. Drawing out the essential meaning of Lama Tsongkhapa's Great Exposition of the Stages of the Path, the text is valued for its concise summary of the Buddha's teachings in a form readily applicable to practice. This volume presents Glenn H. Mullin's translation of the root text together with a commentary compiled from a discourse on the text delivered by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.
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 on 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 Refining Gold 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 advice, personal reflections, and scriptural commentary. He says in practical terms what the student must do to attain enlightenment. (Source: Shambhala Publications)
The Third Dalai Lama's famous work Essence of Refined Gold is a powerful exposition on Atisha's A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, the basis of Lam-rim teaching.
Continuing this living tradition to the present day, Tenzin Gyatso, the present Dalai Lama, provides an extensive "commentary to the meaning" of Essence of Refined Gold, drawn from his own penetrating experience. The discourse, which comprises the main body of this text alternates between personal reflections, direct spiritual advice and scriptural quotations. He presents the spirit of the Third Dalai Lama's brief work with an amazing ease and fluidity that is accessible to all.
Also included in this volume is the Lam-rim Preliminary Rite, a beautiful guide to the Avalokiteshvara tantric methods entitled The Tantric Yogas of the Bodhisattva of Compassion and several verse works. A traditional biography: of the Third Dalai Lama by Tse-chok Ling Gyal-tsen is given as an
appendix. (Source: back cover)
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.
(Source: Shambhala Publications)
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Lam rim chen mo. In Tibetan, "Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path"; the abbreviated title for one of the best-known works on Buddhist thought and practice in Tibet, composed by the Tibetan luminary Tsong khapa Blo bzang Grags pa in 1402 at the central Tibetan monastery of Rwa sgreng. A lengthy treatise belonging to the lam rim, or stages of the path, genre of Tibetan Buddhist literature, the Lam rim chen mo takes its inspiration from numerous earlier writings, most notably the Bodhipathapradīpa ("Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment") by the eleventh-century Bengali master Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna. It is the most extensive treatment of three principal stages that Tsong kha pa composed. The others include (1) the Lam rim chung ba ("Short Treatise on the Stages of the Path"), also called the Lam rim 'bring ba ('"Intermediate Treatise on the States of the Path") and (2) the Lam rim bsdus don ("Concise Meaning of the Stages of the Path"), occasionally also referred to as the Lam rim chung ngu ("Brief Stages of the Path"). The latter text, which records Tsong kha pa's own realization of the path in verse form, is also referred to as the Lam rim nyams mgur ma ("Song of Experience of the Stages of the Path"). The Lam rim chen mo is a highly detailed and often technical treatise presenting a comprehensive and synthetic overview of the path to buddhahood. It draws, often at length, upon a wide range of scriptural sources including the Sūtra and śāstra literature of both the hīnayāna and Mahāyāna; Tsong kha pa treats tantric practice in a separate work. The text is organized under the rubric of the three levels of spiritual predilection, personified as "the three individuals" (skyes bu gsum): the beings of small capacity, who engage in religious practice in order to gain a favorable rebirth in their next lifetime; the beings of intermediate capacity, who seek liberation from rebirth for themselves as an arhat; and the beings of great capacity, who seek to liberate all beings in the universe from suffering and thus follow the bodhisattva path to buddhahood. Tsong kha pa's text does not lay out all the practices of these three types of persons but rather those practices essential to the bodhisattva path that are held in common by persons of small and intermediate capacity, such as the practice of refuge (śaraṇa) and contemplation of the uncertainty of the time of death. The text includes extended discussions of topics such as relying on a spiritual master, the development of bodhicitta, and the six perfections (pāramitā). The last section of the text, sometimes regarded as a separate work, deals at length with the nature of serenity (śamatha) and insight (vipaśyanā); Tsong kha pa's discussion of insight here represents one of his most important expositions of emptiness (śūnyatā). Primarily devoted to exoteric Mahāyāna doctrine, the text concludes with a brief reference to Vajrayāna and the practice of tantra, a subject discussed at length by Tsong kha pa in a separate work, the Sngags rim chen mo ("Stages of the Path of Mantra"). The Lam rim chen mo's full title is Skyes bu gsum gyi rnyams su blang ba'i rim pa thams cad tshang bar ston pa'i byang chub lam gyi rim pa. (Source: "Lam rim chen mo." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 465-66. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
1 Partial translations
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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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.
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.
(Source: Shambhala Publications)
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Essence of Refined Gold is among the Third Dalai Lama Gyalwa Sonam Gyatso's most widely read works. Drawing out the essential meaning of Lama Tsongkhapa's Great Exposition of the Stages of the Path, the text is valued for its concise summary of the Buddha's teachings in a form readily applicable to practice. This volume presents Glenn H. Mullin's translation of the root text together with a commentary compiled from a discourse on the text delivered by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.
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 on 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 Refining Gold 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 advice, personal reflections, and scriptural commentary. He says in practical terms what the student must do to attain enlightenment. (Source: Shambhala Publications)
The Third Dalai Lama's famous work Essence of Refined Gold is a powerful exposition on Atisha's A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, the basis of Lam-rim teaching.
Continuing this living tradition to the present day, Tenzin Gyatso, the present Dalai Lama, provides an extensive "commentary to the meaning" of Essence of Refined Gold, drawn from his own penetrating experience. The discourse, which comprises the main body of this text alternates between personal reflections, direct spiritual advice and scriptural quotations. He presents the spirit of the Third Dalai Lama's brief work with an amazing ease and fluidity that is accessible to all.
Also included in this volume is the Lam-rim Preliminary Rite, a beautiful guide to the Avalokiteshvara tantric methods entitled The Tantric Yogas of the Bodhisattva of Compassion and several verse works. A traditional biography: of the Third Dalai Lama by Tse-chok Ling Gyal-tsen is given as an
appendix. (Source: back cover)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.
(Source: Shambhala Publications)
