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Hṛdayanikṣepa
སྙིང་པོ་ངེས་པར་བསྡུ་བ
snying po nges par bsdu ba
Noting Down the Essence (of All the Buddhas’ Teachings) (84000)
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Description
Atiśa's Hṛdayanikṣepa is a concise teaching on the Buddhist path from suffering to enlightenment. The basic message: All suffering comes from grasping at "self" and believing things truly exist. The solution is to realize all phenomena are empty and sky-like, while cultivating love, compassion, and bodhicitta (the awakening mind).
The path involves taking refuge, maintaining moral conduct, practicing the six perfections (pāramitās), and progressing through stages of realization to achieve the three bodies of a Buddha. Atiśa emphasizes urgency - in these degenerate times with short lifespans and many obstacles, practitioners must quickly grasp the essence of the teachings rather than getting caught up in elaborate analysis.
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Atīśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna (slob dpon mkhas pa chen po dpal mar me mdzad ye shes). hṛdayanikṣepa. snying po nges par bsdu ba [སྙིང་པོ་ངེས་པར་བསྡུ་བ]. [Noting Down the Essence (of All the Buddhas’ Teachings) (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3291 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3291&typ=2.
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1 Full translations
The complete works of Atīśa Śrī Dīpaṁkara Jñāna, Jo-bo-rje : The lamp for the path and commentary, together with the newly translated Twenty-five key texts (Tibetan and English texts)
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The complete works of Atīśa Śrī Dīpaṁkara Jñāna, Jo-bo-rje : The lamp for the path and commentary, together with the newly translated Twenty-five key texts (Tibetan and English texts)
