Ku su lu'i tshogs gsog gi blo sbyong
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ཀུ་སུ་ལུའི་ཚོགས་གསོག་གི་བློ་སྦྱོང་།
ku su lu'i tshogs gsog gi blo sbyong
Kusulu's Accumulation Mind Training
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In Compendium of Well-Uttered Insights (p. 245), Shönu Gyalchok states that this is the practice of training in the awakening mind according to the secret mantra system that the two yoginīs Tārā and Bhṛkuṭī conferred on Atiśa, when he encountered them in the sky to the east of Bodhgaya stupa. This story is recounted in . . . Two Yoginīs' Admonition to Atiśa to Train His Mind [Jo bo la rnal 'byor ma gnyis kyis sems sbyong zhig ces gdams pa]. The present text is probably the one Longdöl Lama refers to as Secret Mantra Mind Training in his list (A Useful List [of Texts], p. 316). The central practice echoes the well-known practice of offering one's body found in the "cutting off" (chö, spelled chod) tradition of Machik Lapdrön. It is difficult to determine what source Shönu Gyalchok is using to attribute this instruction to Atiśa. (Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection, 603–4n331)
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ku su lu'i tshogs gsog gi blo sbyong [ཀུ་སུ་ལུའི་ཚོགས་གསོག་གི་བློ་སྦྱོང་།]. [Kusulu's Accumulation Mind Training].
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A collection of mind training texts compiled by Zhönu Gyalchok and Müchen Sempa Chenpo Könchok Gyaltsen; critically edited by the Institute of Tibetan Classics.
Compiled in the fifteenth century, Mind Training: The Great Collection is the earliest anthology of a special genre of Tibetan literature known as "mind training," or lojong in Tibetan. The principal focus of these texts is the systematic cultivation of such altruistic thoughts and emotions as compassion, love, forbearance, and perseverance.
The mind-training teachings are highly revered by the Tibetan people for their pragmatism and down-to-earth advice on coping with the various challenges and hardships that unavoidably characterize everyday human existence. The volume contains forty-four individual texts, including the most important works of the mind training cycle, such as Serlingpa's well-known Leveling Out All Preconceptions, Atisha's Bodhisattva’s Jewel Garland, Langri Thangpa's Eight Verses on Training the Mind, and Chekawa's Seven-Point Mind Training together with the earliest commentaries on these seminal texts. (Source Accessed Apr 30, 2025)1 Full translations
Compiled in the fifteenth century, Mind Training: The Great Collection is the earliest anthology of a special genre of Tibetan literature known as “mind training,” or lojong in Tibetan. The principal focus of these texts is the systematic cultivation of such altruistic thoughts and emotions as compassion, love, forbearance, and perseverance. The mind-training teachings are highly revered by the Tibetan people for their pragmatism and down-to-earth advice on coping with the various challenges and hardships that unavoidably characterize everyday human existence.
The volume contains forty-four individual texts, including the most important works of the mind training cycle, such as Serlingpa's well-known Leveling Out All Preconceptions, Atisha's Bodhisattva's Jewel Garland, Langri Thangpa's Eight Verses on Training the Mind, and Chekawa's Seven-Point Mind Training together with the earliest commentaries on these seminal texts. An accurate and lyrical translation of these texts, many of which are in metered verse, marks an important contribution to the world's literary heritage, enriching its spiritual resources. (Source: Wisdom Publications)
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Theg pa chen po blo sbyong rgya rtsa
Compiled by Shonu Gyalchok (ca. fourteenth-fifteenth centuries) and Konchok Gyaltsen (1388-1469)
Compiled in the fifteenth century, Mind Training: The Great Collection (Theg pa chen po blo sbyong rgya rtsa) represents the earliest anthology of a special genre of Tibetan spiritual literature known simply as "mind training" or lojong in Tibetan. Tibetans revere the mind training tradition for its pragmatic and down-to-earth advice, especially the teachings on "transforming adversities into favorable opportunities." This volume contains forty-three individual texts, including the most important works of the mind training cycle, such as Serlingpa's Leveling out All Conceptions, Atisa's Bodhisattva's Jewel Garland, Langri Thangpa's Eight Verses on Mind Training, and Chekawa's Seven-Point Mind Training, together with the earliest commentaries on these seminal texts as well as other independent works. These texts expound the systematic cultivation of such altruistic thoughts and emotions as compassion, love, forbearance, and perseverance. Central to this discipline are the diverse practices for combating our habitual self-centeredness and the afflictive emotions and way of being that arise from it. (Source: Mind Training: The Great Collection translated by Thupten Jinpa)
