Legs bshad bdud rtsi'i chu rgyun

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ལེགས་བཤད་བདུད་རྩིའི་ཆུ་རྒྱུན།

legs bshad bdud rtsi'i chu rgyun

The Nectar of Immortality

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The Nectar of lmmortality is a fully developed discourse in its own right. It is Shabkar's most powerful and concentrated statement on the subject [of meat-eating] and constitutes what must rank as one of the most impassioned indictments of meat eating to be found in Tibetan literature. This text was recently rediscovered, in manuscript form, by Matthieu Ricard in the course of a visit to Amdo in 2001. It was found in a monastery in the Shophon Valley, not far from Rekong where many yogis and practitioners of Shabkar's lineage still live. (Food of Bodhisattvas, 45)

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legs bshad bdud rtsi'i chu rgyun [ལེགས་བཤད་བདུད་རྩིའི་ཆུ་རྒྱུན།]. [The Nectar of Immortality].

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Blankleder, Helena, and Wulstan Fletcher (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. Food of Bodhisattvas: Buddhist Teachings on Abstaining from Meat. By Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol (zhabs dkar tshogs drug rang grol). New Delhi: Shechen Publications, 2008.

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Based on the teachings of the Buddha, this book offers the most compelling and impassioned indictment of meat-eating to be found in Tibetan literature and is pertinent to anyone interested in vegetarianism as a moral or spiritual issue. The Buddha's teachings show how destructive habits can be examined and transformed gradually from within. The aim is not to repress one's desire for meat and animal products by force of will, but to develop heartfelt compassion and sensitivity to the suffering of animals, so that the desire to exploit and feed on them naturally dissolves. There are two texts presented here. One is an excerpt from Shabkar's Book of Marvels, consisting of quotations from the Buddhist scriptures and the teachings of masters of Tibetan Buddhism that argue against the consumption of meat, with Shabkar's commentary. The second, the Nectar of Immortality, is Shabkar's discourse on the importance of developing compassion for animals. (Source: Shambhala Publications)

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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Karuṇā - The profound wish for all sentient beings to be free from suffering and the causes of suffering. It is a core virtue in Buddhism and, in the Mahāyāna tradition, develops into 'great compassion' (mahākaruṇā), the driving force behind the pursuit of enlightenment for the benefit of others. Skt करुणा  Tib ཐུགས་རྗེ་  Ch 悲  

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