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महायानपथसाधनसंग्रह

Mahāyānapathasādhanasaṃgraha

ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་ལམ་གྱི་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་ཤིན་ཏུ་བསྡུས་པ

theg pa chen po'i lam gyi sgrub thabs shin tu bsdus pa

A Very Concise Practice of the Mahāyāna Path (84000)

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This text by Atiśa (Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna) presents a condensed outline of the Mahāyāna Buddhist path, beginning with taking refuge in the Three Jewels, abandoning nonvirtuous actions, and maintaining pure ethical discipline as the foundation for bodhicitta (the enlightened mind). Practitioners are urged to cultivate constant mindfulness of death to spur diligent practice and quickly cross saṃsāra (cyclic existence) to attain buddhahood. The core practice involves undertaking bodhisattva vows and practicing the six perfections while training in both skillful means and wisdom to achieve nonabiding nirvāṇa. Like someone persistently rubbing a fire-stick to create flame, practitioners should meditate constantly with devotion and freedom from attachment to quickly attain buddhahood, becoming like a wish-fulfilling jewel that spontaneously fulfills others' needs. The text concludes with the aspiration that all beings will practice the Mahāyāna path and that the author may guide all beings upon attaining enlightenment.

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Atīśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna (slob dpon chen po dpal mar me mdzad ye shes). mahāyānapathasādhanasaṃgraha [महायानपथसाधनसंग्रह]. theg pa chen po'i lam gyi sgrub thabs shin tu bsdus pa [ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་ལམ་གྱི་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་ཤིན་ཏུ་བསྡུས་པ]. [A Very Concise Practice of the Mahāyāna Path (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3296 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3296&typ=2.

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Sherburne, Richard, trans. 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. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan, 2003.

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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)

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Sherburne, Richard, trans. 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. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan, 2003.

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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)

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Atīśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna (slob dpon chen po dpal mar me mdzad ye shes). mahāyānapathasādhanasaṃgraha [महायानपथसाधनसंग्रह]. theg pa chen po'i lam gyi sgrub thabs shin tu bsdus pa [ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་ལམ་གྱི་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་ཤིན་ཏུ་བསྡུས་པ]. [A Very Concise Practice of the Mahāyāna Path (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3296 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3296&typ=2.

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Atīśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna (slob dpon chen po dpal mar me mdzad ye shes). mahāyānapathasādhanasaṃgraha [महायानपथसाधनसंग्रह]. theg pa chen po'i lam gyi sgrub thabs shin tu bsdus pa [ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་ལམ་གྱི་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་ཤིན་ཏུ་བསྡུས་པ]. [A Very Concise Practice of the Mahāyāna Path (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3296 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3296&typ=2.

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Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of the Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt महायान  Tib ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།  Ch 大乘  

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Śaraṇagamana - The foundational act of entering the Buddhist path by formally seeking protection and guidance from the Three Jewels: the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Saṅgha. Skt शरणगमन  Tib སྐྱབས་འགྲོ་  Ch 皈依  

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Bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt बोधिचित्त  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Ch 菩提心  

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Smṛtiḥ - Mindfulness is the ability to keep a chosen object or the present moment in mind without forgetting it. It acts as a stable foundation for meditation and daily awareness. Skt स्मृति  Tib དྲན་པ་  Ch 念  

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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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Pāramitā - The six or ten types of practices which lead an individual to Buddhahood. The practice of perfections is particularly important in Mahāyāna Buddhism in which the entire path of the Bodhisattva to reach full enlightenment is included in the six or ten perfections. The six perfections are that of giving, of discipline, patience, zeal, meditation, and wisdom. The perfection of skill-in-means, aspirations, power, and pristine wisdom are added to them to make ten perfections. Skt पारमिता  Tib ཕར་ཕྱིན།;ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ།  Ch 波羅蜜  

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Prajñā - One of the key terms for wisdom or knowledge, most often having the sense of insight, transcendent knowledge, or perhaps gnosis. In some contexts it can also refer to cognition or intellectual understanding. Skt प्रज्ञा  Tib ཤེས་རབ་  Ch 般若  

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Atīśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna (slob dpon chen po dpal mar me mdzad ye shes). mahāyānapathasādhanasaṃgraha [महायानपथसाधनसंग्रह]. theg pa chen po'i lam gyi sgrub thabs shin tu bsdus pa [ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་ལམ་གྱི་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་ཤིན་ཏུ་བསྡུས་པ]. [A Very Concise Practice of the Mahāyāna Path (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3296 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3296&typ=2.

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Atīśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna (slob dpon chen po dpal mar me mdzad ye shes). mahāyānapathasādhanasaṃgraha [महायानपथसाधनसंग्रह]. theg pa chen po'i lam gyi sgrub thabs shin tu bsdus pa [ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་ལམ་གྱི་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་ཤིན་ཏུ་བསྡུས་པ]. [A Very Concise Practice of the Mahāyāna Path (84000)]. Tengyur, RKTST 3296 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3296&typ=2.

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