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རྒྱལ་བ་ཡང་དགོན་པའི་གདམས་ངག།
rgyal ba yang dgon pa'i gdams ngag
Yangönpa's Instruction (on Training the Mind)
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Gyalwa Yangönpa (1213-58), whose actual name was Gyaltsen Pal, was a highly eclectic master who received teachings from all the principal spiritual lineages of his time, including Kadam, Dzokchen, Kagyü mahāmudrā, Sakya path and fruits, and the cutting-off teachings of chöd. His teachers included the famous Sakya Paṇḍita, Godrakpa, and most importantly, the great Drukpa Kagyü master Götsangpa Gönpo Dorjé (1189-1258). Yangönpa is most remembered for his vast collection of experiential songs and the cycle of three works collectively known as "A Trilogy of Hermetic Teachings," (ri chos skor gsum). It is interesting that Könchok Gyaltsen, the editor of [Blo sbyong brgya rtsa, Mind Training: the Great Collection] chose to include this piece from Yangönpa . . . Strictly speaking, this work does not belong to the mind training genre, though the resonance of Kadam instructions, especially from the well-known "Miscellaneous Sayings of Kadam Masters" is unmistakably discernible in some of the lists found here. The Tibetan text of this short piece found in the Lhasa Shöl edition, the basis of the critical edition on which this translation is based, has been compared and corrected against Yangönpa's own Collected Works. (Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection, 636-37n808)
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rgyal ba yang dgon pa'i gdams ngag [རྒྱལ་བ་ཡང་དགོན་པའི་གདམས་ངག།]. [Yangönpa's Instruction (on Training the Mind)].
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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)
