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རྟེན་འབྲེལ་སྙིང་པོའི་ཁྲིད་ཡིག།
rten 'brel snying po'i khrid yig
Guide to the Heart of Dependent Origination
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There is no mention of this particular mind training instruction in Shönu Gyalchok's Compendium of WeII-Uttered Insights. However, Lechen Künga Gyaltsen's Lamp Illuminating the History of the Kadam Tradition (p. 8) identifies Dromtönpa as the origin of this instruction and asserts that Ngülchu Thokmé Sangpo wrote a guide on this instruction. The Treasury of Gems (p. 195), on the other hand, recognizes the instruction as being initially developed by the Kadam master Phuchungwa (1031-1106). Phuchungwa, whose actual name was Shönu Gyaltsen, was one of the three famous Kadam brothers and later became the source of the so-called Kadam lineage of pith instructions. It is intriguing to note, however, that in the brief presentation of the lineage of this instruction found at the end of this short work, the author of this text fails to include Phuchungwa on the list, which seems to support Lechen's statement that the instruction originated from Drontönpa rather than Phuchungwa. It is also difficult to speculate who the actual author of this work is. (Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection, 637n811)
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rten 'brel snying po'i khrid yig [རྟེན་འབྲེལ་སྙིང་པོའི་ཁྲིད་ཡིག།]. [Guide to the Heart of Dependent Origination].
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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)
