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ཞི་བ་ལྷའི་སེམས་བསྐྱེད།

zhi ba lha'i sems bskyed

Śāntideva's Mind Generation

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Descriptionངོ་སྤྲོད།

This text is the procedure for generating bodhicitta according to the tradition of Śāntideva, which comes from the lineage of Mañjuśrī. Particularly, it is based on Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra. The whole procedure is divided into two main topics: (1) preliminary, and (2) the actual procedure. Type of Commentary: How to generate bodhicitta according to Śāntideva's tradition as found in the Bodhicaryāvatāra.
Length: 8
Tradition: Kadam

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Skyo ston smon lam tshul khrims (སྐྱོ་སྟོན་སྨོན་ལམ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་). zhi ba lha'i sems bskyed [ཞི་བ་ལྷའི་སེམས་བསྐྱེད།]. [Śāntideva's Mind Generation].

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Zhi ba lha'i sems bskyed. (Śāntideva's Mind Generation). Recension information:
Tibetan	Skyo ston smon lam tshul khrims. ཞི་བ་ལྷའི་སེམས་བསྐྱེད།, (Zhi ba lha'i sems bskyed). In Bka' gdams gsung 'bum phyogs sgrig thengs gnyis pa, Vol. 50: 241-248. Khreng tu'u: Si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2007.

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Phuntsho, Karma, ed. སྐྱོ་སྟོན་སྨོན་ལམ་ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་མཛད་རྣམ་དང་གསུང་རྩོམ། The Life and Works of Kyotön Monlam Tsultrim. Bhutan: Loden Foundation, 2023.

Tibetan Publications2023About this item

The Life and Works of Kyotön Monlam Tsultrim publishes the collected works of the early Kadam master Kyoton in clear Uchen (dbu can) type based on the manuscripts in the Bka gdams gsung 'bum, which are very difficult to decipher in the old Ume (dbu med) scripts. The book contains many short works on buddha-nature and several other important subjects. It also includes a detailed introduction from Karma Phuntsho about the life and works of Kyotön. This publication was supported by Tsadra Foundation.

Kyotön Monlam Tsultrim, the abbot who led Narthang monastery at the peak of its history, was an illustrious figure of his time in Central Tibet. A resolute monk, a meditation master, a learned scholar, author, and public figure, he epitomized the high ideals, practices, and approaches of the Kadam school and championed its traditions of scriptural exegesis and meditation instructions. A Kadam luminary, he also left behind religious writings which hold great significance for Tibetan Buddhist scholarship and practice today.

The writings of Kyotön Monlam Tsultrim appear in volume 50 of the second batch and volume 61 of the third batch of the Collected Works of Kadam series published in 2007 and 2009 by Paltsek Bodyig Penying Zhibjugkhang and Sichuan People's Publishing House. (Source: Karma Phuntsho, Preface, page iii.)

You can download a digital copy of the book for free on the Buddha-Nature website

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Śāntideva (ཞི་བ་ལྷ་). Bodhicaryāvatāra [बोधिचर्यावतार]. byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa [བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ།]. [The Way of the Bodhisattva]. Tengyur, RKTST 3216 http://www.rkts.org/cat.php?id=3216&typ=2.

Classical WorksAbout this item

An "Introduction to Bodhisattva Practice," the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra is a poem about the path of a bodhisattva, in ten chapters, written by the Indian Buddhist Śāntideva (fl. c. 685–763). One of the masterpieces of world literature, it is a core text of Mahāyāna Buddhism and continues to be taught, studied, and commented upon in many languages and by many traditions around the world. The main subject of the text is bodhicitta, the altruistic aspiration for enlightenment, and the path and practices of the bodhisattva, the six perfections (pāramitās). The text forms the basis of many contemporary discussions of Buddhist ethics and philosophy.