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The Second Dalai Lama, Gendun Gyatsoདགེ་འདུན་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
The Kadam school of Tibetan Buddhism emerged in the eleventh century from the teachings of the Indian master Atiśa and his principal Tibetan student, Dromtönpa. Although it no longer exists as an independent school, Kadam’s teachings were incorporated into the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism and are still prized today for their unique practical application of the bodhisattva’s altruistic ideal in everyday life. One of the most cherished teachings stemming from Atiśa and Dromtönpa is the collection of esoteric oral transmissions enshrined in The Book of Kadam.
This volume includes the core texts of the Book of Kadam, notably the twenty-three-chapter dialogue between Atiśa and Dromtönpa that is woven around Atiśa's Bodhisattva's Jewel Garland, as well as complementary texts that illuminate the history and practices of the Kadam tradition. (Source: Wisdom Publications)
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Jinpa, Thupten, ed. and trans. The Book of Kadam: The Core Texts. By Atiśa (jo bo rje a ti sha) and Dromtönpa ('brom ston pa). Library of Tibetan Classics 2. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2008.
1. Making Prostrations to the Distinguished Objects of Veneration 74
2. How Instructions on the Four Divinities Were Conferred 80
3. How to Choose the Three Sacred Scriptural Baskets 95
4. How to Strive by Engaging in Activity 110
5. How to Guard the Doors of the Senses and Hold Your Mind114
6. How All Blame Lies in a Single Point 121
7. How to Relinquish the Objects of Abandonment and Engage in the Virtues 127
8. The Riches of the Noble Ones and the Khakkhara Staff137
9. Songs of Perfect Purity 147
10. Cultivating through Honor and the Perfect Mode of Seeing161
11. How to Nurture Sublime Beings and Their Deeds169
12. How to Hoist Your Robes to Cross the Mires of Desire 186
13. How the Heritage of the Pure Way of Life Was Requested 261
14. Meditating on Perfect Equanimity of Excitation and Mental Laxity through Severing the Root of Suffering 267
15. How to Train the Mind within the Expanse of Appearance, Emptiness, and Empty Echoes 279
16. How He Engaged in the Hidden Conduct and So On 289
17. Not Forsaking the Pledges and the Excellence of the Perfect Spiritual Tradition 313
18. How to Help Guard Others' Minds 322
19. Constantly Working for Others' Welfare 332
20. Practicing the Profound Teaching without Defaming Other Teachings 339
21. Dedication and Purifying Negative Karma 347
22. Subsuming (All Higher Qualities) into Seven Riches and Bequeathing Them 368
23. The Two Examinations 381 Colophon 390
IV. Elucidation of the Heart-Drop Practice
Khenchen Nyima Gyaltsen (1223-1305) 395
PART TWO: THE SON TEACHINGS
V. The Spiritual Mentor's Birth as the Brahman Youth Ujjvala455
VI. The Spiritual Mentor's Birth as Prince Asanga in Kausambhi 477
VII. The Spiritual Mentor's Birth as the Youth Sanghavardana in Magadha's Lotus Region 499
VIII. The Spiritual Mentor's Birth as Prince Śaranadatta in the Town of Sukhavat 507
PART THREE: SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS
IX. Summary Points of The Book of Kadam
Gendtün Gyatso, Second Dalai Lama (1476-1542) 521
X. Heart-Instructions of The Book of Kadam
Yongzin Yeshé Gyaltsen (1713-93) 529
XI. Sayings of the Kadam Masters
Compiled by Chegom Sherap Dorjé (ca. twelfth century) 559
Table of Tibetan Transliteration 611
Notes 619
Glossary 665
Bibliography 681
Index 693
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[[Bka' gdams glegs bam las btus pa'i chos skor|Thupten Jinpa, ed. Selections from the Collected Works of the Kadam Tradition. Tibetan Classics Series 2. New Delhi: Institute of Tibetan Classics, 2005. Glang ri ba thub bstan sbyin pa. Bka' gdams glegs bam las btus pa'i chos skor. bod kyi gtsug lag gces btus, 2. bod gyi gtsug lag zhib dpyod khang, 2005. གླང་རི་བ་ཐུབ་བསྟན་སྦྱིན་པ། བཀའ་གདམས་གླེགས་བམ་ལས་བཏུས་པའི་ཆོས་སྐོར། བོད་ཀྱི་གཙུག་ལག་གཅེས་བཏུས། ༢ བོད་ཀྱི་གཙུག་ལག་ཞིབ་དཔྱོད་ཁང་། 2005. ]]
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The Book of Kadam. One of the most cherished teachings stemming from Atiśa and Dromtönpa is the collection of esoteric oral transmissions enshrined in The Book of Kadam. This volume includes the core texts of The Book of Kadam, notably the twenty-three-chapter dialogue between Atiśa and Dromtönpa that is woven around Atiśa's Bodhisattva's Jewel Garland, as well as complementary texts that illuminate the history and practices of the Kadam tradition.
Biography of Atiśa copmposed by his student Dromtönpa Gyalwa Jungne. It has an alternative title, The Qualities of My Teacher, Which Are the Source of Dharma, and begins with a short ode that also appears as the first entry in the Father Teachings, volume 1 of The Book of Kadam, and that is probably where the editors of the Mind Training: The Great Collection got it for our present anthology. (Source: Thupten Jinpa, trans. and ed., Mind Training: The Great Collection. Compiled by Shönu Gyalchok and Könchok Gyaltsen (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2006), 581n40)
Bka' gdams glegs bam pha chos bu chos. (Kadam Lekbam Pachö Buchö). In Tibetan, "The Book of Bka' gdams, Dharma of the Father and Sons" originating with the Indian
master Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna a seminal work of the Bka' gdams sect of Tibetan Buddhism, being the primary text of the oral-instruction (man ngag) lineage organized into its present version by Mkhan chen Nyi ma rgyal mtshan (Kenchen Nyima Gyaltsen) in 1302. "Dharma of the Father" refers to Atiśa's responses to questions posed by his foremost Tibetan student 'Brom ston Rgyal ba'i 'byung gnas (the two "fathers" of Bka' gdams); "Dharma of the Sons" refers to Atiśa's responses to questions posed by Rngog Legs pa'i shes rab and Khu ston Brtson 'grus g.yung drung (Kutön Tsondrü Yungdrung), the spiritual sons of Atiśa and 'Brom ston pa. (Source: "Bka' gdams glegs bam pha chos bu chos." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 123. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
Kadam - The Kadam tradition, which traces its origin to the teachings of Atiśa, was the first of the so-called New Schools of Tibetan Buddhism, traditions which arose during or after the Second Propagation of Buddhism (phyi dar) in the tenth century. Tib བཀའ་གདམས་
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
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
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
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
Brahman - Brahman is the universal principle, supreme truth or ultimate reality in the Hindu religion considered to be absolute, eternal and blissful. A metaphysical concept, it is described as the single binding unity behind the diversity of all that exists. In Buddhism, while this metaphysical principle is not presented, one finds frequent mention of the deity named Brahmā, who is the personification of this principle. Skt ब्रह्मन् Tib ཚངས་པ།
