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023-Tsadra-BC-Com-37 Practices-DilgoKR/142 ID: 023-Tsadra-BC-Com-37 Practices-DilgoKR <br> Date: 18 March 2026 <br> Creator: Dawa;Gwen;Kiran <br> Origin: Tsadra Foundation

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English	If you now long to meet an authentic teacher, it is because of your inclination toward the Dharma from the past. Jetsun Milarepa, having heard no more than Marpa's name, could not rest until he actually met him.52Marpa Lotsawa Chökyi Lodrö (mar pa lo tsa ba chos kyi blo gros, 1012–97): father of the Kagyu lineage, born in Lhodrak, in southern Tibet. He first studied with Drogmi Lotsawa, then traveled to India three times to meet his root teacher, the mahasiddha pandit Naropa, as well as his other gurus, Maitripa, Kukuripa, and Jñanagarbha. Jetsun Milarepa, Shepai Dorje (rje btsun mi la ras pa bzhad pa’i rdo rje, 1040–1123), his foremost disciple, is perhaps the most famous example of a perfect spiritual disciple, practitioner, and teacher. The teacher stands at the juncture of the path, rhe point where you could either go up or down. You should receive teachings from him, and allow his instructions to mature through direct experience.
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SourceSegmentOrder	142
TranslationChapter	1
TranslationChapterSubsection	To Rely on a Spiritual Teacher, Whose Presence Creates Conditions Favorable. To Your Progress
TranslationPageNumber	71
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AuthorLabel	Tokme Zangpo 1295 - 1369
DuplicateRootTranslation	false
ShortTitle	37 Practices Padmakara 2006
SourceAuthor	People/Thogs med bzang po
SourceShortTitle	Tokme Zangpo
SourceTitleTibetan	རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ་
SourceTitleWylie	rgyal sras lag len so bdun ma
SourceWikiPage	Texts/Rgyal sras lag len so bdun ma
TranslationCitation	Ricard, Matthieu, and John Canti (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. and ed. The Heart of Compassion: Instructions on Ngulchu Thogme's Thirty-Sevenfold Practice of a Bodhisattva. By Dilgo Khyentse. New Delhi: Shechen Publications, 2006.
TranslationPublishedYear	2006
TranslationWikiPage	Books/The Heart of Compassion (Ricard 2006)
Translator	People/Padmakara Translation Group;People/Ricard, M.;People/Canti, J.
TransMemCreator	Dawa;Gwen;Kiran
TransMemDate	18 March 2026
TransMemID	023-Tsadra-BC-Com-37 Practices-DilgoKR
TransMemNum	023
TransMemOrigin	Tsadra Foundation
TransMemType	Commentary

Kagyu - The Kagyu school traces its origin to the eleventh-century translator Marpa, who studied in India with Nāropa. Marpa's student Milarepa trained Gampopa, who founded the first monastery of the Kagyu order. As many as twelve subtraditions grew out from there, the best known being the Karma Kagyu, the Drikung, and the Drukpa. Tib བཀའ་བརྒྱུད་  

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Śrāvaka - The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases. Skt श्रावक  Tib ཉན་ཐོས།  Ch 聲聞  

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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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