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023-Tsadra-BC-Com-37 Practices-DilgoKR/293 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	This is illustrated by a story from the life of Jigme Gyalwai Nyugu,57Jigme Gyalwai Nyugu (’jigs med rgyal ba’i myu gu): an emanation of Avalokiteshvara, and one of the two chief disciples of Kunkhyen Jigme Lingpa. He was the teacher of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo and Patrul Rinpoche. the root teacher of Patrul Rinpoche.58Patrul Rinpoche, Orgyen Jigme Chökyi Wangpo (dpal sprul O rgyan ’jigs med chos kyi dbang po, 1808–87): a reembodiment of Shantideva and the speech emanation of Jigme Lingpa. He displayed the most perfect life of spiritual realization and renunciation. Except for some years in Shri Singha, the monastic college of Dzogchen Monastery in Kham, he spent most of his life in caves, forests, and the most secluded hermitages, moving at random from one place to the other. Dressed as a simple lay nomad, he traveled unrecognized most of the time. In his youth he committed most of the important treatises (the Seven Treasuries of Longchenpa, for instance) to memory, and thus he “could teach the most complex subjects for months at a time without using any books, as he did in Shri Singha College. When he passed away, his only possessions were a copy of Shantideva’s The Way of the Bodhisattva and a begging bowl. He was a disciple of Jigme Gyalwai Nyugu, Gyalse Shenphen Thaye, Dzogchen Mingyur Namkhai Dorje, and other great teachers; and among his disciples were Lama Mipham, Nyoshul Lhungthok, Onpo Tenga, and many others. Minyak Kunzang Sönam’s commentary of the Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva is said to have been written according to Patrul Rinpoche’s oral instructions. Once, a vindictive spirit decided to take Jigme Gyalwai Nyugu's life. Full of harmful thoughts, the spirit[p.97]The Heart of Compassion: Instructions on Ngulchu Thogme's Thirty-Sevenfold Practice of a Bodhisattva 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. arrived at the entrance to Gyalwai Nyugu's cave. He saw a serene old man sitting with his eyes closed, entirely peaceful, full of love and compassion, his head encircled with white hair. The sight was enough for the spirit's bad thoughts to disappear in an instant. He was awe-struck as he contemplated the old man. The bodhicitta was born within him, and he made the promise to never take another's life again. After this, whenever an opportunity to harm someone arose, the image of the serene, whitehaired old man would instantaneously appear in his mind. The spirit lost all its power to harm.
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Dzogchen - Dzogchen is an advanced system of meditation techniques to reveal the innate state of perfection primarily, but not exclusively, espoused by the Nyingma Buddhist tradition and the Tibetan Bön tradition. Skt महासन्धि  Tib རྫོགས་ཆེན།  

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Smṛtiḥ - Mindfulness is the ability to keep a chosen object or the present moment in mind without forgetting it. It acts as a stable foundation for meditation and daily awareness. Skt स्मृति  Tib དྲན་པ་  Ch 念  

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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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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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Mettā - The unconditional wish for all sentient beings to experience happiness and the causes of happiness. It is a form of universal, selfless love and is one of the four immeasurables (or sublime abodes). Skt मैत्री  Tib བྱམས་པ་  Ch 慈  

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Karuṇā - The profound wish for all sentient beings to be free from suffering and the causes of suffering. It is a core virtue in Buddhism and, in the Mahāyāna tradition, develops into 'great compassion' (mahākaruṇā), the driving force behind the pursuit of enlightenment for the benefit of others. Skt करुणा  Tib ཐུགས་རྗེ་  Ch 悲  

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Bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt बोधिचित्त  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Ch 菩提心  

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Bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt बोधिचित्त  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Ch 菩提心  

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Bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt बोधिचित्त  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Ch 菩提心  

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Bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt बोधिचित्त  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Ch 菩提心  

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