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023-Tsadra-BC-Com-37 Practices-DilgoKR/307 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	There is a way to train yourself to see things from a wider perspective. It is a practice called "exchanging oneself and others," and consists of trying to put others in your place, and put yourself in theirs. The idea is, on the one hand, to imagine that you are giving away to all beings whatever good things may happen to you, however small they may be-even a spoonful of good food; and on the other hand, to remember the unbearable sufferings that others are going through, and make up your mind to take all those sufferings upon yourself with the same readiness a mother feels when she takes upon herself the suffering of her child. Indeed, when you reflect that all beings must have actually been your kind parents at one time or another, and that surely you therefore owe it to them to do as much for them as you possibly can, you will be able to bear happily whatever hardships you may have to endure to help others. When you can actually take other people's suffering[p.99]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. upon yourself, rejoice that you have fulfilled your aims; never think they did not deserve so much help, or that you have now done quite enough for them.
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SegmentFormat	Commentary
SourceSabcheNumber	3.2.1.1
SourceSegmentOrder	307
TranslationChapter	2
TranslationChapterSubsection	The Meditation Practice of Exchanging Oneself and Others
TranslationPageNumber	98
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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

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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Thogs med bzang po (ཐོགས་མེད་བཟང་པོ་). rgyal sras lag len so bdun ma [རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ།]. [The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva].

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Thogs med bzang po (ཐོགས་མེད་བཟང་པོ་). rgyal sras lag len so bdun ma [རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ།]. [The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva].

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