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023-Tsadra-BC-Com-37 Practices-DilgoKR/336 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	Some people may have the idea that these teachings on compassion and exchanging self and others are part of the "gradual path" teachings of the sutras, and are not nearly as effective as the more advanced "direct path" teachings of the Great Perfection or the Great Seal. That is a complete misunderstanding. Only if you have developed the love and compassion of relative bodhicitta can absolute bodhicitta-the very essence of the Great Perfection and the Great Seal-ever take birth in your being.
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SourceSabcheNumber	3.2.1.1
SourceSegmentOrder	336
TranslationChapter	2
TranslationChapterSubsection	The Meditation Practice of Exchanging Oneself and Others
TranslationPageNumber	104
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AuthorLabel	Tokme Zangpo 1295 - 1369
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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

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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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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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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Saṃvṛtibodhicitta - Relative bodhicitta (Skt. saṃvṛtibodhicitta; T. kun rdzob byang chub kyi sems) is the altruistic wish to become a fully enlightened Buddha in order to help all other beings who are suffering. It has two aspects: the strong wish and aspiration to become enlightened, and then actually engaging in the practices of the bodhisattva that lead to Buddhahood, like generosity and patience. Skt संवृतिबोधित्त  Tib ཀུན་རྫོབ་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས་  Ch 世俗菩提心  

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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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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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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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