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023-Tsadra-BC-Com-37 Practices-DilgoKR/63 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	When some great teachers of the past reflected on the rarity of human existence, they did not even feel like sleeping; they could not bear to waste a single moment. They put all their energy into spiritual practice. When the Buddha first turned the Wheel of Dharma, he taught the Four Noble Truths. The First Noble Truth is that there is suffering, and it should be recognised. The Second Noble Truth is that suffering has a cause, which therefore needs to be given up. That cause is the kleshas, the negative emotions or afflicting mental factors. Although there are many such obscured states of mind, the five principal obscurations are desire, aggression, ignorance,41Ignorance includes (a) basic ignorance (ma rig pa), the non-recognition of primordial awareness and of the empty nature of phenomena; (b) a dense mental state (ti mug), chiefly a lack of discernment regarding what should be accomplished and what should be discarded in order to gain freedom from samsara; (c) doubt (the tsom) regarding the truth of karma (the law of cause and effect), the existence of past and future lives, and so on; and (d) obscured view (lta ba nyon mong can), the belief that the aggregates (Skt. skandhas) form an individual self, and that phenomena have a real, inherent, and autonomous existence, and so on. pride, and jealousy. The Third Noble Truth is that there is a path that leads beings away from suffering; this path, therefore, needs to be followed. The Fourth Noble Truth is that suffering can thus be brought to cessation. Through the Four Noble Truths, the Buddha urged us to renounce worldly concerns and strive for liberation from samsara.
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TranslationChapterSubsection	The Need to Give Meaning to This Human Existence of Yours, so Rare and Difficult to Obtain
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ShortTitle	37 Practices Padmakara 2006
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SourceShortTitle	Tokme Zangpo
SourceTitleTibetan	རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ་
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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.
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TransMemDate	18 March 2026
TransMemID	023-Tsadra-BC-Com-37 Practices-DilgoKR
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Vīrya - Diligence is the joyful and consistent effort applied to virtuous actions and spiritual practice. It acts as the engine that drives progress and prevents laziness or discouragement on the path. Skt वीर्य  Tib བརྩོན་འགྲུས་  Ch 精進  

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Āvaraṇa - Literally, that which obscures or conceals. Often listed as a set of two obscurations (sgrib gnyis): the afflictive emotional obscurations (Skt. kleśāvaraṇa, Tib. nyon mongs pa'i sgrib pa) and the cognitive obscurations (Skt. jñeyāvaraṇa, Tib. shes bya'i sgrib pa). By removing the first, one becomes free of suffering, and by removing the second, one becomes omniscient. Skt आवरण  Tib སྒྲིབ་པ་  

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Avidyā - Literally "unknowing," it refers to a lack of knowledge or misunderstanding of the nature of reality. As such, it is considered to be the root cause of suffering and the basis for the arising of all other negative mental factors. Skt अविद्या  Tib མ་རིག་པ་  Ch 無明  

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Saṃprajanyam - Vigilance or alertness is the mental function that monitors one's thoughts, speech, and physical actions to ensure they stay on the right path and avoid harmful distractions. Skt संप्रजन्य  Tib ཤེས་བཞིན་  Ch 正知  

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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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