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Descriptionངོ་སྤྲོད།

Table of contents

• Preface xiii
• Introduction1
• Technical Note 33

• PART ONE: THE FATHER TEACHINGS
  • I. Tree of Faith: A Self-Exhortation
  • Dromtonpa (1005-64) 37
  • II. Bodhisattva's Jewel Garland
  • Atisa Dīpamkara (982-1054) 61
  • III. The Jewel Garland of Dialogues 65
  • Tite, Homage, and Preamble 65
    • 1. Making Prostrations to the Distinguished Objects of Veneration 74
    • 2. How Instructions on the Four Divinities Were Conferred 80
    • 3. How to Choose the Three Sacred Scriptural Baskets 95
    • 4. How to Strive by Engaging in Activity 110
    • 5. How to Guard the Doors of the Senses and Hold Your Mind114
    • 6. How All Blame Lies in a Single Point 121
    • 7. How to Relinquish the Objects of Abandonment and Engage in the Virtues 127
    • 8. The Riches of the Noble Ones and the Khakkhara Staff137
    • 9. Songs of Perfect Purity 147
    • 10. Cultivating through Honor and the Perfect Mode of Seeing161
    • 11. How to Nurture Sublime Beings and Their Deeds169
    • 12. How to Hoist Your Robes to Cross the Mires of Desire 186
    • 13. How the Heritage of the Pure Way of Life Was Requested 261
    • 14. Meditating on Perfect Equanimity of Excitation and Mental Laxity through Severing the Root of Suffering 267
    • 15. How to Train the Mind within the Expanse of Appearance, Emptiness, and Empty Echoes 279
    • 16. How He Engaged in the Hidden Conduct and So On 289
    • 17. Not Forsaking the Pledges and the Excellence of the Perfect Spiritual Tradition 313
    • 18. How to Help Guard Others' Minds 322
    • 19. Constantly Working for Others' Welfare 332
    • 20. Practicing the Profound Teaching without Defaming Other Teachings 339
    • 21. Dedication and Purifying Negative Karma 347
    • 22. Subsuming (All Higher Qualities) into Seven Riches and Bequeathing Them 368
    • 23. The Two Examinations 381 Colophon 390
  • IV. Elucidation of the Heart-Drop Practice
    • Khenchen Nyima Gyaltsen (1223-1305) 395

• PART TWO: THE SON TEACHINGS
  • V. The Spiritual Mentor's Birth as the Brahman Youth Ujjvala455
  • VI. The Spiritual Mentor's Birth as Prince Asanga in Kausambhi 477
  • VII. The Spiritual Mentor's Birth as the Youth Sanghavardana in Magadha's Lotus Region 499
  • VIII. The Spiritual Mentor's Birth as Prince Śaranadatta in the Town of Sukhavat 507

• PART THREE: SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS
  • IX. Summary Points of The Book of Kadam
  • Gendtün Gyatso, Second Dalai Lama (1476-1542) 521
  • X. Heart-Instructions of The Book of Kadam
  • Yongzin Yeshé Gyaltsen (1713-93) 529
  • XI. Sayings of the Kadam Masters
  • Compiled by Chegom Sherap Dorjé (ca. twelfth century) 559

• Table of Tibetan Transliteration 611
• Notes 619
• Glossary 665
• Bibliography 681
• Index 693

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[[Bka' gdams glegs bam las btus pa'i chos skor|Thupten Jinpa, ed. Selections from the Collected Works of the Kadam Tradition. Tibetan Classics Series 2. New Delhi: Institute of Tibetan Classics, 2005. Glang ri ba thub bstan sbyin pa. Bka' gdams glegs bam las btus pa'i chos skor. bod kyi gtsug lag gces btus, 2. bod gyi gtsug lag zhib dpyod khang, 2005. གླང་རི་བ་ཐུབ་བསྟན་སྦྱིན་པ། བཀའ་གདམས་གླེགས་བམ་ལས་བཏུས་པའི་ཆོས་སྐོར། བོད་ཀྱི་གཙུག་ལག་གཅེས་བཏུས། ༢ བོད་ཀྱི་གཙུག་ལག་ཞིབ་དཔྱོད་ཁང་། 2005. File:Buda by BDRC Logo.jpgབཀའ་གདམས་གླེགས་བམ་ལས་བཏུས་པའི་ཆོས་སྐོར།]]

Tibetan Publications2005About this item

The Book of Kadam. One of the most cherished teachings stemming from Atiśa and Dromtönpa is the collection of esoteric oral transmissions enshrined in The Book of Kadam. This volume includes the core texts of The Book of Kadam, notably the twenty-three-chapter dialogue between Atiśa and Dromtönpa that is woven around Atiśa's Bodhisattva's Jewel Garland, as well as complementary texts that illuminate the history and practices of the Kadam tradition.

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jo bo rjes rgyal srid spangs nas thar pa sgrub pa'i rnam par thar pa [ཇོ་བོ་རྗེས་རྒྱལ་སྲིད་སྤངས་ནས་ཐར་པ་སྒྲུབ་པའི་རྣམ་པར་ཐར་པ།]. [How Atiśa Relinquished His Kingdom and Sought Liberation].ཇོ་བོ་རྗེས་རྒྱལ་སྲིད་སྤངས་ནས་ཐར་པ་སྒྲུབ་པའི་རྣམ་པར་ཐར་པ།

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Biography of Atiśa copmposed by his student Dromtönpa Gyalwa Jungne. It has an alternative title, The Qualities of My Teacher, Which Are the Source of Dharma, and begins with a short ode that also appears as the first entry in the Father Teachings, volume 1 of The Book of Kadam, and that is probably where the editors of the Mind Training: The Great Collection got it for our present anthology. (Source: Thupten Jinpa, trans. and ed., Mind Training: The Great Collection. Compiled by Shönu Gyalchok and Könchok Gyaltsen (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2006), 581n40)

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bka' gdams glegs bam [བཀའ་གདམས་གླེགས་བམ།]. [The Book of Kadam].བཀའ་གདམས་གླེགས་བམ།

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Bka' gdams glegs bam pha chos bu chos. (Kadam Lekbam Pachö Buchö). In Tibetan, "The Book of Bka' gdams, Dharma of the Father and Sons" originating with the Indian master Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna a seminal work of the Bka' gdams sect of Tibetan Buddhism, being the primary text of the oral-instruction (man ngag) lineage organized into its present version by Mkhan chen Nyi ma rgyal mtshan (Kenchen Nyima Gyaltsen) in 1302. "Dharma of the Father" refers to Atiśa's responses to questions posed by his foremost Tibetan student 'Brom ston Rgyal ba'i 'byung gnas (the two "fathers" of Bka' gdams); "Dharma of the Sons" refers to Atiśa's responses to questions posed by Rngog Legs pa'i shes rab and Khu ston Brtson 'grus g.yung drung (Kutön Tsondrü Yungdrung), the spiritual sons of Atiśa and 'Brom ston pa. (Source: "Bka' gdams glegs bam pha chos bu chos." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 123. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)

⟪བཀའ་གདམས་ཀྱི་གླེགས་བམ་ཕ་ཆོས་བུ་ཆོས་⟫ ཞེས་པའི་གསུང་རབ་འདི་ནི། རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་སློབ་དཔོན་ཨ་ཏི་ཤ་དཱི་པཾ་ཀ་ར་ཤྲཱི་ཛྙཱ་ནས་སྲོལ་གཏོད་མཛད་པའི་བོད་ཀྱི་ཆོས་བརྒྱུད་ཇོ་བོ་བཀའ་གདམས་པའི་གཞུང་ལུགས་གཙོ་བོ་ཞིག་སྟེ། སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༡༣༠༢ ལོར་མཁན་ཆེན་ཉི་མ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་གྱིས་བརྒྱུད་པའི་མན་ངག་ཐ་དག་ཕྱོགས་སྒྲིག་མཛད་པ་ཞིག་ཡིན། ཕ་ཆོས་དང་བུ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཁྱད་པར་ནི། སློབ་དཔོན་ཨ་ཏི་ཤ་དང་ཁོང་གི་བོད་ཀྱི་སློབ་མ་གཙོ་བོ་འབྲོམ་སྟོན་རྒྱལ་བའི་འབྱུང་གནས་གཉིས་ལ་བཀའ་གདམས་པའི་ཕ་རྣམ་གཉིས་ཞེས་གྲགས་ཤིང་། སློབ་དཔོན་ཨ་ཏི་ཤས་འབྲོམ་སྟོན་ལ་དྲིས་ལན་གྱི་ཚུལ་དུ་གསུངས་པའི་ཆོས་རྣམས་ལ་“བཀའ་གདམས་ཕ་ཆོས་”དང་། སློབ་དཔོན་ཨ་ཏི་ཤ་དང་འབྲོམ་སྟོན་གཉིས་ཀའི་སློབ་མ་ཁུ་སྟོན་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་གཡུང་དྲུང་གི་དྲིས་ལན་དུ་སློབ་དཔོན་ཨ་ཏི་ཤས་གསུངས་པའི་ཆོས་རྣམས་ལ་“བཀའ་གདམས་བུ་ཆོས་”ཞེས་གྲགས་སོ།།

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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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Brahman - Brahman is the universal principle, supreme truth or ultimate reality in the Hindu religion considered to be absolute, eternal and blissful. A metaphysical concept, it is described as the single binding unity behind the diversity of all that exists. In Buddhism, while this metaphysical principle is not presented, one finds frequent mention of the deity named Brahmā, who is the personification of this principle. Skt ब्रह्मन्  Tib ཚངས་པ།  

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Kadam - The Kadam tradition, which traces its origin to the teachings of Atiśa, was the first of the so-called New Schools of Tibetan Buddhism, traditions which arose during or after the Second Propagation of Buddhism (phyi dar) in the tenth century. Tib བཀའ་གདམས་  

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