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*{{i|The Authors' Homage and Request|6}} | |||
*{{i|A Prayer of Devotion|6}} | |||
*{{i|Introduction|8}} | |||
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**{{i|The Unique Features, Value and Extraordinary Function of the Secret Instruction|14}} | |||
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*{{i|Contemplation of the Preliminary Teachings|19}} | |||
**{{i|Life as a Free and Fortunate Human Being|20}} | |||
**{{i|How to Think about the Brevity of This Life, Death and Impermanence|25}} | |||
**{{i|Actions and their Consequences|32}} | |||
**{{i|The Drawbacks of Cyclic Existence|35}} | |||
*{{i|Cultivating the Conventional Awakening Mind|42}} | |||
**{{i|Actual Techniques for Cultivating the Awakening Mind|45}} | |||
**{{i|Meditation on Love|58}} | |||
**{{i|Meditation on Compassion|70}} | |||
**{{i|Instructions Concerning the Five Precepts that are Factors of the Training|79}} | |||
**{{i|Transforming Adverse Circumstances into the Path|79}} | |||
**{{i|The Integrated Practice of a Single Lifetime|82}} | |||
**{{i|The Measure of Having Trained the Mind|86}} | |||
**{{i|The Irreversible Commitments of Mind Training|88}} | |||
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*{{i|Cultivating the Ultimate Awakening Mind|103}} | |||
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**{{i|How to Determine the Selflessness of Persons|116}} | |||
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**{{i|Pha-bong-kha Rin-po-che's Edition|140}} | |||
*{{i|Outline of the Mind Training Like the Rays of the Sun|145}} | |||
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Table of contents
- FOREWORDvii
- PREFACEix
- Part One: Introduction And Preliminary Teachings
- The Seven Point Mind Trainings3
- The Authors' Homage and Request6
- A Prayer of Devotion6
- Introduction8
- An Historical Account of the Teaching8
- The Unique Features, Value and Extraordinary Function of the Secret Instruction14
- Part Two: Explanation of the Teaching
- Contemplation of the Preliminary Teachings19
- Life as a Free and Fortunate Human Being20
- How to Think about the Brevity of This Life, Death and Impermanence25
- Actions and their Consequences32
- The Drawbacks of Cyclic Existence35
- Cultivating the Conventional Awakening Mind42
- Actual Techniques for Cultivating the Awakening Mind45
- Meditation on Love58
- Meditation on Compassion70
- Instructions Concerning the Five Precepts that are Factors of the Training79
- Transforming Adverse Circumstances into the Path79
- The Integrated Practice of a Single Lifetime82
- The Measure of Having Trained the Mind86
- The Irreversible Commitments of Mind Training88
- The Precepts of Mind Training95
- Cultivating the Ultimate Awakening Mind103
- The Actual Instructions on Cultivating the Ultimate Awakening Mind106
- How to Determine the Selflessness of Persons116
- How to Determine the Selflessness of Phenomena124
- How Persons and Phenomena Appear Like Illusions129
- Part Three: Appendices
- The Seven Point Mind Training137
- Thog-me Zang-po's Edition137
- Pha-bong-kha Rin-po-che's Edition140
- Outline of the Mind Training Like the Rays of the Sun145
- Notes149
- Bibliography155
- Sanskrit and Tibetan Treatises159
- Other Related Works165
Interconnections
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The Mind Training Like the Rays of the Sun exemplifies Tsongkhapa's presentation of mind training. The author, Namkha Pel, as he mentions in his introduction, received the lineage of the explanation of the Seven Point Mind Training, which is the fundamental text here, from various sources including Je Rinpoche, his principal teacher. What is distinctive about this presentation is that he has managed to combine both the mind training instructions as they are recorded in Geshey Chekawa's text with the pattern of the Stages of the Path. (Adapted from Source Mar 26, 2025)
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Blo sbyong don bdun ma. (Lojong Döndünma). In Tibetan, "Seven Points of Mind Training"; an influential Tibetan work in the blo sbyong ("mind training") genre. The work was composed by the Bka' gdams scholar 'Chad ka ba ye shes rdo rje, often known as Dge bshes Mchad kha ba, based on the tradition of generating bodhicitta known as "mind training" transmitted by the Bengali master Atiśa Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna. It also follows the system laid out previously by Glang ri thang pa (Langri Tangpa) in his Blo sbyong tshig brgyad ma ("Eight Verses on Mind Training"). Comprised of a series of pithy instructions and meditative techniques, the Blo sbyong don bdun ma became influential in Tibet, with scholars from numerous traditions writing commentaries to it. According to the commentary of the nineteenth-century Tibetan polymath 'Jam mgon kong sprul, the seven points covered in the treatise are: (1) the preliminaries to mind training, which include the contemplations on the preciousness of human rebirth, the reality of death and impermanence, the shortcomings of saṃsāra, and the effects of karman; (2) the actual practice of training in bodhicitta; (3) transforming adverse conditions into the path of awakening; (4) utilizing the practice in one's entire life; (5) the evaluation of mind training; (6) the commitments of mind training; and (7) guidelines for mind training. (Source: "Blo sbyong don bdun ma." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 126–27. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)
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