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Uniting Wisdom and Compassion: Illuminating The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva

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Descriptionངོ་སྤྲོད།

Table of contents

• Translator's Preface1
• Introduction by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche11
• The Excellent Vase of Nectar: The Unity of Scriptures and Oral Instructions23
  • The Goodness of the Beginning25
  • PART 1
  • The Preliminaries: The Manner of Entering into the Dharma29
  • PART 2
  • The Main Part: Demonstrating the Paths of the Three Kinds of Beings59
  • PART 3
  • The Condensed Meaning of the Conclusion177
• Appendix: The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva185
• Notes191
• Glossary195
• Sources Cited203
• Index of Names207
• About the Authors209

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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].རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ།

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Gyalse Tokme Zangpo's (1295–1369) highly influential work on Mind Training (blo sbyong) that outlines the training of a bodhisattva in a series of thirty-seven verses is still very popular today with Buddhist practitioners around the world. The colophon states: "This was composed at the Jewel Cave of Ngulchu by the monk Tokme [Zangpo], expounder of scripture and reasoning, for the benefit of myself and others." Since he gathered together all the paths of the bodhisattvas and composed them in the form of thirty-seven verses, the title is clearly fitting.རྒྱལ་བའི་སྲས་ཀྱི་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ་ཞེས་པ་ནི། མཛད་བྱང་དུ། འདི་རང་གཞན་ལ་ཕན་པའི་དོན་དུ་ལུང་དང་རིགས་པ་སྨྲ་བའི་བཙུན་པ་ཐོགས་མེད་ཀྱིས་དངུལ་ཆུའི་རིན་ཆེན་ཕུག་ཏུ་སྦྱར་བ། ཅེས་རྒྱལ་སྲས་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་ལམ་ཐམས་ཅད་དྲིལ་ནས་བཤད་པའི་ཚིག་རྐང་གསུམ་བཅུ་སོ་བདུན་གྱི་བདག་ཉིད་དུ་མཛད་པས་མཚན་དེ་ལྟར་ཐོགས་པར་གསལ། དེ་ཡང་དལ་འབྱོར་རྙེད་པར་དཀའ་བ། ཕ་ཡུལ་སྤང་བ། དབེན་པ་བསྟན་པ། མི་རྟག་པ་རྒྱུད་ལ་བསྟེན་པ། གྲོགས་ངན་སྤོང་བ། གྲོགས་བཟང་བསྟེན་པ། སྐྱབས་སུ་འགྲོ་བ། སྐྱེས་བུ་ཆུང་ངུའི་ལམ། སྐྱེས་བུ་འབྲིང་གི་ལམ། སྐྱེས་བུ་ཆེན་པོའི་ལམ། ཀུན་རྫོབ་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཀྱི་སེམས། མི་རྙེད་པ་ལ་བཟོད་པ། སྡུག་བསྔལ་དང་ལེན་གྱི་བཟོད་པ། མི་སྙན་པ་ལ་བཟོད་པ། སྨད་པ་ལ་བཟོད་པ། དཀའ་ཚེགས་ལ་བཟོད་པ། བཟོད་པའི་ཁུར་འཁྱེར་བ། སྡུག་བསྔལ་ལ་བཟོད་པ། འབྱོར་རྒུད་ལ་བཟོད་པ། བྱམས་པ་དང་སྙིང་རྗེ་ལ་བསླབ་པ། འདོད་པའི་ལོངས་སྤྱོད་ལ་ཞེན་པ་སྤོང་བ། སྤྱིར་གཟུང་འཛིན་གཉིས་སུ་མ་གྲུབ་པ། བདེ་བར་སྣང་བའི་ཡུལ་གཟུང་འཛིན་མ་གྲུབ་པ། སྡུག་བསྔལ་མ་གྲུབ་པ། སྦྱིན་པའི་ཕར་ཕྱིན། ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས། བཟོད་པ། བརྩོན་འགྲུས། བསམ་གཏན། ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕར་ཕྱིན། རང་གི་སྒོ་གསུམ་ལ་བརྟག་པ། གཞན་གྱི་ཉེས་པ་མི་སྨྲ་བ། རྩོད་པའི་གཞི་རྙེད་བཀུར་ལ་མི་ཆགས་པ། ཚིག་རྩུབ་སྤོང་བར་གདམས་པ། ཉོན་མོངས་པའི་གཉེན་པོ་བསྟེན་པ། དྲན་དང་ཤེས་བཞིན་ལ་བསླབ་པ། དགེ་བའི་རྩ་བ་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཏུ་བསྔོ་བ་བཅས་ཀྱི་གཞུང་དོན་མ་ལུས་པའི་བསྟན་བྱ་ཡིན། གང་ཟག་སུའི་དོན་དུ་མཛད་ན། གཞུང་ལས། མདོ་རྒྱུད་བསྟན་བཅོས་རྣམས་ལས་གསུངས་པའི་དོན། །དམ་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་གསུང་གི་རྗེས་འབྲངས་ནས། །རྒྱལ་སྲས་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ལག་ལེན་སུམ་བཅུ་བདུན། །རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལམ་ལ་སློབ་འདོད་དོན་དུ་དགོད། །ཞེས་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་གང་ཟག་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ཉམས་སུ་བླངས་བྱའི་གཞུང་བཟང་ཁྱད་པར་ཅན་ཞིག་གོ །

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rgyal sras lag len gyi 'grel pa gzhung dang gdams ngag zung 'jug bdud rtsi'i bum bzang [རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་གྱི་འགྲེལ་པ་གཞུང་དང་གདམས་ངག་ཟུང་འཇུག་བདུད་རྩིའི་བུམ་བཟང་།]. [The Excellent Vase of Nectar: The Unity of Scriptures and Oral Instructions].རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་གྱི་འགྲེལ་པ་གཞུང་དང་གདམས་ངག་ཟུང་འཇུག་བདུད་རྩིའི་བུམ་བཟང་།

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Minyak Kunzang Sönam's The Excellent Vase of Nectar: The Unity of Scriptures and Oral Instructions, a commentary on Tokme Zangpo's The Thirty-Seven Practices of the Bodhisattva.

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Köppl, Heidi, trans. Illuminating the Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva. By Chökyi Dragpa. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2015.

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Illuminating the Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva is a unique presentation of the Buddhist path by Chökyi Dragpa, the foremost Gelug disciple of the famed nineteenth-century Tibetan master Patrul Rinpoche. Its quotations and direct instructions from realized sages of the past reinforce one another, subtly penetrating the mind and preparing it for meditation. This book, while fully accessible to newcomers, is especially powerful for serious, established practitioners.

This book was previously published under the title Uniting Wisdom and Compassion. (Source Accessed Mar 3, 2025)

Contains the root text of The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva (Rgyal sras lag len so bdun ma)

by Thokme Zangpo and a commentary on this text by Minyak Kunzang Sönam titled The Excellent Vase of Nectar: The Unity of Scriptures and Oral Instructions (Rgyal sras lag len gyi 'grel pa gzhung dang gdams ngag zung 'jug bdud rtsi'i bum bzang).

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Anumāna - Inference (Skt. anumāna; T. rjes dpag) is a way of knowing something indirectly, using logic and reasoning rather than direct experience. For example, if you see smoke rising from a distant mountain, you can infer that there is a fire there, even if you can't see the fire directly yourself. It's a key way to understand things that are hidden from our senses. It is used in the Buddhist tradition to gain insight into deeper levels of reality of self and phenomena. Skt अनुमान  Tib རྗེས་དཔག་  Ch 比量  

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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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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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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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Geluk - The Geluk tradition traces its origin to Tsongkhapa, who propagated a modified version of the Kadampa lojong and lamrim teachings. It is the dominant tradition of Tibet, having established its control of the government under the figure of the Dalai Lama. Tib དགེ་ལུགས་  

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Śrāvaka - The disciples of the Buddha who aspire to attain individual liberation or nirvāṇa. The final goal of the Hearers is to become an arhat, a state in which one has totally eliminated the inner problems of attachment, hatred and ignorance, the main causes for rebirth in this cycle of existence. There are four stages of a śrāvaka path including eight phases. Skt श्रावक  Tib ཉན་ཐོས།  Ch 聲聞  

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