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This last chapter is primarily an explanation of how to train in the generosity of giving away one's body, possessions, and roots of virtue for the purpose of others. Taking each object of dedication, they are transformed with strong aspiration into the temporary and ultimate objectives of prayer. | This last chapter is primarily an explanation of how to train in the generosity of giving away one's body, possessions, and roots of virtue for the purpose of others. Taking each object of dedication, they are transformed with strong aspiration into the temporary and ultimate objectives of prayer. | ||
In his commentary to the root text, | In his commentary to the root text, Gyaltsap Je condenses the intent of this whole chapter down into the following single verse: | ||
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|quote-text=Whatever virtue there is from listening, contemplating and meditating, | |quote-text=Whatever virtue there is from listening, contemplating and meditating, | ||
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To make all virtues inexhaustible | To make all virtues inexhaustible | ||
and to increase them, I adorn them effortfully with dedication. | and to increase them, I adorn them effortfully with dedication. | ||
This is the condensed explanation.<ref>Fedor Stracke, trans., ''The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors - A Commentary on the Introduction to the Actions of Bodhisattvas | This is the condensed explanation.<ref>Fedor Stracke, trans., ''The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors - A Commentary on the Introduction to the Actions of Bodhisattvas, Chapter Ten: The Dedication: An Explanation of the Training in the Generosity of Giving Away Body, Possessions, and Roots of Virtue for the Purpose of Others'', by Gyaltsab Rinpoche (N.p.: HappyMonksPublication, 2016), 22, https://happymonkspublication.org/product/bodhisattvacharyavatara-chapter-1-10-commentary/.</ref> | ||
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