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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''. ([https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Training-Like-Rays-Sun/dp/8185102716 Adapted from Source Mar 26, 2025]) +
Hor ston nam mkha' dpal ba. ''Blo sbyong nyi ma'i 'od zer''. New Delhi: Bod gzhung shes rig dpar khang, 2008. +
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One of the earliest Tibetan texts that focuses on mind training. This text presents powerful yogic methods of dispelling the selfish delusions of the ego and maintaining purity in our motives. Teaches how we can fight the egocentric enemy within by realizing the truth of emptiness and by developing a compassionate, loving attitude toward others. +
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The translation of this root text is based on the version found in Yeshé Döndrup's ''Treasury of Gems'' (pp. 41-42), which its author asserts is a critical edition based on consultation with the commentary found in [the ''Blo sbyong brgya rtsa'', Mind Training: The Great Collection'']. He maintains
that the version of this root text found in at least two editions of the ''Great Collection''—a handwritten edition and a Mongolian blockprint edition—and also the version found in Sumpa Yeshé Paljor's collected works, all suffer from corruptions of spelling. (Thupten Jinpa, ''Mind Training: The Great Collection'', 601n315) +
Though this is clearly a commentary on a verse text entitled ''Leveling Out AII Conceptions'', in the Lhasa edition of the Tibetan original, interestingly, no title is provided at the beginning of this text. In the short colophon at the end of the text, however, this commentary is presented as being composed, or at least narrated, by Atiśa on the basis of receiving the instructions directly from his teacher Serlingpa. It is difficult to assess the true authorship of this commentarial work. However, if the attribution to Serlingpa of its root text, ''Leveling Out All Conceptions'', is valid, it is conceivable that Atiśa gave commentaries, or at least explanations, of the instructions contained in the root stanzas. (Thupten Jinpa, ''Mind Training: The Great Collection'', 616n459) +
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This work, as noted by Shönu Gyalchok (''Compendium of Well-Uttered Insights'', p. 48), is generally attributed to Serlingpa, Atiśa's principal teacher on the awakening mind. Interestingly, the nineteenth-century Mongolian author Yeshé Döndrup (''Treasury of Gems'', p. 48) attributes this text to Maitrīyogi. On the basis of intratextual considerations . . . the case for the first attribution appears stronger. This said, without additional textual evidence, the question of authorship of this poem must remain open. (Thupten Jinpa, ''Mind Training: The Great Collection'', 599–600n303) +
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<i>blo sbyong smon lam byang sems rgya mtsho'i 'jug ngogs</i> [བློ་སྦྱོང་སྨོན་ལམ་བྱང་སེམས་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་འཇུག་ངོགས།]. +
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<i>blo sbyong spyi spungs don gyi man ngag</i> [བློ་སྦྱོང་སྤྱི་སྤུངས་དོན་གྱི་མན་ངག།]. +
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Although it is difficult to determine the author of this mind training work, both Thuken (''CrystaI Mirror'', p. 99) and Yeshé Döndrup (''Treasury of Gems'', p. 105) identify Dromtönpa as the source of the instruction on eight sessions of mind training. More importantly, the text itself refers to the instruction on eight sessions as "Dromtönpa's instruction." Since Khamlungpa specialized in the propagation of this instruction, this particular approach later came to be known as "Khamlungpa's eight sessions mind training." This instruction encapsulates a wonderful method for taking all aspects of everyday activities and experience into your meditative practice. (Thupten Jinpa, ''Mind Training: The Great Collection'', 606n348) +
<i>blo sbyong thun brgyad ma'i zin bris nyung gsal</i> [བློ་སྦྱོང་ཐུན་བརྒྱད་མའི་ཟིན་བྲིས་ཉུང་གསལ།]. +
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