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In Praise of Great Compassion
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- A Fearless Heart
- A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night
- A Mahāyāna Liturgy
- Becoming Bodhisattvas
- Bodhicaryāvatāra and Tibetan Mind Training (Lojong)
- Bodhicitta (Ringu Tulku)
- Bodhicitta: Cultivating the Compassionate Mind of Enlightenment
- Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Exposition de la pratique des bodhisattvas
- Buddhist Ethics (2003)
- Comparative Confession: A Comparative Study of Confession in the Writings of Tertullian, Cassian, and Śāntideva
- Compassion and Equality
- Courageous Compassion
- Das Ritual der Entschlussfassung im Bodhicaryāvatāra (Kap. II und III)
- Demandingness, Self-Interest and Benevolence in Santideva's Introduction to the Practice of Awakening (Bodhicaryavatara)
- Die Aufnahme des Erleuchtungsgeistes: Eine Übersetzung von Prajñākaramatis Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā 3.1-19
- Drops of Nectar: Khenpo Kunpal's Commentary on Shantideva's Entering the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
- Ethical Revaluation in the Thought of Śāntideva
- Exchanging Self and Other
- Features of Śraddhā in the Śikṣāsamuccaya
- Fierce Devotion to all Beings: The Role of Emotions in Śāntideva’s Introduction to the Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicaryāvatāra)
- Following in the Buddha's Footsteps
- For the Benefit of All Beings
- From the Profound View of the Ultimate to Everyday Practice: Tokme Zangpo's Integration of Śāntideva's Teachings into Mind Training
- Gleichheit und Mitgefühl: Prajñākaramatis Kommentar zu Bodhicaryāvatāra VIII. 89-108
- In Praise of Great Compassion
- Innate Human Connectivity and Śāntideva's Cultivation of Compassion
- Mapping the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Mental Purification (Blo sbyong): A Native Tibetan Genre of Religious Literature
- No Time to Lose
- Notes on the Deśanā-ritual in the Bodhicaryāvatāra: Evidence of Its Revision
- One Aspect of the Acceptance of the Bodhisattva-śīla in Tibet
- Perfecting Patience
- Performing Text as Practice: Rdza Dpal sprul's Practice Manual on the Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
- Plant Seed, Pull Weed
- Practicing Wisdom
- Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice
- Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice-Review by Harris
- Ritual Structure and Material Culture in the Guide to Bodhisattva Practice
- Seeing from All Sides
- Self-Protection through Mindfulness, Śāntideva
- Suffering Made Sufferable: Śāntideva, Dzongkaba, and Modern Therapeutic Approaches to Suffering's Silver Lining
- The Awakening Mind (Tsering 2008)
- The Bodhicittotpādasamādanāvidhi by Jitari
- The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature
- The Bodhisattva Guide
- The Buddhist Roots of Secular Compassion Training: A Comparative Study of Compassion Cultivation in Indian and Tibetan Mahāyāna Sources with the Contemporary Secular Program of Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT)
- The Circle of Compassion: An Interpretive Study of Karuṇā in Indian Buddhist Literature
- The Concept of Bodhicitta in Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara
- The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra (Diss)
- The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra-Review by Edelglass
- The Concept of Bodhicitta in Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra-Review by Tatz
- The Resolve to Become a Buddha
- The Triskandha, Practice in Three Parts: Study of an Early Mahāyāna Buddhist Ritual
- The Śāntideva Passage: Bodhicaryāvatāra VIII.90–103
- Uncommon Happiness
- Śāntideva (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Śāntideva and the Moral Psychology of Fear
- Śāntideva on Developing the Thought of Awakening
- Śāntideva's Statement about Confession
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In Praise of Great Compassion, the fifth volume of the Library of Wisdom and Compassion, continues the Dalai Lama's teachings on the path to awakening. While previous volumes focused on our present situation and taking responsibility for creating the causes of happiness, this volume concerns opening our hearts and generating the intention to make our lives meaningful by benefiting others.
We are embedded in a universe with other living beings, all of whom have been kind to us in one way or another. More than any other time in human history, we depend on one another to stay alive and flourish. When we look closely, it becomes apparent that we have been the recipient of great kindness. Wanting to repay others’ kindness, we cultivate a positive attitude by contemplating the four immeasurables of love, compassion, empathic joy, and equanimity, and the altruistic intention of bodhicitta. We learn to challenge the self-centered attitude that leads to misery and replace it with a more realistic perspective enabling us to remain emotionally balanced in good and bad times. In this way, all circumstances become favorable to the path to awakening. (Source: Wisdom Publications)
Citation
Dalai Lama, 14th, and Thubten Chodron. In Praise of Great Compassion. Library of Wisdom and Compassion 5. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2020.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron introduces In Praise of Great Compassion, the fifth volume in The Library of Wisdom and Compassion series that presents His Holiness the Dalai Lama's teachings on the stages of the path to awakening for a modern, Western audience.
Venerable Thubten Chodron reads an excerpt from "In Praise of Great Compassion" co-authored with His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Bodhicitta and the ten perfections in the Pali Tradition.
Venerable Thubten Chodron reads an excerpt from In Praise of Great Compassion, Volume 5 of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion series that presents His Holiness the Dalai Lama's teachings on the stages of the path to awakening.
Venerable Thubten Chodron shares an excerpt from "In Praise of Great Compassion," Volume 5 of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion, on the Tibetan Buddhist genre of mind training teachings that show us how to transform challenges into opportunities for spiritual practice.
Venerable Thubten Chodron gives an overview of the fifth volume of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion, In Praise of Great Compassion. She teaches on the four immeasurables and how to distinguish them from their near enemies. She explains the difference between sharp and modest faculty Mahayana practitioners and between the self-centered attitude and the self-grasping ignorance. She concludes with sharing the four great vows in the Chinese Buddhist tradition.
