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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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Table of contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. THE FOUR IMMEASURABLES
- The Four Immeasurables in the Pāli Tradition
- The Three Higher Trainings and the Four Immeasurables
- Introduction to the Four Divine Abodes
- Meditation on Love
- Counteracting Animosity and Anger
- Continuing the Meditation on Love
- Cultivating Love Benefits Self and Others
- Meditation on Compassion
- Meditation on Empathic Joy
- Meditation on Equanimity
- Types of Equanimity
- The Four Divine Abodes and Insight
- Near and Far Enemies of the Four Immeasurables
- The Four Immeasurables in the Mahāyāna
- The Four Immeasurables in the Vajrayāna
- An Intimate Feeling with All Beings
- 2. THE ALTRUISTIC INTENTION OF BODHICITTA
- The Fundamental Vehicle and Mahāyāna
- The Ultimate Purpose of Dharma Practice
- What Is Bodhicitta?
- The Causes of Bodhicitta
- The Benefits of Bodhicitta
- Bodhisattvas as Inspiring Role Models
- Two Types of Mahāyāna Disciples
- 3. HOW TO CULTIVATE BODHICITTA: THE SEVEN CAUSE-AND-EFFECT INSTRUCTIONS
- The Seven Cause-and-Effect Instructions
- Training the Mind to Be Intent on Others' Well-Being
- Developing the Attitude That Is Intent on Others' Welfare Bodhicitta
- 4. EQUALIZING AND EXCHANGING SELF AND OTHERS
- Equalizing Self and Others
- The Disadvantages of Self-Centeredness
- Benefits of Cherishing Others
- Exchanging Self and Others
- Using Jealousy, Competition, and Arrogance in the Exchange
- How to View the Body
- Taking and Giving
- True Practitioners
- Comparing and Combining the Two Methods
- 5. BECOMING A BODHISATTVA
- The Self-Centered Attitude and Self-Grasping Ignorance
- Self-Interest and Self-Confidence
- Integrating the View with Bodhicitta
- Who Can Generate Bodhicitta?
- Definite and Indefinite Lineage
- Can Bodhicitta Degenerate?
- Signs of Irreversibility
- Classifications of Bodhicitta
- 6. HOMAGE TO GREAT COMPASSION
- Compassion Is the Root of All Goodness
- The Three Principal Causes of Bodhisattvas
- Compassion Observing Sentient Beings
- Compassion Observing Phenomena
- Compassion Observing the Unapprehendable
- Combining Wisdom and Compassion
- 7. ASPIRING AND ENGAGING BODHICITTA
- Identifying Aspiring and Engaging Bodhicitta
- The Ceremony for Generating Aspiring Bodhicitta
- Guidelines of Aspiring Bodhicitta
- Engaging Bodhicitta
- Taking the Bodhisattva Vow
- The Bodhisattva Ethical Code in the Tibetan Tradition
- A Kind Heart
- 8. LOVE, COMPASSION, AND BODHICITTA IN CHINESE BUDDHISM
- Love and Compassion - Prerequisites to Bodhicitta
- Causes and Conditions to Generate Bodhicitta
- Ten Factors to Spur the Generation of Bodhicitta
- Vasubandhu on Cultivating Bodhicitta and the Bodhisattva Vow
- Exhortation to Resolve on Buddhahood
- Cultivating the Three Types of Mind and the Five Great Vows
- The Four Great Vows
- The Bodhisattva Ethical Code in Chinese Buddhism
- The Bodhisattva Ethical Code in Japanese Buddhism
- Bodhicitta, True Suchness, and Buddha Nature
- The Five Stages of Cultivating Bodhicitta
- 9. BODHICITTA AND BODHISATTVAS IN THE PĀLI TRADITION
- 10. MIND TRAINING
- Taking Adversity into the Path
- Specific Advice for Difficult Situations
- A Lifetime's Practice
- The Commitments and Precepts of Mind Training
- Gāthās to Train the Mind
- Notes
- Glossary
- Recommended Reading
- Index
- About the Authors
Interconnections
5 Readings
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.
