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In Praise of Great Compassion
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- A Mahāyāna Liturgy
- A Precursory Phrase of Tantric Definition of Bodhicitta in the Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
- A Study of the Wisdom Chapter (Prajñāpāramitā Pariccheda) of the Bodhicaryāvatārapañjikā of Prajñākaramati
- A Summons to Buddhahood: The Bodhicaryavatara as Santideva's Call to Embrace the Bodhicitta
- Altruism and Reality (1998)
- An Intoxication of Mouse Venom: Reading the Guide, Chapter 9
- Anger: The Seven Deadly Sins
- Appendix B: Excerpt from A Lamp Completely Illuminating the Profound Reality of Interdependence
- Becoming Bodhisattvas
- Bhadracaryāvidhi in the Śikṣāsamuccaya Chapt. 16
- Bile & Bodhisattvas: Śāntideva on Justified Anger
- Bodhicaryāvatāra 9:2 as a Focus for Tibetan Interpretations of the Two Truths in the Prāsangika Mādhyamika
- Bodhicaryāvatāra and Tibetan Mind Training (Lojong)
- Bodhicitta (Ringu Tulku)
- Bodhicitta and Bodhisattva: A Study of the Bodhicaryāvatāra of Śāntideva
- Bodhicitta and Charity: A Comparison
- Bodhicitta: Cultivating the Compassionate Mind of Enlightenment
- Bodhisattva e Prajñāpāramitā nel Bodhicaryāvatāra di Śāntideva
- Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra: Exposition de la pratique des bodhisattvas
- Buddhist Ethics (2003)
- Can We Kill Illusory People? Some Philosophical Reflections on Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra 9:11-13ab
- Comparative Confession: A Comparative Study of Confession in the Writings of Tertullian, Cassian, and Śāntideva
- Compassion and Equality
- Compassion in Mahayana Buddhism
- Compassion in Our Day: Learning from Shantideva
- Compassion in Schopenhauer and Śāntideva
- Comprendre la vacuité
- Conclusion: The Socratic Paradigm
- Consequentialism, Particularism, and the Emptiness of Persons: A Response to Vishnu Sridharan
- Courageous Compassion
- Cultivating Bodhicitta: Wisdom and Compassion in Śāntideva's Introduction to the Awakened Life
- Das 7. Kapitel über die Tatkraft in Śāntidevas Bodhicaryāvatāra
- 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
- Die zwei Wahrheiten
- Does Anātman Rationally Entail Altruism? On Bodhicaryāvatāra 8:101-103
- Drops of Nectar: Khenpo Kunpal's Commentary on Shantideva's Entering the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas
- Epitome of the Bodhicaryāvatāra with Its Pañjikā, Chap. IX
- Ethical Revaluation in the Thought of Śāntideva
- Ethics in Schopenhauer and Buddhism
- Exchanging Self and Other
- Extreme Giving: The Vessantara Jātaka and Shantideva's A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
- 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 Sickness to Empathy: How Śāntideva and Jesus's Healing of the Man Blind from Birth Might Help Us Understand the Ongoing Pandemic
- 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
- Healing Anger
- Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective-Review by Naga
- In Praise of Great Compassion
- Indian Madhyamaka Buddhist Philosophy after Nagarjuna, Vol. 2
- Innate Human Connectivity and Śāntideva's Cultivation of Compassion
- Internal and External Opposition to the Bodhisattva's Gift of His Body
- Introduction to Gzhan gyis brtsad pa'i lan mdor bsdus pa rigs lam rab gsal de nyid snang byed: An Answer to Blo-bzang-rab-gsal's Refutation of the Author's 'Sher le nor bu ke ta ka' and Its Defence, the Brgal lan nyin byed snang ba
- L'opalescent joyau
- La légende de Śāntideva
- Le commentaire de Mi-pham au chapitre IX du Bodhicaryāvatāra de Śāntideva: Échos modernes d'une controverse du XVème siècle
- Love in Christianity and Buddhism: A Comparative Study of Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae and Śāntideva's Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Mapping the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Mental Purification (Blo sbyong): A Native Tibetan Genre of Religious Literature
- Mi pham and the Philosophical Controversies of the Nineteenth Century
- Mindfulness and Ethics: Attention, Virtue and Perfection
- Mindfulness and Moral Transformation: Awakening to Others in Śāntideva's Ethics
- Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness
- Moderation or the Middle Way: Two Approaches to Anger
- 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
- Patience and Perspective
- Patience: A Guide to Shantideva's Sixth Chapter (Zopa 2020)
- Peaceful Heart
- Perfecting Patience
- Perfecting Wisdom
- Performing Text as Practice: Rdza Dpal sprul's Practice Manual on the Bodhi(sattva)caryāvatāra
- Plant Seed, Pull Weed
- Polemics in Indo-Tibetan Scholasticism - A Late 19th-Century Debate Between 'Ju Mi pham and Dpa' ris Rab gsal
- Practicing Wisdom
- Prajñākaramati on Śāntideva's Case Against Anger: A Translation of Bodhicaryāvatāra-pañjikā VI.1-69
- Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice
- Readings of Śāntideva's Guide to Bodhisattva Practice-Review by Harris
- René Girard, Śāntideva, and the Emptiness of Desire
- Ritual Structure and Material Culture in the Guide to Bodhisattva Practice
- Seeing from All Sides
- Self-Protection through Mindfulness, Śāntideva
- Shantideva's Bodhicaryavatara: An Internal Pilgrimage to Universal Peace and Compassion
- Stotra, Psychological Conditioning, and the Bodhicaryāvatāra: Together with a Translation of the Bodhicittānuśaṃsapariccheda
- Suffering Made Sufferable: Śāntideva, Dzongkaba, and Modern Therapeutic Approaches to Suffering's Silver Lining
- Tant que durera l'espace
- The Awakening Mind (Tsering 2008)
- The Bodhicittotpādasamādanāvidhi by Jitari
- The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature
- The Bodhisattva Guide
- The Bodhisattva and the Ideal of Moral Wisdom in Śāntideva's Śikṣāsamuccaya
- 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 Case of 'Ju Mi pham (1846–1912) and Dpa' ris Rab gsal (1840–1912): A Study in Dgag lan Debate
- 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 Contrasts between the Bodhisattvayāna and the Śrāvakayāna in the Śikṣāsamuccaya's Theory of Bodhicitta
- The Middle Way of the Bodhisattva
- The Profound Reality of Interdependence
- The Resolve to Become a Buddha
- The Role of Solitude (viveka) in the Eighth Chapter (Dhyānapāramitā) of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- The Self and the Suffering Other: Levinas and Śāntideva on the Ethics of Compassion
- The Triskandha, Practice in Three Parts: Study of an Early Mahāyāna Buddhist Ritual
- The Wisdom Chapter
- The Śāntideva Passage: Bodhicaryāvatāra VIII.90–103
- Transcendent Wisdom (1988)
- Uncommon Happiness
- Virtuous Bodies
- Waking into Compassion: The Three Ālambana of Karuṇā
- What Would a Sage Do?
- Wisdom: Two Buddhist Commentaries
- Śāntideva (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Śāntideva and an Ethic of Radical Compassion
- Śāntideva and the Moral Psychology of Fear
- Śāntideva and the Mādhyamika: The Prajñāpāramitā-Pariccheda of the Bodhicaryāvatāra
- Śāntideva on Developing the Thought of Awakening
- Śāntideva's Criticism of Vijñānavāda and Bodhicitta
- Śāntideva's Impartialist Ethics
- Śāntideva's Statement about Confession
- Śāntideva: Mystique Bouddhiste des VIIe et VIIIe siècles
- Śāntideva: Mystique Bouddhiste des VIIe et VIIIe siècles-Review by Cabezón
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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)
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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
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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.
