The Book of Kadam The Core Texts

by Jinpa, Thupten

• ISBN13: 9780861714414
• ISBN10: 0861714415
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-15
• Publisher: Wisdom Publications

Summary

The Library of Tibetan Classics is a special series being developed by The Institute of Tibetan Classics to make key classical Tibetan texts part of the global literary and intellectual heritage. Eventually comprising thirty-two large volumes, the collection will contain over two hundred distinct texts by more than a hundred of the best-known Tibetan authors. These texts have been selected in consultation with the preeminent lineage holders of all the schools and other senior Tibetan scholars to represent the Tibetan literary tradition as a whole. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Thupten Jinpa Langri was educated in the classical Tibetan monastic academia and received the highest academic degree of Geshe Lharam (equivalent to a doctorate in divinity). Jinpa also holds a BA in philosophy and a PhD in religious studies, both from the University of Cambridge, England. Since 1985, he has been the principal translator to the Dalai Lama, accompanying him to the United States, Canada, and Europe. He has translated and edited many books by the Dalai Lama, including The World of Tibetan Buddhism, Essence of the Heart Sutra, and the New York Times bestseller Ethics for the New Millennium.

Jinpa has published scholarly articles on various aspects of Tibetan culture, Buddhism, and philosophy, and books such as Songs of Spiritual Experience: Tibetan Poems of Awakening and Insight (co-authored) and Self, Reality and Reason in Tibetan Thought. He serves on the advisory board of numerous educational and cultural organizations in North America, Europe, and India. He is currently the president and the editor-in-chief of the Institute of Tibetan Classics, a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to translating key Tibetan classics into contemporary languages. He also currently chairs the Mind and Life Institute.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Technical Note	p. 33
The Father Teachings
Tree of Faith: A Self-Exhortation: Dromtonpa (1005-64)	p. 37
Bodhisattva's Jewel Garland: Atisa Dipamkara (982-1054)	p. 61
The Jewel Garland of Dialogues	p. 65
Title, Homage, and Preamble	p. 65
Making Prostrations to the Distinguished Objects of Veneration	p. 74
How Instructions on the Four Divinities Were Conferred	p. 80
How to Choose the Three Sacred Scriptural Baskets	p. 95
How to Strive by Engaging in Activity	p. 110
How to Guard the Doors of the Senses and Hold Your Mind	p. 114
How All Blame Lies in a Single Point	p. 121
How to Relinquish the Objects of Abandonment and Engage in the Virtues	p. 127
The Riches of the Noble Ones and the Khakkhara Staff	p. 137
Songs of Perfect Purity	p. 147
Cultivating through Honor and the Perfect Mode of Seeing	p. 161
How to Nurture Sublime Beings and Their Deeds	p. 169
How to Hoist Your Robes to Cross the Mires of Desire	p. 186
How the Heritage of the Pure Way of Life Was Requested	p. 261
Meditating on Perfect Equanimity of Excitation and Mental Laxity through Severing the Root of Suffering	p. 267
How to Train the Mind within the Expanse of Appearance, Emptiness, and Empty Echoes	p. 279
How He Engaged in the Hidden Conduct and So On	p. 289
Not Forsaking the Pledges and the Excellence of the Perfect Spiritual Tradition	p. 313
How to Help Guard Others' Minds	p. 322
Constantly Working for Others' Welfare	p. 332
Practicing the Profound Teaching without Defaming Other Teachings	p. 339
Dedication and Purifying Negative Karma	p. 347
Subsuming [All Higher Qualities] into Seven Riches and Bequeathing Them	p. 368
The Two Examinations	p. 381
Colophon	p. 390
Elucidation of the Heart-Drop Practice: Khenchen Nyima Gyaltsen (1223-1305)	p. 395
The Son Teachings
The Spiritual Mentor's Birth as the Brahman Youth Ujjvala	p. 455
The Spiritual Mentor's Birth as Prince Asanga in Kausambhi	p. 477
The Spiritual Mentor's Birth as the Youth Sanghavardana in Magadha's Lotus Region	p. 499
The Spiritual Mentor's Birth as Prince Saranadatta in the Town of Sukhavat	p. 507
Supplementary Texts
Summary Points of the Book of Kadam: Gendun Gyatso, Second Dalai Lama (1476-1542)	p. 521
Heart-Instructions of The Book of Kadam: Yongzin Yeshe Gyaltsen (1713-93)	p. 529
Sayings of the Kadam Masters: Compiled by Chegom Sherap Dorje (ca. twelfth century)	p. 559
Table of Tibetan Transliteration	p. 611
Notes	p. 619
Glossary	p. 665
Bibliography	p. 681
Index	p. 693
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