The Instructions of Gampopa A Precious Garland of the Supreme Path

by KARTHAR, KHENPO

• ISBN13: 9781559390460
• ISBN10: 1559390468
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Snow Lion

Summary

Specific and pragmatic, these instructions are applicable to every state of practice.--Booklist, American Library Association

Author Biography

Khenpo Karthar, born in 1922 in eastern Tibet, entered Thrangu Monastery at the age of twelve, where he underwent many years of training, long retreats, pilgrimages, and philosophical studies. After the Chinese takeover of Tibet in 1959, Rinpoche escaped to India, where he taught for some years at Buxa and later at Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim. He served as abbot of Tashi Choling Monastery in Bhutan, and then at Tilokpur Nunnery in northern India. In 1978, the Sixteenth Karmapa sent Rinpoche to the United States to teach dharma and to serve as his chief representative in this country. Today Rinpoche is the abbot of Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Monastery in Woodstock, New York, and retreat master of the Karme Ling Three-Year Retreat Center.

Table of Contents

Preface	7
Laura M. Roth
COMMENTRY
VEN. KHENPO KARTHAR RINPOCHE
Introduction	11	(2)
1 The Ten Causes of Loss	13	(4)
2 The Ten Necessary Things	17	(5)
3 The Ten Things Upon Which to Rely	22	(9)
4 The Ten Things to Be Abandoned	31	(5)
5 The Ten Things Not to Be Abandoned	36	(18)
6 The Ten Things to Be Known	54	(5)
7 The Ten Things to Be Practiced	59	(5)
8 The Ten Things to Emphasize	64	(4)
9 The Ten Exhortations	68	(3)
10 The Ten Deviations	71	(10)
11 The Ten Confusions of One Thing for Another	81	(6)
12 The Ten Unmistaken Things	87	(4)
13 The Fourteen Useless Things	91	(4)
14 The Eighteen Hidden Evils of Practitioners	95	(5)
15 The Twelve Indispensable Things	100	(6)
16 The Eleven Marks of a Holy Person	106	(4)
17 The Ten Things of No Benefit	110	(18)
18 The Ten Ways of Accomplishing Your Own Disaster	128	(4)
19 The Ten Things That Are Great Kindnesses to Yourself	132	(2)
20 The Ten Perfect Things	134	(3)
21 The Ten Bewilderments of Practitioners	137	(2)
22 The Ten Necessary Things	139	(3)
23 The Ten Unnecessary Things	142	(2)
24 The Ten Superior Things	144	(3)
25 The Ten Situations in Which Whatever Is Done Is Excellent	147	(3)
26 The Ten Qualities of Genuine Dharma	150	(3)
27 The Ten Things That Are Merely Names	153	(2)
28 The Ten Things That Are Spontaneously Present as Great Bliss	155	(2)
Conclusion	157	(6)
The Root Text--The Instructions of Gampopa: A Precious Garland of the Supreme Path	163	(26)
The Tibetan Text	189	(22)
Notes	211