The late Zong Rinpoche was famous among Buddhists for his teachings on Chod, a system for working with our fears. This is the first book published of this well-known lama's teaching.

Kyabje Zong Rinpoche was born in Eastern Tibet in 1904 and became abbot of Ganden Shartse Monastery in 1937. He was the first principal of the Central Institute of Tibetan Higher Studies in Sarnath. David Molk began to study with Zong Rinpoche twenty-five years ago and has translated for many Tibetan lamas. He lives in Big Sur, California.

Kyabje Zong Rinpoche: A Biographical Profile

13

(14)

Introduction: The "Sacred Cutting" of Chöd

27

(28)

Taking Vast Scriptural Learning as Personal Advice

28

(1)

Kyabje Zong Rinpoche and His Previous Lives

29

(9)

Transcending Partisanship

38

(3)

Dialectical Debate and the Middle Way

41

(4)

Putting Study to Use in Practice

45

(3)

Maintaining Pure View of the Guru

48

(2)

Practicing with the Wisdom of Compassion

50

(5)

An Overview of the Practice of Chöd

55

(16)

Lineage of the Practice

55

(4)

Place of Practice

59

(3)

Basis for Practice

62

(5)

Advice on Practice

67

(4)

Preliminary Practices of Chöd

Going for Refuge and Generating Bodhichitta

71

(3)

Guru Yoga: Gateway to Empowering Blessings

74

(3)

Accumulating Merit through Seven-limb Prayer and Mandala Offering

77

(8)

Purifying Obstructions and Nonvirtue through the Descent of Nectar from AH

85

(10)

Actual Practice of Chöd: Gathering the Two Accumulations

95

(46)

Gathering the Accumulation of Merit by Offering the Illusory Body

95

(24)

The White Distribution

95

(9)

The Red Distribution

104

(4)

The Manifold Distribution

108

(3)

Giving Dharma and Meditating on Taking and Giving

111

(8)

Gathering the Accumulation of Wisdom through Meditation on Emptiness

119

(14)

The Three Spheres of Giving

120

(3)

The Logical Reasons

123

(8)

Three Methods for Meditation on Emptiness in Chöd Practice

131

(2)

Mara Hindrances in Chöd Practice

133

(5)

Dedicating the Accumulations to Unsurpassed Great Enlightenment

138

(3)

Concluding Advice

141

(4)

Use of the Ritual Damaru and Thighbone Trumpet

141

(1)

The Qualities of Buddha and Je Tsongkhapa

142

(3)

Colophon

145

(6)

APPENDICES

Appendix I: Dedicating the Illusory Body as Ganachakra: Promoting the Experience of Means and Wisdom, Wealth of the Ganden Practice Lineage by Kyabje Phabongka Dechen Nyingpo

151

(16)

Appendix II: Offering Ganachakra in Connection with the Yoga of the Profound Path of Chöd written and compiled by Kyabje Zong Rinpoche Losang Tsöndru

167

(26)

Appendix III: Umapa Pawo Dorje's Commentary on Chöd as Taught by Venerable Manjushri

193

(8)

Appendix IV: Prayer for the Flourishing of Je Tsongkhapa's Teachings by Gungthang Tenpai Dronme

201

(2)

Appendix V: The Sages' Melodious Song of Truth: Nonpartisan Prayer for the Flourishing of Buddha's Teachings by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

203

(6)

Notes

209

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Chod in the Ganden Tradition The Oral Instructions of Kyabje Zong Rinpoche

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