The Bodhisattva Vow: A Practical Guide to Helping Others - Softcover

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0948006501 ISBN 13: 9780948006500

Publisher: Tharpa Publications, 1995

Synopsis

A Bodhisattva is a friend of the world who, motivated by compassion, spontaneously seeks enlightenment to benefit all living beings. In this welcome guide to compassionate living, Geshe Kelsang explains in detail how to take and keep the Bodhisattva vows, and how to practice the Bodhisattva's deeds of giving, moral discipline, patience, effort, concentration, and wisdom. With this handbook as our companion, we can enter into the Bodhisattva's way of life and progress along the path to full enlightenment.

About this title

Product Description:

In this guide to compassionate living, Geshe Kelsang explains in detail how to take and keep the Bodhisattva vows. He gives advice on every aspect of a Bodhisattva's moral discipline, as well as explaining a special practice for purifying our mind.

Review:

This book is an ideal companion... written with impeccable qualifications and clarity. --Going Beyond

Geshe Kelsang has a unique gift for simultaneously addressing everyday difficulties - particularly in his useful and inspiring elucidation of how to control anger and practice patience - and bringing into focus the spiritual dimension in which they reverberate. --Booklist

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso both delights in and has a profound insight into the entire range of the teachings of Buddha. Difficult technical points are rendered into pleasantly readable prose, and the text as a whole is both absorbing and illuminating. --Tibetan Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Tharpa Publications
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0948006501
• ISBN 13: 9780948006500
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 192