An Extensive Commentary on the Seven Point Mind Training: A summery of all Mahayana Practices - Softcover

Lobsang Gyatso

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9387023125 ISBN 13: 9789387023123

Publisher: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 2017

Synopsis

The mind training tradition that developed in Tibet has its source from the great Indian masters like Nagarjuna and Shantideva and was brought into Tibet by Atisha in the eleventh century. The practice of Mind Training (Lojong) is based on the essential Mahayana teachings of impermanence, compassion, and the exchange of self and other The lojong teachings are a source of inspiration and guidance shared by the masters of all Tibetan traditions. The Seven Point Mind Training is a popular Tibetan Buddhist text composed by the twelfth century Kadampa master Geshe Chekawa, and An Extensive Commentary on the Seven Point Mind Training is a commentary on The Seven Point Mind Training by Geshe Lobsang Gyatsho. In this book Geshe Lobsang Gyatso explains the practice of Mind Training as the synthesis of all the various trainings of Mahayana Buddhism into one practice, with nothing whatsoever omitted. He constantly emphasizes the daily practice of the Mind Training teach-ings over mere study or memorization, and suggests that we place whatever intellectual understanding we may have into pure Dharma practice, right here and now. He further explains the root text with the expertise of an individ-ual who has lived these teachings for many years, and has come to a personal, experiential mastery of them. He advises this practise as the fundamental antidote to our samsaric suffering and afflictive emotions caused by our own self-centered attitude.

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About the Author

You hold in your hands teachings from remarkable Tibetan ma Gan Lobsang Grano was born in the Khan region of Eastern Tibet in 1928 and was ordained a monk at the age of 11 years old. A fearless and irascible youth, called by the nickname Nag-po-pe for his lack of concern for cleanliness, he changed little as he matured and became for more concerned with his Dharma studies and practice than with the quality of cleanliness of his monk's robes. He left his home region of Tibet for the capital city of Lhasa at the age of 17, and there he joined the Loseling college of the Gelogpa monastery Drepang, then the largest monastic institution in the world. There, he distinguished himself as a scholar and a formidable debater. He spent long periods in retreat during the monastic post sesions in the caves above Drepung monastic,studying and meditating on Dharma.

Edition details

• Publisher: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9387023125
• ISBN 13: 9789387023123
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 149