The Twenty Verses on the Great Vehicle, Mahayanavimsaka by Nargarjuna
Adoration To The Three Treasures
The Twenty Verses on the Great Vehicle, Mahayanavimsaka by Nargarjuna
Adoration To The Three Treasures
The Everflowing Nectar of Bodhicitta.
The Practice of Thousand-arm Chenrezig and the Eight Verses of Thought Transformation. The Mahayana Thought Training Annihilating the Demon of the Self-Cherishing Mind.
Tibetan root text by Langri Tangpa Dorje Senghe.
Introduction
What follows is an eight-verse teaching that contains the entire technique for transforming the mind into relative and absolute bodhicitta. It was composed by Langri Tangpa Dorje Senghe, a disciple of the virtuous friend, perfect in all knowledge, Kadampa Potowa Rinchen Sal, who in turn was a disciple of the holy lamp of the teachings, Atisha. Of his guru Potowa’s eight heart-sons, Langri Tangpa was the only one to receive the special instructions on exchanging oneself with others.
The practice of these teachings has three divisions: the preparation, the actual practice, and the completion. Continue reading