By Kyabje Kangyur Rinpoche, Jigme Lingpa, Longchen Yeshe Dorje, H. H. the Dalai Lama, Padmakara Translation Group
This booklet is a translation of the 1st a part of Jigme Lingpa’s Treasury of necessary characteristics, which in a slim quantity of stylish verses units out in short yet comprehensively the Buddhist course based on the Nyingma institution. The concision of the foundation textual content and its use of complicated poetic language, wealthy in metaphor, require large rationalization, amply provided right here by means of the statement of Kangyur Rinpoche.The current quantity lays out the lessons of the sutras in slow levels in accordance with the conventional 3 degrees, or scopes, of religious undertaking. It starts with crucial teachings on impermanence, karma, and ethics. Then, from the Hinayana perspective, it describes the fundamental Buddhist teachings of the 4 noble truths and the twelve hyperlinks of established coming up. relocating on, eventually, to the Mahayana point of view, it expounds absolutely the lessons on bodhichitta and the trail of the six paramitas, and provides an surprisingly special exposition of Buddhist vows.
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20. To steal is knowingly to take another’s property (And, linked with this, is taking through deceit and fraud). Sexual misconduct means to join with persons pledged elsewhere, (And, linked with this, are all improper acts of intercourse). 21. The four misdeeds of speech are: lying, whereby others are deceived (And, linked with this, all guile, which misleads others’ minds); Divisive speech, which sows hostility midst friends or people neutrally disposed (And, linked with this, the repetition of another’s censure, fostering resentment); 22.
18. And then, although the intellect cannot identify Each action of the mind and mental factors Interwoven in the dualistic thoughts of beings, Ten actions and their consequences are to be rejected. They are based upon the body, speech, and mind. 19. Three there are of body: killing, theft, and sexual misdeeds. Of these, the first occurs when willingly One takes the life of one correctly understood to be alive (And, linked with this, are harmful acts like beating and the rest). 20. To steal is knowingly to take another’s property (And, linked with this, is taking through deceit and fraud).
Book one, The rain of joy / by Jigme Lingpa. —1st pbk. ed. p. cm. In English; includes translation from Tibetan. Previously published: 2001. Includes bibliographical references and index. “Translated by the Padmakara Translation Group; forewords by H. H. : alk. paper) 1. ’Jigs-med-glin-pa Ran-byun-rdo-rje, 1729 or 30–1798. Yon tan rin po che’i mdzod. 2. Rdzogs-chen—Doctrines. I. ’Jigs-med-glin-pa Ran-byun-rdo-rje, 1729 or 30–1798. Yon tan rin po che’i mdzod. English. II. Comiti de traduction Padmakara.