A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher,9781590300732

A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher

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ISBN13: 9781590300732
ISBN10: 1590300734
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-06-22
Publisher(s): Shambhala
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Summary

This guide provides readers with essential background information for studying and practicing with Patrul Rinpoche'sWords of My Perfect Teacher-the text that has, for more than a century, served as the reliable sourcebook to the spiritual practices common to all the major schools of Tibetan Buddhism. By offering chapter-by-chapter commentary on this renowned work, Khenpo Pelzang provides a fresh perspective on the role of the teacher; the stages of the path; the view of the Three Jewels; Madhyamika, the basis of transcendent wisdom; and much more.

Author Biography

Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang (1879–1941) was a major teacher and abbot in the Nyingma Lineage of Buddhism in Tibet. He studied for years with a close disciple of Patrul Rinpoche, from whom he received direct instructions on how to study and practice with The Words of My Perfect Teacher.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
xvii
Foreword xix
Alak Zenkar Rinpoche
Translators' Introduction xxi
A Guide to The Words of My Perfect Teacher
Introduction 3(10)
Part One THE ORDINARY OR OUTER PRELIMINARIES
13(78)
The Difficulty of Finding the Freedoms and Advantages
17(38)
The Proper Way to Listen to Spiritual Teaching
18(21)
Attitude
18(17)
Conduct
35(4)
The Teaching Itself
39(16)
Reflecting on the Nature of Freedom
44(3)
Reflecting on the Ten Particular Advantages Related to Dharma
47(3)
Reflecting on Images That Show How Difficult It Is to Find the Freedoms and Advantages
50(5)
The Impermanence of Life
55(7)
The Impermanence of the Outer Universe in Which Beings Live
55(2)
The Impermanence of Beings Living in the Universe
57(1)
The Uncertainty of the Circumstances of Death
58(3)
Intense Awareness of Impermanence
61(1)
The Defects of Samsara
62(5)
The Defects of Samsara in General
64(1)
The Particular Sufferings Experienced by the Beings of Each of the Six Realms
64(3)
Actions: The Principle of Cause and Effect
67(16)
Negative Actions to be Abandoned
74(1)
Explanation of the Negative Actions to be Abandoned
74(1)
Explanation of Their Effects
74(1)
Positive Actions to be Adopted
75(1)
The All-Determining Quality of Actions
75(8)
The Benefits of Liberation
83(4)
How to Follow a Spiritual Friend
87(4)
Examining the Teacher
87(2)
Following the Teacher
89(1)
Emulating the Teacher's Realization and Actions
89(2)
Part Two THE EXTRAORDINARY OR INNER PRELIMINARIES
91(190)
Taking Refuge, the Foundation Stone of All Paths
93(40)
Approaches to Taking Refuge
95(4)
How to Take Refuge
99(29)
Precepts and Benefits of Taking Refuge
128(5)
The Precepts of Taking Refuge
128(2)
The Benefits of Taking Refuge
130(3)
Arousing Bodhichitta, the Root of the Great Vehicle
133(88)
Training the Mind in the Four Boundless Qualities
134(17)
Impartiality
137(8)
Love
145(3)
Compassion
148(2)
Sympathetic Joy
150(1)
Arousing Bodhichitta, the Mind of Supreme Enlightenment
151(11)
Training in the Bodhichitta Precepts
162(59)
Training in the Precepts of the Bodhichitta of Aspiration
162(19)
Training in the Precepts of the Bodhichitta of Application
181(40)
Meditating on the Teacher as Vajrasattva and Reciting His Mantra so as to Cleanse All Adverse Circumstances, Negative Actions, and Obscurations
221(12)
How Negative Actions Can Be Purified Through Confession
221(5)
How to Confess Negative Actions
226(1)
The Actual Meditation and Recitation on Vajrasattva
227(6)
Offering the Mandala to Accumulate Merit and Wisdom
233(11)
The Need for the Two Accumulations
233(6)
The Accomplishment Mandala
239(1)
The Offering Mandala
240(4)
The Kusali's Accumulation: Destroying the Four Demons at a Single Stroke
244(9)
Giving One's Body
245(1)
The Meaning of Cho
246(3)
The Actual Practice of Offering the Body
249(4)
The Profound Guru Yoga, the Ultimate Method for Arousing the Wisdom of Realization in One's Mind
253(28)
The Reason for Guru Yoga: A Comparison of the Role of the Teacher in the Nine Yanas
253(12)
How to Practice Guru Yoga
265(16)
Visualizing the Field of Merit
266(1)
Offering the Seven Branches
267(7)
Praying with Resolute Trust
274(3)
Taking the Four Empowerments
277(4)
Part Three THE SWIFT PATH OF TRANSFERENCE
281(6)
The Five Kinds of Transference
282(2)
Superior Transference to the Dharmakaya through the Seal of the View
282(1)
Middling Transference to the Sambhogakaya through the Union of the Generation and Perfection Phases
283(1)
Lower Transference to the Nirmanakaya through Immeasurable Compassion
283(1)
Ordinary Transference Using Three Images
283(1)
Transference Performed for the Dead
284(1)
The Practice of Transference Using Three Images
284(3)
Training for Transference
284(1)
Actual Transference
284(3)
Concluding Instructions 287(2)
Prayers 289(6)
Notes 295(24)
Glossary 319(8)
The Three Worlds 327(2)
The Five Bodhisattva Paths and the Thirty-seven Elements Leading to Enlightenment 329(2)
Comparative Glossary 331(10)
Bibliography 341(6)
Index 347

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