Tibetan Buddhist Companion
by KUNSANG, ERIK PEMAFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-10-01
Publisher(s): Shambhala
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Summary
This collection of jewel-like poems, prayers, and teachings has been lovingly selected, translated from Tibetan, and arranged by renowned translator and author Erik Pema Kunsang. These quotations from the great masters of Tibetan Buddhism are practical, beautiful, and precious. They reflect the immense variety of approaches and the profundity that have made the tapestry of these teachings of deep interest to so many. For anyone interested in Tibetan Buddhism, this volume is a perfect companion for meditation and contemplation. The book includes wisdom from the following: the Buddha Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Dudjom Rinpoche Gampopa Jamgouml;n Kongtruuml;l the Great Manjushri Milarepa Chokyi Nyima Padmasambhava Patrul Rinpoche Yeshe Tsogyal and many others
Author Biography
Erik Pema Kunsang (Erik Hein Schmidt) is one of the world’s best known and most accomplished translators of Buddhist literature from Tibet. With his wife, Marcia Binder Schmidt, he founded and heads Rangjung Yeshe Publications, an independent publisher of Vajrayana Buddhist texts in English. His books include: <i>As It Is, the Mirror of Mindfulness, Lamp of Mahamudra, The Light of Wisdom, </i>and <i>Dakini Teachings.</i> Other projects include translating over forty volumes of Tibetan texts and teachings, and creating the Dharma Dictionary, an electronic dictionary of Tibetan and English terms.
Table of Contents
| Preface | xvi | ||
| Introduction | 1 | (6) | |
| Refuge | 7 | (1) | |
| The Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma | 8 | (1) | |
| The Realistic Approach | 9 | (1) | |
| The Dharma | 10 | (1) | |
| Three Excellences | 11 | (1) | |
| Bodhisattva Vow | 12 | (1) | |
| Pure Ethics | 13 | (1) | |
| The Three Vehicles in One Sitting | 14 | (2) | |
| Bodhichitta | 16 | (1) | |
| The First Utterance | 17 | (1) | |
| Ground, Path, and Fruition | 18 | (2) | |
| The Four Seals That Mark the Teachings of the Awakened Ones | 20 | (1) | |
| Impermanence | 21 | (1) | |
| Mortality | 22 | (1) | |
| The Four Mind-Changings | 23 | (2) | |
| Reality | 25 | (1) | |
| Four Dharmas of Gampopa | 26 | (1) | |
| Learning and Practice | 27 | (1) | |
| Learning | 28 | (1) | |
| Respecting the Dharma Teacher | 29 | (1) | |
| Thy Spiritual Friend | 30 | (1) | |
| The Value of a True Teacher | 31 | (1) | |
| Teachers in the Age of Strife | 32 | (1) | |
| The Vajrayana Master and Disciple | 33 | (2) | |
| Mandala Offering | 35 | (1) | |
| Taking Refuge | 36 | (1) | |
| The Vajrayana Path | 37 | (1) | |
| Preliminary Practices | 38 | (1) | |
| Reducing Practice to Its Essence | 39 | (1) | |
| Feast Song | 40 | (2) | |
| Farewell to Ego-Clinging | 42 | (2) | |
| The Vajrayana Master | 44 | (1) | |
| Five Ways of Sustaining the Essence | 45 | (1) | |
| The Yidam Deity | 46 | (2) | |
| Unity | 48 | (1) | |
| The Noble Heart | 49 | (1) | |
| Supplication to the Kagyü Lineage | 50 | (2) | |
| Rejoicing | 52 | (1) | |
| The Ten Things to Be Understood | 53 | (1) | |
| Lamp Offering | 54 | (1) | |
| Fully Opened Mind | 55 | (1) | |
| Dharmakaya | 56 | (1) | |
| The Original Pure Land | 57 | (1) | |
| Om Mani Padme Hung | 58 | (3) | |
| Supplication to Your Root Guru | 61 | (1) | |
| Bodhisattvas | 62 | (1) | |
| Seven Points of Training the Mind | 63 | (1) | |
| Aspiration | 64 | (1) | |
| Parting Advice | 65 | (1) | |
| Bodhichitta Aspiration | 66 | (1) | |
| The Sutra of the Heart of Transcendent Knowledge | 67 | (3) | |
| Aspiration for the Vajra Master and the Practice Lineage | 70 | (1) | |
| Enlightened Essence | 71 | (1) | |
| Request for the Teacher to Remain As the Vajra Body, Speech, and Mind | 72 | (2) | |
| Dependent Origination | 74 | (1) | |
| Between Two Thoughts | 75 | (1) | |
| Shri Singha's Song | 76 | (1) | |
| The Three Types | 77 | (1) | |
| Chö: Cutting | 78 | (1) | |
| The Essence of Chö | 79 | (1) | |
| Buddhist Principles | 80 | (1) | |
| Ripening and Liberating | 81 | (1) | |
| Four Types of Teacher | 82 | (1) | |
| The Aspiration of Buddha Samantabhadra | 83 | (1) | |
| Pilgrimage | 84 | (1) | |
| Four Pilgrimage Places of the Buddha | 85 | (1) | |
| Helping Anyone in Distress | 86 | (1) | |
| Sukhavati | 87 | (1) | |
| Song of Naropa | 88 | (2) | |
| Samsara | 90 | (1) | |
| Impermanence | 91 | (1) | |
| Illusion | 92 | (1) | |
| Stillness and Insight | 93 | (1) | |
| In the Palm of Your Hand | 94 | (1) | |
| To Be or Not to Be | 95 | (1) | |
| Natural Mind | 96 | (1) | |
| Spontaneous Song | 97 | (1) | |
| Padmasambhava | 98 | (1) | |
| Natural Strength of Awareness | 99 | (1) | |
| Life Is Running Out | 100 | (1) | |
| Clinging to Emptiness | 101 | (1) | |
| Like Cattle | 102 | (1) | |
| Perceiving | 103 | (1) | |
| Coincidence | 104 | (1) | |
| Mindlessness | 105 | (1) | |
| Direction | 106 | (1) | |
| Letting Be | 107 | (1) | |
| Dull Stillness | 108 | (1) | |
| Perseverance | 109 | (1) | |
| The True Training | 110 | (1) | |
| Noble Aspirations | 111 | (2) | |
| The Three Kayas | 113 | (1) | |
| The Ultimate Instruction | 114 | (1) | |
| Ultimate Bodhichitta | 115 | (1) | |
| Caring | 116 | (1) | |
| The Ground | 117 | (1) | |
| Practitioners of Ati Yoga | 118 | (1) | |
| Song of Compassion | 119 | (2) | |
| Approaching Mahamudra | 121 | (1) | |
| Nonsectarian Supplication | 122 | (2) | |
| Emptiness and Compassion | 124 | (1) | |
| Source of All Speech | 125 | (1) | |
| Fourteen Meaningless Things | 126 | (2) | |
| Space of Mind | 128 | (1) | |
| Giving Protection from Fear | 129 | (1) | |
| Our Buddha Nature | 130 | (1) | |
| The Sugata Essence | 131 | (1) | |
| Theory, Experience, and Realization | 132 | (1) | |
| Compassion | 133 | (1) | |
| Heart Advice | 134 | (2) | |
| The Roots of Ego | 136 | (1) | |
| The Gradual Path | 137 | (1) | |
| The Most Precious Attitude | 138 | (1) | |
| Phenomena | 139 | (1) | |
| Bodhichitta | 140 | (1) | |
| This Fleeting Life | 141 | (1) | |
| Good and Evil | 142 | (1) | |
| Equality | 143 | (1) | |
| Saving Lives | 144 | (1) | |
| Nagarjuna's Realization | 145 | (2) | |
| Precious Human Body | 147 | (1) | |
| The Four Immeasurables | 148 | (1) | |
| Taking Care of Business | 149 | (1) | |
| The Merit of Bodhichitta | 150 | (1) | |
| The Six Paramitas | 151 | (1) | |
| Song to Mandarava | 152 | (3) | |
| The Four Principles of a Spiritual Practitioner | 155 | (1) | |
| The Four Immeasurables | 156 | (1) | |
| Noble Wishes in Daily Life | 157 | (1) | |
| Mind Essence | 158 | (1) | |
| Exchanging Oneself with Others | 159 | (1) | |
| The Unity of Shamatha and Vipashyana | 160 | (2) | |
| Victory and Defeat | 162 | (1) | |
| Samsaric Pursuit | 163 | (1) | |
| The True View | 164 | (1) | |
| Song of Karma Chagmey | 165 | (4) | |
| Dependent Origination and Emptiness | 169 | (1) | |
| From Drops of Water | 170 | (1) | |
| Compounded Things | 171 | (1) | |
| Shri Singha's Instruction | 172 | (1) | |
| Transcendent Knowledge | 173 | (1) | |
| The Nature of Things | 174 | (1) | |
| Buddhas in Waiting | 175 | (1) | |
| Spiritual Teachers | 176 | (1) | |
| All Things Pass | 177 | (1) | |
| Preparing for Death | 178 | (1) | |
| Spontaneous Song | 179 | (1) | |
| Mortality | 180 | (1) | |
| Song of Openness | 181 | (1) | |
| Tara | 182 | (2) | |
| Supplication to Tara | 184 | (2) | |
| All Composite Things Will Perish | 186 | (5) | |
| The Nature of Mind | 191 | (1) | |
| Inspiration to Practice | 192 | (1) | |
| View and Conduct | 193 | (1) | |
| Past Mothers | 194 | (1) | |
| Ultimate Agreement | 195 | (1) | |
| Supplication | 196 | (1) | |
| Master and Disciple | 197 | (1) | |
| The Noble Resolve | 198 | (1) | |
| Devotion and Blessings | 199 | (1) | |
| Fear and Deathless Realization | 200 | (1) | |
| Dedication of Merit | 201 | (1) | |
| Dedication | 202 | (1) | |
| Transcendent Knowledge | 203 | (1) | |
| The Apology within the Expanse of the View | 204 | (2) | |
| The Bodhisattva's Aspiration | 206 | (1) | |
| The Karma of Giving | 207 | (3) | |
| The Vajrayana Perspective | 210 | (1) | |
| Phowa Supplication | 211 | (1) | |
| Parting from the Four Attachments | 212 | (1) | |
| Emptiness and Dependent Origination | 213 | (1) | |
| Seeing the Nature of Mind | 214 | (1) | |
| The Eleven Signs of a Sublime Personage | 215 | (2) | |
| Early Dzogchen Masters | 217 | (3) | |
| Dedication of Merit | 220 | (1) | |
| The Source of Everything | 221 | (1) | |
| Buddhas and Sentient Beings | 222 | (1) | |
| Methods of Realization | 223 | (1) | |
| Verse of Auspiciousness | 224 | (1) | |
| Liberation through Hearing in the Bardo | 225 | (4) | |
| Undistracted Nonmeditation | 229 | (1) | |
| Mahamudra Aspiration | 230 | (1) | |
| Ultimate Aspiration | 231 | (1) | |
| Knowing One Liberates All | 232 | (2) | |
| Thirty Aspirations | 234 | (2) | |
| The Secret Crown Seed Tantra That Is the Only Child of All Buddhas | 236 | (1) | |
| The Essence | 237 | (1) | |
| Milarepa's Song | 238 | (4) | |
| Verses of Auspiciousness | 242 | (2) | |
| Space and Awareness | 244 | (1) | |
| Liberation | 245 | (1) | |
| The Final Words of Gyurme Dorje | 246 | (1) | |
| Dedication of Merit | 247 | (2) | |
| Glossary | 249 | (10) | |
| Contributors | 259 | (8) | |
| Recommended Reading | 267 | (2) | |
| Credits | 269 | (1) | |
| Notes | 270 |
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