Mind Training

The Great Collection

Thupten Jinpa

• Publisher: Wisdom Publications
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780861714407
• eBook ISBN: 9780861717118
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Buddhism

Compiled in the fifteenth century, Mind Training: The Great Collection is the earliest anthology of a special genre of Tibetan literature known as "mind training," or lojong in Tibetan. The principal focus of these texts is the systematic cultivation of such altruistic thoughts and emotions as compassion, love, forbearance, and perseverance. The mind-training teachings are highly revered by the Tibetan people for their pragmatism and down-to-earth advice on coping with the various challenges and hardships that unavoidably characterize everyday human existence.

The volume contains forty-four individual texts, including the most important works of the mind training cycle, such as Serlingpa's well-known Leveling Out All Preconceptions, Atisha's Bodhisattva's Jewel Garland, Langri Thangpa's Eight Verses on Training the Mind, and Chekawa's Seven-Point Mind Training together with the earliest commentaries on these seminal texts. An accurate and lyrical translation of these texts, many of which are in metered verse, marks an important contribution to the world's literary heritage, enriching its spiritual resources.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Message from the Dalai Lama
• Special Acknowledgments
• Publisher’s Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Technical Note
• 1. Bodhisattva’s Jewel Garland
• 2. How Atiśa Relinquished His Kingdom and Sought Liberation
• 3. The Story of Atiśa’s Voyage to Sumatra
• 4. Root Lines of Mahayana Mind Training
• 5. Annotated Root Lines of Mahayana Mind Training
• 6. Seven-Point Mind Training
• 7. A Commentary on the “Seven-Point Mind Training”
• 8. The Wheel of Sharp Weapons
• 9. The Peacock’s Neutralizing of Poison
• 10. Melodies of an Adamantine Song: A Chanting Meditation on Mind Training
• 11. Stages of the Heroic Mind
• 12. Leveling Out All Conceptions
• 13. A Teaching on Taking Afflictions onto the Path
• 14. Guru Yoga Mind Training
• 15. An Instruction on Purifying Negative Karma
• 16. Mahayana Purification of Grudges
• 17. Two Yoginīs’ Admonition to Atiśa to Train His Mind
• 18. Kusulu’s Accumulation Mind Training
• 19. Mind Training Taking Joys and Pains onto the Path
• 20. Sumpa Lotsāwa’s Ear-Whispered Mind Training
• 21. Bodhisattva Samantabhadra’s Mind Training
• 22. Eight Sessions Mind Training
• 23. Mind Training Removing Obstacles
• 24. Mahayana Mind Training Eliminating Future Adversities
• 25. Atiśa’s Seven-Point Mind Training
• 26. Mind Training in a Single Session
• 27. Advice to Namdak Tsuknor
• 28. Glorious Virvapa’s Mind Training
• 29. Eight Verses on Mind Training
• 30. A Commentary on “Eight Verses on Mind Training”
• 31. The Story of the Repulsive Mendicant
• 32. A Commentary on “Leveling Out All Conceptions”
• 33. Mahayana Mind Training
• 34. Public Explication of Mind Training
• 35. Yangönpa’s Instruction on Training the Mind
• 36. Guide to the Heart of Dependent Origination
• 37. Supplement to the “Oral Tradition”
• 38. Root Lines of “Parting from the Four Clingings”
• 39. Parting from the Four Clingings
• 40. Unmistaken Instruction on “Parting from the Four Clingings”
• 41. An Instruction on “Parting from the Four Clingings”
• 42. A Key to the Profound Essential Points: A Meditation Guide to “Parting from the Four Clingings”
• 43. A Concise Guide to “Parting from the Four Clingings”
• Table of Tibetan Transliteration
• Notes
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index
• About Thupten Jinpa
• The Institute of Tibetan Classics
• The Library of Tibetan Classics
• Become a Benefactor of the Library of Tibetan Classics
• Wisdom Publications
• Copyright