Dahl, C.
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In pithy verses, Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes employs the principle of the three natures to explain the way things seem to be as well as the way they actually are. Unraveling the subtle processes that condition our thinking and experience, Maitreya’s teaching reveals a powerful path of compassionate vision and spiritual transformation.
Distinguishing the Middle from Extremes is presented here alongside commentaries by two outstanding masters of Tibet’s nonsectarian Rimé movement, Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham. (Source: Shambhala Publications)The Ornament provides a comprehensive description of the bodhisattva’s view, meditation, and enlightened activities. Bodhisattvas are beings who, out of vast love for all sentient beings, have dedicated themselves to the task of becoming fully awakened buddhas, capable of helping all beings in innumerable and vast ways to become enlightened themselves. To fully awaken requires practicing great generosity, patience, energy, discipline, concentration, and wisdom, and Maitreya’s text explains what these enlightened qualities are and how to develop them.
This volume includes commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham, whose discussions illuminate the subtleties of the root text and provide valuable insight into how to practice the way of the bodhisattva. Drawing on the Indian masters Vasubandhu and, in particular, Sthiramati, Mipham explains the Ornament with eloquence and brilliant clarity. This commentary is among his most treasured works. (Source: Shambhala Publications)Affiliations & relations
- Tergar International · workplace affiliation
- Dharmachakra Translation Committee · secondary affiliation
- Nitartha Translation Network · secondary affiliation
- Nyingma · religious affiliation
- Kagyu · religious affiliation
- Tibetan Buddhism · religious affiliation
- Chatral Rinpoche · teacher
- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche · teacher
- Ponlop, Dzogchen · teacher
- Mingyur Rinpoche · teacher
- Trulshik Rinpoche · teacher
- Khenpo Sherab Sangpo · teacher
- Tergar Meditation Community, a network of meditation centers and groups under the direction of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche // Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison · websites