Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book One (2010)

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CHAPTER 6 The Foundation of the Path: Refuge 213
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The reasons for taking refuge 213
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Faith as the cause of taking refuge 213
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The causes of faith 21 5
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The qualities of the Buddha 215
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The qualities oj elimination 215
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The one hundred and twelve obscurations eliminated on the path of seeing 215
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How the obscurations militate against the understanding of the four truths 216
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The four hundred and fourteen obscurations eliminated on the path of
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meditation 217
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The difference between the Hinayana and the Mahayana approaches to the
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removal of obscurations 219
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The Hinayana and Mahayana ways of removing the obscurations by seeing 219
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How the obscurations are eliminated on the path of meditation 222
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The qualities oj a Buddha's realization 223
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The qualities of the Dharma 225
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Dharma posited as the two truths oj path and cessation 225
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Dharma difined as the Dharma oj transmission and realization 225
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The Dharma of transmission 225
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The Dharma of realization 226
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The grounds or stages of realization 227
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The qualities of the Sangha 229
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The Hina)'ana and Mahayana Sangha 230
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What is refuge? 231
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Causal and resultant refuge 231
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The different motives for taking refuge 232
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How to take refuge 233
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The benefits of taking refuge 234
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The btntfits of causal refuge 234
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The btntfits of resultant refuge 235
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The precepts of the refuge vow 236
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The precepts of causal refuge 236
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The precepts regarding things to be avoided 236
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The precepts regarding things to be accomplished 236
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The precepts of resultant refuge 237
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~f1hen the refuge vow is broken 237
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Attitudes incompatible with refuge 2~8
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The benefits oj observing the precepts oj the refuge ww 2~8
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CHAPTER 7 Cleansing the Mind by Training in the Four
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Boundless Attitudes 239
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The Mahayana path 2~9
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The four boundless attitudes 240
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How to meditate on the four boundless attitudes 242
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The benefits of this meditation 242
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CHAPTER 8 The Vow of Bodhichitta 247
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What is bodhichitta? 247
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Classifications of bodhichitta 249
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Bodhichitta in aspiration and action 249
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Other c/ass!fications oj bodhichitta 249
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Bodhichitta classijitd according to twenty-two similes 250
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Bodhichitta classijitd according to its benefits 251
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Bodhichitta classijitd according to the speed oj progression 25~
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How to cultivate bodhichitta 25~
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The causes oj bodhichitta 254
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Who can generate bodhichitta? 254
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The ritual for taking the vow oj bodhichitta 255
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I nculcating the correct attitude 255
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Accumulating merit 256
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Prtparing tht platt 256
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Inviting tht fuM of mtrit 256
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Offtring cleansing wattrs and clothts 257
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Rtqutsting to bt stattd 260
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Exprtssions of rtsput 260
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Tht praytr of stvtn branchts 261
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Offtring ontstlj in strvitt 264
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Conclusion 265
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The ritual of the bodhisattva vow 266
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The conclusion of the ritual: the uplifting of one's own and others' minds 269
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CHAPTER 9 The Precepts of Bodhichitta in Aspiration
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and Action 271
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The Bodhisattva commitment 271
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The precepts concerning what is to be avoided 27~
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Repairingfaults 274
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The precepts to be implemented 275
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The four precepts oj aspiration bodhichitta 275
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The first precept: taking suffering and giving happiness 275
 
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This book is a translation of the first part of Jigme Lingpa's Treasury of Precious Qualities, which in a slender volume of elegant verses sets out briefly but comprehensively the Buddhist path according to the Nyingma school. The concision of the root text and its use of elaborate poetic language, rich in metaphor, require extensive explanation, amply supplied here by the commentary of Kangyur Rinpoche.

The present volume lays out the teachings of the sutras in gradual stages according to the traditional three levels, or scopes, of spiritual endeavor. It begins with essential teachings on impermanence, karma, and ethics. Then, from the Hinayana standpoint, it describes the essential Buddhist teachings of the four noble truths and the twelve links of dependent arising. Moving on, finally, to the Mahayana perspective, it expounds fully the teachings on bodhichitta and the path of the six paramitas, and gives an unusually detailed exposition of Buddhist vows. (Source: Shambhala Publications)

Citation Fletcher, Wulstan, and Helena Blankleder (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. Treasury of Precious Qualities: The Rain of Joy; Book One. By Jigme Lingpa ('jigs med gling pa). With The Quintessence of the Three Paths, a commentary by Longchen Yeshe Dorje, Kangyur Rinpoche (klong chen ye shes rdo rje, bka' 'gyur rin po che). Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2010.

Nyingma - The Nyingma, which is often described as the oldest tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, traces its origin to Padmasambhava, who is said to have visited Tibet in the eighth century. Tib. རྙིང་མ་

pratītyasamutpāda - The notion that all phenomena arise in dependence on causes and conditions. Skt. प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद Tib. རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་,རྟེན་འབྲེལ་ Ch. 緣起

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