Bodhisattva Path

How to become a bodhisattva, a great being intent on attaining full awakening for the benefit of all beings.

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Bodhisattva Ethical Restraints

The aspiring and engaging bodhisattva ethical restraints guide our behavior as we strive to attain buddhahood.

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Engaging in the Bodhisattva's Deeds

Shantideva's well-loved guide on how to become a bodhisattva, taught extensively in the Tibetan tradition.

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Grounds and Paths

Explanations of the bodhisattva paths and grounds according to different philosophical tenet schools.

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Illumination of the Thought

Teachings on Lama Tsongkhapa’s commentary on Supplement to the Middle Way by Chandrakirti.

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verses from the Avatamsaka Sutra on practicing compassion and bodhicitta in daily life.

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The Six Perfections

Learn to cultivate generosity, ethical conduct, fortitude, joyous effort, concentration, and wisdom.

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Related Books

Book cover of In Praise of Great Compassion

Volume 5 of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion takes us beyond our present situation and guides us toward opening our hearts and generating the intention to make our lives meaningful by benefiting others.

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Courageous Compassion

The 6th book in the multi-volume collection and the 2nd devoted to compassion. Courageous Compassion shows us how to embody compassion and wisdom in our daily lives.

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Working with Anger

A variety of Buddhist methods for subduing anger, not by changing what is happening, but by working with our minds to frame situations differently. No matter what our religion, learning to work with anger can benefit us all.

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Don’t Believe Everything You Think

A highly accessible commentary on the classic text The Thirty-seven Practices of Bodhisattvas. Includes stories of how students have applied these teachings to transform their lives. A text that leads us to stretch our minds toward new perspectives.

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Related Series

70 Topics with Venerable Sangye Khadro (2022)

70 Topics is an important study of the entire sutra path to enlightenment as presented in Maitreya's "Ornament for Clear Realization," including all the fundamental features of the basis, path and goal in the Mahayana.

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Taming the Mind Retreat (Singapore 2013)

Teachings on the seven-point cause and effect method to develop bodhicitta given at a retreat on Taming the Mind held from December 7-8, 2013 at Buddhist Fellowship in Singapore.

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