“Now I will banish all the blames onto one source;
And to all beings I will contemplate their great kindness
I will take into myself the undesirable qualities of others
And dedicate my virtuous roots for the benefit of all beings.”–attributed to Dharmarakṣita, “The Wheel of Sharp Weapons,” verse 94, in Thupten Jinpa, Mind Training: The Great Collection.
Sections
JABL Subject Headings | About | Definitions | Lojong Texts | Lojong Literature | Instructions for Tonglen | Other Resources
JABL Subject Headings
About
- “Lojong.” Encyclopedia of Buddhism. encyclopediaofbuddhism.org
- “Mind Training.” Study Buddhism by Berzin Archives. studybuddhism.com
- Sweet, Michael. 1996. “Mental Purification (Blo sbyong): A Native Tibetan Genre of Religious Literature.” In Cabezón and Jackson, Tibetan Literature: Studies in Genre. Snow Lion. JABL
Definitions
Lojong
བློ་སྦྱོང་
blo sbyong
Lojong. Mind Training. The Mahayana meditation system of the early Kadampa School as brought to Tibet by Atisha Dipamkara (Rangjung Yeshe)
A spiritual training in which one cleanses disturbing attitudes from one’s mind and trains to replace them with constructive attitudes. Also called: cleansing of attitudes, mind-training, Lojong. (Berzin Definitions)
Lojong Texts for Download
Seven Points of Mind Training
theg pa chen po blo sbyong don bdun ma
ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བློ་སྦྱོང་དོན་བདུན་མ།
Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje
Tibetan English (Lotsawa House)
Thirty-Seven Practices of All Bodhisattvas
rgyal sras lag len so bdun ma
རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ།
Gyalse Tokme Zangpo
Tibetan English (Lotsawa House)
Wheel of Sharp Weapons
theg-pa-chen-pohi-blo-sbyong mtson-cha-hkhor-lo’
ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོཧི་བློ་སྦྱོང་མཙོན་ཆ་ཧཁོར་ལོ།
Dharmarakṣita
lamayeshe.com – gandenforthewest.org – studybuddhism.com
Lojong Literature
- Thupten Jinpa. 2006. Mind Training: The Great Collection. Wisdom Publications w/ Institute of Tibetan Classics. JABL
- Thupten Jinpa. 2011. Essential Mind Training: Tibetan Wisdom for Daily Life. Wisdom Publications. JABL
Eight Verses of Mind Training
- Bstan-‘dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV and Matthew Pistano. 1999. Lojong: Training the Mind. Wisdom Publications. JABL
- Bstan-‘dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, and Thupten Jinpa, trans. 2000. Transforming the Mind: Eight Verses on Generating Compassion and Transforming Your Life. Thorsons/Harper Collins. JABL
- Gyeltsen, Geshe Tsultim. 1989. Keys to Great Enlightenment: Commentaries on Kadam Geshe Langri Tangpa’s Eight Verses of Thought Training & Bodhisattva Togmey Zangpo’s The Thirty-seven Bodhisattva Practices. Thubten Dhargye Ling Publications. JABL
- Thubten Zopa, Rinpoche. 2013. Transforming Problems into Happiness. Simon and Schuster. JABL
Seven-point Mind Training
- Nam-mkha-dpal, Hor-ston (Nam-kha Pel) and Brian Beresford, trans. 2019. Mind Training Like the Rays of the Sun = blo-byong nyi-ma’i ‘od-zer. Library of Tibetan Works & Archives. JABL
- Jampa Tegchok, Geshe and Stephen Carlier, trans. 2006. The Kindness of Others: A Commentary on the Seven-point Mind Training. Lama Yeshe Archive. JABL
Wheel of Sharp Weapons
- Lhundup Sopa, Geshe, Michael J. (Michael Jay) Sweet, and Leonard. Zwilling. 2001. Peacock in the Poison Grove: Two Buddhist Texts on Training the Mind; the Wheel Weapon (mtshon chaʼkhor lo) and the Poison-Destroying Peacock (rma bya dug ʼjoms) Attributed to Dharmarakṣita. Wisdom Publications. JABL
- Thupten Jinpa. 2005. “The Wheel of Sharp Weapons.” In Jinpa, ed., Mind Training: The Great Collection. Wisdom Publications. JABL
- “Wheel Blade of Mind Transformation.” Encyclopedia of Buddhism. encyclopediaofbuddhism.org
Instructions for Tonglen
Pema Chödrön:
- Loving Oneself and Others: A Tonglen Weekend pemachodronfoundation.org
- News We Can Use: Tonglen Meditation YouTube
- Guided Tonglen YouTube
Other Resources
- “Dharmarakshita.” Study Buddhism by Berzin Archives. studybuddhism.com
- Gardner, Alexander. 2009. “Atiśa Dīpaṃkara.” Treasury of Lives. treasuryoflives.org
- Ngawang Dhargyey, Alexander Berzin, and Sharpa Tulku. 1982. “The Life of Atisha.” From Anthology of Well-Spoken Advice. Library of Tibetan Works & Archives. JABL (studybuddhism.com)
