TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editor’s Preface

1  The Stages of the Path for Persons of Great Capacity

2  Compassion, the Root of the Mahāyāna

3  The Seven Cause-and-Effect Personal Instructions

4  Exchanging Self and Other

5  The Ritual for Adopting the Spirit of Enlightenment

6  Maintaining the Spirit of Enlightenment

7  An Introduction to the Six Perfections

8  Training in the Mahāyāna: Precepts and Perfections

9  The Perfection of Generosity

10  How to Give

11  The Perfection of Ethical Discipline

12  The Perfection of Patience

13  The Perfection of Joyous Perseverance

14  The Perfections of Meditative Stabilization and Wisdom

15  Helping Others to Mature: The Four Ways to Gather Disciples

Appendix 1: Outline of the Text

Appendix 2: Glossary

Appendix 3: Emendations to the Tibetan Text

Notes

Abbreviations

Bibliography

Index

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