Contents

Foreword by H. H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Translator’s Introduction

Essay on the Three Great Masters by H. E. Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

THE ROOT TEXT

Lamrim Yeshe Nyingpo

THE COMMENTARY

Section One

Prologue and Teachings on the Title, the Sign Script, and the Homage

  1.  Homage and Prologue

  2.  Teaching on the Title

  3.  Explaining the Sign Script and Homage

Section Two

The Explanation of the Actual Body of the Text

  4.  The Setting

  5.  The Circumstances

  6.  The Four Vajra Syllables

  7.  The Five Perfections and Instruction to Retain the Teaching

  8.  The Meaning of the Ground

Section Three

Path

  9.  How to Follow a Spiritual Guide

10.  The Four Mind Changings

11.  Taking Refuge

12.  Conventional Bodhichitta of Aspiration

13.  Conventional Bodhichitta of Application

14.  The View of Ultimate Bodhichitta

15.  The Meditation of Ultimate Bodhichitta and Its Result

APPENDICES AND NOTES

  1.  The Six Limits and Four Modes

  2.  The Four Noble Truths

  3.  The Four Dhyanas and Formless States

  4.  The Sugata Essence

  5.  Padmakara and the Four Vidyadhara Levels

  6.  Shakyamuni’s Prophecy about Buddhism in Tibet

  7.  The Five Aggregates

  8.  Establishing the Basis for Beginning the Teaching

  9.  The Actual Beginning of the Teaching

10.  The Sixty Aspects of Melodious Speech

11.  The Four Schools of Buddhist Philosophy

12.  The Bodhisattva Bhumis

Epilogue

Notes

Index