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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface to the 1986 Tibetan Publication of the Root Text and Outline
A Biography of the Author, Choying Tobden Dorje
Foreword to the English Translation
In Memoriam
Translator’s Introduction
The Extensive Commentary: Books 1 to 10
The Introduction
The Main Text—A Brief Presentation
Book 1: Discipleship
1. The Characteristics of Qualified Spiritual Masters
2. The Characteristics of Worthy Disciples
3. The Stages of Spiritual Apprenticeship
4. Forsaking Misleading Companions
Book 2: The Transmission of Buddhism
1. How Buddhism Is Taught
2. How to Listen to Buddhist Teaching
3. The Six Styles of Faith, the Foundation of the Sacred Buddhist Doctrine
Book 3: Our Precious Human Life
1. The Difficulty of Attaining a Free and Fully Endowed Human Life
2. The Difficulty of Finding Such a Life, Based on Examples and Numbers
3. The Nature of the Leisure and Endowments of Human Life
4. The Need to Fully Grasp the Essence of Human Life Now That You Have It
Book 4: Reflection on Death and Impermanence
1. Impermanence, Briefly
2. Impermanence, in Detail
3. Examples to Illustrate Impermanence
4. Advice to Be Diligent Because of Impermanence
5. Signs of Success in Meditation on Impermanence, and Its Benefits
Book 5: The Workings of Karma
1. The Nature of Action, Karma, and Consequences
2. Corrupting Acts and Their Consequences
3. Ennobling Acts Consistent with Goodness and Their Consequences
4. Acts Consistent with Freedom and Their Consequences
Book 6: The Flaws of the Round of Rebirth
1. The Suffering from Heat and Cold in the Hells
2. The Suffering from Hunger and Thirst among Starving Spirits
3. The Suffering among Beasts of Burden
4. The Suffering from Birth, Aging, Sickness, and Death among Humans
5. The Suffering from Conflict among Demigods
6. The Suffering from Death and Falling among Gods
Book 7: Taking Refuge and the Lesser Way
1. How to Take Refuge, the Foundation for All Vows
2. How to Keep the Seven Kinds of Individual Liberation Vows
3. The Foundation, Paths, and Results of the Hearers’ Way
4. The Foundation, Paths, and Results of the Solitary Sages’ Way
Book 8: The Foundation of the Middle Way
1. The Doctrine’s Final Cycle, and an Explanation of Ultimate Truth and Relative Truth
2. The Doctrine’s Middle Cycle, the Buddha’s Past Lives, and Mental Training by Means of the Four Immeasurable Aspirations
3. The Actual Uplifting of the Mind to Sublime Awakening
Book 9: The Path of the Middle Way
1. Bodhisattvas’ Training—the Three Kinds of Ethical Conduct
2. The Six Transcendent Perfections
3. The Thirty-Seven Facets and Ten Stages of Awakening on the Four Paths of Training
Book 10: The Result of the Middle Way
1. The Support and Nature of the Path of No Further Training
2. The Path of No Further Training
3. The Special Characteristics of the Path of No Further Training
The Root Verses: Books 1 to 10
The Outline: Books 1 to 10
The Concise Commentary: Books 1 to 10
The Golden Key to the Contents: Books 1 to 25
Author and Translator’s Afterword
Notes
Works Cited by the Author
Index
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