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By Dalai Lama,Thupten Jinpa

just like the bestselling A Flash of Lightning at the hours of darkness of the evening, training Wisdom specializes in Shantideva's Way of the Bodhisattva. whereas the previous contains just a short advent to Shantideva's complicated and the most important 9th bankruptcy on perception, Practicing Wisdom is an entire and specified follow-up statement, making it a useful assertion at the basic suggestion at the back of Buddhist suggestion and practice.

Shantideva says before everything of the ultimate bankruptcy of his Guide to the Bodhisattva method of Life: "All branches of the Buddha's teachings are taught for the sake of knowledge. if you want to convey an finish to pain, you want to boost wisdom." Shantideva's 9th bankruptcy is respected in Tibetan Buddhist circles as essentially the most authoritative expositions of the Buddha's center perception, and all different Buddhist practices are skill to help the iteration of this knowledge in the practitioner. In Practicing Wisdom, the Dalai Lama reaffirms his attractiveness as an exceptional student, communicator, and embodiment of the Buddha's method through illuminating Shantideva's verses, drawing on contrasting commentaries from the Nyingma and Gelug lineages, and best the reader during the levels of perception as much as the top view of vacancy. those teachings, introduced in southern France in 1993, were masterfully translated, edited, and annotated by means of Geshe Thupten Jinpa, the Dalai Lama's fundamental translator and founding father of the Institute of Tibetan Classics.

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