The Four Dharmas of Gampopa
as Taught by Khenchen Konchog Gyaltshen Rinpoche
Healing the Heart and Mind
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The Four Dharmas of Gampopa are the quintessence that brings together the
very profound and vast meaning of the Buddha's entire teachings in just four
lines:
Dharma becomes the Dharma.
Dharma becomes the path.
The
path dispels confusion.
Confusion dawns as wisdom.
Sometimes we put it as a supplication or a prayer:
Grant your magnificent blessings so that my mind and the minds of all
sentient beings may follow the Dharma.
Grant your magnificent blessings so
that Dharma may follow along the path.
Grant your magnificent blessings so
that confusion may be dispelled from the path.
Grant your magnificent
blessings so that confusion may dawn as wisdom.
The Four Dharmas of Gampopa, the realization of the
enlightened Gampopa, are the profound pith instructions of the path to
buddhahood in four lines. To unfold their deep and vast meaning, Gampopa taught
extensively, and many commentaries have been written by great masters including
Lord Jigten Sumgön, the founder of Drikung Kagyu lineage, who said, “Of the
84,000 doors of Dharma taught by the Buddha, there is nothing that is not
included in these four Dharmas. They are the complete and unmistaken path that
leads to ultimate enlightenment.” This book contains the essence of Lord Jigten
Sumgön's commentaries as taught by Venerable Khenchen Konchog Gyaltshen Rinpoche
in a clear, compassionate, accessible, and complete way.
Gampopa
(1074-1153), Milarepa’s heart disciple and the author of The Jewel Ornament of
Liberation, merged and actualized the wisdom from the lineages of the Profound
View, Vast Action, and Magnificent Blessing Realization, and attained
buddhahood. Thereafter, he taught extensively, passing down his wisdom and
realization through unbroken lineages and writings collected in five volumes. He
is highly venerated and praised by all.
Venerable Khenchen
Konchog Gyaltshen Rinpoche was born in 1946 in Tsari, Tibet. After nine
years of higher buddhist studies, he furthered his study with H.E. Khunu Lama
and went into retreat under the guidance of H.E. Khyunga Rinpoche, Vajradhara
Pachung Rinpoche, and Gelong Tenzin Nyima Rinpoche. After coming to USA in 1982
and founding the Tibetan Meditation Center, for forty years Rinpoche has been
tirelessly travelling and showing the path that purifies obscurations and leads
to perfect enlightenment to his disciples all over the world. Revered and
beloved as an accomplished scholar, meditation master, teacher, translator, and
author, like the sun that shines impartially upon all, Rinpoche’s radiance of
compassion, vast knowledge and wisdom inspires, benefits, and ripens us all.
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This 420 pages book with thread-sewn binding is rich in content. The book weights 0.75 kg (or 1.65 pound). Its dimension is 15.5 x 23 x 2.1 cm (or 6.1 x 9 x 0.83 inches).
Dedication
May it benefit all mother sentient beings and may bodhicitta increase
higher and higher!
May all mother sentient
beings swiftly attain unsurpassed, perfect, and complete enlightenment without
hindrance.
We express our utmost gratitude
to Most Venerable Khenchen Rinpoche for all his precious Dharma teachings and all who have contributed to this book project
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We dedicate all virtue to the enlightenment of all sentient beings.
Long Life Prayer for Most Venerable Khenchen Rinpoche
The beautiful long life prayer for Most Venerable Khenchen Rinpoche known as In Praise of Khenchen, Vajradhara and Great Knowledge Holder of Definite Meaning written by the scholar and meditator Trotse in Kathmandu and translated into English by Mark Riege can be downloaded here.
OM AMI DEWA HRI!
Most sincerely,
Zabrina Leung and Lars Ljungqvist
Ratnashri Meditation Center, Sweden
Friggavägen 11
181 32 Lidingö
Sweden
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