GLOSSARY
Bodhicharyavatara: Considered by many realized Masters as one of the most enlightening texts of all time, an ideal companion for the book you are just reading. Sanskrit for “the way of the Bodhisattva,” containing Shantideva’s teachings.
Bodhicitta: The altruistic determination to attain Enlightenment in order to free all beings from suffering. In India and Tibet, there were two methods mainly practiced to attain it. One focuses on developing loving kindness towards all (recognizing all beings as having been our mothers, remembering their kindness and determining to bringing them great benefit), the other on exchanging oneself with others. Je Tsongkhapa, in his spiritual genius, combined the two. Just like the other holy faultless Tibetan ...
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