༄༅། །རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ༎
The Thirty-Seven Practices of the Bodhisattvas
The Thirty-Seven Practice of the Bodhisattvas (Tib. རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ་, rgyal sras lag len so bdun ma) is an important lojong (mind training) text written by the celebrated Sakya scholar Thogmé Zangpo (Tib. ཐོགས་མེད་བཟང་པོ་, thogs med bzang po) (1297-1371). This text, being widely-studied and practiced in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism, is made up of thirty-seven verses, each of which poetically describes how emulate the Bodhisattvas. Elegantly composed, it is also easy to understand and put into practice.
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v.1 The Thirty-Seven Practice of the Bodhisattvas (English)
Translated by Venerable Khenpo Kalsang Gyaltsen and Chodrung-ma Kunga Chodron (1992)
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v.2 The Thirty-Seven Practice of the Bodhisattvas (Tibetan, English, Mandarin)
Published by Sakya Tsechen Thubten Ling (2002). Compiled and edited by Abby Petty & Brian Sherab Nyima under the guidance of Venerable T.G. Dhongthog Rinpoche
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