Essence of the Mahayana Teachings
author: Khenpo Samdup
edition: 2015, Majnu ka Tila
pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780986446016
Topic: Mahayana
2.2 - Contemplating the Difficulty of Finding Precious Human Birth
This page describes Contemplating the Difficulty of Finding Precious Human Birth which is part 2.2 located on page 32 in the book: Essence of the Mahayana Teachings by Khenpo Samdup. This book is a commentary on Jigten Sumgon’s Lam Rim text and contains the summarized essence of the Buddha’s teachings contained within the Sutras and Tantras. It is part of the series “abandoning the faults of the vessel”. This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Contemplating the Difficulty of Finding Precious Human Birth” according to 237 books dealing with Buddhism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Bodhisattvacharyavatara [by Andreas Kretschmar]
What is known as the precious human body [mi lus rin po che] requires that the eight freedoms and all ten advantages be complete. If any of these eighteen components are missing, your existence is not considered to be a precious human body. We should reflect on the difficulty of attaining such a perfect situation again by contemplating the causes [rgyu], considering the difficulty through metaphor [dpe] and through numerical comparison [grangs]....
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The Great Chariot [by Longchenpa]
The Precious Human Body. As for the third class: Supremely excellent beings, spotless vessels of Dharma, Apply their powers to what they hear and contemplate. Having tamed themselves, they establish others in goodness. They are immovable in their practice, like Mount Meru. All these genuine sages, like banners of saintliness, Whether they are householders or renunciates, Are taught by the Teacher to have the precious human body....
Read full contents: Part 3 - The Precious Human Body
Banner of the Arahants [by Bhikkhu Khantipalo]
The wisdom of knowing his own past lives, hundreds of thousands of them, an infinite number of them, having no beginning - all in detail with his names and occupations, the human, super human and sub human ones, showed him the futility of searching for sense pleasures again and again. He saw as well that the wheel of birth and death kept in motion by desires for pleasure and existence would go on spinning for ever producing more and more of existence bound up with unsatisfactory conditions....
Read full contents: Chapter 1 - The Buddha: Unsurpassed Perfect Enlightenment
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[Essence of the Mahayana Teachings: index]
[About the author (Khenpo Samdup)]
[Introduction]