Essence of the Mahayana Teachings
author: Khenpo Samdup
edition: 2015, Majnu ka Tila
pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780986446016
Topic: Mahayana
3.3.2.2 - Extraordinary Refuge
This page describes Extraordinary Refuge which is part 3.3.2.2 located on page 68 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 “the four trainings”. 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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Dhammapada (Illustrated) [by Ven. Weagoda Sarada Maha Thero]
This third extraordinary reality has to be realized by developing (bhavetabba) the extraordinary eight-fold path (ariyatthangika magga). This unique path is the only straight way to Nibbana. This is the fourth extraordinary reality. ariyanchatthangikam maggam: the extraordinary eight-fold path. This unique way avoids the two extremes: self-mortification that weakens one s body and self-indulgence that retards one s mind....
Read full contents: Verse 188-192 - The Story of Aggidatta
The Great Chariot [by Longchenpa]
1c) The objects of refuge. 1) The general teaching of the ordinary and extraordinary objects of refuge Now, regarding the supports or objects: There are two objects of refuge, the ordinary and causal, And the extraordinary fruition refuge object. As for the premises of the cause and fruition approaches, The causal vehicles have a fruition established later; But it is held by the different divisions of vajrayana That fruition exists right now, in the form of one’s own mind....
Read full contents: 1c) The objects of refuge
The Great Chronicle of Buddhas [by Ven. Mingun Sayadaw]
From the time I became an anagami-ariya, I took the life-long vow of the Supramundane Refuge, together with the observance of the Five Precepts with abstinence (Brahmacariya) as one of them. Venerable Sir, my attainment of anagami-phala after my first meeting with the Buddha, my subsequent taking up the Supramundane Refuge with the Five Precepts with the vow of abstinence, is the second extraordinary thing about me. (3) “Venerable Sir, I had four teenage wives....
Read full contents: Biography (7): Uggata, the Householder
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