Essence of the Mahayana Teachings
author: Khenpo Samdup
edition: 2015, Majnu ka Tila
pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780986446016
Topic: Mahayana
4.2 - Instructions on the Fivefold Path
This page describes Instructions on the Fivefold Path which is part 4.2 located on page 130 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. 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 “Instructions on the Fivefold Path” according to 214 books dealing with Buddhism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Guhyagarbha Tantra (with Commentary) [by Gyurme Dorje]
which are unsurpassed (bla-med) in the ground, path and result. The second is that one should venerate (bkur) the gurus with whom one has a connection through the doctrine or through commitments, and especially the Guru (bla-ma) of the secret mantras, (the vehicle of) indestructible reality. Now, there is no more awesome guru than the one who has the following three qualities: the ability to confer empowerment, to explain the tantras, and to reveal the instructions....
Read full contents: Text 19.8 (Commentary)
The Great Chariot [by Longchenpa]
The instruction to practice at this favorable time of having the guru and oral instructions. At this auspicious time of completely attaining the completely free and well-favored human body, here is the instruction that we should liberate ourselves from cyclic existence: If, having attained the ship of being free and well-favored, Whose rudder is the oral instructions of the guru, We do not strive to cross the river of suffering, We can only stare fascinated until we fall into it....
Read full contents: Part 1 - The instruction to practice at this favorable time of having the guru and oral instructions
Visuddhimagga (the pah of purification) [by Nanamoli Bhikkhu]
So that which is the second in the fourfold reckoning becomes the second and third in the fivefold reckoning by being divided into two. And those which are the third and fourth in the former reckoning become the fourth and fifth in this reckoning. The first remains the first in each case. The fourth chapter called “The Description of the Earth Kasina” in the Treatise on the Development of Concentration in the Path of Purification composed for the purpose of gladdening good people....
Read full contents: The Fivefold Reckoning of Jhana
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[Essence of the Mahayana Teachings: index]
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[Introduction]