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      ISBN 978-1-910368-80-0 – paperback

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      Contents

       Suggested study or reading order for beginners of books by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche

       About the Author

       Illustrations

      PART ONE: Training in Contemplation

       Introduction

       Essential Insights into The Three Principal Aspects of the Path to Enlightenment

       Request to the Lord of All Lineages

       Essential Insights into the Avalokiteshvara Sadhana: Prayers and Requests to the Buddha of Compassion

      PART TWO: Training in Meditation

       What is Meditation?

       Meditation of a Person of Initial Scope

       Meditation on the Preciousness of Our Human Life

       Meditation on Death

       Meditation on the Danger of Lower Rebirth

       Meditation on Going for Refuge

       Meditation on Karma

       Meditation of a Person of Middling Scope

       Meditation on Renunciation

       Meditation on Our Determination to Recognize, Reduce and Abandon Our Self-grasping Ignorance, the Root of Samsaric Rebirth

       Meditation on Our Determination to Engage in the Actual Path to Liberation, the Three Higher Trainings

       Meditation on Our Determination to Attain True Cessations

       Meditation of a Person of Great Scope

       Meditation on Cherishing All Living Beings

       Meditation on Universal Compassion

       Meditation on the Supreme Good Heart, Bodhichitta

       Meditation on Our Determination and Promise to Sincerely Practise the Six Perfections

       Training

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