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The Path of Compassion: A Biography of Hor shul Khenpo Gelek Palsang Rinpoche

The Path of Compassion: A Biography of Hor shul Khenpo Gelek Palsang Rinpoche — Contents and Reference Photographs

Hor shul Khenpo Gelek Palsang Rinpoche

Liturgy of the Guru’s Words of Blessing

Lineage Section

Part One: An Introduction to the Lineage of the Nyingma Tradition

Overview

Compilation of the Sutric and Tantric Scriptures

The Three Exceptional Inner Tantras

The Mind-to-Mind Lineage of the Buddhas

The Symbolic Lineage of the Vidyādharas

The Nonhuman Vidyādhara Lineage

The Lineage of Human and Nonhuman Vidyādharas

Mahāyoga

Anuyoga

Atiyoga

The Oral Lineage

The Transmission of Sūtra and Tantra in Tibet

Origins of the Nyingmapa

The Three Inner Yogas of the Old Translations

The Kama of the Sūtra Section

Lineage Masters

Texts of the Sūtra Section

Invocation: A Song Calling the Guru from Afar

Part Two: Hor shul Khenpo Gelek Palsang Rinpoche

Chapter One: Family and Birth

Chapter Two: Learning and Growth

Chapter Three: The Search and Recognition

Chapter Four: Teaching the Dharma and Benefiting Beings

Chapter Five: Exceptional Service and Vast Offerings

Chapter Six: The Successive Incarnations of Hor shul Khenpo Gelek Palsang Rinpoche

Chapter Seven: Exceptional Deeds

Teachings Section

Chapter One: Hor shul Khenpo Gelek Palsang Rinpoche Recounts Stories of Elder Practitioners from Hor shul

Chapter Two: Teachings

Section One: Teaching on Illness and Pain

Section Two: Teaching on Reliance

Section Three: How to Relate to One’s Own and Others’ Traditions

Section Four: How to Relate to One’s Own and Others’ Gurus

Chapter Three: Questions and Answers

Chapter Four: Instructions

Practice Section

Chapter One: Meditation Guidance

Chapter Two: The Three Supreme Methods

Chapter Three: The Importance and Function of the Five Preliminaries

Afterword

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A composite of eight archival photographs documenting monastics, young monks, classroom activities, meetings, and grassland scenes.
A composite of eight archival photographs in inverted colors, including monastic portraits, classes and gatherings, grassland, and a yak herd.
A composite of eight archival photographs showing an assembly, practitioners, a monastic settlement, study, a Buddha image, and an offering scene.
A composite of eight archival photographs documenting monastic gatherings, teachings, meetings with teachers, and statue making.
A composite of eight archival photographs showing monastery construction, snow, pasture yaks, a teaching, and distribution of supplies.
A composite of eight archival photographs documenting a teaching, a school, monastic group portraits, Tibetan dance, a class, and a meal.
A composite of eight archival photographs showing a schoolyard, classes, meetings between monastics, study, dance, teachings, and a mani-stone wall.
A composite of eight archival photographs documenting prayer-wheel practice, monastics in snow, playground activities, study, gatherings, and ceremonies.
A composite of four archival photographs documenting distribution of items to children, head shaving, a lesson, and prayer.
A composite of eight archival photographs documenting young monks eating, receiving teachings, studying, gathering on grass, and posing for group portraits.