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The famous Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva is one of the foremost lojong (mind-training) texts written by Gyalsé Tokmé Zangpo. Alongside the well-known Eight Verses of Training the Mind by Geshe Langri Thangpa and Shantideva’s Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra, Thirty-Seven Practices offers instructions for how to live life according to the bodhisattva path.

Each of us has great potential within us. Since we are not inherently this or that, we don’t need to be locked into any rigid conceptualizations of ourselves or of the world. Instead, we can access our love, compassion, friendliness, joy, concentration, and wisdom and expand them limitlessly.

-Thupten Chodron, Don’t Believe Everything You Think

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A Guide to the Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva

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