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The Guru Yoga of Jé Tsongkhapa

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“For over twenty-five years, I had the great fortune to be in the presence of His Eminence Chöden Rinpoché as his heart-disciple and attendant. Rinpoché was universally regarded as a true yogi who could, through his personal realizations, unravel the subtleties of the most challenging Dharma teachings. If you dedicate yourself to the clarity of Rinpoché’s words, you will definitely understand how the inexpressible becomes manifest through the special relationship of guru yoga practice.”—Gyalten Khen Rinpoché, co-founder, with His Eminence Chöden Rinpoché, of Awakening Vajra International

“I am delighted that Wisdom is publishing The Guru Yoga of Je Tsongkhapa: A Commentary by Choeden Rinpoche. This is one of the fundamental practices in the Gelug Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and is an important preliminary to many tantric practices and ritual prayers. As a ten-year-old, I received the teaching on this practice for the first time at Sera Monastery in Tibet from Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche, Junior Tutor of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. This meditational practice focuses the practitioner on Jé Tsongkhapa not only as an unparalleled master, but also as the indivisible embodiment of Avalokiteshvara’s compassion, Manjushri’s wisdom, and Vajrapani’s power. Such an orientation is said to help practitioners achieve greater wisdom with clarity, swiftness and profundity, applied in particular to exposition, dialectics and composition. I rejoice in the efforts of the translators for making this important teaching available in English.”—Sharpa Tulku Tenzin Trinley

“In Rinpoché’s teachings there are many special clarifications that you do not normally hear. Because every single word is coming from his realizations and pure samaya with his gurus, if you meditate continuously as Rinpoché gives teachings, I would think that definitely you will achieve realizations.”—Lama Zopa Rinpoché

THE GURU YOGA OF Jé TSONGKHAPA

A Commentary by Chöden Rinpoché

His Eminence Chöden Rinpoché

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Explore the guru yoga practice of Jé Tsongkhapa with a legendary meditation master.

The Hundreds of Deities of Tuṣita is an inspiring and well-loved guru yoga practice that originated from Jé Tsongkhapa himself and was disseminated by the First Dalai Lama. In this book, Chöden Rinpoché—a celebrated scholar who was chosen as a debate partner for His Holiness the Dalai Lama, as well as an accomplished yogi who spent nineteen years in solitary retreat—offers two different commentaries to guide the reader’s understanding. 

Rinpoché’s first commentary is based on the tantric oral tradition as presented by the great lama and scholar Pabongkha Dechen Nyingpo in his own inspired commentary on The Hundreds of Deities of Tuṣita, called A Treasury of Precious Jewels, which is presented here in full. Rinpoché adds clarifying instruction to Jé Pabongkha’s work, bringing out the deeper meaning of the text and revealing how ordinary practitioners may understand and apply Pabongkha’s instruction. The second commentary from Rinpoché is a condensed commentary based on the sūtra tradition. Thus, the reader is treated to two different perspectives of the guru yoga practice of Jé Tsongkhapa.

Previously published as Opening the Door of Blessings, this edition has been revised and updated, and is an essential edition to any practitioner’s library.

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  • Paperback
  • 328 pages, 6 x 9 inches
  • $29.95
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The Guru Yoga of Jé Tsongkhapa

His Eminence Chöden Rinpoché was born in eastern Tibet in 1930 and was recognized as a young boy as the reincarnation of the previous Chöden Rinpoché. When he was fifteen, he enrolled at Sera Jé monastic college, where he excelled; he completed all the study necessary for the highest degree of geshé lharampa, was renowned as one of the great Tibetan teacher-yogis of our modern era, and was chosen as a debate partner for the Fourteenth Dalai Lama when His Holiness was taking his geshe exams. After the Chinese takeover of Tibet, Rinpoché entered solitary retreat, in which he stayed for nineteen years. In 1985 the Dalai Lama asked him to leave Tibet to teach in India and Nepal. He taught students in the geshé program at Sera Jé for many years, as well as offering teachings all over the world. He passed away in 2015.

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