Mind Training Like the Rays of the Sun

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Mind Training Like the Rays of the Sun (T. བློ་སྦྱོང་ཉི་མའི་འོད་ཟེར་) is a commentary on the Seven Points of Mind Training by Hortön Namkha Pel.

The Library of Tibetan Works and Archives states:

The Mind Training Like the Rays of the Sun exemplifies Tsongkhapa’s presentation of mind training. The author, Nam-kha Pel, as he mentions in his introduction, received the lineage of the explanation of the Seven Point Mind Training, which is the fundamental text here, from various sources including Je Rinpoche, his principal teacher. What is distinctive about this presentation is that he has managed to combine both the mind training instructions as they are recorded in Geshey Che-ka-wa’s text with the pattern of the Stages of the Path.[1]

From thubtenchodron.org:

What is distinctive about this commentary is that it combines the lojong or mind-training teachings with lamrim or graduated stages of the path teachings. Mind Training Like the Rays of the Sun is full of quotations from classic Indian treatises and Buddhist scriptures, providing a rich presentation of the path to awakening.[2]
Translation
Commentary
  • Dalai Lama (2008), Awakening the Mind, Lightening the Heart, edited by Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
Further information

Notes

  1. ↑ Brian C. Beresford (1992) Mind Training Like the Rays of the Sun, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
  2. ↑ Nam-kha Pel’s “Mind Training Like Rays of the Sun”, thubtenchodron.org
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