For Garchen Rinpoche, The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas is a close companion and his most important treasure. By accomplishing this training of the mind, he succeeded in taking his tormentors to his heart during his twenty years in Chinese captivity. His teachings are imbued with the realization of this practice. The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas was written in the fourteenth century by Thogme Sangpo (1295–1369), a lamrim and lojong master in the tradition of the Indian master Atisha (982–1054). Thogme Sangpo’s work is the essence of lojong – the training of the mind that leads to the development and perfect unfolding of compassion and bodhicitta.weiterlesen