Sublime

Teishin,

bodhisattva

Ajahn Amaro

Her spiritual practice was called Chöd (pronounced “chuh”), which means “to cut through.” She developed this form of meditation, unusual even in her time in Tibet, and it generated such amazing results that it became very popular, spreading to all the schools of Tibetan Buddhism and beyond.

dharma?

Standing in the background is the great fourteenth-century Nyingma scholar and yogin Longchenpa, who, for the first time, brought together the various doctrines and practices of the Ancient School into one grand and comprehensive synthesis.

Atisha passed on his lineage to his close disciples, and a few generations later, Chekawa Yeshe Dorje (1102–76) wrote down these teachings, which were later organized as the The Mahayana Instructions on the Seven Points of Mind Training, fifty-nine slogans divided into seven categories. This presentation of lojong, which makes up the framework of

Rinzai Roku (a celebrated Zen text of the T’ang dynasty) and the teachings of Bankei, the seventeenth-century Japanese master who, for me, represents Zen at its best.