The New Eight Steps to Happiness. Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

      

      The New Eight Steps to Happiness

      Also by Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche

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      VENERABLE GESHE KELSANG

      GYATSO RINPOCHE

      The New Eight Steps to Happiness

      THE BUDDHIST WAY OF

      LOVING KINDNESS

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      Third (American) edition printed as The New Eight Steps to Happiness 2017.

      Second (American) edition 2012.

      First (American) edition 2010.

      Third (UK) edition printed as The New Eight Steps to Happiness 2016.

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      First (UK) edition 2000.

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      The cover image is of Buddha White Tara, and the frontispiece images are Buddha Amitabha and Bodhisattva Langri Tangpa.

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      Contents

       Illustrations

       Acknowledgements

       Introduction

       Bodhisattva Langri Tangpa

       The Pre-Eminent Qualities of These Instructions

       The Preliminary Practices

       Learning to Cherish Others

       Enhancing Cherishing Love

       Exchanging Self with Others

       Great Compassion

       Wishing Love

       Accepting Defeat and Offering the Victory

       Taking and Giving

       The Precious Mind of Bodhichitta

       Training in Ultimate Bodhichitta

       How to Integrate the Practice of These Instructions

       Dedication

       Appendix I—The Root Text: Eight Verses of Training the Mind

       Appendix II—The Condensed Meaning of the Commentary

       Appendix III—Sadhanas

       Liberating Prayer

       Essence of Good Fortune

       Prayers for Meditation

       Appendix IV—The Kadampa Way of Life

       Glossary