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The best spiritual guide...

English | བོད་ཡིག

The best spiritual guide...

attributed to Atiśa Dīpaṃkara


དགེ་བའི་བཤེས་གཉེན་གྱི་མཆོག་མཚང་ལ་རྒོལ་བ་ཡིན། །
གདམས་ངག་གི་མཆོག་མཚང་ཐོག་ཏུ་འབེབས་པ་ཡིན། །

The best spiritual guide[1] is one who attacks your hidden faults.
The best instructions are those that directly target such faults.


| Translated by Adam Pearcey, 2004. Revised and updated for Lotsawa House, 2025.


Cited in: o rgyan 'jigs med chos kyi dbang po. "snying tig sngon 'gro'i khrid yig kun bzang bla ma'i zhal lung/." In gsung 'bum/_o rgyan 'jigs med chos kyi dbang po. 8 vols. Chengdu: si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang, 2003. (BDRC W24829). Vol. 7: 584–585.


Version: 1.0-20250930


  1. An alternative version has "best guru" (bla ma'i mchog) in place of "best spiritual guide".  ↩

Atiśa Dīpaṃkara

Atiśa Dīpaṃkara

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