Parting from the Four Attachments

Mind Training (Lojong) Parting from the Four Attachments

If attached to this life, you are not a dharma practitioner;

If attached to the three realms, you have no renunciation;

If attached to your own self-interest, you have no bodhicitta;

If there is grasping, you do not have the view.

A series of texts related to the famous four-line instruction that Sachen Kunga Nyingpo (1092–1158) received from Mañjuśrī:

Commentaries

Parting from the Four Attachments

by Jetsün Drakpa Gyaltsen

Drakpa Gyaltsen's famous commentary on the four-line instruction that his father, Sachen Kunga Nyingpo, received from Mañjuśrī, is so closely associated with the root text that it is often known by the same title, Parting from the Four Attachments.

Advice Damngak Dzö

Nubpa Rigdzin Drak's Parting from the Four Attachments

by Nubpa Rigdzin Drak

Little is known about the author, Nubpa Rigdzin Drak, who may have been a student of Jetsün Drakpa Gyaltsen (1147–1216), but his commentary is among the best known works on Parting from the Four Attachments—partly as a result of its inclusion in the Blo sbyong brgya rtsa compendium. The text explains the antidotes to each of the four attachments and the results that will accrue from applying them.

Advice Damngak Dzö

Sakya Paṇḍita’s Instruction on Parting from the Four Attachments

by Sakya Paṇḍita Kunga Gyaltsen

A brief commentary on Parting From the Attachments (zhen pa bzhi bral), the famous four-line instruction originally revealed by Mañjuśrī to Sachen Kunga Nyingpo (1092–1158), Sakya Paṇḍita's great uncle.

Advice Damngak Dzö

Lineage Prayers

Supplement to the Omniscient Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo’s Prayer to the Lineage of Parting from the Four Attachments

by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo

Supplementary verses to be added to the prayer to the lineage of Parting from the Four Attachments composed by Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo (1382–1456).

Lineage Prayers Damngak Dzö Sakya

Prayer to the Lineage of Parting from the Four Attachments

by Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo

A prayer to the lineage of masters who held the instructions for the famous four-line teaching from the Buddha and Mañjuśrī down to Ngorchen's own guru, Sharchen Yeshe Gyaltsen (shar chen ye shes rgyal mtshan, 1359–1406).

Lineage Prayers Damngak Dzö Compendium of Sādhanas Sakya

Root Text

The Instructions on Parting from the Four Attachments

spoken by Mañjuśrī to Sachen Kunga Nyingpo

This famous four-line teaching was spoken by Mañjuśrī, who appeared in a vision to the young Sachen Kunga Nyingpo during a six-month retreat. It is said to encapsulate the entire bodhisattva path of the pāramitās.

Advice Damngak Dzö

Song

Nectar of the Heart: An Experiential Song of Parting from the Four Attachments

by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo

This experiential song (nyams dbyangs) based on 'Parting from the Four Attachments' (zhen pa bzhi bral) was composed in the cave of Rangjung Dorje, where Mañjuśrī is said to have delivered the original teaching to the Sakya patriarch Sachen Kunga Nyingpo (1092–1158).

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Parting from the Four Attachments

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