- gtong len/
- ID:
- T75143
- གཏོང་ལེན (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
- > gtong len/ (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
- > tonglen (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
Other Dictionaries
1. Jeffrey Hopkins Dictionary
གཏང་གཏོང་བཏང་ཐོངས་
Hopkins' Translations: [give-take]; giving [happiness] and taking [suffering]; giving [what is good] and taking [what is bad]
Comment: This is a meditative practice for developing compassion emphasized by Shāntideva.
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- Tibetan
2. Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary
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Tong-len. 'giving and taking.' Sending and taking
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Giving and taking. A bodhichitta practice of giving one's virtue and happiness to others and taking their suffering and misdeeds upon oneself
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the giving-and-taking [practice of bodhi chitta]; the giving-and-taking [practice of bodhi chitta], a method for developing bodhichitta / receiving and transmitting
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- English
3. Ives Waldo Dictionary
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give/ send and receive, giving/sending-and-taking practice [method for developing bodhicitta by visualizing evil is inhaled and good exhaled]
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give/ send and receive, giving/sending-and- taking practice * receive and transmit, transporting
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- English
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