Khunu Lama Rinpoche Tenzin Gyaltsen (1894-1977)
This bodhicitta that serves as a sword to cut the shoots of the affiictions is the weapon for the protection of all wandering beings. 41
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Bodhicitta comes from knowing that (all] have served as one's mother, from recollecting and repaying their kindness, from love, from compassion, and from surpassing intention;l3 it is the source of happiness and benefit for oneself and others.
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If one does not have bodhicitta, one will not obtain non-abiding nirval).a; if one does not obtain non-abiding nirval).a, one will be impeded by the two chains.
91 Who could measure the heavens with a ruler? Who could measure out the ocean with a cup? Who could analyze the workings of karma with their mind? Who could give voice to the greatness of bodhicitta?
This jewel Lamp: A Praise of Bodhicitta was composed by Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen in Varana5i, India.
Khunu Lama Rinpoche's most famous written work was
Book:
Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea: Verses in Praise of Bodhicitta (Wisdom Publications, 1999
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