The New Eight Steps to Happiness. Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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      Acknowledgements

      This book, The New Eight Steps to Happiness, gives a detailed and practical commentary to the revered Mahayana Buddhist poem Eight Verses of Training the Mind, written by Bodhisattva Langri Tangpa (AD 1054–1123). The poem expresses the essential methods for developing universal love and compassion, and does so in a way that has inspired generations of practitioners for almost a thousand years.

      The book is based upon transcripts of two courses of oral teachings given by the author at Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Center. The transcripts were carefully checked and substantially augmented by the author during intensive editing retreats in 1998 and 1999.

      We are deeply grateful to Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche for his great kindness in preparing a commentary that brings alive the full meaning of this celebrated text for the benefit of all worldwide. The power and lucidity of the commentary show clearly that the author writes with full personal realization of the subject matter.

      We would also like to thank all those dedicated senior Dharma students who assisted the author with the editing and who prepared the final manuscript for publication.

      Roy Tyson,

      Administrative Director,

      Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Center,

      August 1999