Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's The Seven Points of Mind Training, the twelfth century root text of the Tibetan lojong tradition, is a primary text; the atlas records no publisher and no exact modern publication year because it is a traditional root text transmitted within a lineage rather than a single dated modern edition. Its strength is that it is the actual source text through which the practice of tonglen, giving and taking on the breath, is transmitted, attributed within a lineage running back to Atisha. Its limit is the ordinary one for citing a root text without specifying a translation: this record does not establish which edition or commentary tradition underlies a given quotation from it.
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Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's The Seven Points of Mind Training, the twelfth century root text of the Tibetan lojong tradition, the middle tier reflecting its status as the actual primary text through which the practice of tonglen is transmitted within a lineage running back to Atisha, weighed against the ordinary limit of citing a root text with no single dated modern critical edition or named translator behind this record. Cite it for what the lineage text itself says; a claim about how a specific commentary tradition reads it needs a source naming that commentary. NotesThe twelfth-century root text of the Tibetan mind-training tradition, in which the practice of tonglen, giving and taking on the breath, is transmitted. Attributed within a lineage running back to Atisha.
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AuthorChekawa Yeshe Dorje
Source Typeprimary-text
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This source names Atisha directly: "within a lineage running back to Atisha."
Claims Backed By This Source (9 claims)
This source backs 9 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Practices, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
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