Dilgo Khyentse 100 Verses (PDF)

This commentary on Padampa Sangye’s classic verses of advice to Tibetan villagers of Tingri—by renowned and beloved meditation master Dilgo Khyentse—offers guidance for people trying to lead a dharmic life in the workaday world. These hundred verses, studied for centuries by Tibetans and students of Buddhism, contain a completesurvey of the Tibetan Buddhist path.

Dilgo Khyentse’s lively explication of each stanza brings to light subtleties and amplifies the richness of the words and their pertinence to our lives. These two venerable teachers advise us in relating to everyday difficulties such as loneliness, craving, family squabbles, competition in business, disagreements with neighbors, and betrayal by friends—as challenging to us as they have been to meditators for centuries.

Padampa Sangye wrote 100 verses on advice and all aspect of a practitioner's life and Practice. “An extraordinary treasure: a moving and deeply transforming teaching by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, one of the greatest masters of our time.” —Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying