Compassion

Abstract

Its subject — the development of compassion as expounded by sixth century Indian pandit, Chandrakirti, and elucidated by Dzong-ka-ba, the fourteenth century founder of the Tibetan Ge-luk-ba tradition — is dealt with in the highly technical language of debate. Using only the first part of the text, which comments upon Chandrakirti’s opening verses of praise to compassion, Newland has expertly extracted Jay-dzun-ba's major ideas and presented them so that they are comprehensible, relevant and accessible.