"The founder of our spiritual legacy, the mighty Buddha Shakyamuni, first gave birth to the altruistic aspiration to achieve highest enlightenment in order to be of maximum benefit to all living beings . . . All of his teachings can be subsumed under two categories: those of the Hinayana, or Smaller Vehicle; and those of the Mahayana, or Great Vehicle . . . In the first of these vehicles he revealed the means of achieving nirvana, or liberation from cyclic existence, which is accomplished through transcending the belief in a truly existent self . . . In the second category of teachings . . . the Buddha mainly emphasized the methods for eliminating the self-cherishing attitude and replacing it with universal love and compassion."
Training the Mind in the Great Way, Point One, Page 45-46, Bottom & Top, (Buddhism, Tibetan, Author: Gyalwa Gendun Druppa, The First Dalai Lama)
Training the Mind in the Great Way, Point One, Page 45-46, Bottom & Top, (Buddhism, Tibetan, Author: Gyalwa Gendun Druppa, The First Dalai Lama)
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