Important Texts

Translated by Cortland Dahl & Andreas Kretschmar

གང་ཚེ་དངོས་དང་དངོས་མེད་དག །
བློ་ཡི་མདུན་ན་མི་གནས་པ། །
དེ་ཚེ་རྣམ་པ་གཞན་མེད་པས། །
དམིགས་པ་མེད་པར་རབ་ཏུ་ཞི། །

When the notions of real and unreal
Are absent from before the mind,
Then, there is no other possibility,
But to rest in total peace, beyond concepts.

Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra

Introduction to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, IX, 34

Translations by Andreas Kretschmar

Drops of Nectar: A Commentary on the Bodhisattva-caryāvatāra According to the Words of My Mañjushri-like Teacher by Khenpo Kunzang Palden (Khenpo Kunpal) based on the teachings of Patrül Rinpoché.

Andreas Kretschmar has translated the first five chapters of the commentary of Drops of Nectar.

Please note that Khenpo Sherab Sangpo has received the personal permission of Andreas Kretschmar to post the PDFs of his translation-in-progress on our website to support our students in studying this material.