This volume contains eighteen individual works selected from Mind Training: The Great Collection, the first volume of the historic Library of Tibetan Classics. This earliest collection of mind-training (lojong) literature includes lesser-known as well as renowned classics such as Eight Verses on Mind Training and The Seven-Point Mind Training.

Praise & Reviews “Anyone intrigued by the potential to bend our minds in the direction of greater clarity and kindness will find great satisfaction in Essential Mind Training. These gems of the Tibetan tradition are each a guide to wisdom and compassion. Taken together they represent a sophisticated path to an inner transformation that modern contemplative neuroscience now studies to better understand the greater potentials of the human mind and heart.”—Daniel Goleman, author Emotional Intelligence “This volume can break new ground in bridging the ancient wisdom of Buddhism with the cutting-edge positive psychology of happiness.” —B. Alan Wallace, author of The Attention Revolution “The clarity and raw power of these thousand-year-old teachings of the great Kadampa masters are astonishingly fresh.”—Buddhadharma

Geshe Thupten Jinpa, Jinpa has been a principal English translator to His Holiness the Dalai Lama for nearly two decades and has translated and edited numerous books by the Dalai Lama, including The World of Tibetan Buddhism, Essence of the Heart Sutra, and Ethics for the New Millennium.His own works include Songs of Spiritual Experience (co-authored) and Self, Reality and Reason in Tibetan Philosophy. He is currently the president of the Institute of Tibetan Classics and lives in Montreal with his wife and two daughters. ,