Thirty Pieces of Advice from the Heart

Thirty Pieces of Advice from the Heart (T. snying gtam sum cu pa སྙིང་གཏམ་སུམ་ཅུ་པ།). A text by Longchenpa.

Longchen Rabjam tells us that he composed these thirty verses of heartfelt advice for himself and others like him, out of a sense of renunciation. In what has become one of his most famous and popular teachings, he advocates simplicity, ethical discipline, humility, and, above all, diligent practice.

Translations

• Daniela Hartmann, Thirty Pieces of Heart Advice, Lotsawa House
• Ken McLeod, Thirty Pieces of Sincere Advice. Available here
• Namkhai Norbu, Longchenpa's Advice from the Heart, Shang Shung Edizioni, 2008. Publisher's page
• Padmakara Translation Group, Thirty Pieces of Advice from the Heart. Publisher's page

Tibetan text

• སྙིང་གཏམ་སུམ་ཅུ་པ། (སྡེ་དགེ་པར་མ)
• སྙིང་གཏམ་སུམ་ཅུ་པ། (ཨ་འཛོམ་པར་མ)
• སྙིང་གཏམ་སུམ་ཅུ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས།, Lotsawa House

External links

• Thirty Pieces of Advice from the Heart, Rigpa Shedra Wiki
• Teachings on Longchenpa's Advice from the Heart, Rigpa Shedra Wiki