Cho: The Garden ofA ll Joy dr Generosity of the Body Cbó: The Garden o f All Joy & Generosity o f the Body commentary by Khabje T enga Rinpoche translated by V enerable Lama Yeshe Gyamtso Zhyisil Chokyi Ghatsal Charitable Trust Publications Acknowledgment We would like to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to Khabje Tenga Rinpoche for his great compassion and wisdom in bestowing these precious teachings. We also wish to thank Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Monastery who organised and hosted these teachings, Venerable Lama Yeshe for his translation of them, the KTD editorial team of Cathy Jackson, Patrick Taylor, Jigme Nyima, Maureen McNicholas and Peter Van Deurzen for all their work in making these teachings available, and Marion Sallis for additional proofreading. May this supreme, peerless teaching. The precious treasure of the Victorious Ones, Spread and extend throughout the world Like the sun shining in the sky. Copyright © 2008 Karma Triyana Dharmachakra & Zhyisil Chokyi Ghatsal Charitable Trust This book is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part of this book may be stored or reproduced by any process without prior written permission. Enquiries should be made to the publisher. KTD Publications 335 Meads Mountain Road, Woodstock, NY 12498, USA www.KTDPublications.org & Palpung Thubten Chokyi Ghatsal Buddhist Institute, under Zhyisil Chokyi Ghatsal Charitable Trust PO Box 6259 Wellesley Street, Auckland, New Zealand Email: [email protected] Website: www.greadiberation.org Nauonal Library of New Zealand Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Tenga, Rinpoche, 1932- Chd : the garden of all joy & generosity of the body / Tenga Rinpoche ; translator, Yeshe Gyamtso. Includes index. ISBN 978-1-877294-38-9 1. Gcod (Buddhist rite) I. Yeshe Gyamtso, Lama, 1959- II. Title. 294.34446—dc 22 Cover picture and pictures on pages 18, 32 and 42 are from thangkas that are a collection of Jamgon Kongtrul Labrang currently displayed at the Rigpe Dorje Institute at Pullahari Monastery, Nepal. T able of C ontents Foreword by Venerable Choje Lama Shedrup 9 Biography ofTenga Rinpoche 11 Chapter 1 Introduction 19 Chapter 2 Ch O practice 33 Chapter 3 T he Preliminaries 43 Part 1 - Generation of Bodhichitta 43 Part 2 - Refuge 48 Part 3 — Accumulation of Merit 60 Part 4 - Purification of Obscurations 74 Part 5 - Offering the Desirable Qualities 85 Chapter 4 T he M ain Practice 93 Part 1 - Transference of Consciousness 93 Part 2 - Offering of the Body as a Mandala 104 Part 3 — White Feast 114 Part 4 - Red Feast 123 Part 5 -Tsok Offering 129 8 Cho: The Garden of All Joy & Generosity of the Body Chapter 5 T he Conclusion 137 Part 1 — Dedication 137 Part 2 - Dissolution 138 Part 3 — Taking the Practice on the Path in Postmeditation 139 Supplications 143 Notes 151 Glossary of Terms 153 Index 173