Dungse Lama Pema

Making Friends Out of Enemies

A Commentary on the Seven Points of Training the Mind

When destructive emotions control us, we fail to act in ways that benefit others. Instead, our enemies of pride, jealousy, anger, greed, and ignorance hurt ourselves, and moreover, the beings and the environment around us. This book introduces us to the classic Tibetan Buddhist “mind training”, or lojong instructions, which tell us how to regain our profoundly peaceful and compassionate minds.

Publication Date: 6 July 2020

Pages: 206 | ISBN: 978-0-6488830-0-5 | Format: Paperback

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Praise for the Book

From the Foreword:

My root guru the Very Venerable Vidyadhara Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche gave these teachings in many different countries at different times. In 2011 Rinpoche asked Dungse Lama Pema Tsewang to teach lojong to his students in the West. Rinpoche personally gave him the transmission and permission to teach. Since then, Dungse Lama Pema Tsewang has been so kind as to follow the advice of our root guru and he has taught lojong in many places, many times. I am very happy to see some of his students have transcribed his teachings and that they are now being published in a book entitled ‘Making Friends Out of Enemies.’ I would like to thank Dungse Lama Pema Tsewang for his kindness and compassion towards beings, and I would like to request all the readers to utilize these precious instructions in your day-to-day lives, for this will definitely bring many positive results and much happiness amongst one another.

—Khenpo Chonyi Rangdrol, Abbot of Thrangu Tara Abbey Nunnery

About the Author

DUNGSE LAMA PEMA was born into a family of remarkable practitioners. His life has been dedicated to serving his teacher, the V.V. 9th Thrangu Rinpoche, and to guide all of us to the happiness we seek. He reminds his students that the only way to this happiness is caring deeply for others rather than for ourselves. Mind training instructions help us achieve this. Therefore, with the hope to stabilize the mind and benefit others, people of all ages and backgrounds can apply these practical instructions to their everyday lives, and turn habitual selfishness into altruism.