Учение о драгоценности человеческого рождения Чже Цонкапы
ORIENTAL STUDIES December 25, 2025 Zhargal A. Aiakova
Human birth is considered a rare and precious opportunity in Buddhism, the best condition for ending the cycle of rebirth and achieving spiritual goals. Je Tsongkhapa's Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment treats human birth not as random but as the result of accumulated merits and karmic responsibility. He analyzes its causes and conditions, emphasizing the difficulty of attaining it. Practices contemplating impermanence and death contribute to conscious living and dying without fear or attachment, which are obstacles to better rebirth. This contemplation is an active, transformative process crucial for spiritual realization. The concept of the preciousness of human birth plays a system-forming role throughout the Lamrim teaching.