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Turning Suffering and Happiness into Enlightenment (Tib. སྐྱིད་སྡུག་ལམ་ཁྱེར་, kyiduk lamkhyer, Wyl. skyid sdug lam khyer) is Dodrupchen Jikmé Tenpé Nyima’s famous instruction on lojong—’training’ or ‘transforming’ the mind. Whatever comes to us in life, be it happiness or suffering, this extraordinary teaching shows us how to transform and draw the very best out of it, and use it for our ultimate benefit and the benefit of others.

Explanation of the Title

Kyi (སྐྱིད་) means ‘happiness’, duk (སྡུག་) means ‘suffering’, lam (ལམ་) means ‘path’, and khyer (ཁྱེར་) means ‘to carry’ or ‘to take’.

Text

Tibetan

༄༅། །སྐྱིད་སྡུག་ལམ་འཁྱེར་བཞུགས་སོ། །

English Translations

Turning Suffering and Happiness into Enlightenment
Jig-med Ten-Pa'i Nyi-Ma The Third Dodrup Chen Rinpoche, Instructions on Turning Happiness and Suffering into the Path to Enlightenment (Marion: Buddhayana, 1979)

French Translations

Transformer souffrance et bonheur en Éveil
Djigmé Tenpai Nyima, Le goût unique du bonheur et de la souffrance (Peyzac-le-Moustier: Editions Padmakara, 1995)

Commentaries

Zopa Rinpoche, Lama, Transforming Problems into Happiness (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2011)

Teachings Given to the Rigpa Sangha

Sogyal Rinpoche, Kamalashila Institute, Wachendorf, Germany, May 1987
Sogyal Rinpoche, Munich, Germany, 15-16 October 1994
Sogyal Rinpoche, Berlin, Germany, 26-27 November 1994
Sogyal Rinpoche, Paris, France, 10-11 December 1994
Sogyal Rinpoche, Oldenburg, 12-16 June 1995
Sogyal Rinpoche, Lerab Ling, France, June 1995
Sogyal Rinpoche, Haileybury, UK, 16-20 April 2003
Sogyal Rinpoche, Hombroich, Germany, 1-4 May 2003
Sogyal Rinpoche, Oakland, USA, 17-18 May 2003
Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, Dzogchen Beara, Ireland, 18-19 May 2019
Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche, Mindroling Monastery, India, April-May 2020

External Links

Transforming Suffering and Happiness into Enlightenment taught by Khenpo Sodargye

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 *{{LH|tibetan-masters/nyingma-masters/dodrupchen-III/transforming-suffering-and-happiness|༄༅། །སྐྱིད་སྡུག་ལམ་འཁྱེར་བཞུགས་སོ། །}}
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+===English Translations===
 *{{LH|https://www.lotsawahouse.org/bo/tibetan-masters/dodrupchen-III/transforming-suffering-and-happiness|Turning Suffering and Happiness into Enlightenment}}
 *Jig-med Ten-Pa'i Nyi-Ma The Third Dodrup Chen Rinpoche, ''Instructions on Turning Happiness and Suffering into the Path to Enlightenment'' (Marion: Buddhayana, 1979)
-===French===
+===French Translations===
 *{{LH|https://www.lotsawahouse.org/fr/tibetan-masters/dodrupchen-III/transforming-suffering-and-happiness|Transformer souffrance et bonheur en Éveil}}
 *Djigmé Tenpai Nyima, ''Le goût unique du bonheur et de la souffrance'' (Peyzac-le-Moustier: Editions Padmakara, 1995)
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 *Sogyal Rinpoche, Oakland, USA, 17-18 May 2003
 *[[Ringu Tulku Rinpoche]], [[Dzogchen Beara]], Ireland, 18-19 May 2019
-*[[Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche]], [[Mindroling Monastery]], India, April-May 2020, available as video on demand [https://www.rigpa.org/upcoming-events/2020/4/12/online-teachings-with-jetsun-khandro-rinpoche here]
+*[[Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche]], [[Mindroling Monastery]], India, April-May 2020
+==External Links==
+*[http://khenposodargye.org/teachings/khenpos-classical-teachings/transforming-suffering-and-happiness-into-enlightenment/ Transforming Suffering and Happiness into Enlightenment taught by [[Khenpo Sodargye]]]
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