Geshe Rabten—renowned as a great meditation master—left Dharamsala in 1977 to establish the Tharpa Choeling Buddhist study center in Geneva, Switzerland. He passed away in 1986.

Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey taught Western students at the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala. He moved to New Zealand in the early 1980s, where he lived until his death in 1995.

Introduction	ix
The Jewel Rosary of a Bodhisattva	1
The Root Text	3
The Commentary by Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey	9
The Seven-Point Thought Transformation	47
The Root Text	49
The Commentary by Geshe Rabten	53
Introduction	55
The Preliminary Practices	59
The Main Practice	69
Changing Adverse Circumstances into the Path	97
Elucidating a Lifetime's Practice	103
The Measure of Having Transformed One's Thoughts	109
The Commitments of Thought Transformation	113
The Instructions on Thought Transformation	121
Conclusion	131
Thought Transformation in Eight Stanzas	133
Notes	137
Editor's Acknowledgments in the First Edition	142