Wheel of Sharp Weapons: History and Structure

Today I’d like to begin our discussion of an important text known as Wheel of Sharp Weapons (mTshon-cha ’khor-lo). I first studied this with one of my teachers in India, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, and translated it under his supervision, with Sharpa Rinpoche, Khamlung Rinpoche and Jonathan Landaw, long ago, in the 1970s. This first translation was a poetical rendition to try to make it lovely to recite. Much later, I made a literal translation while teaching the text methodically and slowly in Berlin over a period of a few years. The recordings of that are on the website and are still in the process of being transcribed.

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