Stages of the Path

Lamrim teachings provide a step-by-step approach to practicing the entire path to awakening.

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Learn to meditate on the stages of the path to awakening through teachings this text by Panchen Losang Chokyi Gyaltsen.

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Essence of a Human Life

Short talks on a text by Lama Tsongkhapa on the practices of the initial scope practitioner.

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Essence of Refined Gold

Teachings on the Third Dalai Lama's commentary on "Songs of Experience" by Lama Tsongkhapa.

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Essential Spiritual Advice

Short talks on a text by the First Dalai Lama published in The 14 Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation.

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Gomchen Lamrim

Commentary on The Essence of All Eloquent Speech by the great meditator Ngawang Drakpa of Dagpo.

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Lamrim Teachings 1991-94

Extensive commentary on Lama Tsongkhapa's Great Exposition on the Gradual Path to Enlightenment. (Lamrim Chenmo)

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

Short talks on the stages of the path described in the Guru Puja text by the fourth Panchen Lama.

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Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Teachings on Lama Tsongkhapa's text on developing renunciation, bodhicitta, and wisdom.

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Selected Lamrim Topics (2012)

Teachings on selected topics from the stages of the path to awakening (lamrim) given at Sravasti Abbey from October 18 to December 20, 2012.

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Logical Proof of Dependent Arising

Applying reasoning to refute inherent existence of phenomena.

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Selflessness of phenomena & proof of dependent ...

That which arises dependently is free of inherent existence.

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Fallacious and correct illusion-like appearances

The correct and incorrect meaning of appearing like an illusion.

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What “appearing like an illusion” means

How persons appear like an illusion.

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Refuting self and aggregates as inherently different

Concluding the 4 point analysis refuting an inherently existent self.

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Refuting inherently one or different

Explanation of the four point analysis.

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Review: Generating the two views of selflessness

A review with reflections by Sravasti Abbey monastics.

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Review: Relying on the prerequisites of special insight

A review with reflections by Sravasti Abbey monastics.

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Determining the I doesn’t inherently exist

Using the four point analysis to refute inherent existence.

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Identifying persons

Determining the selflessness of persons

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The reason we need to seek the view

Why we need to seek the view that realizes selflessness.

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Ignorance as the root of cyclic existence

Why innate self-grasping ignorance is the root of cyclic existence.

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