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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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Middle-Length Lamrim with Venerable Sangye Khadro (2023-present)

Ongoing teachings on the Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment by Lama Tsongkhapa. Streamed live on the Sravasti Abbey YouTube channel on Thursday mornings at 9 am Pacific Time.

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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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Recognizing our mothers and their kindness

First two steps in the 7 point cause and effect method to develop bodhicitta.

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Equanimity: The foundation for bodhicitta

What to contemplate to develop equanimity.

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Three Principal Aspects of the Path

The Three Principal Aspects of the Path

An introduction to the three principal aspects.

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Compassion is of utmost importance

The order of the sevenfold cause and effect method of developing bodhicitta

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Entering the great vehicle

How bodhicitta is the gateway to the Mahayana.

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The path to cultivate

Guarding ethical conduct and the four causes of infractions.

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The measure of the middle scope attitude

Explanation of the intermediate state and rebirth.

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How karma is accumulated

Identifying karma that is accumulated and how you die and are reborn.

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Faults of the mental afflictions

The five types of afflictive views and the faults of the afflictions.

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Identifying attachment

Review of the lamrim outline and examining attachment and its antidotes.

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The sufferings of the three upper realms

How suffering manifests in the upper realms of rebirth.

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The five appropriated aggregates are suffering

Examining suffering to develop disenchantment with samsara.

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