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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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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All Posts in Stages of the Path

The ritual for adopting bodhicitta

Explanation of the ritual to cultivate aspiring bodhicitta.

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Taking and giving—tonglen

Explanation of exchanging self and others and taking and giving.

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Cherishing others

The benefits of cherishing others, and what it means to exchange oneself and others.

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Disadvantages of self-centeredness

How the self-centered attitude is the cause of problems in our life.

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Different methods for equalizing and exchanging self...

Explanation of the meditations to develop bodhicitta.

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Equalizing and exchanging oneself and others

Developing bodhicitta through exchanging self and others.

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Compassion, extraordinary attitude, & bodhicitta

Steps 5 - 7 of the 7-point cause and effect method to develop bodhicitta.

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Repaying kindness & cultivating love

Steps 3 and 4 of the 7-point cause and effect method to develop bodhicitta.

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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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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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