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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Stages of the Path

Great value and rarity of a precious rebirth

Explaining the great value and the difficulty in having a precious human birth, teaching from…

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Identifying 18 freedoms and endowments, their great ...

Explaining 8 freedoms and 10 endowments for a precious human life, teaching from Chapter 6.

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Analytic and placement meditation

Explaining the misconceptions about analytical meditation and placement meditation and how to refute them, completing…

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What to do between sessions

Explaining the four causes to restrain the mind as what to do in the periods…

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What to do during the actual session

Explaining how to practice mediation in general, continuing the teaching from Chapter 5.

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The six preparatory practices

Explaining the six preparatory practices and describing the seven-limb prayer, from Chapter 5.

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Reliance on a teacher

Explaining the benefits of reliance and the faults of improper reliance in relation to the…

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The way to rely on a teacher

Leading a guided meditation on relating to a spiritual teacher in a healthy, realistic way…

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How to see the spiritual mentor

Explaining the characteristics of a student and describing how to develop faith and three ways…

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The importance of a teacher

Explaining the qualities of a spiritual mentor, continuing the teaching from Chapter 4.

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How to explain the Dharma

Continuing teaching from Chapter 3, explaining the benefits of teaching the dharma and the proper…

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How to approach the Dharma

Explaining giving up the three faults of a vessel and relying on the six perceptions,…

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