Three Principal Aspects of the Path (2002-07)

Teachings on Lama Tsongkhapa’s Three Principal Aspects of the Path" given at various locations around the United States from 2002-2007.

Thangka con la imagen de Lama Tsongkhapa.

The Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Verses on the essence of the path to awakening by Je Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism, plus a recording of…

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Venerable Chodron bowing to His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

The preliminaries

How the Buddhist teachings plant in our minds the seed of the realizations that will will eventually lead us to liberation and enlightenment.

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Venerable Samten with eyes closed while two nuns shave her head.

Renunciation

We are stuck in cyclic existence. Through the teachings, we see the problems of cyclic existence and begin to find our way out.

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Venerable Chodron sitting at her computer, smiling.

Precious human rebirth

How we can use our precious human life to advance ourselves on the Dharma path.

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A young Abbey retreatant, bowing to Venerable Chodron.

Rarity of a precious human rebirth

Contemplating the rarity of a precious human life complete with both the ability and the freedom to study the Dharma inspires us to further our…

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Venerable Chodron meditating.

Nine-point death meditation

By reflecting carefully and thoroughly on death and impermanence, we reach the conclusion that we must practice Dharma purely.

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Venerable Chodron meditating.

Imagining your death

The Buddhist practice of meditation on our own deaths can free our minds from the attachments and obsessions that often disrupt our daily lives.

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Cover of Geshen Sonam Rinchen's book "The Three Principal Aspects of the Path".

General characteristics of karma

Karma is definite, expandable, doesn't get lost, and results from the causes that we have created through the actions of our body, speech, and mind.

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Wheel of Life thangka.

Infallible effects of karma

Avoiding and purifying the negative karma created through the actions of our body, speech, and mind.

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Wheel of Life

Sufferings of cyclic existence

We can ground our intention to be free from the endless cycle of samsara by fully understanding the nature of suffering.

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