Meditative stability and wisdom
Part of a series of teachings on The Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience, a lamrim text by Panchen Losang Chokyi Gyaltsen, the first Panchen Lama.
- The purposes of meditative stability
- The form and formless absorptions
- Meditative stability from the angle of its features and from the angle of its functions
- Mundane and supermundane concentration
- The conditions needed to develop meditative stability
- The three kinds of Bodhisattva’s wisdom
- The last four perfections when the perfections are listed as ten
Easy Path 51: Concentration and wisdom (download)
Venerable Thubten Chodron
Venerable Chodron emphasizes the practical application of Buddha’s teachings in our daily lives and is especially skilled at explaining them in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners. She is well known for her warm, humorous, and lucid teachings. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1977 by Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India, and in 1986 she received bhikshuni (full) ordination in Taiwan. Read her full bio.