Bodhicitta as the entranceway to advanced scope
03 Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment
Geshe Gendun Samdup 
Stages of the Path 
May 15, 2025 A series of teachings based on Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment by the revered scholar Jowo Atisha. You can find the text and commentary Geshela is using in these teachings here.
- Review of verses 3-5
- Analyzing the happiness that different levels of practitioners seek to obtain
- Verse 6: Explaining the practices of superior beings
- Verses 7-9: Generating aspiring bodhicitta
- Making extensive offerings
- Going for refuge—causal and resultant refuges
- Whether it is possible to obtain buddhahood
- Questions and answers
- Why the sambhogakaya exists due to bodhicitta
- Objects of attainment and abandonment for practitioners of the middle scope
- Why concentration is considered virtuous and not neutral
- Practicing the perfection of generosity
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