Key lamrim topics
01 Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment
Geshe Gendun Samdup 
Stages of the Path 
May 13, 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.
- Appreciating the causes and conditions for this Dharma discourse
- Our goal as humans and Buddhist practitioners
- Three types of duhkha
- Parts of a traditional explanation of a classical text
- Explanation of the title
- Translator’s homage
- Questions and answers
- Whether the six perfections are mental states or mental factors
- How the intention to practice generosity relates to the mental factor of intention
- Definition of a perfection
- Whether bodhicitta is a main mind or a mental factor
The next teaching in this series:
