Engaged bodhicitta
06 Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment
Geshe Gendun Samdup 
Stages of the Path 
May 16, 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.
- Engaged bodhicitta: verses 19-27
- Verse 19: How aspiring bodhicitta is not enough
- Verses 20-21: Having individual liberation precepts as the prerequisite
- Verses 22-23: Who to take the bodhisattva precepts from
- Verses 24-26: Taking the precepts with or without a teacher
- Verses 27-32: After taking precepts, upholding three types of ethical conduct
- Questions and answers
- What is a main mind?
- Difference between how the individual liberation and bodhisattva vows are taken
- What happens on the forbearance level of the bodhisattva path of preparation?
- Why bodhicitta is not a mental factor
- On the content of Shantideva chapter eight
- Whether bodhicitta can be an object of serenity
- Why exchanging self and others is superior to the seven-point cause and effect instruction
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