Stages of the Path

Lamrim teachings provide a step-by-step approach to practicing the entire path to awakening.

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Learn to meditate on the stages of the path to awakening through teachings this text by Panchen Losang Chokyi Gyaltsen.

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Essence of a Human Life

Short talks on a text by Lama Tsongkhapa on the practices of the initial scope practitioner.

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Essence of Refined Gold

Teachings on the Third Dalai Lama's commentary on "Songs of Experience" by Lama Tsongkhapa.

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Essential Spiritual Advice

Short talks on a text by the First Dalai Lama published in The 14 Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation.

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Gomchen Lamrim

Commentary on The Essence of All Eloquent Speech by the great meditator Ngawang Drakpa of Dagpo.

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Lamrim Teachings 1991-94

Extensive commentary on Lama Tsongkhapa's Great Exposition on the Gradual Path to Enlightenment. (Lamrim Chenmo)

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

Short talks on the stages of the path described in the Guru Puja text by the fourth Panchen Lama.

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Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Teachings on Lama Tsongkhapa's text on developing renunciation, bodhicitta, and wisdom.

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Middle-Length Lamrim with Venerable Sangye Khadro (2023-present)

Ongoing teachings on the Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment by Lama Tsongkhapa. Streamed live on the Sravasti Abbey YouTube channel on Thursday mornings at 9 am Pacific Time.

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Selected Lamrim Topics (2012)

Teachings on selected topics from the stages of the path to awakening (lamrim) given at Sravasti Abbey from October 18 to December 20, 2012.

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All Posts in Stages of the Path

Stopping anger for contempt and criticism

How to avoid anger when criticized or insulted.

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Anger is unjustified on analysis of the basis

Using analysis and reflection to develop patience.

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The patience of disregarding harm

Avoiding anger in the face of harm from others.

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How to generate patience in our mindstream

Developing patience with those who harm you.

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How to generate patience

The benefits of patience and faults of the lack of patience.

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11 Ways of benefiting sentient beings

Guidance on practicing ethics that benefits others.

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Hindrances to generosity

Four hindrances to generosity and the three types of ethics.

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Full transmission of the text

Geshe Samdup gives the full transmission of the text and answers remaining questions.

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Engaged bodhicitta

How to actualize engaged bodhicitta in our lives.

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Aspiring bodhicitta

Focusing on aspiring bodhicitta: preliminaries to its generation and its characteristics.

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Twelve links of dependent arising

Precursors to bodhicitta and twelve links of dependent arising that propel rebirth in cyclic existence.

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Bodhicitta as the entranceway to advanced scope

Investigating the practices of superior beings and the importance of bodhicitta.

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