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Wheel of Life thangka.
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Infallible effects of karma

Avoiding and purifying the negative karma created through the actions of our body, speech, and…

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Cover of Geshen Sonam Rinchen's book "The Three Principal Aspects of the Path".
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

General characteristics of karma

Karma is definite, expandable, doesn't get lost, and results from the causes that we have…

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Venerable Chodron meditating.
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Imagining your death

The Buddhist practice of meditation on our own deaths can free our minds from the…

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Venerable Chodron meditating.
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Nine-point death meditation

By reflecting carefully and thoroughly on death and impermanence, we reach the conclusion that we…

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A young Abbey retreatant, bowing to Venerable Chodron.
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Rarity of a precious human rebirth

Contemplating the rarity of a precious human life complete with both the ability and the…

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Venerable Chodron sitting at her computer, smiling.
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Precious human rebirth

How we can use our precious human life to advance ourselves on the Dharma path.

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A bundle of 100 dollar bills.
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

The eight worldly concerns

How to work with mental obstacles that keep us from practicing the Dharma.

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Venerable Samten with eyes closed while two nuns shave her head.
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Renunciation

We are stuck in cyclic existence. Through the teachings, we see the problems of cyclic…

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Venerable Chodron bowing to His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

The preliminaries

How the Buddhist teachings plant in our minds the seed of the realizations that will…

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Venerable Chodron teaching.
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Introduction

How we can most effectively listen to and study Dharma teachings.

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Thangka con la imagen de Lama Tsongkhapa.
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

The Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Verses on the essence of the path to awakening by Je Tsongkhapa, the founder of…

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A statute of a standing buddha and the background is the face of a smiling buddha.
Four Truths for the Aryas

The four noble truths

A brief description of the four noble truths and why the Buddha taught them the…

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