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The first frost of snow falls on a Buddha statue in the garden amidst fall foliage.
37 Practices of Bodhisattvas

37 Practices: Verses 4-6

Verses describing the miseries of samsara, the importance of thinking about beginningless lives, giving up…

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Vajrasattva statue
Guru Yoga

Lama Tsongkhapa’s kindness

How Je Rinpoche brought immense benefit through his teachings on emptiness and lamrim, and how…

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Vajrasattva statue
Vajrasattva Winter Retreat 2005-06

Ignorance, anger, purification

Retreat discussion on topics such as the four distortions, how anger destroys merit, using pain…

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The first frost of snow falls on a Buddha statue in the garden amidst fall foliage.
37 Practices of Bodhisattvas

37 Practices: Verses 1-3

Making the lamrim personal, changing environments to change negative habits, and relaxing as we see…

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Tangkha image of Chandrakirti.
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Profound view

How wisdom and compassion support each other. Ten ways to practice mindfulness of emptiness. When…

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Monk walking toward a transparent Buddha figure.
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

The self as a merely labeled phenomenon

Why understanding dependent arising precedes the realization of emptiness. The meaning of being merely labeled.…

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Statue of Je Tsongkhapa
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Ways in which we apprehend phenomena

What does it mean when we say that things, including the self, exist in dependence…

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Statue of a Buddha.
Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Progressing from wrong conceptions to correct view

How to use your meditation to move through the various stages of realizing emptiness, the…

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Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Negating inherent existence

The three levels of selflessness. Conventional and ultimate truths. The three levels of dependent arising.

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