A prayer by Tsongkhapa to be able to engage in constructive actions at the beginning, middle and end of the path to enlightenment.

After completing preliminary practices and following an initiatory ceremony that activates our Buddha-nature potentials, along with taking bodhisattva and tantric vows, we transform our minds in tantra by imagining ourselves as a Buddha-figure and our environment as a mandala, the habitation of these Buddha-figures.

An overview of the intellectual, emotional, and devotional approaches to Dharma.

This meditation manual by the Second Dalai Lama explains the visualization practices for the “Three Essential Moments” – this life, the time of death, and the in-between rebirth state – as a step-by-step guide to cultivating compassion, wisdom and preparation for liberation.

Tantra practice transforms Buddha-nature factors by employing Buddha-figures as infographics to integrate complex realizations along the path.