Confusion arose due to vast cultural differences and the new realities of Dharma centers established by Tibetan teachers for the Western, lay students – a phenomenon that had not existed before in the history of Buddhism.

All of Buddha’s teachings are intended to help us overcome difficulties in life.

Deriving primarily from India over several centuries through the efforts of a large number of teachers and translators, Tibetan Buddhism gradually evolved into four main traditions.

To overcome chronic feelings of guilt at having committed destructive actions, we need deconstruct our misconceptions about karmic cause and effect and the self.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Buddhism has been revived in the Buryat and Kalmyk Mongol regions and the Tuvinian and Altaian Turkic regions of Russia and is currently flourishing in 2023.

The Dalai Lama explains the compatible and incompatible assertions made by the four Tibetan traditions concerning primordial clear light mind.