Tibetan language and culture spread and interacted with many other civilizations. The Tibetan traditions have evolved over the centuries, and this process of evolution and growth must continue.

Tantra entails advanced Mahayana practices that weave together all the different themes of practice that we’ve developed already in sutra. It is the intertwining of the basis, pathway, and resultant conditions of everlasting continuities of Buddha-nature factors to weave a method for achieving enlightenment.

An elaboration of the four reasons for the efficiency of tantra over sutra in general tantra common to all four classes of tantra.

Anuttarayoga tantra describes death, bardo and rebirth as an uncontrollably recurring cycle of mental activity and energy-winds dissolving down to the clear light level and then re-emerging, as governed by karma and ignorance.

The Kalachakra depiction of the non-Indic prophets and its prophecies of a future war with their followers must be understood in its historical and cultural context.