Our relationship with our teacher needs to be based on a firm conviction in our teacher’s good qualities.

Learn how masters from the various Tibetan Buddhist traditions assert relative and deepest bodhichittas and how to gain simultaneous cognition of the two truths in anuttarayoga tantra.

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.

Understanding the twelve links of dependent arising and the five aggregates reveals how unawareness and karma perpetuate samsara and how realizing voidness leads to liberation from suffering and rebirth.

It is important to reflect on the causes of suffering because disturbing emotions and the karma they generate bind us to the cycle of dissatisfaction, death and rebirth, whereas counteracting them through Dharma practice leads to liberation.

By deeply contemplating the many forms of suffering present throughout samsara, practitioners develop genuine renunciation and the determination to attain lasting liberation from uncontrollably recurring rebirth.

The Mahayana and Theravada presentation of the points on which the Buddha remained silent, since to answer them would only create confusion in the minds of questioners.