Karma

The Vaibhashika explanation of karma derives from the abhidharma texts of Vasubandhu and their Indian commentaries.

The Sautrantika explanation of karma arose as a critique of the Sarvastivada abhidharma presentation that was later codified as the Vaibhashika view.

According to Mahayana texts, if we get angry for even one moment at a bodhisattva whom we do not know is a bodhisattva, it devastates the positive potential that we have built up for many eons.

Inner Kalachakra concerns the cycles that the body undergoes, such as the life cycle and the passage of the breath during each day.

A concise explanation of karma from the Buddhist point of view.

Repeatedly gaining precious human rebirths makes the ultimate goals of liberation and enlightenment possible. To understand rebirth, it is essential to understand the nature of our mind and to gain a proper understanding of karma.

This presentation is the basic explanation of karma of the Chittamatra, Sautrantika and Yogachara-Svatantrika Indian tenet systems, based on texts of Asanga and Vasubandhu.

An explanation of the samsaric mechanism of death and rebirth and the liberating mechanism of the sutra, anuttarayoga tantra and Kalachakra methods for attaining a true stopping of them with the attainment of enlightenment.

The Gelug assertions of the various ways in which tendencies and habits differ.

With an extensive presentation of harmful situations that befall us, their karmic causes and the ways of behaving that will counter them, Dharmarakshita leads us to the practice of tonglen, giving and taking.