Lam-rim

Tsongkhapa offers verses of request for inspiration to follow the lam-rim graded path from its foundation, a healthy relation with a spiritual teacher, through the two stages of tantra, all the way to enlightenment.

His Holiness’s advice on teaching the lam-rim is to start with the four noble truths.

Vajrasattva practice is a tantric meditation done for the purification of negative karmic potentials. On an ultimate level, Vajrasattva practice is non-conceptual meditation on voidness.

Childhood and Renunciation of Princely Life In eastern India, in the land of Jahor, in the city of Bangala, in the Golden Banner Palace, lived King Kalyana the Good and Queen Prabhavati the Radiant. The royal palace was crowned with thirteen golden roofs, one set atop the...

A determination to be free of suffering, a bodhichitta aim to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all, and a correct understanding of emptiness are the three principal aspects of the graded path to enlightenment.

How to practice tantra effectively using the three levels of motivation as found within the lam-rim teachings.

The source of the lam-rim graded path teachings in Tibet.

An explanation of “Seven Point Mind Training” with elaboration on points from the lam-rim graded path.