Traditions of Tibetan Buddhism

The assertions of the four Tibetan Buddhist traditions concerning self-voidness and other-voidness and the methods for meditating on them in the context of the clear light subtlest level of mind.

The Prasangika-Madhyamaka presentation of how to achieve a union of method and voidness both in sutra and tantra.

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.

Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey explains the Fourth Panchen Lama’s text that forms the basis for the Gelug/Kagyu tradition of mahamudra meditation on the nature of the mind.

Dzogchen explains the Buddhist path from the point of view of its final steps and resultant state. Learn the unique features of this system of meditation on the nature of the mind and how they contrast with those of mahamudra, Chan (Zen), anuttarayoga tantra and vipassana.

The lam-rim, or graded stages of the Buddhist path, take us from an ordinary limited being to a fully enlightened Buddha.

Message from Ling Rinpoche

Message from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

The difference between the Gelug presentation of voidness and that shared in common by Kagyu, Nyingma and Sakya concern the type of voidness that is cognized non-conceptually and how to attain non-conceptual cognition of it.

The different views among the Indian Buddhist tenet systems concerning the difference between arhats’ and Buddhas’ understanding of the lack of an impossible “soul” of persons and phenomena.