Traditions of Tibetan Buddhism

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.

Message from Ling Rinpoche

Message from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

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

It is very important to maintain a nonsectarian point of view of Bon with regard to the Tibetan traditions. As His Holiness the Dalai Lama always stresses, these different traditions share the same ultimate aim: they all teach methods for achieving enlightenment to benefit...