The mechanism for how receiving an initiation prepares us for successful tantra practice.

Dr. Berzin’s advice to ​​abbots, lamas, geshes and monks in Drepung, Ganden and Sera Monasteries in India on how to prepare for teaching in foreign countries in order to make sure there are no misunderstandings and that the experience is beneficial for both sides.

As a translator and interpreter himself, Dr. Berzin gives advice on the theory and practice of translating.

The Berzin Archives (later Study Buddhism) project of translations of articles and original texts into multiple languages can offer a model for the Tengyur translation project.

[Clarification of His Holiness' answers by Dr. Berzin are included within square brackets.] The Vow Not to Lose Seminal Energy-Drops Dr. Berzin: Many Westerners are married, what about the Kalachakra close bond of not losing (mi-nyams) seminal energy-drops (khu-ba)? What lay...

We need to recognize a self-cherishing attitude in ourselves and try to eliminate it. If we at least realize we have such an attitude, it will be great progress.

Understanding the difference between affirmation phenomena, which are known simply by affirming the presence or existence of something, and negation phenomena, known by negating the presence or existence of something, enables us to understand nonstaticness and voidness.

We have discussed the first two periods, immediately before doing, saying, or thinking something and while we are actually doing, saying, or thinking it. Now we are ready to discuss what happens after the karmic action has ended. After a karmic action has ended, there are...

A look at the various non-Gelug assertions of an alaya (a foundation) that underlies all moments of cognition before enlightenment.

The Five Aggregates There’s one more topic that is relevant to our discussion of “me” and the role of “me” in all of this. “Me,” like age and speed and these sorts of things, is a nonstatic imputation phenomenon that is neither a form of physical phenomenon nor a way of being...