The all-pervasive suffering refers to the five tainted aggregates which are the basis for the experience of the suffering of suffering and the suffering of change.

Alternative Kalachakra deals with the methods for overcoming being under the influence of the external and internal cycles of time. The Kalachakra Tantra presents these methods in its third, fourth and fifth chapters. The third chapter deals with the empowerment, the...

A summary of the main points that a group of senior Western Buddhist agreed upon as a result of the presentations and discussions with His Holiness the Dalai Lama during a conference in Dharamsala, March 1993.

Six Types of Causes Our discussion has brought up several questions and topics. We can add more pieces of the puzzle by looking into these topics so that we have a larger picture of what’s involved with karma. One of these topics is the topic of the different types of causes,...

We have now covered the meditation on the superficial or conventional nature of the mind or mental activity. Now, we’re ready to look a little bit at the meditation on the deepest nature of the mind.  The Two Natures of the Mind or Two Truths about the Mind  When we...

How the topic of karma is to be understood in relation to the issue of free will versus determinism.

Ordering Someone to Commit a Harmful Action Brings about an Increase in Negative Karmic Potential for Both the Agent of the Action and the One Who Ordered It  As for ordering others to commit harmful actions of body or speech, such as taking a life or lying, Vasubandhu,...

Further Background Material Range of the Analysis Since the issue of free will versus determinism hinges on the understanding of “ not-yet-happenings,” let us focus our analysis, for the moment, primarily on them. Moreover, let us limit our discussion to the Gelug Prasangika...

The Political and Religious Climate among the Tanguts With the establishment of the Khitan Liao Dynasty in Mongolia, Manchuria, and parts of northern Han China in 947, and the Northern Song reunification of the rest of Han China in 960, the Tanguts became pressed from both the...

With a beginningless mental continuum of uncontrollably recurring rebirths, what makes us develop a bodhichitta aim the first time?