Review of the Lam-rim Initial Scope Teachings We’ve been discussing how to develop the self in a healthy way through the lam-rim graded stages. We have determined that there is a conventional self, and that it exists, moment to moment, as an imputational...

A look at the life, enlightenment and teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha, the founder of Buddhism.

At this point in the twelve links we have the mental continuum, referred to by its main component, consciousness – individual subjective mental activity – loaded with karmic aftermath and going on into a future lifetime. We have reached the second half of this third link, the...

What Meditation Does Meditation is a method for transforming and improving our lives. How? Well, our lives are affected by our personality and moods, which are affected by our living and economic situation, the people we spend our time with and so on. If we have any experience...

Harmony in a multireligious society comes from education about each other’s beliefs and customs and, from knowledge, comes respect.

An analysis of the pervasions among sets of ways of cognizing an object and among sets of forms of physical phenomena.

Yongdzin Ling Rinpoche’s long life prayer to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.

A longer Chakrasamvara sadhana according to the Luipa Tradition with additional clarifications.

A longer version of the Single-Deity Yamantaka sadhana that provides more details of the visualization, more elaborate offerings and other steps of the tantric practice.

A longer version of the Single-Deity Yamantaka sadhana with the additional clarifications taken from the tantric manuals.