Complete instructions on how to structure a meditation session.

The five aggregates perpetuate suffering and unsatisfactory happiness, yet the state of mind that will get rid of the source of our suffering is within the five aggregates.

Our topic for this seminar is the five Buddha wisdoms: the five types of deep awareness.

The Gelug presentation of meditations on the different Indian Buddhist tenet systems concerning the selflessness of persons and phenomena.

Rather than being detrimental to Mongolia’s progress, the revival of Buddhism is the key for progress. For Mongolia to advance and compete in the world market economy, it is essential that the Mongolian people have a deep sense of self-worth and cultural identity.

Introduction This weekend I want to speak about the types of appearances that the mind gives rise to: accurate and inaccurate, pure and impure, tainted and untainted, samsaric and nirvanic. That’s an awful lot of variables, isn’t it? As I was preparing this, when one thinks...

There are several different discussions of karma in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. I should also point out that all of them are quite different from the Theravada presentation of how karma works. Within Tibetan Buddhism, there are three basic explanations. We are going to discuss only...

Discerning Meditation In general, meditation has two stages: discerning meditation and stabilizing meditation. In discerning meditation, we work through either progressive steps or a line of reasoning, as we did in the thinking process, to build up to a state of mind that...

 Mental Factors There are primary consciousnesses and mental factors. In any cognition there are always these two kinds of conscious phenomena, which share five congruent features (mtshungs-ldan lnga). They share a common (1) object (yul), (2) reliance (rten), (3) mental...

We have been discussing the Fourth Panchen Lama’s text on the Gelug-Kagyu tradition of mahamudra, and we saw that the presentation is divided into the preparation, the actual teachings and the concluding procedures. With the preparatory practices, we saw that this entails...