An overview of the two general positions regarding the main points of cognition theory of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

Cognitions have numerous cognitive objects and the various Indian Buddhist schools of tenets differ in their explanations of them for the various ways of knowing.

Brief Review Of the six far-reaching attitudes, generosity and so forth, we began discussing the sixth one, the far-reaching attitude of discriminating awareness. Prior to that were the verses concerning a combined state of a stilled and settled mind and an exceptionally...

In the sutras, Buddha taught four types of objects of focus for practitioners to employ in meditation.

Review In our first session, we had a basic introduction to the topic. We saw that when we speak about refuge in Buddhism, we are not speaking about some passive act of turning to some higher power to protect us, but rather, we are taking certain measures to prevent our own...

We need to exert effort to rid ourselves of all obstacles to concentration, such as flightiness and mental dullness, during whatever meditations we may be doing.

Obtaining the Nonrevealing Form of a Vowed Restraint Vasubandhu states in A Treasure House of Special Topics of Knowledge, Put in Verses (Chos mngon-pa’i mdzod-kyi tshig-le’ur byas-pa, Skt. Abhidharmakośa-kārikā) (IV.26cd) (Gretil ed., Derge Tengyur vol. 140, 11A):  What...

The second preparatory practice is taking care about obtaining offerings without hypocrisy and setting them up in a beautiful arrangement. Different Types of Offering When Atisha went to Tibet, he recommended that people make water offerings. People were poor, obviously,...

[Clarifications by Dr. Berzin are included within square brackets.] Homage Homage to my Gurus. The author, the Third Karmapa, was an extremely learned master who wrote many profound texts that became the core of the Karma Kagyu teachings. Rangjung Dorje (Self-arisen Vajra) was...

These three types of comprehensible phenomena include all existent phenomena – all phenomena that can be validly known.