(1) To gain hold of that precious mind, I offer sincerely to you, the Thusly Gone (Buddhas), to the stainless Rare Gem of the hallowed Dharma, and to you, the offspring of the Buddhas, with oceans of good qualities: (2) Whatever flowers and fruits there are and whatever...

All three types of compassion share the same definition: the wish for others to be free of suffering and the causes of suffering, yet they are distinct from each other.

An explanation of the samsaric mechanism of death and rebirth and the liberating mechanism of the sutra, anuttarayoga tantra and Kalachakra methods for attaining a true stopping of them with the attainment of enlightenment.

Already in the 1970s, a few other lamas besides Dandaron also began to teach people who came from the western part of Russia. These included Lama Buda and Lama Zhimba Zhamso Tsybenov (1904–1995) in the Aginsky Buryat National District but outside of Aginsky Datsan, as well as...

The Far-Reaching Patience of Readily Accepting Suffering Meditation is a method to overcome the mind being under the control of compelling karmic impulses and disturbing emotions, thereby creating suffering for ourselves. The fact that meditation functions like this shows that...

Review  We have been speaking about self-voidness and other-voidness and, so far, we are restricting our discussion to the Gelug assertions, although Gelug does not use the terms self-voidness and other-voidness for its own assertions. Some non-Gelug masters, however, do...

Verses 15 and 16 Verse 15: Not Becoming Discouraged When Meditating on Bodhichitta Remembering Buddha-Nature for Overcoming Becoming Discouraged And when a feeling of discouragement arises, let me praise the glories of the mind. This is speaking about a major problem...

Chapters 5 to 8 Five: Indicating the Behavior of Bodhisattvas (1) There are no actions of the Buddhas that are not causes (for benefiting others). Even their breath is issued only for the sake of (acting as a) medicine for limited beings. (2) Just as the word “Lord of Death”...

Chapters 1 to 4 [Translator’s note: This loose translation was made in 1978, with extensive material in parentheses added from Gyaltsab Je’s commentary and from explanations by Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey and Geshe Sonam Rinchen in order to make the terse verses more readable and...

Learn what needs to be overcome in order to develop each of the three graded levels of motivation in lam-rim.