An overview of the practices for developing bodhichitta through equalizing and exchanging our attitudes about self and others.

We are going through the stages of meditation, leading up to the development of bodhichitta. We have gone through the process for developing mere equanimity, and we’re working through the nine stages for developing the uncommon Mahayana type of equanimity. The first type of...

The next set of three points concern developing uncommon Mahayana equanimity from the relative point of view of others.  Everyone Equally Wants to Be Happy and Not to Be Unhappy  The first of these is that everybody wants to be happy and nobody wants to be unhappy or...

The next step is called the development of “uncommon Mahayana equanimity” (thun-mong ma-yin-pa’i btang-snyom). This is the type of equanimity that we develop in equalizing and exchanging our attitude of ourselves and others. When we talk about equalizing our attitude toward...

“Kalmyk Mandala Magazine” interview with Dr. Berzin in 2008 on the basic principles of his work as a translator.

The essentials for practicing Buddhism in the West do not significantly differ from what they have always been: being sincere and realistic in working on ourselves.

Then those hundreds of thousands of bodhisattvas approached the Tathagata Suvarna-ratna-kara-cchatra-kuta. Paying homage with their heads at the feet of the Tathagata Suvarna-ratna-kara-cchatra-kuta, they stood to one side. Having stood to one side, the numerous hundreds of...

Then indeed the bodhisattva Ruchira-ketu rose from his seat, placed his upper robe over one shoulder, knelt his right knee on the ground, folded his hands in reverence towards the Tathagata and praised the Tathagata: Lord of Sages, you are gloriously adorned with thousands of...

Verses of homage and praise to the 21 forms of Tara, each of which protects us from a specific type of harm or interference.

Understanding Different Interpretations and Analysis in Buddhist Schools We have presented the Sautrantika way of enumerating the different ways of knowing. As we go deeper in our studies we find that there are certain variants to be found. For instance, in Asanga’s...