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What Are Impure and Pure Appearances? Now let’s discuss the variable of impure and pure appearances. The variable of pure and impure is applied in terms of whether or not an appearance is adulterated and stained with faults. “Faults” here refers to items that arise from our...

Unawareness, Disturbing Emotions and Karmic Aftermath Have No Beginning We have already established that each of us has an individual mental continuum that has no beginning or end, and that we’ll continue to take rebirth. Without beginning, our mental continuum has also been...

A good heart – based on the ethics of love and compassion – is the key to achieving a happy life.

Work on shortcomings and potentials, to avoid depression at your life going nowhere.

Khotanese Missions to Han China Khotan, lying to the east of the Qarakhanid stronghold in Kashgar, was a wealthy Buddhist state. Its mines were the main source of jade for all the lands along the Silk Route, especially Han China. Occasionally, its kings had even visited Han...

The Qualities of the Dharma Once we are well aware of the magnificent qualities of the Buddhas, we consider how all of them gained their qualities through realizing the deepest Dharma Gem, namely true stoppings of their obscurations and true pathway minds leading to this. On a...

His Holiness the Dalai Lama answers questions from Dr. Berzin about various aspects of Kalachakra – such as its relationship with Western audiences and Western science, the different Tibetan Kalachakra traditions – and also gives advice on keeping vows.

A Q&A with Dr. Berzin’s students about various aspects of our daily lives and how Buddhism addresses them.

Review Just to clarify some points, a pathway of a karmic impulse is defined as what a primary consciousness having congruent with it the mental factor of an urge engages in. In Vasubandhu and Nagarjuna’s system, the mental factor of an urge is a karmic impulse of the mind....