The Relation between the Object of Refutation in Voidness and the Ease of Understanding Voidness as Dependent Arising Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche II: [In the context of cognition of conventional truth] because there are cognizing minds (shes-pa), that’s why there are objects...

Aryadeva’s treatise discusses how to build up the positive potential for understanding voidness and how to gain correct cognition of the deepest truth.

When I became a Chakravartin king, I offered the earth with its oceans, its four continents filled with jewels to all buddhas of the past.There was nothing loved nor treasured I did not surrender so I might fully seek the dharmakaya. For eons, I gave even my cherished life, as...

The historical precedent of how the Dharma from India was preserved in Tibet suggests how to protect the heritage of the Dharma in the West.

Also called “The King of Glorious Sutras, the Sublime Golden Light,” this sutra is recited throughout the Mahayana Buddhist world for building up positive force (merit).

Then at that time, at that moment, the noble goddess Bodhisattva-samucchaya praised the Tathagata: Homage to the Buddha, who is possessed of an utterly immaculate mind and presides over an utterly flawless Dharma. Perfectly knowing existence and non-existence, his sublime mind...

Homage to all past, future and present buddhas, bodhisattvas, pratyekabuddhas and shravakas! Thus I have heard at one time: the Tathagata, entering buddhas’ domain of experience, the profound sphere of reality, at Vulture Peak expounded to the supreme bodhisattvas, who were...

The Kadam traditons’s sutra-level guru-meditation can be very helpful for some of the problems that have caused unhealthy relationships to develop with spiritual teachers in the West.

Madhyamaka-Svatantrika Madhyamaka is divided into two schools according to the Gelug presentation of it. We have Svatantrika and Prasangika, and Svatantrika is divided also into two: Sautrantika-Svatantrika and Yogachara-Svatantrika. Sautrantika-Svatantrika accepts externally...

Introduction The six preparatory practices (jorcho, sbyor-chos) derive from Atisha, who learned them from his teacher in Indonesia, Serlingpa, and then transmitted them to Tibet. They are preparation for any meditation session that we do. We find them discussed in the standard...