The explanations of the 80 exemplary features and their causes is according to Haribhadra’s “Clarifying the Meaning: A Commentary on (Maitreya’s) ‘Filigree of Realizations.’”

Also known as “Songs of Experience,” Tsongkhapa’s brief presentation is part of the lam-rim training outlining the graded stages of the path to enlightenment.

Interview with Dr. Berzin, following his 1990 visit to the Mongolian People’s Republic, for “Buddhists for Peace”: “Lessons To Be Learned from the Adaptation of Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia.”

A Person of Advanced Spiritual Scope Atisha continues: (5) Anyone who fully wishes to eliminate completely all the sufferings of others as (he or she would) the sufferings included in his or her own mental continuum is someone of supreme motivation. This introduces...

Review Thus far, we have discussed two of the aggregates that make up our experience: forms of physical phenomena and the feelings of some level of happiness. Each of these aggregates of changing phenomena is made up of many items, and we experience an assortment of them...

The Meaning of Feelings in the Context of the Five Aggregates The second aggregate is the aggregate of feelings. In this context, it means feeling a level of happiness or unhappiness. This aggregate is not referring to emotional feelings; instead, it deals with the single...

The Aggregates Only Include Nonstatic Phenomena As mentioned, the five aggregates are a convenient scheme to help us organize and understand our experience. Each aggregate is a collection of various similar factors that make up each moment of our experience, and they include...

What does the aggregate of forms of physical phenomena include?

Review Clarity or Appearance-Making and Awareness We’ve been discussing mental activity, what the mind actually is, and have noted that its characteristics are clarity and awareness. Clarity is appearance-making, in other words, the giving rise to a mental hologram. This is a...

Brief Review Mind is Mental Activity We started our discussion of the mind and the five aggregates. As mentioned, when we speak about mind in Buddhism, we’re talking about mental activity, the individual mental activity of experiencing something that is going on all the time...