The Balanced Sensitivity program and its exercises aim to serve as a bridge between traditional Buddhist thinking and methods and the emotional problems we all experience and conceptualize in a Western way.

Recommended initial and concluding procedures for each training session as well as for each exercise.

An overview of the intellectual, emotional, and devotional approaches to Dharma.

Bare Cognition The ways of knowing that take as their appearing objects objective entities and metaphysical entities are, respectively, bare cognition and conceptual cognition. According to the Sautrantika explanation, all validly knowable phenomena are either objective...

Buddhist ethics comprises of three main areas: the self-discipline to refrain from destructive behavior, to engage in constructive behavior and to help others.

Historical Introduction The Buddhist teachings on cognition theory and logic derive from the works of the late 5th-century Indian master Dignaga and of Dharmakirti, the late-6th century disciple of his disciple. Dignaga wrote A Compendium of Validly Cognizing...

The basic features of the Gelug presentation of the Chittamatra system according to the textbook tradition of the 16th-century master Jetsun Chokyi Gyaltsen, followed by Ganden Jangtse and Sera Je Monasteries.

Main Points of the Lam-rim Graded Path The Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind to the Dharma The foundation and basis for enhancing your determination to be free (of samsara), the essence of the paths of these various teachings explained like that, is maintaining the ethical...

The five aggregates constitute a classification scheme for the variables of our experience and their components. 

The Vaisheshika and Nyaya schools share many features in common. Vaisheshika emphasizes the types of entities that exist, while Nyaya emphasizes the types of entities involved in cognizing and proving the existence of those entities.