Learn how masters from the various Tibetan Buddhist traditions assert relative and deepest bodhichittas and how to gain simultaneous cognition of the two truths in anuttarayoga tantra.

Conventional and Deepest Bodhichitta There are two facets of bodhichitta: conventional or relative bodhichitta and deepest bodhichitta. Both of them are aimed at our own individual future enlightenment which has not happened yet; but on the basis of our Buddha-natures and a...

Bodhichitta There are two stages of bodhichitta: aspiring bodhichitta and engaged bodhichitta. With aspiring bodhichitta, we wish to benefit all others, and we aspire to reach enlightenment to be able to do that. Engaged bodhichitta isn’t merely that we want to achieve...

Bodhisattva Vows For practicing the engaged state of bodhichitta and being best able to practice the six far-reaching attitudes, we need to take the bodhisattva vows. This involves refraining from committing the 18 root downfalls and the 46 faulty actions that transgress these...

Buddhas are born from bodhisattvas. The question then arises: how could the child of a Buddha also be a Buddha’s parent?

We gain a more balanced perspective of Bon by understanding Tibetan history and culture and how Bon’s approach to spiritual development relates to Tibetan Buddhism.

Practices that bond us closely to mother tantra helps us to remain on course for achieving blissful awareness of voidness with clear light mental activity.

Tashi Menri Monastery was established in 1405 in Tsang to continue the Bon debate tradition of Ensaka Monastery, which had been destroyed by a flood.

In 1836, Nangton Dawa Gyaltsen founded Yungdrungling Monastery just below Menri. This became the major debate monastery for the Bon tradition.

Traditional Buddhist methods offer various types of exercises focusing on the breath for calming down.