How Vowed Restraints Prevent the Commitment of Actions One Has Pledged to Abstain From In An Extensive Commentary on (Vasubandhu’s “Treasure of Special Topics of Knowledge”): Illuminating the Path to Liberation (mDzod-ṭik thar-lam gsal-byed) (Varanasi ed. 208), the First Dalai...

The six perfections or six far-reaching attitudes will take us all the way to the other shore, which is enlightenment.

Introduction By nature, everyone wants to be happy and no one wants to be unhappy. No one wants to suffer. That nature is what drives an infant to suck milk; it drives us to eat, to find shelter, etc. – it is a natural drive. In order to rid ourselves of unhappiness and...

The outline of the three main stages of the Kalachakra initiation: preparation ceremony, entering the mandala, and seven empowerments of entering as a child.

Review Among the seven ways of knowing, some are valid ways of knowing and some are invalid. The valid ways of knowing are bare cognition and inferential understanding and all the rest are not valid. “Valid” means that it is fresh and non-fraudulent, and “non-fraudulent” means...

The Madhyamaka presentation derives from Nagarjuna and his Indian and Tibetan commentators.

Buddha spoke of karma, as recorded in his sutras, while his disciples and later generations elaborated his teachings on karma in their abhidharma compilations.

The Sautrantika explanation of karma arose as a critique of the Sarvastivada abhidharma presentation that was later codified as the Vaibhashika view.

The Vaibhashika explanation of karma derives from the abhidharma texts of Vasubandhu and their Indian commentaries.

Tibetan astrology has materials that are similar to or derived from systems from India and China but are modified and used in very different ways to constitute the unique Tibetan system. Much of the materials for the study of these topics derive from the “Kalachakra Tantra.”