The four Tibetan Buddhist traditions – Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug – present slightly different division schemes of the six far-reaching attitudes.

The remarkable behavior of small children identified as reincarnate lamas can serve as convincing evidence for rebirth.

Review  We have been speaking about the importance of understanding voidness, whether we speak in terms of self-voidness or other-voidness, and we’ve seen that it is necessary for overcoming and achieving a true stopping of the true sufferings that we all experience and...

Review We have been speaking about incorrect consideration, and if we think in terms of incorrect consideration of “me,” a person, or a self, whether it’s with respect to ourselves or others, what’s incorrect here is to consider that there is a “me” that’s separate from a body...

The subtlest level of mind, the clear light mind, naturally makes an appearance similar to that when non-conceptually cognizing voidness. Even when not cognizing voidness, it does that explicitly at the moment of death and, according to the Jetsunpa textbooks, subliminally...

Grasping for truly established existence entails both projecting an appearance of such an impossible mode of existence and believing it corresponds to reality. Dormant grasping for it occurs when one or both aspects of grasping are not manifest.

Getting Oriented in Delhi I arrived in Delhi in September 1969, with no clear plan of what exactly my thesis topic would be or where to conduct my research. I was twenty-four. I reported to the Fulbright House and then to Professor R.C. Pandeya, the head of the Buddhist...

Dr. Berzin recounts his experiences and impressions during his visits to Eastern Europe and the USSR before, during and shortly after the fall of communism.

Having reached the age of eighty, Dr. Berzin looks back on his life and provides a full picture from childhood up to the present.

My Parents and Siblings  I was born December 10, 1944, in Paterson New Jersey to a working-class, secular Jewish family. As I learned when I later studied the Tibetan calendar, that was the date that year of Ganden Ngamchoe, the anniversary of Tsongkhapa’s passing...