Main Features of Tantra The practice of the tantric teachings is something graded into four classes of deity practices. Unless you have a little understanding of what these four classes of deity practice are, it will be quite difficult to suddenly jump to the most advance one,...

The graded stages of the path (lam-rim) lead to better rebirths, liberation and enlightenment, but can also apply to improving this lifetime as well.

The six yogas or practices of Naropa are a set of extremely advanced anuttarayoga complete stage practices that have led various great masters to attain enlightenment in their very lifetime.

The two truths in Theravada refer to the objective basic components of conventional objects and the conventional objects that are conceptual constructs projected on the basis of them.

Preface Among the Tibetans, the Buddhist monasteries have traditionally been the great centers of learning. The educational system followed by many of them, such as Ganden, Sera and Drepung of the Gelug tradition, is modeled on that introduced more than a thousand years ago...

Dr. Berzin outlines the theoretical and historical features of Buddhism and Islam that indicate a common ground between them, in addition to basic shared ethical principles.

Formulation of the Topic for Analysis  In Buddhism, a temporal interval is what we’re speaking about when we talk about time; it’s an interval between the occurrence of a cause and the occurrence of an effect. What is most common in Buddhism (and what all Buddhist tenet...

The Relation between a Mentor's Functioning as a Buddha and Being a Buddha Beyond the suggestion to focus with firm conviction and appreciation on the good qualities and kindness that their mentors actually have, the sutras and tantras instruct disciples to regard these...

An in-depth presentation of the self, self-centeredness and love in Islam, based on the “Quran,” and in Buddhism, based on the Mahayana teachings.

A survey of the history of Buddhist-Muslim interaction during the first millennium after the Prophet, focusing on the level of knowledge that the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition had of Islam, as found in the Kalachakra literature, and the points that it had identified as being...