I take safe direction wholeheartedly from the Three Supreme Gems. I shall free all wandering beings from suffering and secure them in everlasting bliss. To reach full enlightenment for their sake, I reaffirm my bodhichitta aim and shall train myself in bodhisattva behavior. In...

From my heart, I take safe direction from the Three Precious Gems. May I free all beings from torment and place them in everlasting bliss. To become fully enlightened for their sake, I develop bodhichitta and train myself through bodhisattva acts.In the sky before me, on a...

An abridged Kalachakra sadhana having the full mind, speech and body mandelas with all 722 deities.

An abridged Kalachakra sadhana having only the mind mandela with its 46 deities.

An abridged Kalachakra sadhana having in the center of the mandala only the Kalachakra central couple surrounded by the eight consort goddesses.

An abridged Kalachakra sadhana having only a single Kalachakra deity, without consort, in the center of the mandala.

The following academic institutions in Beijing are invol­v­ed with Tibetan studies. (1) The China Tibetology Research Center (Zhongguo Zang­xue Yanjiu Zhongxin 中国藏学研究中心), with director, Dorje Tsetan, and deputy director, Hu Tan, ­­has 120 workers, half of whom are engaged...

Accounting for Validly Knowing Objects as Being This or That How do we account for something being validly knowable as this or that? We can’t account for it by means of some self-establishing nature inside something that makes it this or that. We can only account for it...

Review We’ve been speaking about voidness or emptiness, and we’ve seen that voidness is the total absence of impossible ways of accounting for, or establishing the existence of validly knowable objects. It deals with the issue of how to account for the fact that there are...

Brief Review of Why and How We Need to Analyze the Different Types of Appearances We’ve been speaking about the various appearances that our mental activity gives rise to. We are analyzing them because how things appear to us affects very much how we respond to what we...