Kriya tantra (ritual tantra) is found in the Nyingma and Sarma classification schemes. It’s a practice with deity visualization that emphasizes cleanliness, vegetarianism and purification.

Kriya tantra (ritual tantra) is the first of the four tantra classes in the Sarma classification scheme and the first of the six tantra classes in the Nyingma scheme. It puts a great deal of emphasis on cleanliness, vegetarianism and purification.  Preliminaries ...

Once we have practiced for a while, trying to maintain this deep awareness of nondual profound and clear – the profound understanding of voidness and the clarity of the visualization – then we practice the four types of mental stability. Not necessarily that we practice all...

Background to the Text Today we are starting our new course on a letter that the great Tibetan master Tsongkhapa wrote to one of his friends. The actual title of the letter is A Brief Indication of the Graded Pathway Minds (or Graded Stages of the Path); but since that’s a...

Last week we began this wonderful letter that Tsongkhapa wrote to his friend and student, teacher — someone that he had a mutual teacher and student relationship with — the meditator Konchog-tsultrim, in which he explained in a very practical way how to meditate on sutra and...

Session Ten: How To Meditate We are studying this text, Letter of Practical Advice on Sutra and Tantra, which the great Tibetan master Tsongkhapa wrote to one of his disciples and friends, the meditator Konchog-tsultrim, with whom he also exchanged teachings back and forth....

We are going through this text by Tsongkhapa in which he gives practical advice about how to practice, and this is in a letter to his friend Konchog-tsultrim.  Reliance on a Qualified Spiritual Mentor He starts in terms of saying that we have an excellent working basis of...

Review of Previous Sessions We are going through this letter that Tsongkhapa wrote to his friend and meditator Konchog-tsultrim in which he answers this fellow meditator’s request to give some practical advice on how to actually practice sutra and tantra. And after a very...

Review of Previous Sessions We are studying a letter that Tsongkhapa, the great Tibetan master who lived at the end of the 14th and beginning of the 15th centuries, wrote to his friend Konchog-tsultrim, a great accomplished meditator. This friend had asked Tsongkhapa to write...

We are studying this letter that Tsongkhapa wrote to his friend, a fellow meditator, Konchog-tsultrim, with whom he exchanged various teachings. And Tsongkhapa is replying to a request that this great meditator made to him asking him to explain some practical advice on how to...