We are studying this letter that Tsongkhapa wrote to his friend and meditator with whom he exchanged teachings, and he answers his friend’s request to write a brief indication of practical advice about how to practice sutra and tantra.  Review of Previous Sessions...

Summary of Previous Sessions We have gone quite far in our study of A Letter of Practical Advice. We’ve been summarizing the text each time before class. Perhaps we can do it a little bit more briefly, since now there’s quite a lot to summarize if we summarize every...

Review of Previous Sessions We are studying this letter that Tsongkhapa wrote, an answer to the request that he received from his student and friend (and also, in certain contexts, his teacher), of certain things in which he was asked to write, in abbreviated form, how to put...

Review of Previous Sessions We are going through, rather slowly and carefully, this Letter of Practical Advice on Sutra and Tantra that Tsongkhapa wrote to his friend, a meditator, in answer to a request to explain in very practical ways how to follow the path.  Reliance...

Review of Previous Sessions We are going along in our study of this Letter of Practical Advice on Sutra and Tantra written by Tsongkhapa to one of his meditator friends who requested a very practical explanation of how to practice the combined path of sutra and tantra....

We are going through this text of Tsongkhapa. The actual title is A Brief Indication of the Graded Pathway Minds, but since that’s a fairly common title of things, I gave it this title more in accord with what it’s talking about: it’s a letter of practical advice. Review of...

In our study of this letter that Tsongkhapa wrote to his friend the meditator, Tsongkhapa speaks about how we actually put the sutra and tantra teachings into practice in a very practical way.  Review of Previous Sessions Reliance on a Qualified Spiritual Mentor...

We are studying this text which Tsongkhapa wrote as a letter to his friend, a meditator, and in this Tsongkhapa replies to the request that he was given to write some practical advice on how to practice the combined path of sutra and tantra, specifically the highest class of...

We are going through this text of Tsongkhapa, a letter that he wrote to a friend who was both a student of his and his teacher, in which he explains the combined path of sutra and the highest class of tantra. Review of Previous Sessions Reliance on a Qualified Spiritual Mentor...

We are continuing our study of this letter that Tsongkhapa wrote to his friend and teacher in which he explains in a very practical way how to put the sutra and highest class of tantra teachings into practice.  Review of Previous Sessions Let’s have a short review (as we...