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6 H.H.Dalai Lama: Commentary on Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama: In the Buddhist tradition, women are seen as the symbol of compassion and affectionate perfection.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: In the Buddhist tradition, women are seen as the symbol of compassion and affectionate perfection.

6 His Holiness The Dalai Lama: Commentary on The Precious Garland “Ratnavali” by Nagarjuna, UCLA Los Angeles June 5-8, 1997.

First, a follow-up to previous post: A Chinese court in august 2011 has sentenced 46 year old Buddhist monk Lobsang Tsundue to 11 years imprisonment for allegedly “killing” his nephew, Rigzin Phuntsog, a 16-year old monk who set himself on fire last March. Tsundue was found guilty of hiding Phuntsog which prevented the boy from receiving emergency medical treatment for 11 hours. Eyewitnesses claim that that after Chinese security personnel doused the flames, they severely beat Phuntsog’s charred body. Tsundue, they said, was trying to save his nephew from any further beating. Tsundue’s supporters also claim that young monk Phuntsog died as a result of the beatings and not from his self-immolation.

In related news, the former Tibet Communist Party chief Zhang Qingli who led China’s hard-line policy against the Dalai Lama and his supporters, has a new job and a new target.

Zhang Qingli, aka “The Tibetan bulldog”, has been appointed Communist Party Secretary of Hebei province, home to about one quarter of China’s Roman Catholics.  According to the independent.co.uk, Hebei province is “where tensions between the state and the Vatican run at their highest.”

Although there is no evidence that Zhang Qingli plans to mercilessly persecute the Catholics, and perhaps unfair to suggest that he will, it’s still a safe bet things will be no picnic for them in the foreseeable future, because if you know anything at all about modern day China, you know that the government has no use for religion or spirituality. Continue reading »

1 H.H. Dalai Lama ’08: Teachings on Lamrim Chenmo

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama: the Buddha’s body came into being from myriads of causes.

1st day, July 10, 2008. His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Teachings on Lam-rim Chen-mo.

In July 2008, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama gave a historic six-day teaching on The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Lamrim Chenmo), Tsongkhapa’s classic text on the stages of spiritual evolution. Translator for His Holiness was Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D.

This event at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, marked the culmination of a twelve-year effort by the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center (TBLC), New Jersey, to translate the Great Treatise into English. The transcripts were kindly provided to LYWA by the Tibetan Buddhist Learning Center, which holds the copyright. Webcast recordings of these teachings are available through His Holiness’ official website.

The transcripts have been published in a wonderful book, From Here to Enlightenment, edited by Guy Newland and published by Shambhala Publications. We encourage you to buy the book from your local Dharma center, bookstore, or directly from Shambhala.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Good afternoon, everybody. Indeed I am very, very happy to be here to lecture on the Lamrim Chenmo. Firstly, I visited the late Geshe Wangyal’s Center many years ago, during my first visit to America, that was… ’79, because of the historically very close link between Tibetan and Mongolian peoples, and particularly since the Third Dalai Lama’s very unique, close relations with Mongolia. So when we say with Mongolian, this includes Kalmyk, Buryat, all these Mongolian types. There is a very unique sort of relation. Then also in my own case, one of the best Tsenshap [study partner], Ngodrub Chowanyi, was Mongolian. So he helped a lot. So with this Mongolian there was something very close, personally, some close connection, link.

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2 H.H. Dalai Lama ’08: Teachings on Lamrim Chenmo

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama: We tend to relate to the external world as if the physical world that is out there possesses some kind of independent reality of its own that is independent of my perception and has some kind of discrete reality. 

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: We tend to relate to the external world as if the physical world that is out there possesses some kind of independent reality of its own that is independent of my perception and has some kind of discrete reality.

2 Day One, Afternoon Session, July 10, 2008. Opening Verse: The Buddha’s Qualities. Tsongkhapa’s Motivation for Composing the Text. Listeners Need Three Qualities. Atisha and the Four Schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Attainment of the Two Aims. Four Greatnesses of Atisha’s Teaching.

Opening Verse: The Buddha’s Qualities

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

So, now … [continues in Tibetan]

Thupten Jinpa: The text opens with a salutation to Manjushri in the Sanskrit language. This is partly to indicate that the source of the Tibetan tradition is the Sanskrit tradition and Sanskrit became, as explained before, the dominant language, the medium through which Buddhadharma was presented in the Nalanda tradition. Therefore in Tibet the custom evolved to acknowledge that source, and often at the beginning of a Tibetan text there would be a salutation in Sanskrit.

His Holiness about him: [in Tibetan] [Referring to an un-translated exchange with scholars on stage] Everybody failed to recall that sentence. Of course, understandable. All scholars are now quite old. I know gradually forgetting.

Thupten Jinpa: So the first verse of salutation is salutation to the Buddha. And here, the way in which Tsongkhapa pays homage to the Buddha is by reflecting upon the qualities of the Buddha’s body, speech and mind. And in the first line he reflects upon the qualities of the Buddha’s body. And here he identifies causation, the fact that the Buddha’s physical body, or Buddha’s form body, came into being as a result of its causes.

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3 H.H. Dalai Lama ’08: Teachings on Lamrim Chenmo

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Aryadeva points out that the most skillful way of doing this is to first understand the Buddha’s teaching on emptiness, Buddha’s teaching on no-self.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Aryadeva points out to first understand the Buddha’s teaching on emptiness, Buddha’s teaching on no-self.

3. Day Two, Morning Session, July 11, 2008, Part one. Using Human Intelligence to Transform Our Minds. Perfection of Wisdom. Goals and Conditions for Learning. How to Guide Students. Understanding Emptiness as the Key. Chanting of Heart Sutra in Vietnamese.

Using Human Intelligence to Transform Our Minds

His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Now, I think in the beginning of the afternoon session, perhaps some questions may be useful.

So, Buddhadharma. Some scholars described, “Buddhism is not a religion but a science of mind.” I think it’s quite true, because in Buddhism, like any other non-theistic religion, the basic concept is law of causality—cause-and-effect, cause-and-effect, goes like that.

So the thing which we are very much concerned with, that is suffering, pain, and the joyful or pleasant, happy…

Thupten Jinpa: …happiness.

His Holiness: So the pains and pleasures, these things are feelings. So feelings means: part of our mind. So the causes of that (of course external factors are also there) but mainly within our own mind. So logically, in order to reduce suffering, pains, worry, sadness, fear: they ultimately depend upon our mental attitude.

So shaping in new ways our mind, just mere determination, or mere wish, to some extent it has some effect, but that cannot sort of affect us in a more profound way. So here I think conviction, firm conviction, that is something important. Continue reading »

10 H.H. Dalai Lama ‘08: Teachings on Lamrim Chenmo

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama: So when we talk about the aspiration to bring about others’ welfare, here the principal element is the cultivation of compassion.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: So when we talk about the aspiration to bring about others’ welfare, here the principal element is the cultivation of compassion.

10. Day Three, Afternoon Session, July 12, 2008 at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA. Part two. The Twelve Links of Dependent Origination. Links 1-3: Ignorance, Karma, Consciousness. Links 4-12 Name and Form, Senses, Contact, Feeling, Craving, Grasping, Becoming, Birth, Aging and Death. Interactions of the Twelve Links Over Lifetimes. Benefits of Reflecting on the Twelve Links. Interdependence of Ethics, Concentration and Wisdom, The Three Higher Trainings. The Stages of the Path for the Practitioner of Greatest Capacity.

The Twelve Links of Dependent Origination

Thupten Jinpa: So the next outline we’ll be dealing with is the one on twelve links of dependant origination.

His Holiness: [in Tibetan]

Thupten Jinpa: So now when you look at the teachings on the twelve links of dependant origination, effectively this is an elaboration of the Buddha’s teachings on the four noble truths, where two sets of causes and conditions, causes and effects, were presented. So in the twelve links of dependant origination beginning with ignorance, Buddha explains how the origins of suffering, including the afflictions and karma, give rise to suffering. Continue reading »

11 H.H. Dalai Lama ‘08: Teachings on Lamrim Chenmo

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Then Tsongkhapa explains what exactly is bodhicitta.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Then Tsongkhapa explains what exactly is bodhicitta.

11. Day Four, July 13, 2008 at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA. Part one. Altruism and Interdependence. Compassion and bodhicitta, the Awakening Mind. Two Methods for Generating Bodhicitta. Seven Point Cause-and-Effect Method. Equalizing and Exchanging of Self and Others.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: A short prayer. Short…short prayer in Pali.

Reverend Bodhi: This is the Metta Sutta. A short prayer. [Chanting in Pali]

His Holiness: Thank you. [leads chanting in Tibetan]

Altruism and Interdependence

His Holiness: Now today, about the bodhicitta, altruism. Basically all religious traditions carry the importance of altruism. Then the, I think, unique thing about Buddhism is the concept of interdependency. Or pratityasamutpada. I think that’s very, very unique about Buddhism. Continue reading »

13 H.H. Dalai Lama ‘08: Teachings on Lamrim Chenmo

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama: The only way in which we can do this is by means of reasoning and analysis.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: The only way in which we can do this is by means of reasoning and analysis.

13. Day Five, Morning Session, July 14, 2008 at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA. Part two. Meditating on the Mind. Meditating on an Image of the Buddha. Mindfulness and Meta-Awareness (Vigilance). Breath Meditation; Length of Meditation Sessions. Special Insight: Why Insight Is Needed, Why Serenity Is Not Enough. Special Insight: Why Insight Is Needed, Why Serenity Is Not Enough. Relying on Definitive Sources.

Meditating on the Mind

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: [in Tibetan]

Thupten Jinpa: So then Tsongkhapa explains, identifies, the particular object that is relevant to our present context. And here, generally speaking, when we are talking about an appropriate object that we choose for our meditation of tranquil abiding or shamatha, one can choose, as explained before, something… an external object, a material object or one can also choose internal phenomena…

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16 H.H. Dalai Lama ‘08: Teachings on Lamrim Chenmo

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland says that: “The person is neither the earth element nor the water element” and so on.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland says that: “The person is neither the earth element nor the water element” and so on.

16 His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Teachings on Lam-rim Chen-mo

Day Six, Morning Session, July 15, 2008 at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA. Part one. Generating the Awakening Mind: Introduction. Visualization and the Seven-Limbed Practice. Ceremony for Generating the Awakening Mind. Avoiding Nihilism (cont.). Dependent Origination and Emptiness (cont.).

Heart Sutra in Chinese and English

Generating the Awakening Mind: Introduction.

His Holiness: [in Tibetan] Thupten Jinpa: So today, at the beginning of the session, I thought we could do the ceremony for generating the awakening mind.

His Holiness: [begins in Tibetan (translated further below)] I think, since we already have the translation of Lam-rim Chen-mo, Continue reading »

2 H.H. Dalai Lama’s Teachings in Basel on Bodhichittavivarana 7.02.15

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama: All the philosophy have the same purpose: to strengthen conviction about moral principles.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: All the philosophy have the same purpose: to strengthen conviction about moral principles.

Second part of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teachings based on Nagarjuna’s Commentary on Bodhichitta (Bodhichittavivarana) and Geshe Langri Thangpa’s Eight Verses of Training the Mind in Basel, Switzerland, February 7-8, 2015. Translated from Tibetan into English by Mr Tenzin Tsepag. Trascript and notes by Dr. Luciano Villa, first revision and editing by Eng. Alessandro Tenzin Villa within the project “Free Dalai Lama’s Teachings” for the benefit of all sentient beings. We apologize for any possible errors and omissions.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

In regard to religion tradition, most of the religious tradition are based on faith without doing very much critical analysis and investigation within the teachings.

For Buddhist is very important to develop a faith understanding the Buddha’s teachings. So we need not only to keep faith, but we need to examine also the Buddha’s teachings.

What is the benefit of teaching? So, why the teachings was taught? It’s not only because my lama has taught to me. We need to have a speculation to understand why the teaching was taught.

So we don’t need to keep blind faith, but to analyze the Buddha teachings.

And therefore we should investigate and analyze with an unbiased and inquisitive mind. And so, when you raise question you should not have any bias, no attachment and anger for any tradition but you should have an unbiased, impartial mind. Se we should be unbiased, impartial, stay in the middle. Continue reading »

1 HH Dalai Lama: Teaching on 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Sera Monastery ‘13-’14

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama: The Buddha is the teacher of selflessness.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: The Buddha is the teacher of selflessness.

First part.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s continues https://www.sangye.it/wordpress2/?cat=73 teachings December 25, 2013 – January 4, 2014 on the 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Commentaries, at Sera Monastery in Bylakuppe, Karnataka, India, see here http://www.dalailama.com/webcasts/post/308-18-great-stages-of-the-path-lam-rim-commentaries—2013 . Translated into English from Tibetan by Mr Tenzin Tsepag. Trascript by Eng. Alessandro Tenzin Villa, first revision and editing by Dr. Luciano Villa within the project “Free Dalai Lama’s Teachings” for the benefit of all sentient beings. We apologize for any possible errors and omissions.

Day 1 – December 25, 2013. First part.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Today in Sera Je Debate Courtyard both monastic and lay people have gathered here, spending a lot of money, despite of problems and difficulties you have taken interest and come here, and I would like to greed you all, thanks to your faith and devotion that you have come here. Since you have come here I’m very happy also. Continue reading »

2 HH Dalai Lama: Teaching on 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Sera Monastery ‘13-’14

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama: That’s true, whenever things are going right, there are no problems, we may appear good practitioner, but when you face the challenges then you show your true color.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: That’s true, whenever things are going right, there are no problems, we may appear good practitioner, but when you face the challenges then you show your true color.

Second part.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s continues https://www.sangye.it/wordpress2/?cat=73 his 2013 teachings December 25, 2013 – January 4, 2014 on the 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Commentaries, at Sera Monastery in Bylakuppe, Karnataka, India, see here http://www.dalailama.com/webcasts/post/308-18-great-stages-of-the-path-lam-rim-commentaries—2013 . Translated into English from Tibetan by Mr Tenzin Tsepag. Trascript by Eng. Alessandro Tenzin Villa, first revision and editing by Dr. Luciano Villa within the project “Free Dalai Lama’s Teachings” for the benefit of all sentient beings. We apologize for any possible errors and omissions.

Day 1 – December 25, 2013. Second part.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Here is a huge assembly of monastic so you may not get so much money. Sometime people come here with the motivation to make money: that’s wrong! And sometimes people come here to listen to teaching and then to go out in order to do business and make money: that’s also is wrong. Or there is maybe somebody who has come here to exploit the crowd to make money: this is not what we are talking about, the dharma. Continue reading »

1 HH Dalai Lama: Teaching on 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Mundgod ’12

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama: “From the beginning of our training it is important to train in ethics along with meditative stabilisation”.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: “From the beginning of our training it is important to train in ethics along with meditative stabilisation”.

First part of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teachings November 30 – December 13, 2012 on the 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Commentaries, including Atisha’s “Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment (jangchup lamdron)”, Tsongkhapa’s “Great, Middling, and Concise Treatises on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (lamrim chenmo, lamrim dringpo and lamrim dudon)”, and 14 other classic Lam Rim texts at Gaden Monastery and Drepung Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, India, see and video here http://www.dalailama.com/webcasts/post/267-18-great-stages-of-the-path-lam-rim-commentaries. Translated from Tibetan into English by Mr Tenzin Tsepag. Trascript by Dr. Peter Lawrence-Roberts, first revision and editing by Dr. Luciano Villa within the project “Free Dalai Lama’s Teachings” for the benefit of all sentient beings. We apologize for possible errors and omissions.

Day 1 – 30 November 2012

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

We have eight great Lamrim texts as well as a further ten. There is a tradition of giving the transmission for all eight texts together. It is 610 years since Lama Tsong Khapa wrote the great Lamrim Chenmo. Many became realised great masters simply by studying and practising the Lamrim Chenmo. Continue reading »

2 HH Dalai Lama: Teaching on 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Mundgod ’12

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama: “It is important to combine study, meditation and reflection”.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: “It is important to combine study, meditation and reflection”.

Second part of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teachings November 30 – December 13, 2012 on the 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Commentaries at Gaden Monastery and Drepung Monastery in Mundgod, India, see http://www.jangchuplamrim.org/ and video here http://www.dalailama.com. Translated from Tibetan into English by Mr Tenzin Tsepag. Trascript by Dr. Peter Lawrence-Roberts, first revision and editing by Dr. Luciano Villa within the project “Free Dalai Lama’s Teachings” for the benefit of all sentient beings. We apologize for possible errors and omissions.

Day 1 – 30 November 2012 and Day 2 – 1 December 2012

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Conditions for a favourable rebirth have to be accumulated through the appropriate causes. Continue reading »

3 HH Dalai Lama: Teaching on 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Mundgod ’12

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama: “Death is certain. The time of death is uncertain. Only our practice will help us at the time of death”.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: “Death is certain. The time of death is uncertain. Only our practice will help us at the time of death”.

Third part of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teachings November 30 – December 13, 2012 on the 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Commentaries at Gaden Monastery and Drepung Monastery in Mundgod, India, see http://www.jangchuplamrim.org/ and video here http://www.dalailama.com/ Translated from Tibetan into English by Mr Tenzin Tsepag. Trascript by Dr. Peter Lawrence-Roberts, first revision and editing by Dr. Luciano Villa within the project “Free Dalai Lama’s Teachings” for the benefit of all sentient beings. We apologize for possible errors and omissions.

Day 2 – 1 December 2012 and Day 3 – 2 December 2012.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Whatever is produced is, by definition, impermanent. When we talk of something being produced, or arising, we see it as being brought about. When we describe something as ‘impermanent’ we see it as disintegrating. However, things are changing all the time. They don’t stay the same, even for an instant. What arises is subject to disintegration because it has a cause. Continue reading »

5 HH Dalai Lama: Teaching on 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Mundgod ’12

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama: “The very reason that things perish and disintegrate is because they have a cause”.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: “The very reason that things perish and disintegrate is because they have a cause”.

Fifth part of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teachings Nov. 30 – Dec. 13, 2012 on the 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Commentaries at Gaden and Drepung Monasteries in Mundgod, India, see http://www.jangchuplamrim.org/ and video here http://www.dalailama.com/webcasts/post/267-18-great-stages-of-the-path-lam-rim-commentaries. Translated from Tibetan into English by Mr Tenzin Tsepag. Trascript by Dr. Peter Lawrence-Roberts, first revision and editing by Dr. Luciano Villa within the project “Free Dalai Lama’s Teachings” for the benefit of all sentient beings. We apologize for any possible errors and omissions.

Day 3 – 2 December 2012 and Day 4 – 3 December 2012

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

The Buddha taught the Four Noble Truths three times. First, he introduced the nature of the Four Noble Truths. Second, he focussed on how to practice based on the Four Noble Truths, and third, the result of these first two, namely that once we understand the full nature of suffering and how to put an end to it there is nothing more to be actualised. Continue reading »

6 HH Dalai Lama: Teaching on 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Mundgod ‘12

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama: ”We need to practice with the aspiration to become a bodhisattva for without this it is impossible to become a Buddha”.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: ”We need to practice with the aspiration to become a bodhisattva for without this it is impossible to become a Buddha”.

Sixth part of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teachings Nov. 30 – Dec. 13, 2012 on the 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Commentaries at Gaden and Drepung Monasteries in Mundgod, India, see http://www.jangchuplamrim.org/ and video here http://www.dalailama.com Translated from Tibetan into English by Lotsava Tenzin Tsepag. Trascript by Dr. Peter Lawrence-Roberts, first revision and editing by Dr. Luciano Villa within the project “Free Dalai Lama’s Teachings” for the benefit of all sentient beings. We apologize for any possible errors and omissions.

Day 4 – 3 December 2012 and day 5 – 4 December 2012.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

For those who have ethics it is happiness. For those who breach ethics there is suffering. Continue reading »

7 HH Dalai Lama: Teaching on 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Mundgod ‘12

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama: ”Patience protects that which is most precious in the world from the dangers of anger”.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: ”Patience protects that which is most precious in the world from the dangers of anger”.

Seventh part of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teachings Nov. 30 – Dec. 13, 2012 on the 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Commentaries at Gaden and Drepung Monasteries in Mundgod, India, see http://www.jangchuplamrim.org/ and video here http://www.dalailama.com/ Translated from Tibetan into English by Lotsava Tenzin Tsepag. Trascript by Dr. Peter Lawrence-Roberts, first revision and editing by Dr. Luciano Villa within the project “Free Dalai Lama’s Teachings” for the benefit of all sentient beings. We apologize for any possible errors and omissions.

Day 6 – 5 December 2012 and Day 7 – 6 December 2012

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

(Most of the day was taken up with ritual practices such as H.H. Dalai Lama’s Praise to the 17 Nalanda Masters https://www.sangye.it/wordpress2/?p=2147 , the Long Life Puja for His Holiness and Generating Bodhicitta.)

The highway that leads one to Buddhahood is bodhicitta. Continue reading »

8 HH Dalai Lama: Teaching on 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Mundgod ‘12

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama: ”When laxity, lethargy or excitement are setting in we need to be aware of this and use vigilance to prevent them developing”.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: ”When laxity, lethargy or excitement are setting in we need to be aware of this and use vigilance to prevent them developing”.

Eigth part of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teachings Nov. 30 – Dec. 13, 2012 on the 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Commentaries at Gaden and Drepung Monasteries in Mundgod, India, see http://www.jangchuplamrim.org/ and video here http://www.dalailama.com/ Translated from Tibetan into English by Lotsava Tenzin Tsepag. Trascript by Dr. Peter Lawrence-Roberts, first revision and editing by Dr. Luciano Villa within the project “Free Dalai Lama’s Teachings” for the benefit of all sentient beings. We apologize for any possible error and omission.

Day 7 – 6 December 2012 and day 8 – 7 December 2012.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

When we see that samsara is like an illusion it does not make us feel despair at cultivating the Six Perfections. Continue reading »

9 HH Dalai Lama: Teaching on 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Mundgod ‘12

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Dependent origination does not mean the non-existence of things that perform functions. It simply means that they exist dependent on causes and conditions.

Dependent origination does not mean the non-existence of things that perform functions. It simply means that they exist dependent on causes and conditions.

Ninth part of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teachings Nov. 30 – Dec. 13, 2012 on the 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Commentaries at Gaden and Drepung Monasteries in Mundgod, India, see http://www.jangchuplamrim.org/ and video here http://www.dalailama.com/webcasts/post/267-18-great-stages-of-the-path-lam-rim-commentaries. Translated from Tibetan into English by Lotsava Tenzin Tsepag. Trascript by Dr. Peter Lawrence-Roberts, first revision and editing by Dr. Luciano Villa within the project “Free Dalai Lama’s Teachings” for the benefit of all sentient beings. We apologize for any possible error and omission.

Day 8 – 7 December 2012 and day 9 – 8 December 2012 .

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

The elephant of the mind is tied with the rope of mindfulness to a pillar. Continue reading »

11 HH Dalai Lama: Teaching on 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Mundgod ‘12

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama: ”Studying the root texts of the Nalanda masters is the best way to preserve the Nalanda tradition, which is at the root of Tibetan Buddhism”.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: ”Studying the root texts of the Nalanda masters is the best way to preserve the Nalanda tradition, which is at the root of Tibetan Buddhism”.

Eleventh part of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teachings Nov. 30 – Dec. 13, 2012 on the 18 Great Stages of the Path (Lam Rim) Commentaries at Gaden and Drepung Monasteries in Mundgod, India, see http://www.jangchuplamrim.org/ and video here http://www.dalailama.com/. Translated from Tibetan into English by Lotsava Tenzin Tsepag. Trascript by Dr. Peter Lawrence-Roberts, first revision and editing by Dr. Luciano Villa within the project “Free Dalai Lama’s Teachings” for the benefit of all sentient beings. We apologize for any possible error and omission.

Day 12 – 11 December 2012

His Holiness the Dalai Lama

His Holiness started the day with preparations for the conferring of the White Tara initiation to be given at the end of the morning’s teachings. Continue reading »

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Advice on Buddhist Practice

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Usually our minds are attracted towards different objects. When this connection is cut, with more practice we’ll experience a sort of vacuity, which is the gap between the mind and those objects.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Usually our minds are attracted towards different objects. When this connection is cut, with more practice we’ll experience a sort of vacuity, which is the gap between the mind and those objects.

Advice on Buddhist Practice

By His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Dharamsala, India (Last Updated Oct 15, 2012). An interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, on November 2, 1988. Lightly edited by Sandra Smith, October 2012.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Greetings. I’m very glad to meet you as a Dharma friend.

Question: Since the Buddha’s teachings were not written down for hundreds of years, how can we be sure that they are accurate? Continue reading »