The Seven-Point Mind Training
A definitive root text on the seven-point mind training, supplemented by outlines.
A definitive root text on the seven-point mind training, supplemented by outlines.
A heartfelt request to the guru for blessings to realize all the stages of the path to enlightenment, as well as a meditation on the nature of the guru.
A Teaching With Special Emphasis on the Methods of an Experiential Instruction
A seminal text, translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, describing how to cultivate renunciation, bodhicitta, and the correct view of emptiness.
This concise prayer by Lama Tsongkhapa teaches the entire graduated path to enlightenment.
A brief presentation of the stages of the path to enlightenment.
This sutra belongs to the class of texts called the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras. It is a presentation of profound wisdom on the nature of emptiness.
This sutra invokes the buddhas of the ten directions. Translated from Tibetan by Ven. Tsenla.
The Diamond Cutter Sutra is a discourse on the Buddhist concept of emptiness or “Wisdom Gone Beyond.”
Teachings on the causes and effects of various actions
The Arya Sanghata Sutra is a teaching given by Buddha Shakyamuni on Vulture's Peak in Rajagriha, India. Like all Mahayana sutras, this discourse was memorized by the Buddha's disciples and later written down in Sanskrit.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the benefits of studying the teachings of the Buddha in this talk given at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Italy.
Clarifying Dharma practice and the role of the mind
Advice on various mantras and sutras recommended by Rinpoche.