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In his great compassion, Shakyamuni Buddhia opened the gates to this road to enlightenment through his teachings.
Many years later, Lama Atisha organized all of the Buddha's teachings into a step-by-step guide -- a road map to the territory of practice -- in a short text called "Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment."
Lama Tsongkhapa (the founder of our Gelugpa lineage) wrote a detailed explanation of Lama Atisha's text to help students understand and practice the instructions, called The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Lamrim Chenmo). This lamrim foundation is the basis of all practice in our lineage, including tantra.
These incredible teachings by Geshe Gelek on this text are a rare and precious opportunity to gain insights into how to practice.
Repeats every week every Wednesday until Tue Mar 31 2020 except Wed Mar 18 2020, Wed Mar 25 2020.
7:00 pm Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Lama Tsongkhapa's Lamrim presents the entire path to enlightenment in a step-by-step fashion.
Geshe Gelek advises that beyond study, we need meditation and thoughtful engagement in the text in order to have realizations. Hearing the teachings is just the first step.
In addition, we need merit-making practices to open the doors to deeper understanding. These include the great preliminary practices of prostrations to the 35 Confession Buddhas, Vajrasattva practice, making mandala offerings, and reciting the refuge and bodhicitta prayer.
In these practice sessions, we will combinethese preliminary practices, with additional prayer and meditation on selected lamrim texts.
The evening will include:
Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga and meditation
Purification practice (on alternating weeks, we will do prostrations to the 35 Confession Buddhas and Vajrasattva practice)
