The Index Page provides an outline of the topics discussed in each of the lectures. 

Lecture 1

• Greeting students
• Dharma is the cure to our beginningless delusions
• There is nowhere in samsara that is not suffering
• Bodhicitta and renunciation
• Becoming enlightened to guide every sentient being
• The gradual path of the three capable beings
• The I is impossible to find
• Food offering and dedication

Lecture 2

• The benefits of the bodhicitta prayer
• We can’t have compassion and harm somebody at the same time
• The infallible path
• The label depends on the base
• The subtle object of refutation
• Dedication

Lecture 3

• Meditation is not enough, we need purification, merit and devotion
• Enlightened, we can do perfect work for others
• Tantra is the quick path
• Realizations will take time
• With bodhicitta we only cherish others
• Food offering and dedication

Lecture 4

• The benefiting of cherishing others: Tong-len
• The benefiting of cherishing others: Geshe Chekawa prays to be reborn in hell
• The benefiting of cherishing others: Tsumpulwa carries the leper
• The benefiting of cherishing others: Asanga sees Maitreya
• The benefiting of cherishing others: The Buddha pulls the chariot in hell
• The benefiting of cherishing others: Tong-len cures diseases
• The benefiting of cherishing others: No satisfaction unless we cherish others
• Requesting prayer to the lineage lamas
• How the guru manifests to guide us
• Requesting prayer to the lineage lamas (cont)
• Three criteria of how things exist
• Oral transmission of The Lamp for the Path
• Dedication
• Do tong-len wherever you see suffering

Lecture 5

• Recitation of The Heart Sutra and Requesting Prayer to the Lineage Lamas
• Dedication

Lecture 6

• Sutrayana and Mahayana five paths
• A buddha manifests in whatever way most benefits sentient beings
• We believe in appearance, the Omniscient One doesn’t
• Seeing things as like a mirage
• Look at causative phenomena as stars
• Don’t get angry at the stick
• The harmer is only the object of compassion
• Causative phenomena are like an illusion
• Causative phenomena are like a water bubble
• Causative phenomena are like a dream
• Causative phenomena are like lightning
• Causative phenomena are like a cloud
• Dedication

Lecture 7

Lecture 8

• Requesting prayer to the lineage lamas: The three Kadampa Geshe groups
• We can help but others must create the cause of their own happiness
• Nonvirtuous motivation can never bring peace
• Dedication

Lecture 9 

• The importance of a good heart
• Ben Gungyal and holy Dharma and worldly dharma
• Zina, Rinpoche and Buxa
• Zina and Darjeeling
• The founding of Kopan
• The education of compassion
• The four outlines of karma
• More on tong-len
• Transforming suffering into happiness
• The importance of the motivation (Four people recite the Tara praises)
• This perfect human rebirth is more precious than a wish-fulfilling jewel
• Perfect human rebirth: holy Dharma and worldly dharma
• The importance of mindfulness
• The yoga of going to sleep
• Refuge is the door to Buddhadharma
• The thief who has refuge beaten into him
• Even refuge in one refuge object saves from the lower realms
• Only Buddhism rescues from pervasive compounding suffering
• Refuge ceremony
• The four harmonious brothers
• Dedication

Lecture 10

• The basic philosophy of Buddhism
• The three great meanings: Happiness in future lives
• The eight ripening aspect of a precious human body
• Having a powerful body and mind: The story of Milarepa
• The three great meanings: achieving liberation, enlightenment and never wasting a second of this life
• Because everything comes from the mind we have infinite freedom
• Dedication

Lecture 11

• Tea offering
• The Three Principal Aspects of the Path
• Protector prayer

Lecture 12

• The meaning of Tara
• Dr Nick meets the Dharma
• The meaning of Tara (cont)
• The Buddha manifests in whatever form is beneficial
• The meaning of Tara (cont)  

Lecture 13

• The beginnings of the FPMT by Ven. Roger Kunsang

Lecture 14

Lecture 15

• Rinpoche signs his book

Lecture 16

Lecture 17

• The merits of doing any practice with refuge
• Life in Buxa
• The large monasteries emphasize Buddhist philosophy
• Life in Buxa (cont.)
• The refuge vow not to kill
• Developing special attitude
• Why do we have to hear about suffering?
• Causal refuge leads to resultant refuge
• Mahayana refuge
• The sufferings of transmigratory beings

Lecture 18

• People who understand the cause of freedom have freedom in this life
• The power of seeing a holy object
• The power of offering and prostrating to holy objects
• Advice about going on pilgrimage

Lecture 19

• Buddhism and the British come to Tibet
• Rinpoche visits the holy lakes of Tibet
• Swayambhunath
• The benefits of the prostration mudra
• The oral transmission of Lamp for the Path
• Advice on practice at home
• The oral transmission of the Eight Verses
• Daily practice and purification
• Dedications and more advice

Lecture 20

• The lung of Shantideva’s Condensed Advice (possibly)
• Vajrasattva initiation