Teachings
By Pabongka Rinpoche
The Heart’s Utmost Need: Urging Myself and Others to Remember Impermanence. This text, formerly known as Heart-Spoon, was extensively revised by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Kopan Monastery, Nepal, 2020, and further reviewed by Rinpoche in 2022.
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By Lama Tsongkhapa
A praise to the Buddha, composed by Lama Tsongkhapa after he realized emptiness. Translated by Geshe Thupten Jinpa.
Topics: Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Root Texts
By The Buddha
A practice to overcome financial difficulties and empower financial endeavors that are dependent on others for success.
By Lama Atisha
A seminal text that sets out the stages of the path to enlightenment (lamrim)
Topics: Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Root Texts
By Pabongka Rinpoche
A definitive root text on the seven-point mind training, supplemented by outlines.
Topics: Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Root Texts
By Pabongka Rinpoche
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.
Topics: Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Root Texts
Chapters:
Calling the Guru from Afar (Extensive Version) •
Calling the Guru from Afar (Brief Version) •
By Pabongka Rinpoche
A Teaching With Special Emphasis on the Methods of an Experiential Instruction
Topics: Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Root Texts
By Lama Tsongkhapa
A seminal text, translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, describing how to cultivate renunciation, bodhicitta, and the correct view of emptiness.
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By Lama Tsongkhapa
This concise prayer by Lama Tsongkhapa teaches the entire graduated path to enlightenment.
Topics: Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Root Texts
By Lama Tsongkhapa
A brief presentation of the stages of the path to enlightenment.
Topics: Sutras, Mantras and Root Texts > Root Texts
By The Buddha
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.
By The Buddha
This sutra invokes the buddhas of the ten directions. Translated from Tibetan by Ven. Tsenla.
By The Buddha
Teachings on the causes and effects of various actions
By The Buddha
The Diamond Cutter Sutra is a discourse on the Buddhist concept of emptiness or “Wisdom Gone Beyond.”
By The Buddha
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.
