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The spread of the teaching of Gautama Buddha began in India over two thousand years ago and reached perhaps its highest peak in the hidden mountain kingdom of Tibet, five centuries before our time. The great illuminary of this renaissance of the religion of total peace was Tsongkapa (1357-1419). He inspired a movement that by the time Tibet was lost in 1959 saw nearly a million monks living in thousands of monasteries around the country. Tsongkapa was the ...
For centuries, Dharma students have traditionally studied Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend, for it provides a concise and thorough introduction to the entire Buddhist path practice. By examining the Four Noble Truths and the Six Perfections, nagarjuna describes logically and poetically the internal patterns of experience which leads a person to buddhahood. Nagarjuna wrote this letter to his friend King Satavahana, in order to alert him to the worldly ...
The “The Essence of Nectarâ€, an extensive prayer written by Yeshe Tsondru, an incarnate Lama of the Gelug tradition, is a poetic supplement of the “Great Exposition of the Graded Path†written by the founder of the Gelug tradition , Je Tsong-K’a-pa. Such teachings were promulgated by Buddha Shakyamuni in the 5th century B.C. and subsequently transmitted through a succession of realized Indian and Tibetan masters. In this work, Yeshe Tsondru eloquently ...
The Tibetan Buddhist master Tsongkapa was born over six centures ago. He was perhaps the greatest commentator of Buddhism in history, and wrote more than 10,000 pages in explanation of the ancient books of Buddhist wisdom. His most famous masterpiece is the Great Book on the steps of the path, the Lamrim Chenmo, a clear and detailed roadmap to Enlightenment. He wrote the work after coming in and out of prophetic vision over the length of an entire month, at the ...