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Lamrim teachings provide a step-by-step approach to practicing the entire path to awakening.

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Learn to meditate on the stages of the path to awakening through teachings this text by Panchen Losang Chokyi Gyaltsen.

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Essence of a Human Life

Short talks on a text by Lama Tsongkhapa on the practices of the initial scope practitioner.

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Essence of Refined Gold

Teachings on the Third Dalai Lama's commentary on "Songs of Experience" by Lama Tsongkhapa.

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Essential Spiritual Advice

Short talks on a text by the First Dalai Lama published in The 14 Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation.

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Gomchen Lamrim

Commentary on The Essence of All Eloquent Speech by the great meditator Ngawang Drakpa of Dagpo.

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Lamrim Teachings 1991-94

Extensive commentary on Lama Tsongkhapa's Great Exposition on the Gradual Path to Enlightenment. (Lamrim Chenmo)

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

Short talks on the stages of the path described in the Guru Puja text by the fourth Panchen Lama.

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Three Principal Aspects of the Path

Teachings on Lama Tsongkhapa's text on developing renunciation, bodhicitta, and wisdom.

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Middle-Length Lamrim with Venerable Sangye Khadro (2023-present)

Ongoing teachings on the Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment by Lama Tsongkhapa. Streamed live on the Sravasti Abbey YouTube channel on Thursday mornings at 9 am Pacific Time.

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Selected Lamrim Topics (2012)

Teachings on selected topics from the stages of the path to awakening (lamrim) given at Sravasti Abbey from October 18 to December 20, 2012.

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Stages of the Path

The eight types of suffering

The fine points of the first seven types of suffering.

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Why the truth of suffering is taught first

The importance of contemplating the truth of suffering.

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How purification works

The manner in which negative karma is purified.

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How to purify bad actions by means of the four powers

Explanation of the four powers of purification.

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Eight fully ripened excellent qualities

How we can create the causes for beneficial qualities in the future.

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Definite and indefinite karma

The difference between karma that is done and accumulated.

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Virtuous actions and their effects

How to create virtuous actions and their results.

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The effects of the ten non-virtues

The karmic results of non-virtuous actions.

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What makes karma heavy and strong

The factors that make karmic actions heavy.

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Wrong views, karma, and karmic paths

The four aspects of wrong views.

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Covetousness and malice

The four aspects of harsh speech, idle talk, covetousness, and malice.

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Sexual misconduct, lying, and divisive speech

The four aspects of sexual misconduct, lying and divisive speech.

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