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Kamalasila (740-795)

Since I used Kamalasila’s Bhavanakrama (Stages of Meditation) as a source in trying to decipher the very preliminary and only known translation of Dorje PaMu’s Dharma of Concentration, Contemplation, and...

November 5, 2025

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Santaraksita (725-788)

19th-century painting depicting biographical episodes from the life of Santaraksita (725-788), the abbot of Nalanda Monastery in India and founder of Samye Monastery in Tibet. SOURCE: Wikapedia. Śāntarakṣita was an...

November 5, 2025

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Samatha and Vipashyana or Special Insight

I want to share some background in preparation for our classes on the Paramitas–especially the last two, Meditation and Wisdom. I found that Tsongkapa in one of his many lamrims, the Middle-Length Treatise on the...

February 27, 2023

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Kamalashila & His Three Bhavanakramas

Kamalashila (740-795) Kamalashila was a great Indian scholar and the main disciple of the Abbot of Nalanda Monastery, Shantarakshita. Shantarakshita (725-788) is considered the last of the great Indian Buddhist scholars...

February 26, 2023

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QUOTE-Concentrated Mind

The concentrated mind understands reality as it is.Shakyamuni Buddha as quoted in Monk Kamalashila’s The Progress of Meditation: The Three Bhavanakramas, p. 111.

February 20, 2023

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