Tsongkhapa · Theology

The Stages of the Path

Tsongkhapa's <em>Lamrim</em> - the Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path - organizes the whole of the Buddhist path into a single graduated sequence, so that every teaching finds its place and every practitioner knows the next step, from the smallest aspiration to full awakening.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Tsongkhapa's Lamrim organizes the entire Buddhist path into a graduated sequence, that it is structured by three scopes of motivation (small: a better rebirth; medium: personal liberation; great: buddhahood for all beings), that he insisted study and the foundational stages must precede the advanced t…

Leads to Gendun Drup, the First Dalai Lama.

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