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Recorded at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia
Hosted by Geshe Sonam Thargye and Dalai Lama in Australia Ltd
English Translation by Geshe Thupten Jinpa
May 19-22, 2002Very special thanks to Chris Friedl for onsite audio recoding,
editing, and encoding!
Lord Atisha, the eleventh-century Indian Buddhist scholar and saint, came to Tibet at the invitation of the king of Western Tibet, Lha Lama Yeshe Wö, and his nephew Jangchub Wö. His coming initiated the period of the "second transmission" of Buddhism to Tibet, formative for the Sakya, Kagyu and Gelug traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.
Lord Atisha's most celebrated text, entitled Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, sets forth the entire Buddhist path within the framework of three levels of motivation on the part of the practitioner. Atisha's text thus became the source of the Lam Rim tradition, or graduated stages of the path to enlightenment, an approach to spiritual practice incorporated within all schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Lord Atisha's Life and Works
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Atisha's Lamp - Part 1
Atisha's Lamp - Part 2
Atisha's Lamp - Part 3
Atisha's Lamp - Part 4
Atisha's Lamp - Part 5
Q & A Panel - Part 1
Q & A Panel - Part 2
Gyuto Monks - Chanting
Gyuto Monks - Tsog
Public Talk - Happiness
in a Material World
Public Talk - Universal
Resonsibility and
Approach to World
Peace
Students Forum
Mind Science Conference
Public Talk - Happiness
and Universal
Responsibility
Atisha's Lamp - Part 1
Atisha's Lamp - Part 2
Atisha's Lamp - Part 3
Atisha's Lamp - Part 4
Atisha's Lamp - Part 5
Q & A Panel - Part 1
Q & A Panel - Part 2
Gyuto Monks - Chanting
Gyuto Monks - Tsog
Public Talk - Happiness
in a Material World
Public Talk - Universal
Resonsibility and
Approach to World
Peace
Students Forum
Mind Science Conference
Public Talk - Happiness
and Universal
Responsibility
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His Holiness often says, "I am just a simple Buddhist monk - no more, nor less." His Holiness follows the life of Buddhist monk. Living in a small cottage in Dharamsala, he rises at 4 A.M. to meditate, pursues an ongoing schedule of administrative meetings, private audiences and religious teachings and ceremonies. He concludes each day with further prayer before retiring. In explaining his greatest sources of inspiration, he often cites a favorite verse, found in the writings of the renowned eighth century Buddhist saint Shantideva:
For as long as space endures
And for as long as living beings remain,
Until then may I too abide
To dispel the misery of the world.
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