Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment with Geshe Tenzin Zopa - Day 1, Session 1

Geshe Tenzin Zopa will teach on this seminal text, a commentary on Maitreya’s Ornament for Clear Realisation, composed by the great Indian pandit and yogi, Atisha Dipamkara Srijnana (982 – 1054). Lama Atisha was responsible for the second dissemination of Buddhism in Tibet in the 11th century, formative for the Kadampa and subsequently the Gelugpa traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. He extracted the essence of all 84,000 teachings of the Buddha and organised them into clear steps, known as the lamrim, or stages of the path to enlightenment, which sets forth the entire Buddhist path within the framework of the three levels of motivation on the part of the practitioner. This text became the source of the lamrim tradition, incorporated within all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism.