The Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism

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Stemming from the Kadampa school of Atisha, the Gelug school was founded by Je Tsongkhapa in the 14th century. Traditionally, the Gelug school is headed by the Dalai Lama. Today, therefore, it is led by Tenzin Gyatso, H.H the 14th Dalai Lama.

Atishas Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment

The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Volume 1)

The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Volume 2)

The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Volume 3)

A Guide to the Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva

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Featured Titles of the Gelug Tradition

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Tsongkhapa: A Buddha in the Land of Snows

By Thupten Jinpa

In this groundbreaking addition to the Lives of the Masters series, Thupten Jinpa, a scholar-practitioner and long-time translator for His Holiness the Dalai Lama, offers the most comprehensive portrait available of Jé Tsongkhapa (1357–1419), one of the greatest Buddhist teachers in history. A devout monastic, Tsongkhapa took on the difficult task of locating and studying all of the Indian Buddhist classics available in Tibet in his day. He went on to synthesize this knowledge into a holistic approach to the path of awakening. In an achievement of incredible magnitude, he integrated the pivotal yet disparate Mahayana teachings on emptiness while retaining the important role of critical reason and avoiding the extreme of negating the reality of the everyday world.

Guhyasamaja Practice in the Arya Nagarjuna System v1

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Guhyasamaja Practice in the Arya Nagarjuna System, Volume One: The Generation Stage

Translated by Artemus B. Engle
By Gyumé Khensur Lobsang Jampa

The Guhyasamāja Tantra is one of the Unexcelled Yoga Tantras of Vajrayana Buddhism. In the initial, generation-stage practice, one engages in a prescribed sequence of visualizations of oneself as an enlightened being in a purified environment in order to prepare one’s mind and body to engage in the second stage: the completion stage. The latter works directly with the subtle energies of one’s mind and body and transforms them into the enlightened mind and body of a buddha. In this book, Gyumé Khensur Lobsang Jampa, a former abbot of Gyumé Tantric College, provides complete instructions on how to practice the generation stage of Guhyasamāja, explaining the visualizations, offerings, and mantras involved, what they symbolize, and the purpose they serve.

The Ornament of the Mahayana Sutras: The Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra

A Series of Articles on The Five Maitreya Texts Essential Texts in of the Mahayana in the Tibetan Tradition Overview of the Five Maitreya Texts 1. The Ornament of Clear Realization, the A...

Guides to Tibetan Buddhism

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