Learning paths

Explore these ordered study sequences, grouped in the order of the graduated path.

Foundations

1. Lam Rim (graduated path)
2. Impermanence and death
3. Lower rebirths
4. Refuge

Turning from samsara

1. Renunciation
2. Four Noble Truths
3. Death, dying and bardo

Compassion and bodhicitta

1. Love and compassion
2. Bodhicitta
3. Taking and giving (tonglen)
4. Mind training (lojong)
5. Six perfections
6. Patience and anger

Wisdom

1. Special insight (vipashyana)
2. Emptiness
3. Madhyamaka
4. Heart Sutra
5. Buddha nature

Meditation and practice

1. Calm abiding (shamatha)
2. Meditation instruction
3. Purification and confession
4. Merit and offerings
5. Dharma in daily life

Philosophy and mind

1. Tenets
2. Mind and awareness (lorig)
3. Logic and debate
4. Buddhism and science or psychology

Tantra

1. Tantra