The Path to Enlightenment

Table of contents

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• Title Page 3
• Contents 5
• Preface 7
• Foreword 9
• Translator's Introduction 11
• The Nature of the Instruction 25
• Three Perspectives on Practice 45
• Where the Guru and Disciple Meet 53
• The Human Situation 75
• Three Levels of Spiritual Application 81
• Death and the Lower Realms 87
• Seeking a Place of Refuge 97
• The Laws of Karmic Evolution 105
• Hinayana Realism 119
• Generating the Bodhisattva Spirit 133
• Practice of the General Mahayana 151

• Title Page 3
• Contents 5
• Preface 7
• Foreword 9
• Translator's Introduction 11
• The Nature of the Instruction 25
• Three Perspectives on Practice 45
• Where the Guru and Disciple Meet 53
• The Human Situation 75
• Three Levels of Spiritual Application 81
• Death and the Lower Realms 87
• Seeking a Place of Refuge 97
• The Laws of Karmic Evolution 105
• Hinayana Realism 119
• Generating the Bodhisattva Spirit 133
• Practice of the General Mahayana 151
• Vajrayana 167
• A Summary of the Path 175
• Appendix I a Lam Rim Preliminary Rite 185
• Appendix II Biography of the Third Dalai Lama 201
• Glossary 223
• Notes 231
• Bibliography of Texts Quoted 235