Going for refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha. The doorway into the path.
Taking refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha is the formal entry into the Buddhist path. The three jewels — tiratana in Pali, triratna in Sanskrit — are what the practitioner relies upon when the conditioned world will not bear weight.
The Enlightenment.
The First Sermon.
On the necessity of dharma education for laypeople — not the preserve of monastics alone, but the inheritance of every person who walks the path.
A discourse on the place of Nepal in the unfolding of the Buddhist tradition, delivered in Kathmandu before a Newar and Tibetan audience. The first of a two-part teaching by one of the rarest and most uncompromising teachers in the Khyentse lineage.
