Essential Practice Lectures on Kamalashila's Stages of Meditation in the Middle Way School

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This record of a masterful teachers instructions will help students old and new to determine what is essential to the practice of Buddhism.

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Introduction	p. 1
Technical Note	p. 4
Acknowledgments	p. 5
First Treatise on the Stages of Meditation	p. 7
Kamalashila, Compassion, and the Mind of Awakening	p. 9
Practice	p. 19
Contemplation	p. 31
Calm Abiding	p. 43
Insight	p. 55
Certainty	p. 65
Meditative Stabilization	p. 77
The Ten Grounds of Bodhisattvas and the Ground of a Buddha	p. 89
Intermediate Treatise on the Stages of Meditation	p. 101
Compassion	p. 103
The Mind of Awakening and the Causes of Calm Abiding	p. 117
The Causes of Insight	p. 131
The Selflessness of Persons	p. 143
The Selflessness of Phenomena	p. 157
The Six Transcendent Actions	p. 171
The Fruit of Realization	p. 187
Notes	p. 199
Glossary	p. 205
List of Works Cited	p. 213
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