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Tibet
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Whether this mysterious sanctuary hidden amid Pemako’s mist-shrouded mountains can ever be located geographically is of secondary importance to the journey itself. In the Buddhist tradition, the goal of pilgrimage is not so much to reach a particular destination as to awaken within oneself the qualities and energies of the sacred site, which ultimately lie within our own minds.
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― The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place
― The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The great eleventh-century Nalanda pandit Lama Atisha understood this well, and with a mighty heart of wise compassion he set out to marshal the Buddha‘s eighty-four thousand teachings – found in hundreds of scriptures and thousands of verses – into a logical, sequential, and practical road map to help guide spiritual seekers on the path, from ordinariness to liberation on to full and final awakening. This unique style of teaching came to be called Lam Ri
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― Gradual Awakening: The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human
― Gradual Awakening: The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human
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