Je Tsongkhapa's Song of the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment; 25-September-2008 (Day 1 of 3; Afternoon) - Dalai Lama Audio Teachings on Tibetan Buddhism Podcast

His Holiness responds in English to students’ questions and discusses the discipline of a bullying son, Chairman Mao’s advice on the Tibetan national flag, the balance of faith and doubt, and then concludes his discussion of Buddhist responses to the third spiritual question (does the self have an end) by explaining the logical basis for asserting that the purified continua of Buddhas do not end. His Holiness begins the commentary on Je Tsongkhapa’s Condensed Stages of the Path in Tibetan`(English translation available for download at the following website, www.tibetanclassics.org/Jinpa_Translation.html). His extensive discourse on the first verse presents an overview of the path to Buddhahood (including inter-dependent causation, the importance of intellectual analysis, the “four perverted views” that lead to suffering, the nature of mind, its afflictions/obscurations and their antidotes).