CONTENTS

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Foreword by Yongzin Trijang Rinpoche

Foreword by Robert Thurman

Translator’s Introduction

Acknowledgments

1. The Nature of the Instruction

2. Three Perspectives on Practice

3. Where the Guru and Disciple Meet

4. The Human Situation

5. Three Levels of Spiritual Application

6. Death and the Lower Realms

7. Seeking a Place of Refuge

8. The Laws of Karmic Evolution

9. Hinayana Realism

10. Generating the Bodhisattva Spirit

11. Practice of the General Mahayana

13. A Summary of the Path

Appendix 1: A Lam Rim Preliminary Rite

Appendix 2: Biography of the Third Dalai Lama

Bibliography of Texts Quoted

Books by the Dalai Lama

About Namgyal Monastery