lNTRODLICTION
I am very happy to be able to share with you the Buddha's
teachings known as Dharma. Your interest in these teachings is
a positive sign of the power of a great accumulation of virtuous
activity gathered in previous lifetimes coming to fruition at this
moment. This is very wonderful, and my greetings to you! I am
an old man of eighty-four years now, the first fifty-two of which
were spent completely isolated from the rest of the world in the
land of Tibet. Several of those years I spent studying and practicing the Dharma and principles of vajrayana in solitary retreat.
Since I have left Tibet, I have traveled worldwide to bring the
truth of these teachings to all sentient beings ready and capable
of receiving them. I welcome you and pray that a continuous rain
of benefit comes to you for taking the time and effort to understand that upon which I am discoursing.
For many centuries, the Dharma of the Buddha has been preserved in the snowy, mountainous land of Tibet, where all the
pith instructions, traditions of practice, and resultant realizations
were widespread. Although this Dharma is often called Tibetan
Buddhism, it is not originally Tibetan, for it comes directly from
the Lord Buddha Shakyamuni. Once a noble prince, Lord
Shakyamuni became the historical Buddha of our time when he
attained enlightenment in the place called Bodh-Gaya in northcentral India. Through his activities during his lifetime and
his teachings during the historical occasions of turning the wheel
of Dharma, all the vast array of Dharma teachings (numbering
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