Bob Thurman Podcast

Robert Thurman is very cool. He is a Buddhist Scholar and I think he was the first westerner to be ordained as a Buddhist monk in the Tibetan Gelug Tradition. His first three podcasts seem to be about the Lam Rim Chen Mo - “The Great Treatise on the Gradual Path to Enlightenment”. This text is foundational to the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism and helps the pratitioner determine a correct path and direction in practicing the Buddha’s Dharma. There are litterally thousands of volumes of Buddhist Scriptures (sutras and shastras) - it would be impossible, I think, to read them all in one lifetime. The great pundit and pratitioner, Lama Tsong Khapa compiled the Lam Rim from all of the available sutras and commentaries and put them in order, i.e. step 1, step 2, step 3 . . . Buddha. So here is Thurman’s Podcasts regarding this great volume - the Lam Rim. I hope you can all take some time to listen.

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