From Here to Enlightenment

An Introduction to Tsong-kha-pa's Classic Text The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment

By: Guy Newland - editor and translator, His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

When the Dalai Lama was forced to go into exile in 1959, he could take only a few items with him. Among these cherished belongings was his copy of Tsong-kha-pa’s classic text The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment. This text distills all of the essential points of Tibetan Buddhism, clearly unfolding the entire Buddhist path to enlightenment. In 2008, celebrating the long-awaited completion of the English-language translation of The Great Treatise, the Dalai Lama gave a historic six-day teaching at Lehigh University to explain the meaning of this classic text and to underscore its importance. It is the longest teaching that he has ever given to Westerners on just one text, and Westerners have never before had the opportunity to receive such a complete teaching that encompasses the totality of the Buddhist path from the Dalai Lama. From Here to Enlightenment makes the teachings from this momentous event available for a wider audience.

©2012 The Dalai Lama Trust (P)2014 Audible Inc.

Love this book! I Listen to parts of it every day

I am trying to practice some of this and incorporate into my counseling and family preservation practice. It is gentle and direct. One only needs to try a little and if a little works, try a a little more.

fortunate to found this book

I feel very fortunate I found this book. Very profound, so this is like the sixth time I hear it and will have to do many times more

Great Book

The content of the book is interesting and keeps you involved. The narrator went very fast for a slow paced story.

Lots and lots of information

The author starts out immediately saying the teachings contained in the book are not the full teaching because the book would be too long and they wanted it at a beginner level. If this is a beginner level then I’m grateful the full teachings were withheld. I kept up with what the author was saying, but applying it will take time as this is a very deep set of teachings.

As I’ve done many times before and listened to the teachings of my college professor. He said to read a book every three months for a year to learn it. In this case I believe it will be much more flexible since this book brought up a lot I have to work through. The author caused me to look at things very differently than I had looked at them before. Be prepared for a change in thinking as you go through this book in your life.

Heart of Riddles Revealed

Loving Scholarly review of essential texts with the apparent dual vs non dual iteration resolved! Boom!
True wisdom of linage masters deliciously mirrored as various perspectives best held simultaneously.
Such a wise and loving revelation by a humble and wise monk as a Dharma talk in his 73rd year of this apparent lifetime. Wise, sweet, deep, direct, gift of highest value offering path attainment.