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.

Middle path teaching

I am 53 and found Buddhism at 50.

The teaching in this book was perfect for me. I am not a college graduate but still was able to follow the lines of thinking and reasoning with minimal difficulty. I have read several of the Dalai Lama's books and found this to fit in perfectly with my current understanding.

His Holiness's teachings are well explained in this text and the order in which the information is given flows well. I found it to be definitively crucial for me.

The narrator is well spoken and articulate as you might expect. I found his voice very soothing and easy to enjoy.