Selection from the Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment: Chapter 2, Part 1 of 2

We would like to share with you the wisdom of Tsongkhapa. The Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment is superior to other systems. Showing the greatness of the teaching in order to engender respect for the instructions. The greatness of the teaching is indicated by four qualities, it elicits in the student: 1. Knowing that all of the teachings are free of contradiction. 2. Coming to understand that all of the scriptures are instructions for practice. 3. Easily finding the Conqueror’s intent. 4. Automatically refraining from great wrongdoing. Here to know that all the teachings are free of contradiction means to understand that they are the path by which one person becomes a Buddha. The path of the perfections is like the center post for the path that leads to Buddhahood. Hence, it is unsuitable to cast it aside.