Kamalshila's Stages of Meditation III

Kamalashila was an eighth century Indian scholar at the renowned Nalanda University in India. At the invitation of the Tibetan King, he accompanied Shantarakshita to Tibet where they are credited for establishing the foundations of Buddhism. Kamalashila is widely revered as a great Madhyamaka author and wrote his Stages of Meditation expounding the fundamental shamatha and vipassanā meditation practices in a gradualist approach to attaining Buddhahood. The Dalai Lama comments on the Stages of Meditation, “This text can be like a key that opens the door to all other major Buddhist scriptures.”