Stages of Meditation. Advice to the King

Kamalashila (740-795 AD), a disciple of the great Buddhist scholar Shantarakshita, was invited to Tibet to continue his teacher's work of spreading the Dharma. At the request of King Trisong Detsen, Kamalashila wrote the presented treatise "Stages of Meditation." It is dedicated to the theoretical justification and description of the sequential path of spiritual improvement in contrast to the widely held idea at the time of the futility of methods and the possibility of instantly achieving the state of Buddha.