Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks, and podcasts.
You will get an email reminder before your trial ends.
Audible Plus auto-renews for $7.95/mo after 30 days. Upgrade or cancel anytime.
From Here to Enlightenment  By  cover art

From Here to Enlightenment

By: Guy Newland - editor and translator, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Try for $0.00

$7.95 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $19.95

Buy for $19.95

Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.

Publisher's summary

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.

What listeners say about From Here to Enlightenment

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    215
  • 4 Stars
    34
  • 3 Stars
    6
  • 2 Stars
    2
  • 1 Stars
    3
Performance
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    181
  • 4 Stars
    31
  • 3 Stars
    4
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    1
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    177
  • 4 Stars
    31
  • 3 Stars
    5
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    3

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

An intellectual's guide to Buddhism

As a newcomer to interest in Buddhism, I found this to be extremely engaging and intellectually stimulating. Where most conversations about spiritualism stray far from logic and observation of reality, this book shows how Buddhism uses these core tools to elucidate a beautiful description of life and consciousness, down to the very nature of the universe itself. This book is an excellent way to for the jaded intellectual to find new avenues of thought.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

6 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Awesome. Essential. But advanced...

If you have the right basis in Lamrim this is not to be missed. It maybe a bit advanced if you are just getting into Buddhism...

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

5 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Something for beginner to advanced

As a beginner to the study of Buddhism a good portion of this book was over my head. However, I was able to learn new concepts from many parts of this book. It was well worth the time and money.
Excellent performance from the narrator.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

4 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Advanced Teaching

Wonderful teaching but not for the beginner. I found the message to be one of great compassion and a goal to reach for.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

3 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

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

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

3 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

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.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

Wonderful, portions on emptiness a bit challenging, Wonderful teaching of Lam Rim Chen Mo

Je Tsongkhapa is clearly very important to HH the Dalai Lama.
Nice reading by Mr. Ballerini.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Introduction to Tsongkapa's Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment

The reason I put that sort of obvious title is because that is something you should know about this book. It is the Dalai Lama explaining the aforementioned text. He says it is his main guide and he likes it very much. I like his explanations of it very much too. The Dalai Lama here writes very clearly and what you should do and what is necessary to attain enlightenment and details the steps and practices and philosophies. It is more directive than some of his other texts, by which I mean that in this text he tells you what to do, while in others he just examines what is good etc. One last thing you should know is that he has written several books examining Tsongkapa's works. Tsongkapa made the small, medium, and great treatises, and I think the Dalai Lama wrote books on each of those, maybe several books on each. My point there is that many of his books deal with the same subject, so you might want to pick the best one, instead of reading all.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

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.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

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.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!