Tibetan Buddhism as a religious sect of Mahayana Buddhism has originated in Tibet and been developed from a form of a combination of Indian Buddhism and Chinese Buddhism into Tibet's unique Buddhism. It is also called Lamaism because it puts great emphasis on venerated spiritual masters, Lama. In recent years, there has been rapidly increased interests in and attentions to theoretical and practical knowledge of Tibetan Buddhism. People's such interests have been causing increased needs for having many opportunities to learn about Tibetan Buddhism theoretically and practically. However, not only korean versions of foreign books and study papers about Tibet buddhism but also korean books and papers which were studied by korean scholars are still very insufficient to satisfy the people's increased needs of learning about Tibetan Buddhism.
In this paper, we study on Tibetan buddhism especially on Trilogy of Stages of Meditation which are called Bhāvanākrama and written in Sanskrit by the Indian Buddhist schola Kamalashila.
In this paper, we do a study on Tibetan buddhism especially on Trilogy of Stages of Meditation which are called Bhāvanākrama and written by Kamalashila. To prove that Tibetan Buddhism especially Bhāvanākrama is well worth being widely disseminated, we exhaustively analyze theories and ways of practice that Kamalashila. explains through Bhāvanākrama and mainly conduct a study on the practice of shamatha and vipashyana.. Also, we grasp the meanings of each step of mental development and suggest solutions for possible obstructions on each step of the practice.
As a result of this paper, we present advantages of the practice of Shamatha and Vipashyana and propose various and efficient ways of practice by combining advantages of Bhāvanākrama and other widely well-known methods of practice.