MIDDLE LENGTH STAGES OF MEDITATION by Kamalashila Kamalashila's Middle Length Stages of Meditation clearly lays out the beginning and more advanced methods for engaging in the Buddhist practices leading to ultimate enlightenment, the omniscient state of a Buddha. This state, accessible to all, is attained through developing love and compassion for all living beings, and by cultivating qualities such as generosity, ethics, patience, perseverance, concentration and the wisdom realizing ultimate truth. Kamalashila was invited to Tibet from India by King Trisong Detsen in the mid-8th century to defend the analytical approach to the practice of Buddhism in a historic debate against a view discouraging mental activity in meditation. To honor Kamalashila's victory the King requested that he compose this as welwl as a longer and shorter text on the Stages of Meditation.