Aug 28, 2016

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 12: Verses 295-300

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches on dependent arising and emptiness, and concludes his commentary with verses…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 12: Verses 286-295

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches on the importance of not lapsing from the right view, and…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 12: Verses 281-285

Teachings explaining the difficulty of understanding emptiness and why emptiness should not be feared.

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 12: Verses 278-280

Teachings on how to prove the Buddha’s omniscience based on reasoning and experience.

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 12: Verses 277-278

Geshe Thabkhe answers questions on subtle impermanence, emptiness, and continues teachings on refuting the wrong…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapters 11-12: Verses 275-277

Teachings on refuting the wrong views start with explaining the qualities of a proper Dharma…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 11: Verses 266-274

Teachings on refutation of substantially existent duration and on impermanence.

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 11: Verses 259-265

Refutation of lower Buddhist schools’ view of permanent future phenomena.

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 11: Verses 251-258

Does time exist substantially? How do past, present, and future really exist?

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Two young men passing a hot potato.
On Working with Afflictions

Hot potato

A Dharma student realizes that his attachments are the cause of his suffering.

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 10: Verses 247-250

Does selflessness mean nonexistence? How to avoid the two extremes of nihilism and eternalism and…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 10: Verses 238-246

Geshe Yeshe Thabke continues to challenge our instinctive view of the self as permanent and…

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