Mar 10, 2017

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Study Buddhist Treatises Podcast

Chapter 5: Verses 468-470

Understanding how to meditate on the seven-limb prayer in the "Twenty-Verse Prayer."

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Thangka image of the Buddha.
Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland

Twenty-Verse Prayer from Nagarjuna’s “Precious...

Twenty verses that Nagarjuna encourages us to recite three times a day to accumulate the…

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Gomchen Lamrim

Giving to all sentient beings

How to give to all sentient beings and holy beings as in the taking-and-giving meditation.

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Four Truths for the Aryas

Attributes of true origins: Conditions

How craving and karma function as conditions that create suffering in cyclic existence as well.

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Venerable Damcho smiling and holding one of the texts.
Life at Sravasti Abbey

No small thing: Encouragement from China

The Abbey celebrates the arrival of 32 volumes of the annotated edition of the Nanshan…

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On Working with Afflictions

Clean up my act

A recent increase in hate crimes causes a Dharma student to reflect on where hate…

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Study Buddhist Treatises Podcast

Chapter 5: Verses 466-467

Extensive explanation of taking refuge and paying homage to the Three Jewels.

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Four Truths for the Aryas

Attributes of true origins: Strong producers

The importance of keeping in mind how our suffering is caused by our ignorance, afflictions,…

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