Geshe Dorji Damdul

Geshe Dorji Damdul is a distinguished Buddhist scholar whose interest lies in the relation between Buddhism and science, especially in physics. Geshe-la participated in several conferences on Buddhism and science, Mind and Life Institute meetings, and dialogues between His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama and Western scientists. He has been official translator to His Holiness the Dalai Lama since 2005 and is currently director of Tibet House, the Cultural Centre of H.H. the Dalai Lama, based in New Delhi, India. Geshe-la gives regular lectures at Tibet House and many universities and institutes. He travels widely within India and abroad to teach Buddhist philosophy, psychology, logic and practice.

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Benefits of cultivating bodhicitta

Combining the two techniques for cultivating bodhicitta and the benefits of cultivating bodhicitta.

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Discussion: Mind-only school

A discussion session regarding uncompounded space, objects as reflections of mind, and cause and effect…

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Generating bodhicitta

Equalizing and exchanging self and others and the seven-fold cause and effect relationship.

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Emptiness and bodhicitta

The benefits of generating bodhicitta and how emptiness and bodhicitta can support one another.

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Emptiness in everyday life

How ignorance, conceptualizations, afflictions and karma are linked and how to practice the understanding of…

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Meditation on emptiness

The preciousness of study and meditation on emptiness and the gap between the objective reality…

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Mental states and objects of knowledge

The Chittamatra explanation of mind-basis-of-all, objects of knowledge according to Prasangika, and partless particles according…

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Mind basis of all

The Chittamatra and the mind-basis-of-all and gross and subtle objects.

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