Selflessness, karma, and rebirth

A series of commentaries on Mind Training Like Rays of the Sun by Nam-kha Pel, a disciple of Lama Tsongkhapa, given between September 2008 and July 2010.

  • Questions and answers on the different philosophical tenet systems
    • Do all the systems aim for the goal of buddhahood?
    • How the paths of the tenet systems differ?
    • What makes me, me?
  • How what the different tenet systems assert is the person and is not the person determines what the tenet school posits to carry karma from life to life

MTRS 62: Questions on the tenet schools (download)

Venerable Thubten Chodron

Venerable Chodron emphasizes the practical application of Buddha’s teachings in our daily lives and is especially skilled at explaining them in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners. She is well known for her warm, humorous, and lucid teachings. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1977 by Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India, and in 1986 she received bhikshuni (full) ordination in Taiwan. Read her full bio.