Oct 12, 2017

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Tips for practice

Venerable Thubten Tarpa covers advice for engaging in the comparison of phenomena, as per the…

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Amitabha

Amitabha practice: The four immeasurables

How to generate the four immeasurables as part of the Amitabha practice.

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Amitabha

Amitabha practice: Refuge and bodhicitta

Explanation of the Amitabha practice, beginning with taking refuge, in preparation for the Abbey's upcoming…

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Inmate looking out from behind prison bars.
On Refuge and Bodhicitta

We are all prisoners

We are prisoners of our own minds. Ignorance, anger, and attachment are every bit as…

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An Open-Hearted Life

Genuine compassion

Compassion is an internal attitude that can be deliberately cultivated through practice. Reflection on bringing…

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Cover of book Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness.
Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland

The results of virtue and nonvirtue

In order to create the causes for upper rebirth and awakening it's important to discern…

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Cover of book Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness.
Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland

The advantages of living ethically

Ethical conduct is primary cause of higher rebirth. Developing ethical conduct involves abandoning thirteen activities…

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Cover of book Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness.
Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland

The causes and effects of higher rebirth

A series of good rebirths that allow Dharma practice is necessary to attain awakening. Nagarjuna…

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Gomchen Lamrim

More on joyous effort

Venerable Thubten Damcho continues the review of joyous effort, covering discouragement, faith, and favorable conditions

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Venerable holding a microphone and smiling.
Engaged Buddhism

Was the Buddha an activist?

A commentary on verses from “Precious Garland” describes how a government based on Dharma principles…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Mutually inclusive phenomena

Venerable Thubten Tarpa teaches on mutually inclusive phenomena and reviews mutually exclusive phenomena

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