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Nonassociated compositional factors

Nonassociated compositional factors

Part of an ongoing series of teachings based on Daniel Perdue’s book, The Course in Buddhist Reasoning and Logic: An Asian Approach to Analytical Thinking Drawn from Indian and Tibetan Sources.

  • The three conditions for consciousness and the twelve sources
  • Distorted conceptions and how these thoughts cause afflictions
  • Why the emphasis on the study and training of consciousness in Buddhism
  • The characteristics of abstract composites
  • The person is an imputed phenomena and why this is significant

53 The Course in Buddhist Reasoning and Debate: Nonassociated Compositional Factors (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.