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70 Topics: Knower of all bases

Online teachings hosted by Thubten Norbu Ling in New Mexico, USA as part of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) Basic Program.

  • Meditation on the faults of self-centeredness
  • Levels of path of meditation, obscurations abandoned, and grounds attained
  • Chapter 3: Knower of All Bases
  • Sixteen aspects of the four truths
  • Nine topics of knower of bases
  • The extremes of cyclic existence and solitary peace
  • Chapter 3, Topic 1: Knower of paths not abiding in cyclic existence through knowing
  • Chapter 3, Topic 2: Knower of paths not abiding in solitary peace through compassion
  • Chapter 3, Topic 3: Knower of bases that is distant from the resultant Mother
  • Chapter 3, Topic 5: Knower of bases of the discordant class
  • Chapter 3, Topic 4: Knower of bases that is near to the resultant Mother
  • Chapter 3, Topic 6: Knower of bases of the antidotal class
  • Chapter 3, Topic 7: Applications of a bodhisattva indicated in the context of knower of bases
  • Chapter 3, Topic 8: Equality of the applications of a bodhisattva indicated in the context of knower of bases
  • Chapter 3, Topic 9: Path of seeing explicitly indicated in this context
Venerable Sangye Khadro

California-born, Venerable Sangye Khadro ordained as a Buddhist nun at Kopan Monastery in 1974 and is a longtime friend and colleague of Abbey founder Venerable Thubten Chodron. She took bhikshuni (full) ordination in 1988. While studying at Nalanda Monastery in France in the 1980s, she helped to start the Dorje Pamo Nunnery, along with Venerable Chodron. Venerable Sangye Khadro has studied with many Buddhist masters including Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Yeshe, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, and Khensur Jampa Tegchok. At her teachers’ request, she began teaching in 1980 and has since taught in countries around the world, occasionally taking time off for personal retreats. She served as resident teacher in Buddha House, Australia, Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore, and the FPMT centre in Denmark. From 2008-2015, she followed the Masters Program at the Lama Tsong Khapa Institute in Italy. Venerable has authored a number books found here, including the best-selling How to Meditate. She has taught at Sravasti Abbey since 2017 and is now a full-time resident.

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