Definitive verses, provisional interpretations
07 The Heart Sutra
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Wisdom 
Jan 15, 2025 A series of teachings based on Essence of the Heart Sutra by His Holiness the Dalai Lama for Gompa Tibetan Monastery Services
- Questions and answers
- How followers of the Cittamatra school view objects
- Is Yogachara a subdivision of Cittamatra?
- Why Buddha was a skillful teacher
- How to determine whether a teaching is provisional or definitive
- The importance of critically examining all teachings
- Overview of the four reliances
- Introduction to the middle-way view between extremes
- The emptiness of external and internal phenomena
- More questions and answers
- Is the storehouse consciousness the same as the foundational consciousness?
- If objects are the same as latencies on my mind, who are we trying to liberate?
The next teaching in this series:
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.
