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Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying Retreats

What helps at the time of death

Continuing the 9-point meditation on death, covering the third root of what helps at the…

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Peaceful Living, Peaceful Dying Retreats

Buddhist perspectives on death

Venerable Sangye Khadro begins the Peaceful Living and Dying retreat with Buddhist perspectives on death.

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Divisions and illustrations

Reviewing material already covered in Chapter 20 on definitions and illustrations, and discussing the different…

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Person compassionately holding the hands of another person.
Prison Poetry

The cure

On March 15, 2019, 50 people at mosques in New Zealand were murdered by a…

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Eight Verses of Thought Transformation

Sweet and endearing mothers

Venerable Thubten Chodron continues with Verse 7 of the “Eight Verses of Thought Transformation” and…

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Eight Verses of Thought Transformation

The relationship with our parents

Venerable Thubten Chodron continues with Verse 7 of the “Eight Verses of Thought Transformation” and…

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Illumination of the Thought

Objects of great compassion

Explaining compassion observing phenomena and compassion observing the emptiness of sentient beings, the second and…

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Volume 1 Approaching the Buddhist Path

Buddhism in Tibet

Finishing Chapter Five, discussing the section 'Buddhism in Tibet,' and beginning Chapter Six.

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Illumination of the Thought

The three types of compassion

Teaching on Lama Tsongkhapa’s “Illumination of the Thought” and explaining compassion observing sentient beings, the…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

The omnipresent mental factors

Venerable Sangye Khadro begins teaching on 'Mind and Mental Factors', giving an introduction, and covering…

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Illumination of the Thought

Hearers and solitary realizers

Teaching on Lama Tsongkhapa’s “Illumination of the Thought” and explaining how hearers and solitary realizers…

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