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Gomchen Lamrim

The precepts for aspiring and engaging bodhicitta

The precepts for aspiring bodhicitta and beginning the explanation of the bodhisattva ethical restraints.

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Four Truths for the Aryas

Attributes of true paths: Accomplishment and irrever...

The last two attributes of true paths and encouragement to meditate on all 16 attributes.

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Study Buddhist Treatises Podcast

Chapter 5: Verses 471-475

All the beneficial things that we can dedicate and wish for all sentient beings.

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Gomchen Lamrim

Aspiring bodhicitta

Finishing the teaching on the taking-and-giving meditation and continuing with the precepts of aspiring bodhicitta.

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Study Buddhist Treatises Podcast

Chapter 5: Verses 468-470

Understanding how to meditate on the seven-limb prayer in the "Twenty-Verse Prayer."

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Thangka image of the Buddha.
Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland

Twenty-Verse Prayer from Nagarjuna’s “Precious...

Twenty verses that Nagarjuna encourages us to recite three times a day to accumulate the…

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Gomchen Lamrim

Giving to all sentient beings

How to give to all sentient beings and holy beings as in the taking-and-giving meditation.

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Four Truths for the Aryas

Attributes of true origins: Conditions

How craving and karma function as conditions that create suffering in cyclic existence as well.

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Venerable Damcho smiling and holding one of the texts.
Life at Sravasti Abbey

No small thing: Encouragement from China

The Abbey celebrates the arrival of 32 volumes of the annotated edition of the Nanshan…

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