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Exploring Monastic Life 2023

Confession prayer part 3

The conclusion of a multi-part teaching on the General Confession Prayer.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

The mind’s potential in the Pali tradition

Starting Chapter 13, "Buddha Nature", covering the potential of the mind from the section, "The…

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Exploring Monastic Life 2023

Faith and virtue

The different types of faith, five types of virtue, and Tsongkhapa’s secret advice.

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A person sitting on top of a moutain, meditating.
Preliminary Practices

Seven-limb Prayer

Purifying and creating positive potential prepare our minds to grow in wisdom and understanding.

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Exploring Monastic Life 2023

Ordination for women across traditions part 2

Q&A about Venerable Chodron's experience as a woman in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition continues.

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Exploring Monastic Life 2023

Ordination for women across traditions part 1

Q&A about Venerable Chodron's experience as a woman in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

The purity of emptiness

Explaining the emptiness of afflictive mind and the emptiness of purified mind, reviewing the section,…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Yogis and common people

The different understandings of the two truths possessed by those who have direct perception of…

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