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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Emptiness in everyday life

How ignorance, conceptualizations, afflictions and karma are linked and how to practice the understanding of…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 20-2: The lower realms

A description of the lower realms, and whether they are actual places or just states…

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A statue of Maitreya Buddha with hands raised and laughing in the sun.
Seven-point Mind Training

Meditation on our precious human life

The benefits of meditating on the eight freedoms we have been given with our precious…

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Meditation on emptiness

The preciousness of study and meditation on emptiness and the gap between the objective reality…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 20-1: Going downhill

The importance of preventing sentient beings, and ourselves, from being born in the lower realms.

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Mental states and objects of knowledge

The Chittamatra explanation of mind-basis-of-all, objects of knowledge according to Prasangika, and partless particles according…

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Mind basis of all

The Chittamatra and the mind-basis-of-all and gross and subtle objects.

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Statue of 1000 armed Chenrezig made of wood.
108 Verses on Compassion

108 Verses: Verses 17-21

How, based on compassion, we can make wise decisions and enhance our trust in Dharma.

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A statue of Maitreya Buddha with hands raised and laughing in the sun.
Seven-point Mind Training

Lineage of mind training practices

Kevin Conlin discusses the "Eight Verses of Thought Transformation" and tonglen meditation

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Statue of 1000 armed Chenrezig made of wood.
108 Verses on Compassion

108 Verses: Verses 15-17

How great compassion is the most importance quality of the Buddha that makes his teachings…

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