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Geshe Dorji Damdul The four seals
Geshe Dorji Damdul skillfully explains how ignorance leads to suffering and how to be rid…
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Reality and appearances
How all functioning things have parts, same and different entities, the gap between reality and…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Verse 19-4: Antidote to depression
How meditating on precious human life results in constant awareness of how fortunate we are,…
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Benefits of studying emptiness
How to actually practice wisdom and meditate on emptiness according to Prasangika Madhyamaka.
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Verse 19-3: Bodhisattva practices
The importance of aiming for a precious human life, even if that's not our long-term…
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Meditation practice
An explanation of the various kinds of Buddhist meditation, how to set up a daily…
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Verse 19-2: Precious human life
Not every human life is a precious human life. Considering living beings who are so…
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Verse 19-1: The upper realms
How a precious human life gives us just enough comfort and just enough suffering to…
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Persons, perceptions, and mental factors
The definition of "person" according to different tenet systems, and a discussion of perception, divisions…
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Verse 18: The exalted path
Generating positive aspirations for all sentient beings when setting out walking on a path.
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Single and different
The Sautrantika school's view of the nature of reality and the value of learning the…
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Verse 17-5: Value of keeping precepts
Fourth way of gathering followers in order to teach them the Dharma: to act in…
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