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Pramanavarttika with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Self and suffering, part 2 with questions and answers

Continued commentary on the section "Self and Suffering” and Venerable Thubten Chodron answers questions.

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

Equanimity and bodhicitta

The great scope practices with a meditation on equanimity, plus the first steps in the…

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Library of Wisdom and Compassion

Approaching the Buddhist Path

An overview of and short reading from "Approaching the Buddhist Path," Volume 1 of The…

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Pramanavarttika with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Truth of the path

Completion of commentary on the truth of cessation, and beginning of commentary on the truth…

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Pramanavarttika with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Peace and sublimity

Commentary covers the second and third aspects of the truth of cessation: peace and sublimity,…

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Pramanavarttika with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Meditating on no self

Commentary on the way of meditating on no-self, how to prove omniscience, and beginning the…

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Green Tara

Who is Tara?

The first of two online talks given to the Rainbow Body Sangha in India as…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Virtue, nonvirtue, merit, and roots of nonvirtue

Completing Chapter 5, covering five types of virtues and five types of nonvirtues and starting…

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Shantideva Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Refuting a primal substance and independent self

Covering Verses 26-32 of Chapter 6, presenting Buddhist refutations of a primal substance and the…

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An Open-Hearted Life

Identifying our feelings

How to identify our emotions and distinguish them from thoughts and why it's important.

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