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Venerable Thubten Chodron What obscures our buddha nature
Explaining the remaining five similes, from the section, "Nine Similes for Tathāgatagarbha" and beginning the…
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Venerable Tenzin Tsepal Review of Chapter Nine: Verses 1-4
Review on the first four verses of Chapter 9 of Shantideva's text.
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What if the Buddha were a lay woman?
Questions from the Hamburg Dharma College about Venerable Thubten Chodron's personal practice, monastic life, and…
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Kindness in practice
How might we respond with kindness towards others no matter what situations arise?
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Venerable Sangye Khadro A matter of life and death
How being mindful of death in our daily life can help us and how to…
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Transforming problems into the path
Whether grief can be seen as an affliction, the four distorted conceptions, and how to…
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Like gold in filth
Explaining the third and fourth similes, from the section “Nine Similes of Tathagatagarbha”, in Chapter…
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Cultivating loving-kindness
Practical ways to cultivate kindness towards ourselves and others in our daily lives.
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Geshe Tenzin Chodrak (Dadul Namgyal) 
Nine similes for Tathāgatagarbha
Explaining the first two similes from the section, "Nine Similes for Tathāgatagarbha", in Chapter 13,…
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