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Venerable Thubten Tarpa Review of Chapter 2
Reviewing Chapter 2, leading a discussion on three types of phenomena and different types of…
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Review of Chapter 2
Venerable Sangye Khadro leads a review of Chapter 2, covering the confession of negativities, including…
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Venerable Thubten Jampa Review of the four seals
Reviewing Chapter 1, discussing the four seals, three types of dukkha and emptiness.
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Review of Chapter 1
Venerable Sangye Khadro leads a review of Chapter 1 of Shantideva's text, Engaging in the…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 20-21
Commentary on verses that cover subduing anger and abandoning attachment.
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When karma ripens
Teaching from Chapter 11, describing in which life time karma ripens based on different factors…
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Review session: Identifying the root of samsara
A review of topics including identifying the correct root cause of samsara and the different…
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Geshe Yeshi Lhundup Common and uncommon afflictions
The difference between uncommon and common afflictions, and the distinction between the coarse and subtle…
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Review session: Coarse and subtle selflessness
A review of Chandrakirti's assertions that hearer and solitary realizer arhats realize the emptiness of…
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Realizing emptiness by hearers and solitary realizers
Further explanation why Hearers and Solitary Realizers realize the emptiness of inherent existence and the…
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Review session: Bodhisattvas outshine through intell...
A review of the attainments of seventh ground bodhisattvas and the different levels of selflessness.
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Outshining through intelligence
How bodhisattvas outshine hearers and solitary realizers in intelligence and beginning the section on how…
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