Buddhist Worldview
An overview of core Buddhist concepts: the four truths of the aryas, rebirth, karma, refuge, and more.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Chapter 4: Ethical conduct and the monastic community
Purpose, benefits, and responsibilities of the monastic community.
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Chapter 4: Higher trainings and precepts
The different types of precepts in Buddhist practice.
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Chapter 3: The Pali view of the noble eightfold path
Ethical trainings, mindfulness, and the three higher trainings.
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Chapter 3: Sanskrit view of the noble eightfold path
The noble eightfold path according to the Sanskrit tradition.
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Chapter 3: Stages of the noble eightfold path
The noble eightfold path according to the Pali tradition.
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Chapter 3: True suffering and its attributes
More on the sixteen attributes of the four truths of the aryas.
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Chapter 2: Monastic stages of refuge
The three higher knowledges (Pali tradition), and the sixteen attributes of the four truths of…
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Chapter 2: The stages of buddhahood
An explanation of awakening, parinirvana, and omniscience, how the Buddha inspires, and touching on Nagarjuna…
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Chapter 2: Refuge In the Pali tradition
More on the Three Jewels according to the Pali tradition, followed by a description of…
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Chapter 2: Qualities of refuge and The Three Jewels
The Three Jewels according to the Pali tradition, as well as the qualities of the…
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Chapter 2: The Tathagata’s ten powers and six unshar...
More on the historical relationships between scriptures, and an overview of the Tathagata's qualities.
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Chapter 2: Refuge in and proof of the existence of t...
The demarkation of becoming a Buddhist, taking refuge and what that means. How buddha's liberate,…
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