Wisdom
Cultivate wisdom that can overcome ignorance at all levels and lead to the attainment of liberation and full awakening.
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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas
Commentaries on a 3rd century philosophical text on how to meditate on the nature of reality.
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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate
Introductory talks and extensive teachings on debate in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
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Buddhist Tenet Systems
Teachings on views of the nature of reality according to different Buddhist philosophical schools.
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How to See Yourself As You Really Are
Extensive teachings on "How to See Yourself As You Really Are" by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
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Middle Way Philosophy
Teachings by Tibetan monastics and Western academics on central ideas in Buddhist philosophy.
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Mind and Awareness
Teachings on different types of cognizers and mental states conducive for attaining awakening.
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Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland
Commentaries on Precious Garland of Advice for a King by Nagarjuna.
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Pramanavarttika with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches Dharmakirti’s commentary on Dignaga’s Compendium on Valid Cognition.
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Rice Seedling Sutra with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches from his book "The Rice Seedling Sutra: Buddha’s Teachings on Dependent Arising."
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Searching for the Self
Volume 7 of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion explores emptiness and leads us to delve deeply into the topic of the ultimate nature of reality, presenting it from a variety of approaches.
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Insight into Emptiness
Khensur Jampa Tegchok, former abbot of Sera Jey Monastery, unpacks Buddhism’s animating philosophy—the emptiness of all appearances.
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Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness
Let a great Tibetan scholar, Khensur Jampa Tegchok, guide you through one of Nagarjuna’s masterworks. Timely advice on everyday life, ethics, public policy, and the true nature of our existence. Edited by Venerable Thubten Chodron.
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Heart Sutra Retreat (Castle Rock 1998)
Commentary on the Heart of Wisdom Sutra, covering the sequence of insights generated on the five bodhisattva paths and the relationship between conventional and ultimate truth.
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Mahamudra with Dr. Roger Jackson (2016)
Dr. Roger Jackson from Carleton College gives a weekend course on Mahamudra at Sravasti Abbey in 2016.
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Wisdom of Emptiness with Venerable Sangye Khadro (2021)
Teachings to cut the delusion that is at the root of all suffering, the primordial misconception that there is an intrinsic self, hosted online by Thubten Norbu Ling in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Two Truths with Guy Newland (2010)
Dr. Guy Newland teaches how different Tibetan Buddhist schools of philosophy explain conventional and ultimate truths in order to understand the nature of reality.
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Vimalakirti Sutra (Singapore 2016-17)
Four talks on the Vimalakirti Sutra given at Vimalakirti Buddhist Centre in Singapore from 2016-17.
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Wisdom of Ultimate Truth with Venerable Sangye Khadro (2021)
An online course hosted by Root Institute in Bodh Gaya, India beginning with the four truths for aryas through to the highest form of wisdom of ultimate truth.
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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe What to practice and abandon
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe covers verse 10 of Nagarjuna’s The Precious Garland of Advice for a…
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Faith and wisdom
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe explains the purpose of composition, and the causes and effects of higher…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron The two middle-way schools
Investigating how the self exists and two primary divisions in the middle-way school.
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Definitive verses, provisional interpretations
The importance of investigating all teachings and an introduction to the middle-way view.
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Mind-only interpretation of emptiness
Investigating the Cittamatra view of how things exist.
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Why do I say I’m unhappy?
How karma fuels our experiences and an introduction to selflessness in different tenet systems.
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All conditioned phenomena are impermanent
Clarifying the meaning of important terms and exploring the messiness of conventional existence.
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Who is tired?
Discussing how change is a constant process rather than a sequence of permanent moments.
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The five aggregates are empty, also
How conventional and ultimate bodhicitta eliminate self-grasping and self-centeredness.
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The perfection of wisdom
An introduction to the Heart Sutra and the importance of studying this profound text.
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Creating our world: dependent arising
An explanation of rebirth through dependent arising, based on commentaries of the Rice Seedling Sutra.
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How to see yourself as you really are
How to loosen concrete ideas of our own and other people’s identities.
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