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 Avoiding the two extremes
A teaching on how the Middle Way avoids the two extremes of nihilism and eternalism.
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The emptiness of an inherent self
A teaching on the emptiness of inherent existence covering verses 28-36 of the text.
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Realms of upper rebirth
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches on the various upper rebirths and accompanying experiences.
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The results of non-virtue
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches what it means to practice the Dharma, the ten non-virtues.
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What to practice and abandon
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe covers verse 10 of the text, in great detail.
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Faith and wisdom
Explanation of the causes and effects of higher rebirth and the highest good.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron The implicit meaning of the Heart Sutra
The bodhisattva paths and grounds and how different afflictions are eliminated.
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The mantra of the perfection of wisdom
Explaining the explicit and implicit meaning of the mantra of the perfection of wisdom.
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The eight aspects of emptiness
The emptiness of an object's characteristics and of the 12 links of dependent arising.
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Traditions of interpretation
Examining the four profundities and why analysis is crucial for perceiving emptiness.
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Understanding the two truths
Examining how form depends on causes and conditions and is an expression of emptiness.
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