Teachings at Sravasti Abbey
Teachings based on a commentary by Khensur Jampa Tegchok on Nagarjuna's Precious Garland of Advice for a King.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Chapter 1: Verses 33-36
How self-grasping arises in dependence upon the aggregates and the order that selflessness of persons…
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Chapter 1: Verses 36-38
Looking at the causes of rebirth in samsara, its unsatisfactory nature, and the causes for…
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Chapter 1: Verses 39-44
How different tenet schools posit what nirvana is, and how the Prasangika Madhyamikas refute assertions…
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Chapter 1: Verses 45-48
Refuting inherent existence eliminates grasping at true existence and leads to liberation. Refuting inherent existence…
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Chapter 1: Verses 49-56
Refuting the two extreme views—that things are totally nonexistent or inherently exist. Without abandoning the…
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Chapter 1: Verses 57-62
To get to the view of the middle way that avoids the two extremes is…
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Chapter 1: Verses 63-68
Refuting inherent existence by refuting inherent coming and going. How the impermanent, transitory person, experiences…
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Chapter 1: Verses 69-75
The different ways to understand dependent arising to refute inherent existence—dependence on parts, causal dependence,…
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Chapter 1: Verses 76-80
How emptiness and dependent arising are mutually established, and how to posit that conventional and…
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Chapter 1: Verse 80
How persons and things exist by being merely designated by conception but still exist conventionally.…
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Chapter 1: Verses 81-82
Refuting an inherently existent self by analyzing the relationship between the person and the aggregates,…
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Chapter 1: Verses 82-86
Refuting the inherent existence of the person through the sevenfold analysis. Refuting the inherent existence…
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