Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland
Commentaries on Precious Garland of Advice for a King by Nagarjuna.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Chapter 2: Verses 115-126
The problems of teaching emptiness to those who are unsuitable vessels. Creating the causes for…
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Chapter 2: Verses 109-114
Using the metaphor of the magician casting a spell to show how things appear truly…
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Chapter 2: Verses 101-108
Why the Buddha explained selflessness in different ways to different audiences and why he did…
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Chapter 1: Verses 93-100
Distinguishing between inherent existence and conventional existence, and refuting the true existence of emptiness and…
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Chapter 1: Verses 86-92
Refuting inherent existence by examining mutual dependence. Looking at the mutual dependence of the four…
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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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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: Verse 80
How persons and things exist by being merely designated by conception but still exist conventionally.…
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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: 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 63-68
Refuting inherent existence by refuting inherent coming and going. How the impermanent, transitory person, experiences…
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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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