Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Commentaries on a 3rd century philosophical text on how to meditate on the nature of reality.

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 10: Quiz review part 3

Completion of the review of questions on refuting misconceptions of a self. The third part…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 11: Quiz review part 1

Review and discussion of questions on refuting truly existent time. The first part of the…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 11: Quiz review part 2

Review and discussion of questions on refuting truly existent time. The second part of the…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 14: Verses 326-334

Reflecting on the relationship between an object and its attributes to refute true existence.

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Analyzing the terrorist

Applying ultimate analysis to challenge our assumptions about what makes a person a terrorist.

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 14: Verses 335-343

Examining the relationship between an object and its attributes, and the whole and its parts,…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 14: Verse 344

Refuting the inherent existence of phenomena by seeing they cannot be inherently one or many.

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 14: Verses 348-350

Seeing that emptiness is the meaning of dependent arising and dependent arising is the meaning…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 15: Verses 354-358

Refuting arising, abiding and ceasing as being truly existent characteristics of objects.

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Chapter 15: Verses 359-360

For a complete and correct view it is important to bring emptiness and dependent arising…

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