Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Teachings on the text Presentation of Tenets by Gonchok Jikmay Wangbo.

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Introduction to the tenets

The first teaching in a series on the tenets: comparison of method and wisdom aspects,…

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Tenet systems and the extremes

Four seals asserted by all Buddhist schools, misconceptions of self, and the views of different…

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Four seals, obstacles, and enemies of bodhicitta

The four seals as fixed and true, the obstacles to happiness, how to eliminate ignorance,…

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Five paths, buddhas, and arhats

Unpacking the terms contaminated, uncontaminated, and types of phenomena.

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Karma, impermanence, and cognition

Karmic imprints, rebirth, the person, the aggregates, and types of cognition.

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Questions and answers: Existence and tenets

A discussion revolving around existence and the self according to the various tenet schools.

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Hearers, solitary realizers, bodhisattvas

Teachings according to the Vaibhashika, explanation of nirvana, samsara, and renunciation, and a definition of…

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Sautrāntika and two truths

Types of proponents of the Sutra school, characterized phenomena, and positive and negative phenomena according…

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Sutra school: Phenomena and cognition

Manifest and hidden phenomena, prime and subsequent cognition, and the three times according to the…

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Emptiness and impermanence

A discussion about hidden and evident phenomena, emptiness and impermanence, and terms used in emptiness…

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Single and different

The Sautrantika school's view of the nature of reality and the value of learning the…

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