A discussion session covering externally existent things and perceptions.
Geshe Dorji Damdul teaches Presentation of Tenets by Gonchok Jigmay Wangbo (1728–1791), also translated by Jeffrey Hopkins and published in Cutting Through Appearances with commentary by Geshe Lhundup Sopa.
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Geshe Dorji Damdul teaches Presentation of Tenets by Gonchok Jigmay Wangbo (1728–1791), also translated by Jeffrey Hopkins and published in Cutting Through Appearances with commentary by Geshe Lhundup Sopa.
Buddhism, science, and mind
What the mind is according to Buddhism and neuroscience.
Benefits of cultivating bodhicitta
Combining the two techniques for cultivating bodhicitta and the benefits of cultivating bodhicitta.
Discussion: Mind-only school
A discussion session regarding uncompounded space, objects as reflections of mind, and cause and effect according to Chittamatra.
Generating bodhicitta
Equalizing and exchanging self and others and the seven-fold cause and effect relationship.
Emptiness and bodhicitta
The benefits of generating bodhicitta and how emptiness and bodhicitta can support one another.
Emptiness in everyday life
How ignorance, conceptualizations, afflictions and karma are linked and how to practice the understanding of emptiness in daily life.
Meditation on emptiness
The preciousness of study and meditation on emptiness and the gap between the objective reality and the subjective appearance.
Mental states and objects of knowledge
The Chittamatra explanation of mind-basis-of-all, objects of knowledge according to Prasangika, and partless particles according to Vasubandhu.
Mind basis of all
The Chittamatra and the mind-basis-of-all and gross and subtle objects.
