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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Challengers and defenders

Beginning to teach Chapter 16, 'Challengers and Defenders', which focuses on the two key roles…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Choosing your debate partner

Covering Chapter 15 on the topic of “Choosing Your Debate Partner” and becoming a suitable…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Agent, action, and object

Finishing Chapter 13 “Valid Cognition” and covering Chapter 14 “The Three Spheres of Agent, Object,…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Comparisons of consciousnesses

Venerable Tenzin Tsepal leads the class through the first few comparisons of different kinds of…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Believing in something that is not real

Covering the last section in Chapter 12 “Believing in Something That Is Not Real” and…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Four kinds of direct perceivers

Covering the sections in Chapter 12 “Four Types of Direct Perceivers” and “Believing in Something…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Inferential cognizers and direct perceivers

Teaching on the last two types of consciousnesses: inferential cognizers and direct perceivers.

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Doubt and correctly assuming consciousness

Teaching on the seven types of awareness, including doubt and correctly assuming consciousnesses.

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Review of chapters 11 and 12

Venerable Thubten Tsepal reviews Chapters 11 & 12, covering up to sense direct perceivers.

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Review of abstract composites

Venerable Tenzin Tsepal gives a review of abstract composites, or non-associated compositional factors.

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Review of internal matter and consciousness

Venerable Tenzin Tsepal reviews the sections in Chapter 10 on Internal Matter, Consciousness, Mental Consciousness…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

A graded range of consciousnesses

Covering the first two consciousnesses: wrong consciousness and uncertain consciousness learning toward believing something that…

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