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Cover of book Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness.
Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland

The results of virtue and nonvirtue

In order to create the causes for upper rebirth and awakening it's important to discern…

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Cover of book Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness.
Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland

The advantages of living ethically

Ethical conduct is primary cause of higher rebirth. Developing ethical conduct involves abandoning thirteen activities…

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Cover of book Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness.
Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland

The causes and effects of higher rebirth

A series of good rebirths that allow Dharma practice is necessary to attain awakening. Nagarjuna…

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Venerable holding a microphone and smiling.
Engaged Buddhism

Was the Buddha an activist?

A commentary on verses from “Precious Garland” describes how a government based on Dharma principles…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Mutually inclusive phenomena

Venerable Thubten Tarpa teaches on mutually inclusive phenomena and reviews mutually exclusive phenomena

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Buddhist ontology

Venerable Tenzin Tsepal gives a brief overview of Buddhist ontology and walks the class through…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Syllogisms

Geshe Dadul Namgyal explains how syllogisms are used in Buddhist logic and debate, and answers…

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Middle Way Philosophy

Conflicting views of reality

The views about reality posited by different Buddhist philosophical systems.

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Middle Way Philosophy

How do we exist?

The ultimate view of reality and the views of Western physicians on the relationship between…

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Middle Way Philosophy

Conventional and ultimate bodhicitta

The two methods to generate bodhicitta and the importance of practicing both method and wisdom.

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