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Dr. Guy Newland Western perspectives on Tsongkhapa
Returning to Chapa chos kyi seng ge's refutation of Chandrakirti, which foreshadows Tsongkhapa.
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Conventional and ultimate nature
How Tsongkhapa refutes the Svatantrika view of conventional existence, while retaining the possibility of understanding…
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The Svatantrika view
Reviewing arguments that the ultimate nature cannot be known by the mind.
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Understanding through reasoned logic
The ultimate nature being unknowable by the mind, versus arguments that it is possible to…
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The Prasangika view
Tsongkhapa’s interpretation of the Prasangika view, and what it means to say that objects are…
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Emptiness and compassion
The importance of understanding emptiness correctly and how it relates to cultivating compassion.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Chapter 1: Verses 33-36
How self-grasping arises in dependence upon the aggregates and the order that selflessness of persons…
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Chapter 1: Verses 27-32
Looking at how grasping at a truly existent I causes problems and binds us to…
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Chapter 1: Verses 25-26
A correct understanding of emptiness leads to developing wisdom, while misunderstanding emptiness leads to a…
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Chapter 1: Verses 20-24
The essential thing to remember is don't engage in nonvirtue, engage in virtue. How do…
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Venerable Thubten Tarpa Abandoning the 10 nonvirtues, part 3
Review of the three mental nonvirtuous pathways of action: covetousness, maliciousness, and wrong view.
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