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Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Quiz questions for Precious Garland: Intro to verse 24

Questions to review understanding of the talks on Nagarjuna’s "Precious Garland of Advice for a…

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Chapter 2: Verses 115-126

The problems of teaching emptiness to those who are unsuitable vessels. Creating the causes for…

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Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Chapter 2: Verses 109-114

Using the metaphor of the magician casting a spell to show how things appear truly…

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Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Chapter 2: Verses 101-108

Why the Buddha explained selflessness in different ways to different audiences and why he did…

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Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Chapter 1: Verses 93-100

Distinguishing between inherent existence and conventional existence, and refuting the true existence of emptiness and…

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Chapter 1: Verses 86-92

Refuting inherent existence by examining mutual dependence. Looking at the mutual dependence of the four…

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Chapter 1: Verses 82-86

Refuting the inherent existence of the person through the sevenfold analysis. Refuting the inherent existence…

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Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Chapter 1: Verses 81-82

Refuting an inherently existent self by analyzing the relationship between the person and the aggregates,…

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Chapter 1: Verse 80

How persons and things exist by being merely designated by conception but still exist conventionally.…

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Chapter 1: Verses 76-80

How emptiness and dependent arising are mutually established, and how to posit that conventional and…

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Chapter 1: Verses 69-75

The different ways to understand dependent arising to refute inherent existence—dependence on parts, causal dependence,…

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