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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Benefits of studying emptiness

How to actually practice wisdom and meditate on emptiness according to Prasangika Madhyamaka.

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Persons, perceptions, and mental factors

The definition of "person" according to different tenet systems, and a discussion of perception, divisions…

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Single and different

The Sautrantika school's view of the nature of reality and the value of learning the…

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Emptiness and impermanence

A discussion about hidden and evident phenomena, emptiness and impermanence, and terms used in emptiness…

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Sutra school: Phenomena and cognition

Manifest and hidden phenomena, prime and subsequent cognition, and the three times according to the…

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Sautrāntika and two truths

Types of proponents of the Sutra school, characterized phenomena, and positive and negative phenomena according…

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Hearers, solitary realizers, bodhisattvas

Teachings according to the Vaibhashika, explanation of nirvana, samsara, and renunciation, and a definition of…

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Questions and answers: Existence and tenets

A discussion revolving around existence and the self according to the various tenet schools.

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Karma, impermanence, and cognition

Karmic imprints, rebirth, the person, the aggregates, and types of cognition.

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Five paths, buddhas, and arhats

Unpacking the terms contaminated, uncontaminated, and types of phenomena.

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Four seals, obstacles, and enemies of bodhicitta

The four seals as fixed and true, the obstacles to happiness, how to eliminate ignorance,…

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