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Cultivate wisdom that can overcome ignorance at all levels and lead to the attainment of liberation and full awakening.
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Benefits of studying emptiness
How to actually practice wisdom and meditate on emptiness according to Prasangika Madhyamaka.
View PostPersons, perceptions, and mental factors
The definition of "person" according to different tenet systems, and a discussion of perception, divisions…
View PostSingle and different
The Sautrantika school's view of the nature of reality and the value of learning the…
View PostEmptiness and impermanence
A discussion about hidden and evident phenomena, emptiness and impermanence, and terms used in emptiness…
View PostSutra school: Phenomena and cognition
Manifest and hidden phenomena, prime and subsequent cognition, and the three times according to the…
View PostSautrāntika and two truths
Types of proponents of the Sutra school, characterized phenomena, and positive and negative phenomena according…
View PostHearers, solitary realizers, bodhisattvas
Teachings according to the Vaibhashika, explanation of nirvana, samsara, and renunciation, and a definition of…
View PostQuestions and answers: Existence and tenets
A discussion revolving around existence and the self according to the various tenet schools.
View PostKarma, impermanence, and cognition
Karmic imprints, rebirth, the person, the aggregates, and types of cognition.
View PostFive paths, buddhas, and arhats
Unpacking the terms contaminated, uncontaminated, and types of phenomena.
View PostFour 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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