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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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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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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Tenet systems and the extremes

Four seals asserted by all Buddhist schools, misconceptions of self, and the views of different…

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Introduction to the tenets

The first teaching in a series on the tenets: comparison of method and wisdom aspects,…

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Avoiding the extreme of nihilism

The danger in misunderstanding emptiness and thinking that getting rid of the labels means we…

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Emptiness of causes and their effects

Actions we view as solid events actually exist by being merely labeled on a series…

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Group photo of sangha with Khensur Jampa Tegchog.
Teachings by Khensur Jampa Tegchok

Understanding emptiness: Part 3

Question-and-answer session covering different types of wisdom, how wisdom overcomes ignorance, the nihilist's view, and…

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Group photo of sangha with Khensur Jampa Tegchog.
Teachings by Khensur Jampa Tegchok

Holy objects, rebirth, and compassion

A discussion on virtuous actions leading to samsara, the seven-point instructions, and compassion.

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