Buddhist Reasoning and Debate
Introductory talks and extensive teachings on debate in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Object ascertaining mental factors
Venerable Sangye Khadro discusses the 5 object ascertaining mental factors, and begins explaining the 11…
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Virtuous mental factors #2-6
Venerable Sangye Khadro continues her commentary on the virtuous mental factors, explaining integrity, consideration for…
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Virtuous mental factors #7-11
Venerable Sangye Khadro explains virtuous mental factors #7-11, encouraging discussion about how to cultivate them…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron The defender’s answers
Reviewing syllogisms and consequences as argument forms and discussing debate protocols and sets of the…
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A defender’s four answers
Reading from “The Defender’s Answers” in Chapter 23 “Procedures in Debate,” covering the four kinds…
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The root affliction of attachment
Venerable Sangye Khadro reviews what is virtue and non-virtue and begins the first root affliction…
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The root affliction of anger
Venerable Sangye Khadro continues teaching on the first root affliction of attachment and moves onto…
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The defender’s response
Explaining the various responses a defender can give to the challenger in a debate, and…
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The challenger responds to the defender
Covering the various responses a challenger can make to the defender.
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Debate in action
Leading short debates going through the five answers a defender can give to a challenger.
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Practicing the defender’s answers
Helping the class practice different answers that the defender can give in response to statements…
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More debate practice
The Abbey community practices the debates they wrote with each other.
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