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Volume 1 Approaching the Buddhist Path

Disagreement and conflict

Teaching on the six roots of dispute, and the principle of 'survival of the most…

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Volume 1 Approaching the Buddhist Path

Qualities to abandon and cultivate

Teaching on various qualities of mind to abandon, and others to adopt, such as fear,…

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Volume 1 Approaching the Buddhist Path

Review of the four truths

Venerable Thubten Chonyi gives a review of the four truths, focusing on the truth of…

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Volume 1 Approaching the Buddhist Path

Review of the nature of mind

Venerable Thubten Jigme leads a review on the nature of mind and leads meditations on…

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Volume 1 Approaching the Buddhist Path

Religion in the modern world

Venerable Thubten Tarpa leads an interactive review of pages 11-15 of "Approaching the Buddhist Path."

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Volume 1 Approaching the Buddhist Path

Cultivating love and compassion

Continuing to read from “Working with Afflictions” in Chapter 3 and covers “Cultivating Love and…

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Volume 2 The Foundation of Buddhist Practice

Virtuous and variable mental factors & the affli...

Finishing teaching the virtuous mental factors, and then covering the root afflictions, auxiliary afflictions, and…

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Volume 2 The Foundation of Buddhist Practice

The body and mind

The various aspects that compose the body and mind: the twelve sources and eighteen constituents,…

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Volume 2 The Foundation of Buddhist Practice

Classification of phenomena

A discussion about meditation and syllogisms, and begins Chapter 3 outlining the Buddhist classification of…

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Volume 2 The Foundation of Buddhist Practice

Reliable cognizers and meditation

The relationship between our thinking patterns and types of cognizers, and how inferential reliable cognizers…

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