Library of Wisdom and Compassion

Teachings on His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s commentary on the stages of the path for a Western audience.

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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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Volume 2 The Foundation of Buddhist Practice

The threefold analysis

Reliable cognizers based on authoritative testimony, and how to undertake the threefold analysis to determine…

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Volume 2 The Foundation of Buddhist Practice

Reliable cognizers based on example and authoritativ...

The relationship between wrong consciousnesses and our emotional life, and reliable cognizers based on example…

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Volume 2 The Foundation of Buddhist Practice

Reliable cognizers and syllogisms

The types of awarenesses, direct and inferential reliable cognizers, and how to understand syllogisms.

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