death
Teachings on death from a Buddhist perspective, including preparing for death, dying peacefully, and helping the dying.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Practicing with your spiritual mentor’s passing
Advice on how to take a spiritual mentor's passing into our Dharma practice.
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Venerable Sangye Khadro The 9-point meditation on death
Two guided meditations on death with questions and answers.
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The way we live will affect the way we die
Awareness of impermanence and death helps us to live more meaningfully and die peacefully.
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A tribute to Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Lessons from spiritual teachers and advice to students after a spiritual mentor’s passing.
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Geshe Tenzin Chodrak (Dadul Namgyal) The four maras
Continuing the review of Chapter 12, "The Mind and Its Potential," describing the four maras.
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Aging or death
Completing Chapter 7, describing the twelfth-link, aging or death and starting Chapter 8 "Dependent Origination:…
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Questions and answers on meditation
Teaching from Chapter 7, responding to questions on meditating on the dying process and how…
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Renewed existence
Continuing teaching from Chapter 7, describing renewed existence in Sanskrit tradition and in Pali tradition.
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Clinging and renewed existence
Teaching from Chapter 7, describing clinging in Sanskrit tradition and Pali tradition and explaining the…
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The eight worldly concerns
An outline of the eight worldly concerns, what happens at death and the three unfortunate…
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