emptiness
Teachings on the core of Buddhist philosophy: that persons and phenomena are ultimately empty of inherent existence because they are dependent arisings. This is the most powerful antidote that eliminates the ignorance and afflictions that give rise to suffering.
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Venerable Thubten Chonyi Prostrations and the four Buddha Bodies
Staring some advice on how to do prostrations and reviewing the eight qualities of the…
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Venerable Tenzin Tsepal The reasons for taking refuge
Reviewing the reasons for taking refuge and the Perfection Vehicle’s Buddha Jewel.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Searching for the self
Commentary on the "Sutta on a Lump of Foam" (SN 22.95) analyzing how the five…
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Formally taking refuge
Explaining the section on formally taking refuge, and covering how to deepen our refuge by…
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Recollection of the Buddha
Completing the recollection of the Buddha and beginning the recollection of Dharma, teaching from Chapter…
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Buddha as a reliable guide, reverse order
Explaining the reverse order why buddha is a reliable guide and beginning the section on…
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Ten powers and eighteen unshared qualities
Concluding the ten powers of buddhas (9 - 10), and covering the first twelve of…
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Buddha nature
Explaining the two types of Buddha nature to help us understand our potential.
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Creating our world: dependent arising
An explanation of rebirth through dependent arising, based on commentaries of the Rice Seedling Sutra.
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Caring for our grief
Western material on grief and complementary material from a Buddhist point of view.
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A personal study of grief and some antidotes
Learning from personal grief and antidotes for working with grief from a Buddhist perspective.
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