Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas with Venerable Thubten Chodron (2013-15)
Commentary by Venerable Thubten Chodron on Aryadeva’s Four Hundred Stanzas on the Middle Way to prepare for Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe's teachings.
Root Text
Aryadeva's Four Hundred Stanzas on the Middle Way is available from Shambhala Publications here.
Chapter 11: Summarizing verse
Venerable Thubten Chodron Past, present, and future relate to each other as cause and result. How the continuity of time, objects, and persons are established.
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Chapter 11: Verses 251-255
Refuting lower Buddhist schools' assertions about the future and examining the consequences of positing truly existent future, past, and present.
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Chapter 11: Verses 263-265
Considering the kindness of all the practitioners who have kept the teachings alive for 2,600 years, and the importance of faith based on reason.
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Chapter 11: Verses 266-275
The relationship between impermanence and duration. Refuting a truly existent present.
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Chapter 12: Refuting wrong views
Cultivating the qualities of a proper student to receive the teachings on the correct view of the nature of reality.
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Review 2 of Chapter 8: Verses 176-178
Venerable Thubten Chonyi Part 1 of the second review of Chapter 8 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way."
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Review 2 of Chapter 8: Verses 178-183
Part 2 of the second review of Chapter 8 of Aryadeva's "400 Stanzas on the Middle Way."
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Chapter 12: Verses 279-283
How to examine the teachings to determine if they are valid, and how to look at the authenticity of spiritual teachers.
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Chapter 12: Verses 284-290
The teachings on emptiness should only be taught to those who have been properly prepared for them. Why some fear the teachings on emptiness and…
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Chapter 12: Verses 291-298
Refuting the views of non-Buddhist schools. Cultivating compassion for those with wrong views.
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Chapters 12-13: Verses 299-301
Attachment to what is familiar causes people to cling to wrong views.
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