Pramanavarttika with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe (2018–21)
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches Dharmakirti's commentary on Dignaga's Compendium on Valid Cognition. With interpretation into English by Joshua Cutler and Katrina Brooks.
Buddha’s infinite accustomation to compassion
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe Verses 119-131 of the Pramanavarttika, including how qualities like love and compassion can increase infinitely.
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Forward system proving the Buddha as authority
Verses 131-133 of the Pramanavarttika, including the importance of consistency and intention for developing compassion.
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The Buddha as teacher
Verses 134-139 of the Pramanavarttika, including the Buddha's complete clarity about the flaws and good qualities of objects.
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The Buddha as Sugata
Verses 139-145 of the Pramanavarttika, including the three special qualities of a Buddha’s abandonment of the two obstacles.
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The Buddha as savior
Verses 145 and 146 of the Pramanavarttika, including compassion as the proof of Buddha as a “savior.”
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Reverse system proving the Buddha as authority
Verse 146 of the Pramanavarttika, forward and reverse systems establishing the Buddha as an authority.
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Reverse system proving the Buddha as authority,...
Explanation of the reverse system establishing the Buddha as an authority from the Pramanvarttika. Also ascertaining the number and order of the four truths.
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The sixteen distorted ideas
Explanation of the section of the Pramanavarttika on identifying the sixteen distorted ideas about the four truths.
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The sixteen aspects of the four truths
How the sixteen aspects of the four truths contradict the sixteen distorted ideas.
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Refuting incorrect views on the causes of suffe...
The logical refutations of incorrect ideas of how the mental afflictions and suffering arise and proving the correct causes.
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Refuting that body is the special basis of mind
Through logical reasoning it is shown that the physical body cannot be the substantial cause of the mind.
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Refuting the elements as the cause of afflictions
Refuting views that assert the elements of the body are the substantial cause of the mental defilements also the definition of the truth of suffering.
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