Sravasti Abbey
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Review session: Coarse and subtle selflessness
A review of Chandrakirti's assertions that hearer and solitary realizer arhats realize the emptiness of…
View PostRealizing emptiness by hearers and solitary realizers
Further explanation why Hearers and Solitary Realizers realize the emptiness of inherent existence and the…
View PostReview session: Bodhisattvas outshine through intell...
A review of the attainments of seventh ground bodhisattvas and the different levels of selflessness.
View PostOutshining through intelligence
How bodhisattvas outshine hearers and solitary realizers in intelligence and beginning the section on how…
View PostReview session: The first two bodhisattva grounds
An overview of the bodhisattva paths and grounds and review of the section “Four Features…
View PostOutshining hearers and solitary realizers
Explanation of how bodhisattva superiors outshine hearers and solitary realizers by way of their qualities.
View PostReview session: Bodhisattva paths and grounds
How the continuum of wisdom is divided into ten bodhisattva grounds.
View PostFirst bodhisattva ground: The Very Joyful
Commentary on the grounds of bodhisattva superiors and beginning the commentary on the first ground,…
View PostReview session: Compassion, impermanence and emptiness
Questons and answers When meditating on compassion, what is the object of meditation? Is the…
View PostCompassion conjoined with wisdom
Continued commentary on the three types of compassion and beginning the section on ways of…
View PostReview session: Three types of compassion
A review session on the three types of compassion, including the analogy of the bucket…
View PostThree types of compassion
Explanation of Chandrakirti's verses identifying three types of compassion.
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