Reviewing Chapter 2, leading a discussion on three types of phenomena and different types of cognizers using various examples.
Answers to questions about tenet school views about Buddha nature, emptiness, abstract composites and others.
How the Buddhist tenet schools view the basis and potential for spiritual attainment.
Review of what the different tenet schools posit to be the root of cyclic existence, and answers to questions on karma, and the levels of dependent origination.
A presentation on different views of emptiness, dependent origination, and the root of suffering across the four Buddhist philosophical schools.
Answers to questions on the mind and afflictions, tenet school assertions, differences between the Madhyamaka and Cittamatra views and more.
The tenet system as a ladder of philosophical maturation. How each of the tenet schools identifies the person in relation to the aggregates.
Answers to questions on the history and origins of Buddhist tenet systems, mind and mental factors, and the history of the Mahayana tradition.
How the four Buddhist tenet systems originated in the Buddhist teachings and were presented in early Indian and Tibetan texts.
Explanation of the three turnings of the Dharma wheel in terms of when and where they were taught, their main intended audience and content.
