tenets
Buddhist tenets are a system of ordering the philosophical positions of the four main schools of Buddhist philosophy–Vaibashika, Sautantrika, Cittamatra, and Madhyamika–and their subschools.
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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe Chapter 12: Verses 281-285
Teachings explaining the difficulty of understanding emptiness and why emptiness should not be feared.
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Chapter 11: Verses 259-265
Refutation of lower Buddhist schools’ view of permanent future phenomena.
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Chapter 10: Verses 238-246
Geshe Yeshe Thabke continues to challenge our instinctive view of the self as permanent and…
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Chapter 10: Verses 226-228
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe starts teaching on individual refutations of the self that is put forward…
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Chapter 10: Verses 229–237
Individual refutation of the self posited by non-Buddhist schools, in particular by Vaisesikas and Samkhyas.
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Chapter 9: Verses 219-225
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches verses refuting the existence of permanent partless particles and truly existent…
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Chapter 9: Verses 212-218
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches verses refuting the existence of permanent functional phenomena like partless particles.
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Overview and Chapter 9: Verse 201
Geshe Thabkhe gives an overview of the path and begins teaching on general refutation of…
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Geshe Tenzin Chodrak (Dadul Namgyal) Meditation: Space-like emptiness
Geshe Dadul Namgyal leads a guided meditation on space-like emptiness.
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Emptiness: Questions and answers
Geshe Dadul Namgyal takes questions from the second day of teachings.
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The object of negation
The distinctions that have to be made to arrive at the right understanding of emptiness.
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