Tibetan Buddhism

Classic teachings of Buddhism in the Tibetan lineage; contemporary takes on those teachings.

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Easy Path to Travel to Omniscience

How to listen to teachings

Basic lamrim topics such as motivation and the correct way of listening to the teachings.

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Tibetan Tradition

The rise of women in Buddhism: Has the ice been broken?

In this panel discussion recorded in 2014, Venerable Thubten Chodron and others consider the problems…

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Engaged Buddhism

Preservation of Tibet’s culture and environment

Among His Holiness' principal commitments is to preserve Tibetan culture and to protect the environment.…

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Cultivating the Four Immeasurables

Immeasurable equanimity

The fourth immeasurable thought of equanimity, including its definitions, overcoming obstacles to it, and how…

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Pramanavarttika with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

The truth of cessation

Completion of the commentary on the truth of origination followed by commentary on the truth…

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Pramanavarttika with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

The truth of origination of suffering

The completion of the commentary to the truth of suffering followed by the commentary to…

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Pramanavarttika with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Refuting that body is the special basis of mind

Through logical reasoning it is shown that the physical body cannot be the substantial cause…

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Pramanavarttika with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Refuting incorrect views on the causes of suffering ...

The logical refutations of incorrect ideas of how the mental afflictions and suffering arise and…

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Pramanavarttika with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

The sixteen distorted ideas

Explanation of the section of the Pramanavarttika on identifying the sixteen distorted ideas about the…

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