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Venerable Thubten Chodron Ordination for women across traditions part 1
Q&A about Venerable Chodron's experience as a woman in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
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Disrespecting parents, spiritual mentors, & spi...
More on Ashvagosha’s General Confession.
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The purity of emptiness
Explaining the emptiness of afflictive mind and the emptiness of purified mind, reviewing the section,…
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Venerable Sangye Khadro 
Geshe Tenzin Chodrak (Dadul Namgyal) Yogis and common people
The different understandings of the two truths possessed by those who have direct perception of…
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Transgressing precepts of individual liberation
Explanation of the line in the General Confession, “I have transgressed the precepts of Individual…
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Explanation of the general confession
The General Confession line by line, reminding us that there’s not a single day that…
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Freedom and suffering
Introduces the Seven Patriarchs and urges us to make effort in understanding karma and the…
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The Buddha’s life story part 2
Continues with the Buddha’s life story, and discusses the motivation for ordaining.
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Venerable Thubten Damcho Praise to Weituo Pusa chant
Praise to Weituo Pusa, protector of the monastic retreat (varsa).
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Sravasti Abbey Monastics Repentance chant
The repentance chant that is part of the bimonthly monastic confession ceremony.
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