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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 17-3: Teaching the Dharma

Teaching the first two of four ways of gathering disciples: Being generous and speaking pleasantly.

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Sautrāntika and two truths

Types of proponents of the Sutra school, characterized phenomena, and positive and negative phenomena according…

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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 17-2: Taking care of ourselves

Seeing ourselves as worthwhile people, being kind to others because we respect them and see…

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Questions and answers: Existence and tenets

A discussion revolving around existence and the self according to the various tenet schools.

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Karma, impermanence, and cognition

Karmic imprints, rebirth, the person, the aggregates, and types of cognition.

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Five paths, buddhas, and arhats

Unpacking the terms contaminated, uncontaminated, and types of phenomena.

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Four seals, obstacles, and enemies of bodhicitta

The four seals as fixed and true, the obstacles to happiness, how to eliminate ignorance,…

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Tenet systems and the extremes

Four seals asserted by all Buddhist schools, misconceptions of self, and the views of different…

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