wisdom
Teachings on how to cultivate wisdom on many different levels, ranging from the wisdom that understands karma and its effects, the four truths, and how to benefit others, to the wisdom realizing the ultimate nature of reality.
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Review session: Coarse and subtle selflessness
A review of Chandrakirti's assertions that hearer and solitary realizer arhats realize the emptiness of…
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Khenpo Yeshi Lhundup Realizing emptiness by hearers and solitary realizers
Further explanation why Hearers and Solitary Realizers realize the emptiness of inherent existence and the…
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Review session: Bodhisattvas outshine through intell...
A review of the attainments of seventh ground bodhisattvas and the different levels of selflessness.
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Outshining through intelligence
How bodhisattvas outshine hearers and solitary realizers in intelligence and beginning the section on how…
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Review session: Bodhisattva paths and grounds
How the continuum of wisdom is divided into ten bodhisattva grounds.
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First bodhisattva ground: The Very Joyful
Commentary on the grounds of bodhisattva superiors and beginning the commentary on the first ground,…
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Compassion conjoined with wisdom
Continued commentary on the three types of compassion and beginning the section on ways of…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Keeping the promise of bodhicitta
Discussing Verses 11-16 on the importance of making ourselves into trustworthy people: in general and…
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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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Disadvantages of discarding bodhicitta
Discussing Verses 2-10 of Chapter 4, which cover the disadvantages of discarding bodhicitta
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Conscientiousness
Reviewing Chapter 3 on bodhicitta and beginning Chapter 4 on conscientiousness, covering Verse 1.
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Geshe Tenzin Chodrak (Dadul Namgyal) Buddhist tenet systems: What is the person?
The tenet system as a ladder of philosophical maturation. How each of the tenet schools…
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