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Volume 1 Approaching the Buddhist Path

Role models

Teaching from the last two sections of Chapter 9, on memorization, debate, and role models.

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Practicing the defender’s answers

Helping the class practice different answers that the defender can give in response to statements…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Debate in action

Leading short debates going through the five answers a defender can give to a challenger.

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Volume 1 Approaching the Buddhist Path

Faith, purification, and merit

Continuing the teaching from Chapter 9, 'Tools for the Path', exploring the ideas of faith,…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

The defender’s response

Explaining the various responses a defender can give to the challenger in a debate, and…

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Volume 1 Approaching the Buddhist Path

Two aims and four reliances

Continuing Chapter 8 “A Systematic Approach,” covering the sections “Value of the Stages of the…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

The root affliction of anger

Venerable Sangye Khadro continues teaching on the first root affliction of attachment and moves onto…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

The root affliction of attachment

Venerable Sangye Khadro reviews what is virtue and non-virtue and begins the first root affliction…

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Volume 1 Approaching the Buddhist Path

Paths for spiritual development

Beginning Chapter 8 “A Systematic Approach” and covering the section “Paths for Spiritual Development” explaining…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

A defender’s four answers

Reading from “The Defender’s Answers” in Chapter 23 “Procedures in Debate,” covering the four kinds…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

The defender’s answers

Reviewing syllogisms and consequences as argument forms and discussing debate protocols and sets of the…

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