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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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 10: Verses 226-228

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe starts teaching on individual refutations of the self that is put forward…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 10: Verses 229–237

Individual refutation of the self posited by non-Buddhist schools, in particular by Vaisesikas and Samkhyas.

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 9: Verses 219-225

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches verses refuting the existence of permanent partless particles and truly existent…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 9: Verses 212-218

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches verses refuting the existence of permanent functional phenomena like partless particles.

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 9: Verses 202-211

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe continues teaching on refuting permanent personal self, uncompounded space, and permanent time.

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Overview and Chapter 9: Verse 201

Geshe Thabkhe gives an overview of the path and begins teaching on general refutation of…

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Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Chapter 4: Verses 349-355

Refutations of pleasure and objects of pleasure as being inherently existent. The dependent nature of…

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Gomchen Lamrim

How the afflictions arise

The antidotes to the six root afflictions, the sequence in which they arise, and the…

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Gomchen Lamrim

The five types of afflictive views

By learning about the types of afflictive views we can look at our own mind…

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Teachings at Sravasti Abbey

Chapter 3: Verses 292-300

Completion of the explanation of the 25 special qualities of amassing the collections of merit…

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Ethics in the Modern World

Learning to be ethical

Being honest with ourselves is an important part of keeping good ethical conduct.

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