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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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Review of Definitions

Venerable Tenzin Tsepal leads a review of definitions from the divisions of the selfless, up…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Functioning things

Beginning to teach on the divisions of "Functioning Things," as part of Chapter 11: "Basic…

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Gomchen Lamrim

Real and unreal

Continuing to teach on emptiness, introducing the division of "real" and "unreal."

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Nonexistents

Exploring what "bad" means through a syllogism, and teaches on the category of "non-existents."

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Gomchen Lamrim

Review of cultivating insight into emptiness

Venerable Thubten Semkye reviews the first two teachings by Venerable Thubten Chodron on the wisdom…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Review of definitions

Venerable Tenzin Tsepal leads a review of the definitions and relationships between the seven divisions…

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Gomchen Lamrim

The two truths

Teaching on the two truths: conventional truths, and ultimate truths.

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Hidden phenomena and manifest phenomena

Continuation of Chapter 10, covering the section “The Division of Existents into Hidden Phenomena and…

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Gomchen Lamrim

Review of three kinds of dependent arising

Review of the three levels of dependent arising and the role of conceptuality in mistaken…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Specifically and generally characterized phenomena

Continuing with Chapter 10, covering the section “The Division of Existents into Specifically Characterized Phenomena…

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Gomchen Lamrim

Examples of mutual dependence

Examples of objects that exist in mutual dependence on each other, such as cause/effect, agent/action/object,…

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