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Emptiness
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Self-Voidness & Other-Voidness in the Four Noble Truths
This weekend I’ve been asked to speak about self-voidness and other-voidness, what is called in Tibetan rangtong (rang-stong) and zhentong (gzhan-stong; shentong). This is a very advanced, very complicated and very important topic. Therefore, it requires a great deal of...
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Main Points of Self-Voidness and Other-Voidness
Avalokiteshvara Expounding the Sutra
This weekend I’m going to be speaking about The Heart Sutra. Actually, with a longer title, it’s The Essence of Far-Reaching Discriminating Awareness, the Vanquishing Lady Surpassing All. So when we talk about far-reaching discriminating awareness – and this is the word...
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Commentary on “The Heart Sutra” – Dr. Berzin
The Importance of Correct Discriminating Awareness of Emptiness
Brief Introduction to Nalanda Monastery Today we are here at Nalanda Monastery in France. In ancient India there was also a Nalanda Monastery, or Shri Nalanda in Sanskrit, meaning the great all-around perfect Nalanda Monastery. Many great masters studied and taught there,...
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Studying Shantideva’s Presentation of Emptiness – Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche
The Gelug Understanding of Svatantrika
Introduction Concerning the life of Tsongkhapa, one of the most important points is what a great revolutionary Tsongkhapa was. Through all his tremendous efforts in meditation and preliminary practices building up positive force and so on, he gained a newer and deeper...
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Elaboration of the Special Features of Gelug
The Three Types of Phenomena: Gelug Chittamatra
Atomic Particles Among forms of physical phenomena are atomic particles (rdul-phran). Although atomic particles do not exist as external phenomena; nevertheless, visible objects, such as clay vases, are made of them. Unlike the Vaibhashika and Sautrantika assertion of atomic...
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Basic Features of the Gelug Chittamatra System
Kalachakra Initiation: Practical Advice for Day Two
I have a stack of questions here in front of me. Let me try to answer some of them during the course of explaining what will happen today during the first day of the actual empowerment. Following the Visualizations One thing to keep in mind about what is going on here is...
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Rikon Kalachakra Initiation 1985: Explanatory Talks
The Tantra and Sutra Traditions of Mahamudra
The Tantra Tradition of Mahamudra The text continues, As for the actual basic methods, although there are many ways of asserting mahamudra, there are two when divided according to the sutras and tantras. On the basis of our efforts to eliminate obstacles and build up...
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Commentary on “A Root Text for Mahamudra” – The Dalai Lama
Gelugpa and Nyingma on Conceptual Fabrication and Incorrect Consideration
Conceptual Fabrication – A Way of Being Aware or Conventional Objects Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche II: All four Tibetan traditions share this verse (XVIII.5) of Nagarjuna in common: From the depletion of karmic impulses and disturbing emotions (there is) liberation. Karmic...
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Differences between Gelugpa and Nyingma Concerning Emptiness in Prasangika
Form Is Emptiness, Emptiness Is Form
Yesterday we began our discussion of the Heart Sutra; and we saw that this sutra is presenting, in a very condensed form, the teachings on far-reaching discriminating awareness. Discriminating awareness is a mental factor and it is based on the factor which is called...
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Commentary on “The Heart Sutra” – Dr. Berzin
The Conventional “Me”: An Imputation on the 5 Aggregates
We were speaking about voidness (emptiness) and we saw that voidness is a negatingly known phenomenon, it’s a negation. We know it by negating something. If we put the word voidness into different terms, then we could say that it is an absence of something. There are many...
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The Emptiness of the False “Me”
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