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Indian Non-Buddhist Tenets
23 Articles
The Authenticity of the Tantras
The Source of the Tantras Tantra practice requires conviction in the authenticity of the tantras, correct understanding of their procedures and theory, and certainty of their validity as methods leading to enlightenment. According to the Tibetan tradition, Shakyamuni Buddha...
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Making Sense of Tantra
Background to Aryadeva's Chapters on Emptiness
Introduction We’ve been going through, in summary, the main points of the sixteen chapters of Aryadeva’s Four Hundred Verse Treatise. And we saw that the first eight chapters speak about how to rid ourselves of incorrect views concerning conventional truth. And now we’re ready...
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Overview of “Four Hundred Verse Treatise” – Dr. Berzin
Conceptual Cognition and Number of Valid Ways of Knowing
Conceptual Cognition Furthermore, a conceptual cognition is a conceptually implying awareness that cognizes an audio (category) or meaning/object (category) as suitable to be associated (with each other). An audio category (sgra-spyi) is the category of the sound of a specific...
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Commentary on “Compendium of Ways of Knowing” – Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey
Incorrect Views of the Deepest Truth of Things
Introduction and Question about Concepts and Nonexistent Phenomena We started going through the second half of the text, the chapters that deal with voidness, (specifically the topic is refuting or overcoming the incorrect views regarding voidness and the deepest nature of how...
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Overview of “Four Hundred Verse Treatise” – Dr. Berzin
Uttaratantra: First Two Causes That Purify Buddha-Nature
The Indian Tenet Systems on Rebirth, Liberation and a Creator In India, at both the time before and after the Buddha came, there were many systems of tenets. Within the Charvaka school of tenets, there's no acceptance of past lives and future lives. They assert that the mind...
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Commentary on “Uttaratanta” – The Dalai Lama
Close Placement of Mindfulness on Feelings & True Causes
Once we have a little bit of an understanding of the twelve links of dependent arising and how our uncontrollably recurring rebirth, samsara, actually works, then we can focus with close placement of mindfulness on the feelings in terms of being the true origins of suffering....
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Meditation on the 16 Aspects of the 4 Noble Truths
What Is the Self in Different Religions?
All major religions try to answer the questions around what the self is and where it comes from. The Dalai Lama advises us to develop respect for each of the different traditions in order to know the essence of these religions and thus appreciate their value.
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Interreligious Dialogue
Basic Tenets of the Samkhya and Yoga Schools
The Yoga school of Indian philosophy shares the basic assertions of the Samkhya system, such as concerning primal matter, the self and liberation, but adds to the system the supreme god Ishvara, equivalent to Shiva.
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Non-Buddhist Asian Traditions
Basic Tenets of the Nyaya and Vaisheshika Schools
The Vaisheshika and Nyaya schools share many features in common. Vaisheshika emphasizes the types of entities that exist, while Nyaya emphasizes the types of entities involved in cognizing and proving the existence of those entities.
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Non-Buddhist Asian Traditions
Nonduality in Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta
The various Buddhist tenet systems and the non-Buddhist Advaita Vedanta system have different interpretations of non-duality stemming from their understanding of the nature of reality.
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