Prasangika

The Great Compassion of Bodhichitta When we think of the most kind and compassionate Buddha Shakyamuni, we think of his great qualities and his amazing deeds, and specifically of all the teachings he gave purely to benefit all others. Among all these teachings, when we think...

Grasping for a Self-Sufficiently Knowable “Me” Can Also Be Doctrinally Based First, let me add one further point. While almost all the Indian Buddhist tenet systems say this grasping for a self-sufficiently knowable “me” is just automatically-arising, according to Prasangika...

Understanding Different Interpretations and Analysis in Buddhist Schools We have presented the Sautrantika way of enumerating the different ways of knowing. As we go deeper in our studies we find that there are certain variants to be found. For instance, in Asanga’s...

A summary of the main assertions unique to the Gelug tradition, concerning cognition theory, the Indian Buddhist tenet systems, karma, the three times, and many more.

To attain either liberation or enlightenment, we need to cognize correctly and decisively the two truths and the inseparable voidness of both.

A seminar on what karma actually means in terms of Vasubandhu and Nagarjuna’s presentations.

A question-and-answer session between Dr. Alexander Berzin and Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche II on the Prasangika view of voidness according to the Gelugpa and Nyingma assertions.

The non-conceptual understanding of voidness will stop the tainted aggregates from uncontrollably recurring. 

Yongdzin Ling Rinpoche explains the Gelug Prasangika presentation of appearances being the play of the mind.

An overview of terminologies used when describing everything left on someone’s mental continuum as a consequence of having committed a karmic action.