Prasangika

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. 

The superficial and deepest truths of anything are those phenomena that the valid conceptual and non-conceptual cognitions, scrutinizing superficial truth on the one hand or deepest truth on the other, take as their involved objects and explicitly apprehend.

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

A comparison of the Vaibhashika, Chittamatra and Prasangika presentations of tainted phenomena, which perpetuate samsara, and untainted ones, which do not extend it.

A detailed analysis of how to understand the networks of “pure-builder positive force” and “pure-builder deep awareness.”

Learn why Study Buddhism prefers the term “voidness” over “emptiness.”

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

Liberated beings (arhats) have attained a true stopping of all the emotional obscurations, but their mental continuums still contain the cognitive obscurations.

The Gelug assertions of the various ways in which tendencies and habits differ.