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Two Truths
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Gelugpa and Nyingma on the Two Truths
Dr. Berzin: Rinpoche, you study with both a Gelugpa and a Nyingma teacher, especially about the Prasangika view of voidness (emptiness). Could you please explain the differences between the Gelugpa and Nyingma interpretations of voidness as asserted in Prasangika and please...
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Differences between Gelugpa and Nyingma Concerning Emptiness in Prasangika
Overview of Buddhism as the Basis of the Six Perfections
The Two Truths and the Four Noble Truths Indian religions vary among those that (1) do or do not rely on cause and effect over previous lives, (2) do or do not aim at liberation and (3) do or do not rely on internal or external means to achieve it. There is also a nihilist...
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The Dalai Lama on the Six Perfections: Six Paramitas
Vaibhashika and Sautrantika: The Two Truths
The two truths are a quite complex and deep topic within the sphere of Buddhism and I would like to try to present them in a practical way, trying to indicate that these are not just a topic of intellectual interest, but of practical use. We are aiming in Buddhist practice to...
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The Four Buddhist Tenet Systems Regarding the Two Truths
The Two Truths
Introduction The Four Noble Truths Buddha lived about 2500 years ago in India. Because his disciples had varying dispositions and capacities, he taught each of them in an individual way that would best suit how they would understand. But the first thing that he taught for...
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Realism: The Basis for the Buddhist Path and Its Goals
The Necessity to Understand the Two Truths in the Tenet Systems
The Four Noble Truths: Two Sets of Cause and Effect As Shantideva said: (IX.1) The Sage has spoken about all these branches for the sake of discriminating awareness. Therefore, generate discriminating awareness with the wish to pacify sufferings. Gaining a state of...
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Studying Shantideva’s Presentation of Emptiness – Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche
Definitions of the Two Truths: Gelug Prasangika
Definition of the Two TruthsDeepest TruthA mind that analyzes the deepest nature of a knowable phenomenon takes as its involved object (‘jug-yul) its deepest essential nature, i.e. it takes the voidness of the phenomenon as the main object with which it cognitively engages....
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The Two Truths: Gelug Prasangika
Chittamatra: The Two Truths
Introduction When we speak about the two truths in Chittamatra and the other Mahayana schools, we’re not talking about two different types of true phenomenon, we’re going to talk about the true truths. But speaking about the two truths that are descriptive of all phenomena,...
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The Four Buddhist Tenet Systems Regarding the Two Truths
The Appearances of Cognitive Objects That Arise in Mental Activity
What arises in a moment of mental activity includes both ways of cognitively taking objects and cognitive objects that are cognitively taken. Although we can say that both of these appear in a moment of cognition, in the sense that both of these arise, usually what is meant...
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Types of Appearances Mind Gives Rise To: Gelug Explanation
Uttaratantra: The Last Four Vajra Points
Question about Other Voidness Your Holiness spoke of the other voidness view of the Jonangpas yesterday. Could Your Holiness say something about the other voidness view of Mipam. Is this something different? Other voidness, as was discussed yesterday, was the view presented...
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Commentary on “Uttaratantra” – The Dalai Lama
Identifying the Mind for Mahamudra Meditation
Review The Fourth Panchen Lama has divided his text into the preparation practices, the actual material, and the concluding procedures; and in the presentation of the actual body of the material he specified the various divisions of mahamudra, specified that there’s a sutra...
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Commentary on “Root Text for Mahamudra” – Dr. Berzin
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