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Nirvana in the Different Buddhist Systems
Within Hinayana and Mahayana schools there are different categories and presentations of nirvana.
in Samsara & Nirvana
No External Phenomena: Gelug Chittamatra
An in-depth examination of the Gelug understanding of the Chittamatra (Mind-Only) assertion of the voidness of forms of physical phenomena, when objects of non-conceptual sensory cognition, deriving from a different natal source than do the consciousness and accompanying...
in The Indian Tenet Systems
Non-Determining, Subsequent, Distorted and Indecisive Cognitions
Non-Determining Cognition A knowing (of something) that is a non-determining cognition is one whose involved object is an objective entity that appears clearly but without decisiveness. When divided, there are three: (1) (non-determining) sensory bare cognition, (2)...
Part in Commentary on “Compendium of Ways of Knowing” – Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey
Non-Ethnic Buddhism in the Russian Empire and the USSR
A survey of the rise of Buddhism in the Russian Empire and the USSR among those who did not come from a traditional Buddhist background.
in Buddhism in Russia
Non-Ethnic Russian Buddhism 19th Century-1960s
The Founding of Mongolian and Tibetan Buddhist Academic Studies The earliest translations into Russian from Tibetan were made toward the end of the 17th century by Pavel Kulvinsky from the Russian Ministry of External Affairs. He had learned Tibetan during his visits to the...
Part in Non-Ethnic Buddhism in the Russian Empire and the USSR
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.
in Non-Buddhist Asian Traditions
Nonrevealing Forms of Physical and Verbal Karma
Review of the Revealing Forms of Physical and Verbal Karma We’ve seen that one aspect of the karmic impulses for physical and verbal actions is their revealing form. In the case of a karmic impulse for an action of the body, according to Vasubandhu, the revealing form is the...
Part in Mechanism of Karma: Vasubandhu and Nagarjuna’s Presentations
Nonstatic Phenomena as Static
How to Integrate the Teachings Before we began today, I asked you to try to remember the main points of what we discussed last evening. This is a very important thing to try to do after we have heard a lecture, or after we’ve read something. I am not just referring to reading...
Part in Incorrect Consideration and Emptiness
Nonviolence Is the Way
His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been propounding nonviolence as a way to external as well as to internal peace all his life.
in Emotional Hygiene
Nonviolence and Spiritual Values
Buddhism approaches nonviolence more in terms of our state of mind rather than viewing it in terms of physical actions.
in Emotional Hygiene
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