The Establishment of the Jurchen Empire The Jurchen were a Tungusic Manchu people whose homeland was in northern Manchuria and the adjacent region of southeastern Siberia across the Amur River. They were for­est dwellers whom the Khitans conscripted for their ritual hunts....

The Dalai Lama’s view of a 21st-century Buddhist means having fuller knowledge about modern education and modern science, while having full conviction about Buddha’s teachings about limitless altruism, bodhichitta and the view of dependent arising.

Conversion to Buddhism We’ve been speaking about some of the various difficulties that many people have in working with Buddhism. We’ve seen that it’s very important to have a realistic attitude. In terms of this, one of the pieces of advice that His Holiness the Dalai Lama...

The Buddhist path to inner peace is taming the mind; the path in Islam is remembrance and trust in God.

It’s very important to try to understand the various appearances of the mind, how they exist and do they correspond to reality or not.

Review Thus far we have covered in our discussion valid and invalid ways of knowing. Valid cognition is cognition that is fresh, accurate and decisive. We have also discussed apprehension, which is accurate and decisive cognition, but not necessarily fresh. Apprehension can be...

A variety of forms of Buddhism developed as people in the different lands it reached emphasized one or another aspect of the teachings. Here is a general description of some of the major forms found in Southeast Asia, China and Tibet.

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

Five Types of Results We were speaking about the different types of causes and conditions, and in order to finish that discussion, let’s just list the five types of results. First of all, there are ripened results. Ripened results are the unobstructive unspecified items...

Three Main Types of Nonrevealing Forms Vasubandhu states in A Treasure House of Special Topics of Knowledge, Put in Verses (Chos mngon-pa’i mdzod-kyi tshig-le’ur byas-pa, Skt. Abhidharmakośa-kārikā) (IV.13) (Gretil ed., Derge Tengyur vol. 104, 11A): Nonrevealing (forms) are to...