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First Encounter of the Muslims and Buddhist Asia
The Pre-Islamic Presence of Buddhism in North Africa and West Asia India and West Asia have a long history of land and sea trade between them. Commercial relations between India and Mesopotamia began as early as 3000 BCE and between India and Egypt, through the intermediary...
Part in Buddhist-Muslim Interaction: Umayyad Caliphate
First Muslim Incursion into the Indian Subcontinent
The Situation of the East-West Trade Routes The overland Silk Route from China to the West passed from East to West Turkistan, and on through Sogdia and Iran to Byzantium and Europe. An alternative route passed from West Turkistan through Bactria, the Kabul and Punjabi...
Part in Buddhist-Muslim Interaction: Umayyad Caliphate
Focus on Emptiness According to the Tenet Systems
What Do We Know after Negating Something  We have been speaking about affirmations and negations, and we have seen that they’re very important. There are quite a few things that came up from yesterday and some questions that are still there. A negation is one in which...
Part in Negation Phenomena: How to Focus on Emptiness
Following Dharma and Avoiding Suffering
The way to avoid suffering is to hold ourselves back from acting out of ignorance, anger or greed.
in The Graded Path
Foreword to the Four Abridged Kalachakra Sadhanas
His Holiness the Dalai Lama recommended these four texts for Westerners who do not have time to practice the fuller Kalachakra sadhanas.
in Advanced Sadhanas
Foreword to “Introduction to the Kalachakra Initiation”
Message from the Dalai Lama to introduce Dr. Berzin’s book on Kalachakra.
in Kalachakra
Forgiving Others
Distinguish the person from their behavior, to forgive them without condoning their actions.
in Meditations
Form Is Emptiness, Emptiness Is Form
Far-Reaching Discriminating Awareness Yesterday we began our discussion of the Heart Sutra, and we saw that this sutra is presenting, in a very condensed form, the teachings on far-reaching discriminating awareness. Discriminating awareness, usually translated as “wisdom,” is...
Part in Commentary on “The Heart Sutra” – Dr. Berzin
Founding of the First Two Turkic Islamic States
The Conversion of the Qarakhanids to Islam During the 930s, Nasr bin Mansur, a prominent member of the Samanid royal family, defected to the Western Qarakhanids and was installed as the governor of Artuch, a small district north of Kashgar. He was undoubtedly trying to...
Part in Buddhist-Muslim Interaction: Later Abbasid Period
Four Axioms for Thinking about Death and Impermanence
We’ve seen that meditation is part of a threefold process that entails listening to teachings, thinking about them, and then meditating upon them. Meditation, as this third step, is actually about how we integrate the teachings into our lives, which comes about through...
Part in How to Study Buddhism: Listening, Thinking and Meditating
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