Verse 61 We've been going through this early text in Mahayana Buddhism, Letter to a Friend, written by Nagarjuna. There are many different ways of making the outline, but according to the one that we've been following, there is, first, some introductory material, and then, the...

Verse 62 We have been going through this early Mahayana text in which Nagarjuna explains the Mahayana path to his friend the king. The outline of it that we’ve been following divides the material into the introductory material and then the presentation of the six far-reaching...

Verses 63–64 We’ve been going through our text, Letter to a Friend, by the great Indian master Nagarjuna. It’s one of the earliest Mahayana texts. In it, Nagarjuna explains to his friend the king the basic points of the Mahayana path. These are the points that are later put...

Verse 65 We have been going through this text by the great Indian master, Nagarjuna, which is a letter that he wrote to his friend in India, the great king. First, he has some introductory material, and then he discusses the six far-reaching attitudes, or the six perfections....

Verses 66–67 We are studying this very great text by the Indian author, Nagarjuna, which is one of the earliest summaries of the Mahayana path. It’s the forerunner of the lam-rims, the graded stages of the path, that the Tibetans developed on the basis of Atisha’s work. So, we...

Verses 69–70 We are studying this text by the great Indian master Nagarjuna, which is a letter that he wrote to his friend the king in South India. There are many different ways of dividing the material in this text, but, basically, Nagarjuna presents the Mahayana path, the...

Verses 71–76 We have been working on Nagarjuna’s text Letter to a Friend, which he wrote in order to present the Mahayana path to his friend the king. In this text, he outlines the basic Mahayana teachings. He starts with some introductory material and, then, according to the...

Verse 77 We are discussing and studying the text Letter to a Friend by Nagarjuna, the great Indian master, in which he outlines the basic features of the Mahayana path, most of which are brought together in the graded path teachings, the lam-rim teachings, that came to Tibet...

Verses 78–88 We are going through this text by Nagarjuna, a great Indian master who wrote a summary of the Mahayana path to his friend the king in the form of a letter in order to help the king put the teachings into practice. This is a very important text for the Mahayana...

Verse 4 In the Letter to a Friend by Nagarjuna, we are in our discussion the fourth verse:  (4) The Triumphant has proclaimed six (objects) for continual mindfulness: The Buddhas, the Dharma, the Sangha, generous giving, ethical discipline, and the gods. Be continually...