Verses 15–17 In this letter, we have covered the initial introductory verses. We have seen there are many ways to make an outline for this text. One way is to speak of the section we’ve been discussing so far in terms of the six far-reaching attitudes, or perfections. We have...

Verses 18–20 We have been going through Nagarjuna’s text, which he wrote to his friend the King Udayibhadra, advising him about Mahayana behavior. We have covered his introductory discussion. We have seen that there are many different ways of dividing the outline. One of the...

Verses 21–26 We have been studying a text written by the great Indian master Nagarjuna, who lived in the second century of the Common Era. Although he is very famous for writing so many texts on voidness and on logical proofs of voidness and so on, he also wrote some very...

Verses 27–29 We have been studying the letter that Nagarjuna wrote to his friend King Udayibhadra. We saw that there are many different ways of constructing an outline to this text. We have been primarily following the outline that Mipam made for the text. In that outline, we...

Verse 33 We have been looking at this text by the great Indian master Nagarjuna, which is a letter that he wrote to his friend  King Udayibhadra. In this letter, he gives advice to the king about how to follow the Buddhist path, particularly the Mahayana path to...

Verses 34–35 We have been discussing the letter that Nagarjuna wrote to King Udayibhadra, his friend, in South India. We have seen that this letter basically covers the Mahayana path. It’s advice, practical advice, for the king. It could be divided in many, many different...

Verses 36–37 We have been discussing and looking at this wonderful letter that Nagarjuna wrote to his friend King Udayibhadra. It’s one of two very famous letters that he wrote; the other is the Precious Garland. In this text, Letter to a Friend, Nagarjuna gives, first,...

Verses 38–40 We have been going through Letter to a Friend, which Nagarjuna wrote to King Udayibhadra. We saw that the text can be divided in many ways. One way is to divide it into an introductory section in which Nagarjuna summarizes the main points and, then, into a main...

Verses 41–44 We have been covering the text, which in Sanskrit is called Suhrllekha, and in English, Letter to a Friend, that Nagarjuna wrote for his friend the king in South India, in which he speaks about the Mahayana path. According to the outline that we’ve been following,...

Verse 4 We started last week this text by Nagarjuna, Letter to a Friend, or Friendly Letter, which Nagarjuna wrote for King Udayibhadra. We saw that there are many ways of dividing this text into outlines and that it's very difficult to say that any one outline is better than...