Verses 89–97 We are studying this great text, a very early text, by the Indian master Nagarjuna who lived in around the second century of the Common Era. This is a letter that he wrote to his friend, a king of a kingdom in South India. In this letter, Nagarjuna outlines the...

Verses 98–102 We have been studying this text written by the great Indian master Nagarjuna, who lived in around the second century of this era. In it, he writes about the basic points of the Mahayana Buddhist path to his friend the king in South India as specific advice to the...

Verses 103–105 We are going through this text by Nagarjuna, which is a letter that he wrote to his friend the king in which he outlines the main points of the path to liberation and enlightenment. I was just looking through it, and although it is considered one of the earliest...

Verses 106–108 We are continuing our discussion of Letter to a Friend, written by Nagarjuna to his friend the king in South India, in which he encourages the king to follow the path to liberation and, even greater, the path to enlightenment – Mahayana. In this text, Nagarjuna...

Verses 109–111 We are going through this text by Nagarjuna, called a Letter to Friend, which he wrote to his friend the king, in which he outlines the main points of the Buddhist path to liberation and enlightenment, the Mahayana path. In this, after a preliminary discussion,...

Verses 109-111 We are going through this text of Nagarjuna, the letter that he wrote to his friend the king in South India. In it, he outlines the main points of the path to liberation and enlightenment. We saw that the text can be outlined in many different ways. First, the...

Verses 109-111 We are going through this text by Nagarjuna, a great Indian master who lived in the second century of this era, which he wrote to his friend the king in South India, describing the Buddhist path. In this, Nagarjuna starts, first of all, with a general,...

Verses 109-111 In this text, Letter to a Friend – just to remind us of the outline and the place we are at in the outline, which is always helpful for keeping the whole context of the text in mind – Nagarjuna explains to his friend the king the path to liberation, which if one...

Verses 109-111 We are studying Letter to a Friend, this text by the great Indian author Nagarjuna, which he wrote to his friend the king and in which he outlines the main points of the path to liberation and enlightenment. After an introduction, Nagarjuna goes into the main...

Verses 109-111 In our discussion of Letter to a Friend by Nagarjuna we have – to review again – spoken about how Nagarjuna first discusses the basic framework for approaching the teachings and then the main part of the teachings, which, according to the outline we are...