Verse 46 We have been looking at this letter, which Nagarjuna wrote to his friend the king.  Review Nagarjuna begins by explaining what we need as the support for our spiritual path. The first thing is confident belief. Confident belief, which is sometimes translated as...

Verse 4 Last time we were speaking about the fourth verse, which marks the beginning of the main part of the text. The fourth verse was: [4] The Triumphant has proclaimed six (objects) for continual mindfulness: The Buddhas, the Dharma, the Sangha, generous giving, ethical...

Verses 47 – 48 We’ve been going through this wonderful text that Nagarjuna wrote as a letter to his friend the king in which he outlines the major points of the Mahayana path. First, he speaks about the necessity of having confidence in the path – confidence, meaning total...

Verse 49 We have been going through this wonderful text by Nagarjuna, which he wrote to his friend the king, in which he outlines the Mahayana path. It is the source of so many different teachings that we find developed later on in the Indian literature and, especially, in the...

Verse 49 We have been discussing this short but very meaningful text, Letter to a Friend, written by Nagarjuna, which he wrote to his friend the king. In it he outlines the basic Mahayana path and gives a great deal of advice. We find in this text some of the earliest...

Verse 49 We have been speaking about a text that was written in the second century of the Common Era by a great Indian master called Nagarjuna. This is a text written in the form of a letter to his friend who was the king of the area in South India where Nagarjuna lived. There...

Verse 50 We have been talking about and trying to explain this very important text by Nagarjuna, his Letter to a Friend, in which we find the presentation and the discussion of so many of the points that are taken up later by Shantideva in his Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior...

Verse 50-51 We’ve been covering this text of a letter to the king that Nagarjuna wrote. In this letter, Nagarjuna outlines the path to enlightenment and gives general advice to the king. In order to follow that path, first, Nagarjuna explains the need to have confidence in the...

Verses 52–54 We have been looking at this great text, a very early text in Mahayana Buddhism, by Nagarjuna, called a Letter to a Friend, which is a letter that he wrote to his friend the king and in which he outlines the general Mahayana Buddhist path. There are many different...

Verse 55 We’ve been discussing this Letter to a Friend that Nagarjuna wrote to his friend the king. We have been going through one of the many different outlines of it. In that outline, there’s the general introductory material, and then there’s the main material, which is...