Verses 55–58 We’ve been studying this wonderful, early text by Nagarjuna, which is a letter that he wrote to his friend the king. This text is an early source for so much of the Mahayana teachings that we find later elaborated on and quoted from in Shantideva’s text, Engaging...

Verse 59 We are studying this very important early text in the Mahayana literature by the great master Nagarjuna, called Letter to a Friend, in which he outlines the major points of the Mahayana path to his friend the king. We saw that the text has many different types of...

Verse 4 We’ve been looking at the beginning verses of Nagarjuna’s Letter to a Friend and were discussing the fourth verse with which Nagarjuna actually starts the main content of the letter. The fourth verse reads: [4] The Triumphant has proclaimed six (objects) for continual...

Verses 59–61 We’ve been studying Nagarjuna’s text, Letter to a Friend, which he wrote to his friend the king in South India. We have been seeing how this is a very important text. It is one of the earliest Mahayana texts that presents in quite a full form all the basic...

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...