Verses 109-111 We are studying a very important and early text in Mahayana Buddhism written by the great Indian master Nagarjuna in approximately the second century of the Common Era, called Letter to a Friend, which he wrote to his friend the king of a kingdom in South India....

Verses 109-112 We are continuing our study of this text, Letter to a Friend, by Nagarjuna, which he wrote to his friend the king, explaining the path to liberation and enlightenment. In it, after an introductory presentation of what is important in the study, Nagarjuna...

Verses 113–115 We have been going through Nagarjuna’s Letter to a Friend. We have seen that Nagarjuna, in writing this letter to a king, first, gives some general advice about the main points of the path and, then, presents the path, according to Mipam’s commentary, in terms...

Verses 115–123 We are in the final verses of Nagarjuna’s Letter to a Friend that Nagarjuna, this great Indian master who lived in the second century of the Common Era in South India, sent to his friend who was the king of the most powerful kingdom of that time. In it, he...

Last time, we finished this very early text in the history of Indian Buddhism, a letter that the great Indian master Nagarjuna wrote to his friend the king of a kingdom in South India. This was written probably in the second century of the Common Era. We see that, although...

Verse 4 We have been discussing Nagarjuna's text, Letter to a Friend, which Nagarjuna composed for his friend, King Udayibhadra. In it, we are elaborating on verse four where Nagarjuna says: [4] The Triumphant has proclaimed six (objects) for continual mindfulness: The...

Verse 4 We’ve been going through Nagarjuna’s Letter to a Friend, although we have not been doing many verses of it. We have been elaborating on the fourth verse where Nagarjuna says: [4] The Triumphant has proclaimed six (objects) for continual mindfulness: The Buddhas, the...

We’ve been going through Nagarjuna’s Letter to a Friend, although we have not been doing many verses of it. We have been elaborating on the fourth verse where Nagarjuna says: [4] The Triumphant has proclaimed six (objects) for continual mindfulness: The Buddhas, the Dharma,...

Verse 4 We have been speaking about Nagarjuna’s text, Letter to a Friend, which he wrote to King Udayibhadra. We have been discussing verse four: [4] The Triumphant has proclaimed six (objects) for continual mindfulness: The Buddhas, the Dharma, the Sangha, generous giving,...

The So-called Prasangika Over-refuter Argument That Objects Made of Particles Cannot Be Objects of Valid Cognition Does Not Make Us Lose Our Assertion of Conventional Objects Furthermore, Chittamatrins say that individual [external] particles are not objects of sensory...