Verses 71–76 We have been working on Nagarjuna’s text Letter to a Friend, which he wrote in order to present the Mahayana path to his friend the king. In this text, he outlines the basic Mahayana teachings. He starts with some introductory material and, then, according to the...

Verse 77 We are discussing and studying the text Letter to a Friend by Nagarjuna, the great Indian master, in which he outlines the basic features of the Mahayana path, most of which are brought together in the graded path teachings, the lam-rim teachings, that came to Tibet...

Verses 78–88 We are going through this text by Nagarjuna, a great Indian master who wrote a summary of the Mahayana path to his friend the king in the form of a letter in order to help the king put the teachings into practice. This is a very important text for the Mahayana...

Verse 4 In the Letter to a Friend by Nagarjuna, we are in our discussion the fourth verse:  (4) The Triumphant has proclaimed six (objects) for continual mindfulness: The Buddhas, the Dharma, the Sangha, generous giving, ethical discipline, and the gods. Be continually...

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...