Approaching the Buddhist Path (2018-19)
Extensive commentary given at Sravasti Abbey on Volume 1 of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion, Approaching the Buddhist Path.
Cultivating love and compassion
Venerable Thubten Chodron Continuing to read from “Working with Afflictions” in Chapter 3 and covers “Cultivating Love and Compassion” and “A Good State of Mind.”
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Religion in the modern world
Venerable Thubten Tarpa Venerable Thubten Tarpa leads an interactive review of pages 11-15 of "Approaching the Buddhist Path."
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Review of the nature of mind
Venerable Thubten Jigme Venerable Thubten Jigme leads a review on the nature of mind and leads meditations on its conventional and ultimate nature.
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Review of the four truths
Venerable Thubten Chonyi Venerable Thubten Chonyi gives a review of the four truths, focusing on the truth of duhkha, or unsatisfactoriness.
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Review of dependent origination
Venerable Thubten Samten Venerable Thubten Samten reviews the three types of dependent origination.
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Qualities to abandon and cultivate
Teaching on various qualities of mind to abandon, and others to adopt, such as fear, desire, and hope.
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Disagreement and conflict
Teaching on the six roots of dispute, and the principle of 'survival of the most cooperative.'
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Spread of Buddhadharma
Beginning Chapter 4 "The Spread of the Buddhadharma and Buddhist Canons."
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Vehicles and paths
Covering the section “Vehicles and Paths” in Chapter 4 on the different paths to awakening followed in the Pali and Sanskrit Buddhist traditions.
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Early Buddhist schools
Covering the sections “The Buddha’s Life” and “Early Buddhist Schools” in Chapter 4.
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Early Buddhism in Sri Lanka
Covering the section “Early Buddhism in Sri Lanka” in Chapter 4.
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The growth of the Mahayana
Teaching on how the Mahayana sutras first appeared, gained popularity and became the focus of a body of practitioners who called themselves 'Mahayanists.'
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