Study Buddhist Treatises with Thubten Chodron

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American Buddhist nun, author, and abbess Thubten Chodron explains great Buddhist philosophical treatises in plain English, bringing ancient wisdom to life in a modern context.

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American Buddhist nun, author, and abbess Thubten Chodron explains great Buddhist philosophical treatises in plain English, bringing ancient wisdom to life in a modern context.

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@ThubtenChodron

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English

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http://thubtenchodron.org/

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Episodes

Mind and emotions

10/5/2018

Beginning Chapter 3: Mind and Emotions, exploring the relationship between unhappiness and non-virtue.

Duration:01:32:30

Proving mutual inclusion

10/4/2018

Explaining how to prove mutual inclusion, and leading the class in doing Exercises 11.1 and 11.2.

Duration:01:14:43

The possibility of ending duhkha

9/28/2018

Covering the sections "Dependent Arising and the Three Jewels" and "The Possibility of Ending Duhkha."

Duration:01:28:59

Proving four possibilities and mutual exclusion

9/27/2018

Covering the sections “Proving Four Possibilities” and “Proving Mutual Exclusion.”

Duration:01:21:11

The four truths of the aryas

9/21/2018

Covering the sections "The Four Truths of the Aryas" and "Dependent Arising and Emptiness."

Duration:01:18:15

Nonassociated compositional factors that are not persons

9/20/2018

Finishing Chapter 10 with the section on Nonassociated Compositional Factors That Are Not Persons and beginning Chapter 11.

Duration:01:28:04

Body, mind, rebirth and self

9/14/2018

Continuing Chapter 2 and covering the section “Body, Mind, Rebirth and Self.”

Duration:01:22:55

Nonassociated compositional factors

9/13/2018

Reviewing the Mental Consciousness section and covering the sections on Sense Consciousnesses and Nonassociated Composition Factors.

Duration:01:31:16

Review night

9/6/2018

Venerable Tenzin Tsepal leads a basic review of the divisions of existents.

Duration:00:38:19

Review of external matter

8/30/2018

Venerable Tenzin Tsepal leads a review of 'External Matter', one of the sub-divisions of 'Functioning Things.'

Duration:01:21:45

Chapter 1: Upper rebirth and highest good

4/30/2015

An introduction to the text in the context of Nagarjuna's other treatises on the Middle Way, and beginning the commentary on Verse 1.