This is the third in a six-course series, exploring how Nagarjuna explained the Buddha’s teaching from a logical perspective. It describes the development of the Madhyamaka philosophical school in India and Tibet and explores the definitions of the two truths and the five great Madhyamaka reasonings.
The five treatises of the next Buddha Maitreya are crucial and celebrated because they provide a comprehensive overview of all the essential elements of mahāyāna motivation, view, meditation, conduct, and fruition in a very concise form. This overview was translated by Mitra Karl Brunnhölzl.
Mind Without Borders is a prison dharma program founded in 2006 by Nalandabodhi’s New York City sangha. We provide Buddhist study through correspondence courses, dharma pen pals and practice instructors. You can help by becoming a pen pal, sending books and magazines or making a donation.
Our sister sanghas in Hong Kong and Taipei will perform life releases a week before the June 24 birthday of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. The purchase and release of beings who otherwise would die due to human activity is taught to be a powerful practice. We invite you to pause in a moment of contemplation at the time of the releases, on Friday June 16 in the Pacific time zone and Saturday morning in Asia.
In this 10-part series. Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche asks us to look inside and get familiar with the piece of the puzzle we hold so we become agents of change. What is your piece of the puzzle?
Throughout our human history, we have searched for a better way, tool, or remedy to overcome fear and enjoy greater happiness. In this course, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche explains that we have been looking in the wrong direction! Instead of searching outside, we need to turn our gaze inward to transform fear. Rinpoche shows us how to recognize and befriend fear with love and kindness, relaxation, and a healthy dose of humor.
