In Pullahari, April 1997, Rinpoche prepares two of his senior students for translating this section of Lodro Thaye's text.
Tibetan only
4 talks, audio
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During almost two month in the Fall of 1984, from 3th September to 30 October, Rinpoche stayed at Karma Chodrub Gyamtso Ling in Brussels, where he extensively taught:
- Excerpts from a number of sutras
- Treasury of Knowledge, chapter 8.1: The Stages of Meditation of Shamatha and Vipashyanā. Rinpoche gave 14 talks for his students learning Tibetan and 8 talks to the public audience.
- Treasury of Knowledge, chapter 8.2: The Stages of Meditation in the Cause-based Approaches
- Moonbeams of Mahāmudrā by Dakpo Tashi Namgyal
- Treasury of Knowledge, chapter 7.2: The Provisional and Definitive Meanings in the Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma
- Treasury of Knowledge, chapter 7.3: The Sixteen Types of Emptiness
- Treasury of Knowledge, chapter 7.3: Gaining Certainty about the view.
Here, you will find all teachings on chapter 7.2 and 7.3. There is a public talk with English translation in which Rinpoche summarizes chapter 7.2 This talk is Excellent for students new to dharma.
Please use the course's search box typing "Brussels 1984" to locate other talks from that course.
Tibetan - English
4, 3 & 18 talks, audio
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Rinpoche visited Crestone, Baca Colorado, August, 1985. While there, he extensively taught chapter 6.3 and chapters 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 from Treasury of Knowledge to the Nalanda Translation Committee members. Rinpoche explained sections of the chapters that he often skips for more public audiences and presented the various views of the masters of different schools.
In a public setting, Rinpoche also offered three talks on sutra mahamudra and had the senior students present topics, such as mahayana, madhyamaka, the four interpretations, and the four reliances.
Tibetan / English
19 talks, audio
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In November 1988, Rinpoche was invited to Bodhgaya to give lectures to Kalu Rinpoche's translation committee, who had just begun working on fulfilling the intention of their guru: the immense task of translating and publishing the entire Treasury of Knowledge.
Rinpoche first gives an inspiring introduction to the importance of motivation, bodhichitta, valid cognition and other topics of dharma. Rinpoche then introduces chapter 7.3 and chooses to thoroughly work through the root and commentary of chapter 7.2, stressing how important it is to work in groups to establish a thorough understanding of the terms.
Tibetan only
12 talks, Audio
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At Karma Triyana Dharmachakra, August 1987, Rinpoche offers 3 talks and 2 Q/A session during the first weekend course to the students assembled.
In Halifax and Santa Fe, July 1991, Rinpoche explains the two truths based on Lodrö Thaye's root text.
In Kagyu Ling, Plaige, August 1993, Rinpoche explains the text by composing beautiful verses.
In Boulder, 1999, as part of 4 public talks, Rinpoche gives a brief introduction to the two truths as explained by the various schools. Rinpoche stops at the Prasangika school and opens up for Q/A. For the remaining three talks, please use the course's search box.
In an unknown location in Germany Rinpoche offers a talk on the two truths.
Tibetan / English
5, 3, 6 & 1 talk, audio
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TOK7.2 and 6.3 The Two Truths and Mahāyāna Philosophical Tenets བདེན་གཉིས་རྣམ་ངེས་དང་ཐེག་ཆེན་རྣམ་གཞག
In the summer of 1991 at Shambhala Mountain Center, for almost an entire month, Rinpoche taught shamatha and vipashyanā mahāmudrā on alternate mornings, and most afternoons he taught on view mainly based on section 7.2 and 6.3 of the Treasury of Knowledge.
These teachings on view are what you find here and they also include two lectures on selected stanzas from Nāgārjuna's Sixty Stanzas of Reasoning and one lecture on a portion of Maitreya's Distinguishing the Middle from the Extremes, which Rinpoche taught elucidating the tenets of Rangtong and Shentong Madhyamaka. The mahāmudrā teachings are found in the category Fruitional Yāna.
At the very beginning of his stay, Rinpoche taught songs of realization by Jetsun Milarepa, which can be found in that category of the library.
Tibetan-English
19 talks, audio and video
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Rinpoche has often introduced students to the Buddhist tenets based on Lodro Thaye's Treasury of Knowledge.
It is such introductions that you find here. Especially, in 1994, Rinpoche celebrates the new publication with translation into 7 different languages.
For now, you will find teachings from་Kamalashila, May 1994, and Mahamudra Retreat Zentrum Halscheid May 1994, and Karma Chodrub Gyamtso Ling, Brussels, June 1994.
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At Marpa House, Bouddha December 1993 - January 1994, Rinpoche teaches the marvelous chapter on view, which enables all strife and suffering to be cut by the very root. These teachings are a preparation for the Pullahari program 1994 in which this chapter was a main topic. The entire Pullahari Winter Program 1994 is published with English translation in the category Presentations of the Mahayana Path.
Rinpoche bases his explanation on both the root and commentary.
Tibetan only
22 talks, audio
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Touring North America in 1994, Rinpoche explains chapter 7.3 over three locations: Karmê Chöling, Shambhala Halifax and Rigpe Dorje Institute, Montreal, in this way covering the entire chapter. In Montreal, where the talks also were translated into French, Rinpoche began by introducing the clear light nature of mind, the Buddha nature.
Tibetan only, Tibetan - English - French
17 talks, audio
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At Kagyu Ling, Plaige in 1993 Rinpoche teaches extensively on the view.
Not only does he base his teachings on both the root and commentary, but he also composes beautiful spontaneous verses clarifying and bringing the meaning into experience.
Based on the English preparation from Plaige 1993, on his tour in 1994, Rinpoche offers 13 talks presenting both the root and commentary of the chapter.at Rigpe Dorje, San Antonio, October 1994
Tibetan / English
19 and 13 talks, audio
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