A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ།

Topic outline

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  Kamalashila, February 1982

  • Talk 1, 25 February 1982, Tibetan only File Audio file (MP3)

    2 types of BC and 2 types of kaya
    བརྩོན་གྲུས་བསམ་གཏན་ཤེས་རབ་མ་མཉམ་པ་གོང་འཕེལ་བ།

  • Talk 2, 26 February 1982, Tibetan only File Audio file (MP3)
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  Vajradhara Ling, Aubry le Panthou, August 1982

  During this course the topics were:

  • 6 talks on the chapter on prajna from Bodhisattva's Way of Life
  • 3 restricted talks on vows with several questions and answer sessions
  • 3 restricted talks on the view of vajrayana
  • 1 restricted talk on the essentials of generation and completion stage practice
  • 3 talks on Chandrakirti's Entering the Middle Way.

  Tibetan only

  • Talk 1, 9 August 1982 File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 2, 10 August 1982 File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 3, 11 August 1982 File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 4, 12 August 1982 File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 5, 13 August 1982 File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 6, 14 August 1982 File Audio file (MP3)
  • Questions and Answers File Audio file (MP3)
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  Kagyu Thubten Choling, Wappinger's Falls, June 1986

  Visiting Kagyu Thubten Choling, 4-28 June 1986, Rinpoche explains the 9th chapter, the chapter on precise knowledge, in the morning sessions and the remaining chapters of the text during the afternoon sessions.

  • Chapter 1 to 4, Tibetan - English Book
  • Chapter 5 - 8, Tibetan - English Book
  • Chapter 9, Tibetan - English Book

    Rinpoche chooses to teach the ninth chapter on prajñā , precise knowledge, for the morning sessions.

  • Chapter 10, Tibetan - English, Tibetan only Book

    This book contains the 10th chapter of Dedication in Tibetan - English and 15 talks of Q/As that are for now in Tibetan only.

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  Athens, Chapter 9, Prajna, ཤེས་རབ་ལེའུ། August 1990, Tibetan only

  During this month of August in Athens, Rinpoche taught the chapter on precise knowledge, prajna, both to his group of aspiring translators as well as in the public talks. He did so based on Khenpo Kunphal's commentary. The talks were respectively in Tibetan only and with translation into Greek by Hara Kalomiri. The public talks had very lively Q/As at the end of each talk.

  • Talk 1, 3 August 1990, Tibetan only File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 2, 4 August 1990, Tibetan only File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 3, 5 August 1990, Tibetan only File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 4, 6 August 1990, Tibetan only File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 5, 8 August 1990, Tibetan only File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 6, 9 August 1990, Tibetan only File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 7, 10 August 1990, Tibetan only File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 8, 11 August 1990, Tibetan only File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 9, 13 August 1990, Tibetan only File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 10, 15 August 1990, Tibetan only File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 11, 16 August 1990, Tibetan only File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 12, 17 August 1990, Tibetan only File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 13, 18 August 1990, Tibetan only File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 14, 19 August 1990, Tibetan only File Audio file (MP3)
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  Athens, Chapter 9, Prajna, ཤེས་རབ་ལེའུ། August 1990, Public Talks with Translation into Greek

  These talks were all translated by Hara Kalomiri.

  • Initial Talk, August 2 File Audio file (MP3)

    Rinpoche begins by raising profound questions: What is Samsara? Why is practicing so important? How the nature of mind is endowed with wisdom and compassion?
    Q/A

  • Talk 1, August 3, Classifying the Two Truths File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 2, The Two Truths as Related to the Individual File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 3, August 6, Clearing up Questions in Regard to the Two Truths File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 4, Debating the Sravakas File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 5, Continuation with Sravaka Debate File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 6, Debating Chittamatrins File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 7, Continuation of Chittamatra File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 8, False Aspectarians File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 9, Clearing up Questions in Relation to the Path of Emptiness File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 10, The Result of Buddhahood File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 11, Establishing that Mahayana is the Supreme Path File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 12, Continuation: That Mahayana is the Words of the Buddha File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 13, Summary of Stages File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 14, Experiencing this through Meditation File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 15, Meditation on the Lack of the Imputed Self File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 16, Meditation on the Lack of Self-entity in Phenomena File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 17, Close-Placement on Feelings File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 18, Close-Placement on Mind File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 19, Close-Placement on Phenomena File Audio file (MP3)
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  Kagyu Shenpen Kunchab, Santa Fe, NM, 3-6 July 1997, Tibetan - English

  English translation by Ari Goldfield.

  Review notes kindly provided by Charby Slemin.

  • Talk 1, 3 July 1997: How to Give Rise to and Protect Bodhichitta File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 2, 5 July 1997, How to Increase Bodhichitta Without any Diminishing File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 3, 5 July 1997, Precise Knowledge, Continued File Audio file (MP3)
  • Talk 4, 6 July 1997: Questions and Answers File Audio file (MP3)