Fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism – Level 5: Analysis of the Mind and Reality |
Cognition Theory |
Level A: Basics |
  Seven Ways to Cognize Objects (Boise, Idaho, USA, April 2003) | audio + transcript |
| The Basic Differences between Non-Prasangika and Prasangika Logic | short sketch |
| Overview of Phenomena that Have Objects and Their Objects (Knappenberg, Austria, March 2010) | audio + transcript |
| Introductory Survey of Objects of Cognition: Gelug Presentation | short essay |
| Overview of Mental Syntheses, Categories, and Individual Items (Knappenberg, Austria, March 2010) | audio + transcript |
| Relationships with Objects | medium essay |
| Relationships between Two Objects in General | short essay |
| Overview of Identical, Different, Contradictory, and Related Phenomena (Knappenberg, Austria, March 2010) | audio + transcript |
| Congruent and Noncongruent Affecting Variables | short sketch |
| Apprehension of Validly Knowable Phenomena | short sketch |
Level B: Fine Analysis |
 Fine Analysis of Objects of Cognition | multipart text |
| What Does It Mean to Understand Something? | medium essay |
 Elaboration of "What Does It Mean to Understand Something?" (Vienna, Austria, March 2012) | video + audio + transcript |
| Disturbing Emotions during Nonconceptual Sensory Cognition | short essay |
| The Appearance and Cognition of Nonexistent Phenomena | multipart text |
| Affirmations, Negations, and Denumerable and Nondenumerable Ultimate Phenomena | short sketch |
| Gelug Definitions of Affirmation and Negation Phenomena | medium essay |
| The Nature of Mental Appearances: Gelug Explanation (Moscow, Russia, June 2008) | audio + transcript |
| Dormant Grasping for True Existence According to Gelug Madhyamaka | medium essay |
| Impure and Pure Appearances According to Non-Gelug | short essay |
The Four Indian Buddhist Tenet Systems |
| The Four Indian Buddhist Tenet Systems Regarding Illusion: A Practical Approach | medium essay |
| Major Indian Authors and Texts for Studying the Four Buddhist Tenet Systems | short outline |
| The Four Indian Tenet Systems on Voidness (Emptiness) (Morelia, Mexico, April 2004) | video + audio + transcript |
The Two Truths |
| The Two Truths in Vaibhashika and Sautrantika | long essay |
| Cognition of the Two Truths in the Gelug Sautrantika, Chittamatra, Svatantrika, and Prasangika Systems | long essay |
| The Validity and Accuracy of Cognition of the Two Truths in Gelug-Prasangika | medium essay |
| The Union of Method and Wisdom in Sutra and Tantra: Gelug and Non-Gelug Presentations | long essay |
Chittamatra (Mind-Only) |
| The Gelug Chittamatra Assertion of No External Phenomena | short essay |
| Basic Features of the Gelug-Chittamatra System | multipart text |
Voidness (Emptiness) |
| The Five Great Madhyamaka Lines of Reasoning Used to Establish Voidness | short essay |
| The Prasangika View among Non-Buddhists - Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche II | short essay |
| The Atman Asserted by the Samkhya and Nyaya Schools That Buddhism Refutes (Berlin, Germany, April 2012) | audio + transcript |
| Establishing the Existence of Validly Knowable Phenomena | short essay |
| Mental Labeling in the Case of a Buddha - Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche II | short essay |
| The Distinction between Self-sufficiently Knowable and Imputedly Knowable Phenomena | medium essay |
| A Deluded Outlook toward a Transitory Network | short essay |
| Explanation of Significant Points Concerning Voidness (Emptiness) made by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (Toronto, Canada, April 2004) | video + audio + transcript |
| Brief Survey of Self-Voidness and Other-Voidness Views (Morelia, Mexico, April 2006) | audio + transcript |
| Main Points of Self-Voidness and Other-Voidness (Moscow, Russia, June 2007) | audio |
| Negation Phenomena: How to Focus on Voidness (Emptiness) (Berlin, Germany, March 2004) | audio + transcript |
| The Relation between True Stoppings and Voidness According to Tsongkhapa - Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche II | short essay |