Fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism – Level 4: Deepening the Understanding of the Path |
Rebirth and Karma |
The Buddhist Explanation of Rebirth |
| Part One: The Place of Rebirth in Buddhism and the Topic of Mental Continuums | medium | transcript |
| Part Two: The Analysis of How Mental Continuums Perpetuate Themselves | long | transcript |
| Becoming Convinced of Rebirth: A Personal Story (Freiburg, Germany, February 2003) Lower Quality (6.3 MB) | Higher Quality (11.7 MB) | 0:55 hours | mp3 audio |
| Logical Pervasions of the Technical Terms for the Different Types of Karmic Aftermath | short | essay |
Types of Phenomena |
| Static and Nonstatic Phenomena | medium | transcript |
| Tainted and Untainted Phenomena | short | essay |
| Constructive, Destructive, and Unspecified Phenomena | medium | essay |
| Causes, Conditions, and Results | short | essay |
| Obvious, Obscure, and Extremely Obscure Phenomena | short | essay |
| The Aggregate of Forms of Physical Phenomena | short | essay |
| Fine Points Concerning the Physical Bodies of Buddhas and Arhats | short | essay |
Time |
The Buddhist Concept of Time (Freiburg, Germany, February 2006) |
| Part 1 Lower Quality (6.1 MB) | Higher Quality (13.6 MB) | 0:52 hours | mp3 audio |
| Part 2 Lower Quality (5.1 MB) | Higher Quality (12.2 MB) | 0:50 hours | mp3 audio |
| The Nature of Time as a Temporal Interval | medium | essay |
What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? |
| Part One: Temporally Related Phenomena | medium | essay |
| Part Two: Variant Indian Buddhist Views Concerning Temporally Related Phenomena | medium | essay |
| Part Three: Analysis of the Gelug Prasangika Assertions | medium | essay |
| Part Four: Valid Cognition of the Past, Present, and Future | medium | essay |
| Part Five: A Buddha’s Omniscient Deep Awareness of the Three Times | medium | essay |
| Part Six: Using Analogies with Quantum Mechanics, Clearing away Doubts That Might Arise | medium | essay |
Mind and Mental Factors |
Introduction to the Mind and Mental Factors (Boise, Idaho, USA, April 2003) |
| Part 1 Lower Quality (5.8 MB) | Higher Quality (11.7 MB) | 0:51 hours | mp3 audio |
| Part 2 Lower Quality (6.4 MB) | Higher Quality (12.8 MB) | 0:56 hours | mp3 audio |
| Part 3 Lower Quality (6.3 MB) | Higher Quality (12.7 MB) | 0:54 hours | mp3 audio |
| Part 4 Lower Quality (6.7 MB) | Higher Quality (13.4 MB) | 0:58 hours | mp3 audio |
| Mind and Mental Factors: The Fifty-one Types of Subsidiary Awareness | long | essay |
| Adjusting Our Innate Mental Factors | chapter | eBook |
Buddha-Nature |
| Buddha-Nature According to Gelug-Chittamatra, Svatantrika, and Prasangika - Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche II | short | essay |
| Buddha-Nature and the Clear Light Mind (Berlin, Germany, October 2006) Lower Quality (1.4 MB) | Higher Quality (3.5 MB) | 0:12 hours | mp3 audio |
Buddha-Nature, Day One of a Discourse on Uttaratantra - His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama |
| Part One: Background Discussion | medium | transcript |
| Part Two: The First Three Verses of Chapter One | medium | transcript |
Interferences |
| The Fourteen Questions to Which Buddha Remained Silent | short | sketch |
| The Sixty-two Wrong Views | short | sketch |
| The Four Maras (The Four Demonic Forces) | short | essay |
The Five Paths in Hinayana and Mahayana |
The Five Pathway Minds (Five Paths) |
| Basic Presentation | medium | essay |
| Advanced Presentation | long | essay |
| The Eight Branches of an Arya Pathway Mind | medium | essay |
| Nirvana | short | sketch |
| Making Progress on the Spiritual Path: Network Theory | medium | transcript |
| The Two Enlightenment-Building Networks (The Two Collections) | medium | essay |
Happiness: An In-Depth Analysis of Its Role in Sutra and Tantra |
| Session One: The Innate Joy of the Mind | medium | transcript |
| Session Two: Recognizing the Various Levels of Happiness | medium | transcript |
| Session Three: Combining Blissful Awareness with an Understanding of Voidness | medium | transcript |
| Nonconceptual Cognition of Voidness by Shravaka, Pratyekabuddha, and Bodhisattva Aryas According to the Four Tibetan Traditions | short | essay |
| Ridding Oneself of the Two Sets of Obscuration in Sutra and Highest Tantra According to Nyingma and Sakya | medium | essay |
| The Distinction between Tendencies and Habits Included in the Two Sets of Obscuration, According to Gelug | short | essay |
Types of Meditation |
| The Relation between Shamatha, Vipashyana, and Discerning and Stabilizing Meditations | short | essay |
| Theravada Practice of the Four Close Placements of Mindfulness | short | essay |
| The Four Close Placements of Mindfulness According to Mahayana | medium | essay |
Introduction to the Sixteen Aspects of the Four Noble Truths in Sutra and Tantra (Berlin, Germany, October 2006) |
| Part 1 Lower Quality (8.4 MB) | Higher Quality (18.6 MB) | 1:13 hours | mp3 audio |
| Part 2 Lower Quality (4.1 MB) | Higher Quality (9.1 MB) | 0:36 hours | mp3 audio |
| The Sixteen Aspects and Sixteen Distorted Ways of Embracing the Four Noble Truths | medium | essay |
