Historical, Cultural, and Comparative Studies – Comparison of Buddhist Traditions |
General |
| Survey of the Basic Forms of Buddhism | short | book excerpt |
| A Comparison of Buddhist Art Styles in the Mongol Regions | short | essay |
Theravada, Hinayana, and Mahayana |
| The Terms Hinayana and Mahayana | short | essay |
| Introductory Comparison of Hinayana and Mahayana | medium | transcript |
| Theravada Practice of the Four Close Placements of Mindfulness | short | essay |
| The Four Close Placements of Mindfulness According to Mahayana | medium | essay |
| The Four Immeasurable Attitudes in Hinayana, Mahayana, and Bon | long | essay |
| The Ten Far-Reaching Attitudes in Theravada, Mahayana, and Bon | short | essay |
| Comparison of the Hinayana and Mahayana Assertions of the Understandings of Voidness by Arhats and Buddhas | short | essay |
The Tibetan Traditions |
| Introductory Comparison of the Five Tibetan Traditions of Buddhism and Bon | medium | transcript |
The Four Traditions of Tibetan Buddhism: Personal Experience, History, and Comparisons (Seattle, Washington, USA, April 2003) |
| Part 1 Lower Quality (6.6 MB) | Higher Quality (14 MB) | 0:57 hours | mp3 audio |
| Part 2 Lower Quality (6 MB) | Higher Quality (12.5 MB) | 0:52 hours | mpr audio |
| Bon and Tibetan Buddhism | medium | transcript |
| Special Features of the Gelug Tradition | medium | essay |
Elaboration of the Special Features of the Gelug Tradition (Munich, Germany, December 2003) [some minutes poor quality] |
| Part 1 Lower Quality (6.2 MB) | Higher Quality (12.6 MB) | 0:54 hours | mp3 audio |
| Part 2 Lower Quality (9.3 MB) | Higher Quality (18.8 MB) | 1:21 hours | mp3 audio |
| Comparison of Tibetan Buddhist Division Schemes of the Six Far-Reaching Attitudes | short | essay |
| Nonconceptual Cognition of Voidness by Shravaka, Pratyekabuddha, and Bodhisattva Aryas According to the Four Tibetan Traditions | short | essay |
| Comparison of Highest Tantra Voidness Meditation in the Four Tibetan Traditions | short | sketch |