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A Teaching on Vasubandhu's The Thirty Verses: Day 5 29 January 2022
The Karmapa began by providing more details of Professor Padmanabh S. Jaini's refutation of the hypothesis that there were two Vasubandhus, one in the 4th century and one in the 5th century. Professor Jaini based his arguments on a comparison of two texts—the Treasury of Abhidharma and the Lamp of Abhidharma. The latter was an incomplete Sanskrit text discovered at Shalu monastery in Tibet. Those who supported the theory of two Vasubandhus had claimed that the author of the Treasury had no knowledge of the Mahayana view. Professor...
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A Teaching on Vasubandhu's The Thirty Verses: Day 4 27 January 2022
Maitreya A powerful recitation of Four Sessions Guru Yoga preceded today's teaching. After the customary opening prayers and greetings, His Holiness clarified his presentation of the dharmas (the works) of Maitreya from the previous day. These works are identified somewhat differently in the Chinese versus Tibetan canons. The Tibetan tradition holds that the Yogacara Levels was written by Asanga, but in the Chinese canon, the author is identified as Maitreya. Differentiating the Middle from the Extremes, Ornament of the Sutras, and Discriminating Dharmas from their Nature are held...
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A Teaching on Vasubandhu’s The Thirty Verses: Day 3 26 January 2022 The Karmapa began by recapping four of the many different conditions that led to the formation of the Mind Only school. The first of these was the general tendency of the Buddhist view towards a view of only mind, the idea that the mind is primary and most important. This is the general direction Buddhists were heading. The second was to determine the basis for samsara. During the Period of the Schools, even though Buddhists did not accept the non-Buddhist presentation of a self, they did accept the basis...
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A Teaching on Vasubandhu’s The Thirty Verses: Day 2 24 January 2022 The Gyalwang Karmapa began by reminding everyone of the points he had made in the final part of the first day’s teaching. Mind Only and Yogacara He reiterated that the term Mind Only should be understood as the view, scriptures or explanations of the Yogacara tradition. In the Mind Only texts, two Sanskrit terms are used: vijñāpti (awareness) and vijñāna (consciousness). The basic meaning is that no phenomenon transcends the mind. It is either mind in character or just a various way in which the mind appears. These two...
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A Teaching on Vasubandhu’s The Thirty Verses: Day 1 23 January 2022 His Holiness The Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje opened the teachings on Vasubandhu’s Thirty Verses by greeting everyone. While the Kagyu Gunchö Winter Teachings in Bodhgaya were cancelled due to the pandemic, shedras held their own events and requested that His Holiness teach via webcast. Karmapa had chosen Mind Only since it is a philosophical topic appropriate for shedra students. It is also a “big blank” for most Tibetan Buddhists. During the first half of the Sunday teaching, Karmapa laid out the reasons why Tibetan Buddhists should learn...
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The Mar Ngok Summer Teachings 13 September 2021 At the beginning of today's teaching – which was the last of this year's Mar Ngok Summer Teachings - His Holiness the Karmapa reminded the audience of how Buddhism spread after the Buddha had passed away and the organization of the Sangha in general. After the Buddha had passed into nirvana, his teachings were spread widely by his students throughout the north-west of India and gradually throughout the whole of India. Around the time that Ashoka ascended to the throne, the Sangha had split into two factions, called the Sthaviravāda (Theravada) and...
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