Tag: Buddhism
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Covering the earth with leather
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“Bodhicharyavatara composed in the 8th century C.E. by Shantideva is one of the most celebrated text of Mahayana Buddhism… In this masterpiece, the author, who belonged to the Madhyamika school of Nagarjuna, describes in detail the conduct of a Bodhisattva.”– From the foreword by The Dalai Lama to the English translation of Shantideva’s Bodhicharyavatara by…
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Education in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition
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In the first post in a series on current and past masters who speak from within the Indian tradition, I thought of starting with Samdhong Rinpocheji. The small reason is that I was listening to a YouTube lecture by him today and the more substantial reason is that Pawanji (who I consider one of my…