Series · 13 parts
Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning, Kathmandu
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche · 9h 37m in all
Thirteen sessions in English by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche on Nagarjuna's Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning, taught in Kathmandu in October 2015.
The text is Nagarjuna’s Yuktisastika, a short Madhyamaka work in verse. Rinpoche builds the case that nothing truly exists, using definitions of existing and being true, the dream elephant, the aggregates and dependent arising, with regular question periods. Later sessions place the teaching within daily practice, the expedient and direct meanings of the Buddha’s words, and the schools behind the debate, and close with the final stanzas.
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Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning, Part 1The opening session, on the choice of this text, why view comes first, and the homage on dependent arising.47:46 · ✓ Played - 2
Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning, Part 2Audience definitions of existence and truth, birth, abiding and ending, and samsara and nirvana as not separate.46:58 · ✓ Played - 3
Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning, Part 3The purpose of Madhyamaka, the dream elephant, and whether enlightenment is a true end.46:50 · ✓ Played - 4
Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning, Part 4The aggregates and the self as a label, selfless compassion, and the twelve links, ending with questions.41:56 · ✓ Played - 5
Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning, Part 5The two truths, meditation as leaving things alone, the magician simile, and why impermanence is taught.51:11 · ✓ Played - 6
Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning, Part 6Questions on devotion, renunciation, the similes, karma and emptiness not meaning inaction.37:34 · ✓ Played - 7
Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning, Part 7How an illusory path ends illusion, the four truths, and the stanzas from impermanence to selflessness.44:56 · ✓ Played - 8
Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning, Part 8No true dwelling, emptiness not denying appearance, why karma is taught, and a long question session.42:32 · ✓ Played - 9
Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning, Part 9Practising amid daily life, culture and Dharma, and the two accumulations.46:27 · ✓ Played - 10
Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning, Part 10Expedient and direct meaning, the six perfections in order, apparent arising, and nothing to assert.35:48 · ✓ Played - 11
Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning, Part 11Taking refuge, three purposes of the teachings, the moon in water, and whether Madhyamaka has a thesis.52:17 · ✓ Played - 12
Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning, Part 12The philosophical schools, no thesis in Prasangika, clarity and emptiness together, and questions.36:51 · ✓ Played - 13
Sixty Stanzas on Reasoning, Part 13The closing stanzas, the five paths, the dedication, and a call to translate the texts.46:11 · ✓ Played
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