Dudra: The Collected Topics

We will go slowly and thoroughly through the first of a series of three short texts that encapsulate the fundamentals of the tradition of pramana, authentic knowing, called Dudra: The Collected Topics, composed by Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen. This text provides definitions for all of the fundamental phenomena, or dharmas, which are identified in the Abhidharma tradition, and organizes them in a way that brings out their inner meaning.

Core Materials

1. The Blazing Lights of the Sun and Moon

Supplemental Materials

1. Types of Existence

2. Syllogism in Buddhism

3. Components of a Syllogism from Debate in Tibetan Buddhism

4. "The Six Investigations" from The Treasury of Knowledge, the Chapter on Shamatha and Vipashyana

Class Notes

1. Class 1

2. Class 2

3. Class 3

4. Class 4

5. Class 5

Class Recordings

1. January 20, 2009

2. January 27, 2009

3. February 3, 2009

4. February 10, 2009

5. February 17, 2009

6. February 24, 2009