00:00 Does emptiness have positive qualities? Is buddha nature the return of atman? 01:00 Ringu Tulku and Jamgon Kongtrul explaining Rangtong vs. Shentong 03:15 Khenpo Rinpoche on Shentong resembling mind-only teachings 05:27 Origins of tathagatagarbha 08:20 Passage from The Buddhist Self on the origins of tathagatagarbha 15:10 Khenpo Rinpoche listing benefits of the tathagatagarbha idea…
00:00 See Resurrecting Candrakirti for detailed discussion of Prasangika 00:50 Shift from conceptual to nonconceptual meaning of “emptiness” 01:45 William James on mystical experience 02:42 Alan Watts describing the mystical experience in This is it 06:15 Khenpo Rinpoche introducing Prasangika 09:30 Faith Mind Inscription by the Third Patriarch of Zen 16:33 Khenpo Rinpoche on going…
00:00 Recap of Yogacara and Madhyamaka 01:30 Svatantrika vs. Prasangika 02:50 Rangtong vs. Shentong 03:43 Khenpo Rinpoche on how Madhyamaka goes beyond Yogacara 05:09 Khenpo Rinpoche demonstrating the argument style 07:00 Deriving emptiness from foundational concepts 07:44 Emptiness = Impermanence + Dependent Arising 10:15 Parallels with Derrida 12:35 Yogacara and Madhyamaka on social construction 13:30…
I made a podcast to try something different. It’s a series of 6 lectures on the Buddhist concept of emptiness. It should be interesting to people who like meditation and philosophy. It has some popping and clicking but hopefully not enough to make it unlistenable. ——— 00:00 Emptiness teachings address human misery 01:40 Intended audience:…