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The document outlines key aspects of Buddhism, including its fundamentals, the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, and the major schools of Buddhist philosophy in both India and Tibet. It discusses the importance of virtues, renunciation, and the concept of taking refuge in a master. Additionally, it highlights the cultural aspects of Buddhism and provides insights into introducing Buddhism to non-Buddhists.

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Outline of The Talk

The document outlines key aspects of Buddhism, including its fundamentals, the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path, and the major schools of Buddhist philosophy in both India and Tibet. It discusses the importance of virtues, renunciation, and the concept of taking refuge in a master. Additionally, it highlights the cultural aspects of Buddhism and provides insights into introducing Buddhism to non-Buddhists.

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Outline of the talk

Buddhism as a way of life

Fundamentals of Buddhist way of life - All about inculcating virtues and avoiding non-virtues

Ten virtues and non-virtues

"Doing no evil whatsoever; Practice virtue perfectly; Tame your mind completely; This is the
teaching of the Buddha"

The Four Noble Truth

The Noble Eightfold Path

37 Bodhi factors

Triple Gem - The Three Precious Ones, The Fourth Precious One

The Four Reminders (mind-changing/changers, attitude-reversers)

Buddhism as a culture

The Two Truths - Conventional & Ultimate

The Dharma of Two Truths - ཀུན་རྫོབ་པའི་ཆོས་དཀོན་མཆོག། བཀའ་དང་བསྟན་བཅོས། དོན་དམ་པའི་ཆོས་དཀོན་མཆོག།


ནང་དོན་རྣམ་པར་བརྫོད་བྱ་ སངས་རྒྱས་ཐོབ་བྱྱེད་ཀི་ སྤངས་རྫོགས།
Practices

The Four Main Indian Buddhist Schools

In the development of Buddhist philosophy in India, four major schools of philosophy


historically have come to be recognized. The first of these is known as the Vaibashika school,

which literally means "the analyst བྱྱེ་བྲག་ཏུ་སྨྲ་བ།", those who analyze things in detail. The second
is known as the Sautantrika, which means "those who follow the Sutras མདོ་སྱེ་པ།". The third is

the Cittamatra, or Yogacara school, which literally means the "mind-only སེམ་ཙམ་པ།" school. And
the fourth is the Madhayamika or "Middle Way དབུ་མ་པ།" school of philosophy. When you hear
discussions of Buddhist philosophical schools, these four tend to be mentioned.

The Four Main Tibetan Buddhist Schools

In the case of the Tibetan tradition of Buddhism, the earliest school of thought established in
Tibet is the one that we know as the Nyingma, "the early translation" or "ancient school". Then,
in chronological order, the Sakya school, the Kagyu school, and the Gelugpa school developed.
Again, if we were to try to count, or assess, the number of commentaries written by the
masters of these four schools of Tibetan Buddhism on Madhayamika, on emptiness, all we can
say is that there are a lot. Nobody's ever sat down and actually figured out how many, but there
are an enormous number of commentaries. In ratio to the amount of commentary about the
Middle Way philosophy of emptiness, there was a profusion of controversy among the various
schools of thought as to who had the right view, who had the correct interpretation, and so-
forth. There has been quite a history of spirited controversy and debate in Tibet.

Renunciation

Ordainment and Training

Refuge Taking

Taking refuge in a master

Introducing Buddhism to Our Non-Buddhist Partners

What is Buddhism?

Insider

Conventional Aspect

Unconventional Aspect

Iconographic Aspect

The Spiritual Circle of Buddhism

What a Buddhist Must Know

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