Stages of the Path to Awakening Podcast Archives - Thubten Chodron

Finishing Chapter 4 by describing the differences in content of the three baskets, or tripitaka, between the three extant Buddhist canons.

Briefly covering tantra and beginning a section on the content of the three extant Buddhist canons.

Teaching on how the Mahayana sutras first appeared, gained popularity and became the focus of a body of practitioners who called themselves 'Mahayanists.'

Covering the section “Early Buddhism in Sri Lanka” in Chapter 4.

Covering the sections “The Buddha’s Life” and “Early Buddhist Schools” in Chapter 4.

Covering the section “Vehicles and Paths” in Chapter 4 on the different paths to awakening followed in the Pali and Sanskrit Buddhist traditions.

Beginning Chapter 4 "The Spread of the Buddhadharma and Buddhist Canons."

Teaching on the six roots of dispute, and the principle of 'survival of the most cooperative.'

Teaching on various qualities of mind to abandon, and others to adopt, such as fear, desire, and hope.

Venerable Thubten Samten reviews the three types of dependent origination.