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

Beginning to teach Chapter 16, 'Challengers and Defenders', which focuses on the two key roles in a structured debate in the Indian and Tibetan system.

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

Covering Chapter 15 on the topic of “Choosing Your Debate Partner” and becoming a suitable debate partner ourselves.

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

Finishing Chapter 13 “Valid Cognition” and covering Chapter 14 “The Three Spheres of Agent, Object, and Action.”

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

Venerable Tenzin Tsepal leads the class through the first few comparisons of different kinds of consciousnesses in Exercise 12.1 on page 245.

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

Covering the last section in Chapter 12 “Believing in Something That Is Not Real” and beginning Chapter 13 “Valid Cognition.”