Bodhisattvacaryavatara

196 teachings

Shantideva's classic 8th-century guide to the bodhisattva path, covering the six perfections and the conduct that follows from bodhicitta.

6 Perfections - Effort (Geshe Pema Tsering)

2 teachings
  • 6 Perfections – Effort — 2001-09-27 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 45-minute commentary, Geshe Pema Tsering opens the…

  • 6 Perfections – Effort — 2001-09-27 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The "laziness of defeatism" — the inner voice insisting…

Bodhisattva Vows (Tenzin Chogkyi)

4 teachings
  • Bodhisattva Vows — 2012-08-15 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 26-minute session, Tenzin Chogkyi lays the foundational…

  • Bodhisattva Vows — 2012-08-22 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 96-minute teaching, Buddhist nun and teacher Tenzin…

  • Bodhisattva Vows — 2012-09-05 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 109-minute teaching, Tenzin Chogkyi guides practitioners through…

  • Bodhisattva Vows — 2012-09-12 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 1 hour 56 minute teaching, Tenzin Chogkyi…

Bodhisattva Vows (Ven Jampa Gendun)

2 teachings
  • Bodhisattva Vows — 01 BV Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. What makes a practice truly Mahāyāna? In this 103-minute…

  • Bodhisattva Vows — 02 BV Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Using the image of emptiness as mother and bodhicitta…

Bodhisattva Way of Life (Geshe Pema Tsering)

42 teachings
  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-04-04 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A burning house left unattended — that is Geshe…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-04-04 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Two striking rebirth stories anchor this 45-minute commentary by…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-04-04 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this brief 6-minute session, Geshe Pema Tsering touches…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-04-11 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Opening with Milarepa's story — fleeing to the forest…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-04-11 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Using the image of a blind beggar stumbling on…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-04-11 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A pointed question drives this two-minute excerpt from Geshe…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-05-02 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A Mara disguised as a beggar who demands Śāriputra's…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-05-02 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The gravest of the eighteen Bodhisattva vow transgressions —…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-05-09 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Opening on Togmé Zangpo's petition to gurus and Buddhas…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-05-09 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Using the image of hell-realm beings who see horse-headed…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-05-16 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A striking comparison anchors this 45-minute session: external enemies…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-05-16 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Why do we fight back hard against people who…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-05-30 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The image of a mad elephant — standing for…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-05-30 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A vivid image anchors this 45-minute session: the mind…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-06-06 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 44-minute commentary, Geshe Pema Tsering opens with…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-06-06 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The vivid image of a person carefully guarding a…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-06-13 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Using the image of a vase with a hole…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-06-13 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 45-minute session, Geshe Pema Tsering uses two…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-06-20 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Geshe Pema Tsering opens this 44-minute commentary with Atisha's…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-06-20 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A dilemma many practitioners face — being a mutual…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-06-26 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Opening with Milarepa's challenge — if we must leave…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-06-26 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A crane stalking fish and a cat hunting birds…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-07-25 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 41-minute session, Geshe Pema Tsering uses a…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-07-25 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Sleep as a virtuous act is the unexpected opening…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-08-01 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A nuanced doctrinal argument opens this 41-minute commentary by…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-08-01 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. "Should you get angry at a stick that hits…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-08-22 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The king's minister analogy — if a minister harms…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-08-22 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 45-minute talk, Geshe Pema Tsering works through…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-09-05 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 45-minute commentary, Geshe Pema Tsering opens with…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-09-05 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Opening with the Guru Puja verse that self-cherishing is…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-10-24 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Opening with Milarepa's example of abandoning all possessions, Geshe…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2002-10-24 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Why did the Buddha seem to contradict himself about…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2003-03-15 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A verse comparing virtuous human thought to a flash…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2003-03-15 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 44-minute commentary, Geshe Pema Tsering opens with…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2008-07-28 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Geshe Pema Tsering opens this 106-minute commentary with a…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2008-07-29 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. An audience member's sharp question stops the session mid-story:…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2008-08-12 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Holding a lit match and refusing to drop it:…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2008-08-19 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Śāntideva's inner monologue — "He is honored, but I…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2008-08-26 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 95-minute session, Geshe Pema Tsering tackles a…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2008-09-09 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A verse comparing the practitioner to a "newly married…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2008-09-16 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A student's pointed question near the close of this…

  • Bodhisattva Way of Life — 2008-09-23 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Why does the mind exhaust itself reacting to praise…

Bodhisattva Way of Life 2002 Month 01-03 (Geshe Pema Tsering)

16 teachings

Bodhisattva Way of Life 2005 Feb-Mar (Geshe Pema Tsering)

16 teachings

Bodhisattva Way of Life 2005 Mar -2007 (Geshe Pema Tsering)

88 teachings

Bodhisattva vows (Geshe Pema Tsering)

7 teachings
  • Bodhisattva vows — 2005-02-06 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Can voting for a politician who wages war breach…

  • Bodhisattva vows — 2005-02-13 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A cup of tea becomes the pivot point of…

  • Bodhisattva vows — 2005-02-13 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Geshe Pema Tsering uses a verse from the Guru…

  • Bodhisattva vows — 2005-02-20 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 16-minute talk, Geshe Pema Tsering opens by…

  • Bodhisattva vows — 2005-02-20 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. An archer who shoots without looking at the target…

  • Bodhisattva vows — 2005-03-05 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. "Can a meditator visualize being a Buddha while still…

  • Bodhisattva vows — 2005-03-05 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 15-minute Q&A exchange, Geshe Pema Tsering opens…

Bodhisattva vows commentary year unknown (Geshe Pema Tsering)

2 teachings

Shantideva Ch9 Wisdom (Khensur Rinpoche)

13 teachings
  • Shantideva Ch9 Wisdom — 1994-03-29 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The sustained debate between Prāsaṇgika Mādhyamika and lower Buddhist…

  • Shantideva Ch9 Wisdom — 1994-08-09 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Opening with Āryadeva's claim that even mere skepticism about…

  • Shantideva Ch9 Wisdom — 1994-08-16 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A monk so determined to break food attachment that…

  • Shantideva Ch9 Wisdom — 1994-08-23 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The scientific claim that mind is simply the brain…

  • Shantideva Ch9 Wisdom — 1994-08-30 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The rope mistaken for a snake — Khensur Rinpoche…

  • Shantideva Ch9 Wisdom — 1994-10-25 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A verse from Buddha Śākyamūni himself opens this 77-minute…

  • Shantideva Ch9 Wisdom — 1994-11-01 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 48-minute session, Khensur Rinpoche tackles two interlocking…

  • Shantideva Ch9 Wisdom — 1994-11-01 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 50-minute commentary on Chapter Nine of Śāntideva's…

  • Shantideva Ch9 Wisdom — 1994-11-08 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The image of a hundred elephants balanced on a…

  • Shantideva Ch9 Wisdom — 1994-11-15 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Khensur Rinpoche opens this 102-minute commentary with an image…

  • Shantideva Ch9 Wisdom — 1994-11-22 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 101-minute commentary, Khensur Rinpoche anchors his analysis…

  • Shantideva Ch9 Wisdom — 1994-11-29 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The hand analogy — no single finger is the…

  • Shantideva Ch9 Wisdom — 1994-12-06 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The shock of being called a thief over the…

The Six Perfections (Plamo)

4 teachings
  • The Six Perfections — 01 The Six Perfections Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Plamo opens this weekend course on the Six Perfections—the…

  • The Six Perfections — 02 The Six Perfections Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this session on the Six Perfections, teacher Plamo…

  • The Six Perfections — 03 The Six Perfections Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Plamo teaches the second paramita, patience, as the antidote…

  • The Six Perfections — 04 The Six Perfections Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this teaching on the fourth perfection, Plamo addresses…

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