Seventy Topics

69 teachings

An exhaustive enumeration of the central topics in the Prajnaparamita literature, used in monastic study.

Seventy Topics (Geshe Pema Tsering)

69 teachings
  • Seventy Topics — 2003-01-30 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Opening with Je Rinpoche's verse on never generating the…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-01-30 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The session opens with the story of Asaṇga's twelve-year…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-02-06 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A student's question — what happens to a child's…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-02-06 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Opening with the puzzle of whether uncompounded space and…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-02-13 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Opening with Candrakīrti's image of a bucket in a…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-02-13 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Geshe Pema Tsering opens this 34-minute Seventy Topics session…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-02-20 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 45-minute session with a…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-02-20 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A memorable image opens this 38.5-minute session: the bodhisattva…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-02-21 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A striking analogy opens this 45-minute session: Geshe Pema…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-02-21 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A story about a Buddha who kept playing a…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-03-06 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 opens with…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-03-06 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Three vivid metaphors — the king who secures enlightenment…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-03-20 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Opening with Śāntideva's observation that suffering has one redeeming…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-03-20 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 on the Seventy Topics, Geshe…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-03-27 Apr 14, 2026

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

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-03-27 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 works through…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-04-10 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The question of what makes an aspiration "stainless" gives…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-04-10 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 35-minute session, Geshe Pema Tsering opens with…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-04-10 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The observation that aging sneaks up on us —…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-05-08 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A logical argument from the philosopher Dharmakīrti opens this…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-05-08 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 36-minute commentary with a…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-05-15 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A verse from Maitreya's Ornament to the Sutras anchors…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-05-15 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The session opens with a precise mapping: each of…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-05-22 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Why are the four stages of the path of…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-05-29 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 opens with…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-05-29 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 a…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-05-29 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 14.6-minute talk, Geshe Pema Tsering draws a…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-06-05 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The session opens with a striking comparison: we and…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-06-05 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The moment emptiness is first realized directly marks a…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-06-12 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. "Even a computer couldn't calculate the karma accumulated in…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-06-12 Apr 14, 2026

    Teacher: Geshe Pema Tsering Duration: 44m This transcript was generated using AI speech recognition and correction File: 04 ST5 2003 06 12.mp3 Collection: Audio Recordings…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-06-12 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 45-minute commentary with a…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-06-12 Apr 14, 2026

    Teacher: Geshe Pema Tsering Duration: 45m This transcript was generated using AI speech recognition and correction File: 06 ST5 2003 06 12.mp3 Collection: Audio Recordings…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-06-26 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…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-06-26 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Twelve named varieties of dedication on the path of…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-06-26 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A Śāntideva verse making enlightenment sound deceptively simple opens…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-06-26 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 works through…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-07-03 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…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-07-03 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Whether suffering and happiness cease to exist when we…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-07-03 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Opening with a sūtra verse naming three doors to…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-07-03 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 works through…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-07-24 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Renunciation — not bodhicitta — is where Geshe Pema…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-07-24 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 unpacks a…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-07-31 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The talk opens with a concrete distinction: generosity and…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-07-31 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 24-minute session, Geshe Pema Tsering works through…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-08-07 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The draft paragraph is ready. It opens with the…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-08-07 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A live terminology debate — whether to say "definition"…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-08-07 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. What separates a practitioner of "sharp faculties" from one…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-08-14 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Opening with Śāntideva's assertion that all the Buddha's teachings…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-08-14 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Geshe-la's candid admission that he doesn't know where hell…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-08-28 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A student's question — "isn't that literally suicide?" —…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-08-28 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A subtle terminological distinction opens this 44-minute session: Geshe…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-08-28 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A student's blunt question — "Isn't getting rid of…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-08-28 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A precise distinction opens this 44-minute commentary on the…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-09-04 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 opens with…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-09-04 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A translation dispute between rival commentaries opens this 44-minute…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-09-11 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Opening with Śāntideva's verse on the difference between wanting…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-09-11 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 illustrates a…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-09-18 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The image of sun and moon opens this 42-minute…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-09-18 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A live translation puzzle gives this 45-minute commentary its…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-10-15 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Opening with Śāntideva's image of even the weakest being…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-10-15 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The core question driving this 45-minute session is deceptively…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-10-23 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Using Tsongkhapa's image of the body as a water…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-10-23 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A lively dispute between Geshe Pema Tsering and his…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-10-30 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 45-minute commentary with a…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-11-06 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 session, Geshe Pema Tsering opens with…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-11-06 Apr 14, 2026

    Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Geshe Pema Tsering works through three of the twenty-one…

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-11-13 Apr 14, 2026

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

  • Seventy Topics — 2003-11-13 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 closing session of Geshe Pema Tsering's…

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