Tag: Yogacara

Dharmabyte: There’s Potentiality In Every Moment

By Zac on Thu, 20 Oct, 2022 - 06:00

Does my life matter? Can I really say that actions have consequences? In this short talk Kavyamani explores the Yogacara teaching of the Alaya Vijnana, commonly referred to as the storehouse consciousness, reflecting that all our actions are like seeds and at some point they will bear fruit.

Excerpted from the talk ‘Everything Matters and Nothing Is Lost’ given in the Dharma Parlour tent at Buddhafield, as part of the series ...

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Dharma Teaching - Beginners Buddhism: Mahayana Buddhism, A Six-Week Course (Achala)

By Centre Team on Sun, 17 Jul, 2016 - 21:36

Here you can download handouts for a six-week course introducing the various schools of Mahayana Buddhism. The handouts were provided by Achala from New Zealand. Please note that Achala says they all need further improvement!

This is what Achala said about his intentions when designing this course:

I tried to construct a course such that it:
covers what an average human being needs to effectively practice Buddhism.

doesn’t not have a scholastic bent (so a few Pali/Sanskrit terms seemed reasonable but not so many as
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File Name	Size
Week 1 - The Emergence of Mahayana Buddhism (PDF)	111.49 KB
Week 1 Replacement - The Emergence of Mahayana Buddhism by Sagaraghosa (PDF)	807.07 KB
Week 2 - The Bodhisattva	117.94 KB
Week 3 - The Wisdom Schools (PDF)	117.94 KB
Week 4 - Yogacara and Zen (PDF)	110.83 KB
Week 5 - Pure Land, Hua-yan, and Vajrayana (PDF)	107.65 KB
Week 6 - The Unity of Buddhism (PDF)	114.12 KB