A ‘MASTERPIECE’ TIBETAN DEFENCE AND REVIVAL OF YOGACĀRĀ ‘MIND-ONLY’: Extensive Commentary on Indian master Vasubandhu’s ‘Thirty Verses of Mind-Only’ by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa (Introduction/Day 1, January 2022)

"As we have made the Mind (or awareness)-Only the opponent in the Middle Way's texts, we say it is a bad philosophy and we think that Nāgārjuna completely finished off the Mind-Only school and totally defeated them. Yet this blocks the door of our beginning to really investigate the Mind-Only school properly." "In Tibetan, we… Continue reading A ‘MASTERPIECE’ TIBETAN DEFENCE AND REVIVAL OF YOGACĀRĀ ‘MIND-ONLY’: Extensive Commentary on Indian master Vasubandhu’s ‘Thirty Verses of Mind-Only’ by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa (Introduction/Day 1, January 2022)

‘MIND-ONLY’ PHILOSOPHY IN TIBET (PART I): Translation of Mind-Only texts into Tibetan, reasons why the Mind-Only School did not spread in Tibet, inaccurate explanations in Tibet of the Mind-Only view; and the classification of the five Dharmas of Maitreya (17th Karmapa teaching, Day 7, 2022))

"We think that the Mind-Only (Cittamatra) is just as it appears to the Middle Way (Madhyamaka) proponents. This is a rather dictatorial way of looking at it. It seems the Tibetans have not really treated the Middle Way that objectively or fairly. That is how I see it." "In brief, the situation that occurred is… Continue reading ‘MIND-ONLY’ PHILOSOPHY IN TIBET (PART I): Translation of Mind-Only texts into Tibetan, reasons why the Mind-Only School did not spread in Tibet, inaccurate explanations in Tibet of the Mind-Only view; and the classification of the five Dharmas of Maitreya (17th Karmapa teaching, Day 7, 2022))