Mūlamadhyamakakārikā · 27 chapters
The Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way, Nāgārjuna's root text of Madhyamaka: some 450 verses in 27 chapters, each examining one thing we take to exist from its own side. Both books lean on it throughout. Each chapter has its own page: the verses in Sanskrit with a new English translation, a plain explanation with diagrams, and links to where the books discuss it.
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Energy practices Now on the site
Three subtle bodies, one method: the Taoist orbits, the Indian wheels and the Tibetan channels, winds and drops side by side. The method is shared; the view is not. Now its own topic in Explorations.
Chinese and Tibetan 5 Elements In the works
The Chinese five elements (wood, fire, earth, metal, water) and the Indian five (earth, water, fire, wind, space) both live in Tibet, in astrology, medicine, tantra and Dzogchen. Are they related? How each five moves, and where the view parts.
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