Professor Thurman begins this podcast with a detailed exploration of the concepts of absolute + relative realities as taught through the Buddhist Inner Sciences with commentary by Mark Epstein M.D..
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Recorded at the 2009 Tibet House US Self & Selflessness Retreat at Menla in Phoenicia, New York.

Image by Matjaz Krivic from the Tibet House US Exhibition “Silent Spaces” on Display through March 2017.
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