Atisha's Lamp for the Path To Enlightenment; 04-August-2008 (Day 1 of 3; Morning) - Dalai Lama Audio Teachings on Tibetan Buddhism Podcast

His Holiness the Dalai Lama welcomes the main students of this teaching, a group of Buddhists from Korea. He compares the responses of the great spiritual philosophies to three questions: What is the nature of the self? Does the self have a beginning? Does the self come to an end? For Buddhism, a causeless ‘beginning’ is not reasonable because material phenomena and consciousness can only arise in dependence upon their suitable/necessary causes and conditions. And the self appears in dependence upon imputation by consciousness.