For the teaching style of a learned pandita, there are two approaches:

• The panditas of the glorious monastic university of Nalanda would teach the Word of the Buddha | Buddha’s words in terms of the five perfections and the treatises by means of Five Principal Considerations | five principal considerations.
• The panditas of the monastic university at Vikramashila would begin by making their audience suitably receptive and then describe Twofold certainty | two certainties regarding the origin of the teaching.<ref>Patrul Rinpoche, Preliminary Points To be Explained when Teaching the Buddha's Word or the Treatises, translated by Adam Pearcey.</ref>

• Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche, Lerab Ling, 25 August 2011

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