Rethink For a Better Tomorrow

Venerable Thubten Tarpa reflects on how we might bring our integrity and consideration for others to bear to areas such as public health and racial injustice in order to create the causes for a better future.

The Role of the Mind and Culture in Medicine

Venerable Thubten Damcho reflects on the role that the mind and culture play in our perceptions of illness and how that shapes our responses and their outcomes, including in the present COVID-19 pandemic.

We Can Prevent the Next Pandemic

Venerable Tenzin Tsepal shares research by Dr. Michael Gregor on the history of pandemics and offers ideas on how we can all do our part to help prevent the next pandemic.

Survival of the Most Cooperative

Venerable Thubten Tarpa shares how solidarity amongst the people of Rwanda has helped them to save lives and contain the spread of COVID-19.

Biology of the Coronavirus

Venerable Thubten Nyima begins a series of talks looking into how the coronavirus actually works and the potential for a vaccine.

Going Stir Crazy?

Going stir crazy from staying home all day during a pandemic? Venerable Thubten Chodron offers ideas on how to cultivate our good qualities and contribute to society despite disruptions to our “normal” routines.

What Is the New Normal?

Venerable Thubten Semkye encourages us not to be complacent with the “new normal” created by the coronavirus and build a new paradigm based on compassion, inclusion, and equanimity.

No Room For Despair

Venerable Thubten Damcho shares how watching a webinar on “COVID-19: Reflections and Updates” with Dr. Anthony Fauci and the founders of Partners in Health gives her hope, because of the kindness and dedicated efforts of public health professionals to protect life. Watch the webinar here

Stop Self-Sabotage

Venerable Thubten Tsultrim reflects on how denying reality—whether about the COVID-19 pandemic, or the fact that we will die—sabotages our own happiness, and how learning the Buddha’s teachings on the nature of reality can free us from suffering.

A Bodhisattva Practice for the Pandemic

Venerable Thubten Samten shares about front-line healthcare workers who are caring altruistically for COVID patients and encourages everyone to wear masks to care for them and others in return. Watch the call for wearing masks from healthcare workers here.
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