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Wooden Kuan Yin Statue
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2018

Immeasurable equanimity

The importance of the four immeasurables and an in-depth look into immeasurable equanimity.

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Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2018

“Letter to a Friend”: Verses 6-11

Exploring the recollection of generosity, ethical conduct, and the far-reaching attitudes of generosity and ethical…

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Wooden Kuan Yin Statue
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2018

Qualities of the three jewels

What taking refuge means, and some poetry and scriptural quotations about the qualities of the…

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Boxes stacked in a room with a wooden floor.
On Refuge and Bodhicitta

There are no enemies

How our Dharma practice can help us with our tendency to classify sentient beings into…

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Dharma in Daily Life

Keep a happy mind

Reflecting on the quote “Try to be happy in your practice and be satisfied in…

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Dharma in Daily Life

Being an example of wisdom

How to generate the wisdom that understands the law of karma, and the wisdom of…

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Gomchen Lamrim

The object of negation

Venerable Thubten Tarpa leads a review of the four point analysis meditation on emptiness, with…

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Tibetan nuns discussing physics experiments in class.
Science and Buddhism

American professor teaches physics to Tibetan nuns

Physics professor Nicole Ackerman (now Venerable Thubten Rinchen) writes about her experience teaching science to…

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Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Review of Definitions

Venerable Tenzin Tsepal leads a review of definitions from the divisions of the selfless, up…

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