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Wheel of Sharp Weapons

“Good Karma” book launch

Karmic results are happening all the time in our life and all the time we…

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Venerable teaching and smiling.
Love and Self-esteem

No need to fake it: Developing true self-confidence

Our good qualities, the basic purity of our mind and inborn potential, are the basis…

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Meditation

Making progress in meditation

If we are content to create the causes for progress in our meditation practice, the…

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Wisdom

The Vimalakirti Sutra: How to be reborn in a pure land

The qualities of pure lands and the qualities that we need to cultivate in order…

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Wisdom

The Vimalakirti Sutra: Introduction

The Buddha’s profound teachings are conveyed through an engaging dialogue between his great arhat and…

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Ven. Chodron standing with a nun from Pu Yi Nunnery and Ven. Damcho.
Bodhisattva Path

Inspiring the heart on the path

How to meditate to cultivate bodhicitta using Shantideva's step-by-step instruction on equalizing and exchanging self…

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Full Ordination for Nuns

The bhikshuni sangha in the West and its future

The current situation, progress and future outlook for Buddhist nuns in the West. The status…

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Gomchen Lamrim

Gomchen Lamrim review: Karma

Venerable Thubten Semkye reviews the law of karma and its effects.

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The Importance of Motivation

Overcoming the eight worldly concerns

Though it is difficult to acknowledge our problems with the eight worldly concerns, when we…

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