renunciation
Renunciation, or the determination to be free, is the attitude aspiring to be free from all suffering and to attain the liberation that is freedom from cyclic existence.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron The preliminaries
How the Buddhist teachings plant in our minds the seed of the realizations that will…
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Lama Tsongkhapa - Apr 16, 2002
Lama Tsongkhapa The Three Principal Aspects of the Path
Verses on the essence of the path to awakening by Je Tsongkhapa, the founder of…
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Balancing the spiritual and material
Teaching on finding the middle way between the two extremes of asceticism and indulgence.
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About Venerable Bhikshuni Wu Yin
Brief biography of vinaya master Venerable Bhikshuni Wu Yin whose commentary on the Bhikshuni pratimoksha…
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Monastic life: a living tradition
The story behind "Choosing Simplicity," a commentary by vinaya master Venerable Bhikshuni Wu Yin on…
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Manjushri and the three vehicles
A description of how the Manjushri practice fits within the three vehicles, some historical perspective,…
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The Mind and Life VIII conference: Destructive emotions
A perennial human predicament: the nature and destructive potential of “negative” emotions.
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Audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
A question-and-answer session with His Holiness regarding ordination and the situation and practice of the…
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Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo The situation of Western monastics
A statement to His Holiness the Dalai Lama illustrating the difference between Asian and Western…
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Khandro Rinpoche
- Dec 28, 1999
Living the Dharma
The importance of studying the teachings and meditating on them, making the Dharma central to…
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Ajahn Sundara The Theravada sangha goes west
The birth of a Thai Monastery in England. How the female community created a new…
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