Tibetan Buddhism

Classic teachings of Buddhism in the Tibetan lineage; contemporary takes on those teachings.

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Wisdom of the Kadam Masters

Meditating on the media

How to transform the way we watch media by turning it into a meditation on…

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Wisdom of the Kadam Masters

Bad friends

How we can be influenced by worldly friends who take us away from our Dharma…

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Wisdom of the Kadam Masters

Causes of the afflictions

The first three causes of afflictions (the seed, the object, and inappropriate attention) and how…

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Wisdom of the Kadam Masters

Who’s walking?

More practical ways we can meditate on selflessness in our daily lives.

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Wisdom of the Kadam Masters

The best learning

Why selflessness is the best teaching, and practical ways we can begin to meditate on…

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Wisdom of the Kadam Masters

The teaching of no-self

The beginning of a commentary on quotations by the Kadam masters, starting with a teaching…

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Venerable Chodron, smiling.
A Nun's Life

Women in Buddhism

The journey into Buddhism, what it's like to be a female Buddhist leader, views on…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 8: Verses 185-200

Geshe Thabkhe concludes the teachings on making the mindstream receptive to the development of spiritual…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 8: Verses 178-184

Geshe Thabkhe teaches on methods to eliminate disturbing emotions and talks about how they can…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapters 7-8: Verses 171-177

Geshe Thabkhe teaches on inappropriateness of accumulating merit for higher rebirths in cyclic existence and…

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