Tibetan Buddhism

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

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 1: Verses 9-16

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe responds to questions and continues giving commentary on Verses 9 to 16,…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 1: Verses 1-8

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe begins the teachings on abandoning the belief in permanence by covering Verses…

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Travels

Trip to India

Venerable Thubten Chodron talks about her trip to India and the precious opportunity to meet…

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Bodhisattva Path

Buddha’s first precious teaching

To celebrate Turning the Wheel of Dharma Day, an esteemed Tibetan lama offers a teaching…

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Parting from the Four Clingings

Practical advice on attachment and pilgrimage

Down-to-earth help for busy lives: "Practicing Dharma is all inside." From a female Tibetan Lama…

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Parting from the Four Clingings

Opportunities that counteract attachment

One of the few female Tibetan lamas offers guidance on lessening our attachment to worldly…

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Benefits of cultivating bodhicitta

Combining the two techniques for cultivating bodhicitta and the benefits of cultivating bodhicitta.

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Discussion: Mind-only school

A discussion session regarding uncompounded space, objects as reflections of mind, and cause and effect…

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Generating bodhicitta

Equalizing and exchanging self and others and the seven-fold cause and effect relationship.

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Tenets with Geshe Dorji Damdul

Emptiness and bodhicitta

The benefits of generating bodhicitta and how emptiness and bodhicitta can support one another.

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