wisdom

Teachings on how to cultivate wisdom on many different levels, ranging from the wisdom that understands karma and its effects, the four truths, and how to benefit others, to the wisdom realizing the ultimate nature of reality.

Latest Posts

View all posts in Venerable Thubten Chodron's teaching archive.

Group photo from teachings at Phendeling Center.
Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland

The results of the collections of wisdom and merit

The collection of merit is the principal cause of the Buddha's form body, the collection…

View Post
Group photo from teachings at Phendeling Center.
Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland

Boundless wisdom and compassion

Compassion is essential for all, not just spiritual practitioners. The two kinds of wisdom—wisdom of…

View Post
Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

The equivalents of existents

Venerable Tenzin Tsepal teaches on the seven equivalents of the term existent, and engages the…

View Post
Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland

The nature of pleasure and pain

The third of three talks based on the book “Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness.” Commentary…

View Post
Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Review: Chapters 7-8

Venerable Tenzin Tsepal leads a review of Chapters 7 and 8, and begins going through…

View Post
Silhouette of man sitting in meditation in country meadow.
On Impermanence

Yes, but

All living beings desire security and stability. How can we, as Buddhists, reconcile this need…

View Post
Gomchen Lamrim

The correct view

Continuation of the commentary on verses from Je Rinpoche's "Three Principle Aspects of the Path,"…

View Post
White double dorje over red background.
Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

The benefits of the study of Dudra

An introduction to Dudra, a branch of Buddhist philosophy.

View Post
Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Divisions of the selfless

Teaching on the divisions of the selfless, after a lively discussion about syllogisms created by…

View Post
Preview image of Divisions of Selfless chart.
Buddhist Reasoning and Debate

Divisions of the selfless

The division of all phenomena according to the Sautrantika tenet school.

View Post
Close-up photo of the Kuan Yin
Texts to Recite and Contemplate

Sorrow and Hope

A prayer to Kuan Yin, a female manifestation of the Buddha of Compassion, in light…

View Post
Gomchen Lamrim

Dependent arising

Sharing a newly written prayer to Kwan Yin and teaching on the relationship between emptiness…

View Post