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Essentials
What Is Prayer in Buddhism?
Dr. Alexander Berzin, Matt Lindén
The purpose of prayer in Buddhism.
How to Develop Compassion
Dr. Alexander Berzin, Matt Lindén
Buddhist methods for developing compassion, the beneficial state of mind wishing for others to be free of their suffering.
What Is Refuge?
Matt Lindén
Refuge provides us with a path to follow, so that we’re always heading in a good direction. No matter what happens around us, this will give us strength and meaning in life.

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Tibetan Buddhism
Everyone Can Become a Buddha
Dr. Alexander Berzin
Everyone has the Buddha-nature factors that will enable them to reach enlightenment and become a Buddha.
How I Found My Spiritual Master
Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche II
Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche describes how and why he chose his teacher to be his guru.
What Is a Disturbing Emotion?
Dr. Alexander Berzin
Disturbing emotions are those that make us lose peace of mind and self-control.

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Advanced Studies
Meditations for Recognizing the Five Aggregates
Dr. Alexander Berzin
The five aggregates perpetuate suffering and unsatisfactory happiness, yet the state of mind that will get rid of the source of our suffering is within the five aggregates.
Details of Ways of Knowing: 6 Non-Determining Cognition
Geshe Sonam Rinchen, Dr. Alexander Berzin
With non-determining cognition, the involved object of the cognition appears clearly and accurately, but without a decisive determination of it.
Requests to the Seventeen Glorious Nalanda Pandits
The 14th Dalai Lama
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama invokes the spiritual masters of the Nalanda tradition.

Interviews

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Interview with Dr. Alan Wallace

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Interview with Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron
Matt Lindén
Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron discusses the challenges of cultural adaptation, the transformative power of reasoning, and the real meaning of deity practice.
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Interview with Dr. Imtiyaz Yusuf
Matt Lindén
Dr. Imtiyaz Yusuf talks about the limits of interfaith dialogue, the shared values of Buddhism and Islam, and some inspiring stories of the Prophet Muhammad.

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Letter to a Friend – Section 9: Sufferings of the Various Rebirth States
Dr. Alexander Berzin
Two Paths, One Quest: Inner Peace in Buddhism and Islam
Dr. Mohamed Ashath (Ashath Siraas)
The Buddhist path to inner peace is taming the mind; the path in Islam is remembrance and trust in God.
Letter to a Friend – Section 8: Death & the Precious Human Rebirth
Dr. Alexander Berzin
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