The Dalai Lama shares his appreciation for all religions since they bring deep benefit to humanity. Knowledge of each other’s religions brings understanding that they all have that same goal.

Dr. Berzin reminisces about his relationship with his teacher, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey.

Dr. Berzin reminisces about his relationship with his teacher, Yongdzin Ling Rinpoche.

Introduction If we’ve received a tantric initiation, we usually commit to doing the associated practice every day for the rest of our lives. Many Tibetans take these empowerments with the motivation of planting seeds for their future lives, with no aim to really practice...

Introduction In the first part of this series, we looked at the initial level of motivation where we aim to avoid lower rebirths and gain a higher rebirth. In particular, we want a precious human rebirth so that we can improve in our practice. The intermediate scope is when we...

A Gelug presentation of the topic of negations and affirmations, which are crucial in meditating on the negation phenomenon, voidness.

A correct understanding of voidness requires a clear understanding of the difference between an implicative negation phenomena, which after negating something leaves both that negation and an affirmation of something else, and a non-implicative negation, which leaves just the...

Introduction  This weekend we are going to be speaking about negations (dgag-pa) and affirmations (sgrub-pa). Although there are quite different explanations of this in the different Tibetan traditions, we’ll present here only the presentation that we find in the Gelug...

Lecture by Dr. Imtiyaz Yusuf on the new wars of religion powered by the new ideology of religious nationalism that are destroying peaceful coexistence for citizens globally. As Buddhism teaches, education and knowledge is needed to counter the ignorance that is fueling current...

It’s important to understand that nirvana and enlightenment aren’t the same. Nirvana is the first step. Enlightenment is the second step.