The Political and Religious Climate among the Tanguts With the establishment of the Khitan Liao Dynasty in Mongolia, Manchuria, and parts of northern Han China in 947, and the Northern Song reunification of the rest of Han China in 960, the Tanguts became pressed from both the...

With a beginningless mental continuum of uncontrollably recurring rebirths, what makes us develop a bodhichitta aim the first time?

Working on ourselves entails listening to, pondering, and meditating on the teachings with analytical meditation and then with stabilizing meditation.

Learn the difference between doing a shamatha meditation on compassion and a vipashyana meditation on compassion – between doing the analytical one and the stabilizing one.

According to Mahayana texts, if we get angry for even one moment at a bodhisattva whom we do not know is a bodhisattva, it devastates the positive potential that we have built up for many eons.

By applying methods for developing patience, we can avoid the problems that anger causes.

Anuttarayoga Tantra, the Highest Class of Tantra There are four classes of tantra. The highest class of tantra, the most sophisticated, is called anuttarayoga – the highest, unsurpassable tantra. In this class, we have an even more effective tantra level than the other three...

Lecture by the Dalai Lama at the University of Maryland, USA promoting religious harmony and the implementation of moral values in everyday life.

Yongdzin Ling Rinpoche explains the Gelug Prasangika presentation of appearances being the play of the mind.

Brief Review We are continuing our discussion of dependent arising of the self in relation to others. We have been expanding the Buddhist presentation of dependent arising with the five dimensions of relational reality coming from contextual therapy, a branch of family...