We can view sectarianism in Buddhism superficially but looking at it deeply, we discover it to be a complex issue.

Then the bodhisattva Ruchira-ketu slid into sleep. He dreamed he saw a golden drum, its light shining like the orb of the sun. In every direction, countless inconceivable numbers of tathagatas were preaching the Dharma, seated on lapis thrones at the foot of jeweled trees,...

Verse Eight: The Final Verse (8) Through a mind untarnished by stains of conceptions concerning the eight passing things, throughout all of this, and that knows all phenomena as an illusion, may I break free from my bondage, without any clinging. The Eight Worldly Dharmas The...

Both the sutras and tantras instruct disciples to regard the qualities and kindness of our mentors as those of a Buddha.

By gaining a calmer, more realistic view of ourselves, we can overcome self-hatred and be better able to realize our potentials.

All Indian Buddhist tenet systems, except Vaibhashika, agree that the validly knowable “me” is not a self-sufficiently knowable phenomenon, it is imputedly knowable.

Mind training is a method for transforming negative circumstances into positive ones through improving our attitudes toward them.

The lam-rim, or graded stages of the Buddhist path, take us from an ordinary limited being to a fully enlightened Buddha.

This weekend I’ve been asked to speak about self-voidness and other-voidness, what is called in Tibetan rangtong (rang-stong) and zhentong (gzhan-stong; shentong). This is a very advanced, very complicated and very important topic. Therefore, it requires a great deal of...

The Relation between Sensitivity Training and the Buddhist Teachings “Developing Balanced Sensitivity” is a program I developed for training to achieve emotional balance. It is based on the Buddhist teachings, so all the various practices in it derive from Buddhist sources;...