The Blissful Understanding of Voidness  Now, we go on to the second half of the six-session guru practice:  Requested like this, my supreme guru alights on the crown of my head. We merge – samaja. Samaja is the Sanskrit word meaning “to unite.” It’s the same word “to...

Visualizing the Closely Bonding Being After having dissolved the objects of refuge, we now want to build up the two enlightenment-building networks – the two collections – because that was one of the five trainings of pledged bodhichitta. We again visualize our guru-yidam. Are...

The six-session yoga is a practice that helps us to keep the commitments from receiving an initiation or empowerment in the anuttarayoga class of tantra. This evening what I’d like to do is give a little bit of introduction and background to what’s going on with this practice...

Summary of the approaches of theistic and nontheistic religions toward teaching their followers ethics as the foundation for taking social responsibility for the common good and environmental protection.

As Sogdia and Bactria were major areas to which the Arabs first spread Islam in Central Asia, let us look more closely at the religious background of their people. This will help us understand their initial response to the Muslim faith. Zoroastrian Relations with Buddhism The...

With the hope of defraying some common misunderstandings and exploring resonances between Islam and Buddhism, “Inquiring Mind” set up a conversation between Dr. Alexander Berzin and Dr. Snjezana Akpinar, a Buddhist practitioner with an academic background in Islam.

Analysis of the Word Lojong The term “mind training” is the usual translation of the Tibetan term lojong. When we examine the meaning of lojong more carefully, we discover that the first syllable lo means “attitude.” This implies that what we are dealing with...

Furthermore, at that time, during that period, in the great city of Raja-griha, there dwelt the bodhisattva, the great being Ruchira-ketu, who had venerated previous buddhas, cultivated roots of virtue and rendered service to many hundreds of thousands of millions of buddhas....

Atisha’s “Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment” is the first text of the lam-rim genre, and it has four preeminent qualities and three distinct features.

The Mongolian form of Buddhism derived from the Tibetan tradition, but has several significant differences and features added.