“A Meeting of Two Oceans; Dialogue on Sufism and Buddhism”: a dialogue at the Roshan Center for Persian Studies, University of Maryland.

The coronavirus pandemic provides us with a unique opportunity to work together, using our compassion, intelligence and courage to win this battle and rebuild our global community.

Shakyamuni Buddha first taught the four noble truths: true sufferings, true origins or causes of sufferings, true stoppings or cessations of suffering and its causes, and the true pathway mind that will lead to these stoppings.

An extensive and deep presentation of the six perfections, including a profound discussion of voidness.

The Dalai Lama provides the background and context of this fundamental text on Buddha-nature and analyzes in depth its first verses.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama advises that if abusive spiritual teachers do not stop their reckless behavior, the students should publicize the abuse in newspapers and, if necessary, report it to the police.

His Holiness’s advice on teaching the lam-rim is to start with the four noble truths.

The Dalai Lama advises Buddhist centers on a number of topics, from giving in-depth teachings on emotions and the mind, to making sure that instead of only giving information to the practitioners, they also make a contribution to the betterment of the society where they live.

Not Getting Angry toward Those Who Are Negative toward Us When people react a long time very negatively toward me, I have a problem to still have this feeling of love and kindness toward this person. Sometimes I feel I need to be tough with this person; it can’t go on like...

Why Haven’t We Already Built Up Enough Positive Force to Develop Bodhichitta? We’ve seen that in order to strive for bodhichitta for the first time, we need to have heard about enlightenment and understand it a little bit and have confident belief that it exists...