Introduction: Examining the Self and “Me” Our topic for this series of talks is the healthy development of the self through the lam-rim graded stages. The “self” is very central to the Buddhist spiritual path. We can see this even when we set our motivation for...

We were speaking about voidness (emptiness) and we saw that voidness is a negatingly known phenomenon, it’s a negation. We know it by negating something. If we put the word voidness into different terms, then we could say that it is an absence of something. There are many...

The Dalai Lama encourages students to develop their inner values and ethics alongside their education.

“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.