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"Feeding Your Demons" with Lama Tsultrim Allione

A fuller teaching on the Feeding Your Demons method, rooted in Chöd practice.

Lama Tsultrim Allione

Original source

9 Stages of Consciousness: Where Are You?

16 min

Talk · Kagyu2025

9 Stages of Consciousness: Where Are You?

Tara Springett walks through nine stages of consciousness and what each one tends to feel like from the inside.

Tara Springett

Kundalini Support

A Bird Needs Two Wings: Wisdom and Compassion

1h 36m

Talk · Tibetan Buddhism2022

A Bird Needs Two Wings: Wisdom and Compassion

Why wisdom without compassion, or compassion without wisdom, does not get a person off the ground.

Ven. Robina Courtin

1h 8m

A Planetary Dharma

What a Buddhist practice might look like when it takes the condition of the whole planet as its field rather than the individual alone.

John Churchill

The Stoa

A Short Teaching from the Gyalwang Drukpa

17 min

Talk · Kagyu2024

A Short Teaching from the Gyalwang Drukpa

A short teaching recorded for the Drukpa lineage's own channel.

Gyalwang Drukpa

Drukpa Activity

A Zillion Reasons to Love Sentient Beings

1h 40m

Talk · Tibetan Buddhism2023

A Zillion Reasons to Love Sentient Beings

Sangye Khadro teaches on cultivating love for all sentient beings at Tushita Meditation Centre's Miracles 2025 program.

Venerable Sangye Khadro

Tushita Meditation Centre

A sound framework for altruistic practice

1h 17m

A sound framework for altruistic practice

Lama Tashi teaches for over an hour on how the chanted sound and the intention behind it hold each other up in Tibetan practice, and chants as he goes.

Lama Tashi

Insight Meditation Community of Charlottesville

A twenty-one breath method for a busy mind

7 min

Kyabje Yongzin Ling Rinpoche

A twenty-one breath method for a busy mind

Ling Rinpoche walks through a counted breathing practice for settling a mind that will not stop moving.

Study Buddhism

Talk · Nyingma2015

Altruism

An hour on the research behind his book, from a monk who spent years in an fMRI scanner.

Matthieu Ricard

Talks at Google

Basic Goodness and Compassion with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

5 min

Basic Goodness and Compassion with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Accessible explanation of compassion as a trainable skill, linked to the idea of a fundamentally good human nature.

Mingyur Rinpoche

Original source

1h 4m

Becoming a Bodhisattva

A session from her course at Thosamling on the bodhisattva path.

Geshema Dawa Dolma

Thosamling Nunnery & Institute

Beginner Dzogchen — Lama Lena in the Caves of Tso Pema

1h 22m

Beginner Dzogchen — Lama Lena in the Caves of Tso Pema

Filmed in her cave at Tso Pema, the first of a series of introductory Dzogchen teachings.

Lama Lena

Lama Lena Teachings

Bodhisattva's Jewel Garland, Session One

3h 6m

Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche

Bodhisattva's Jewel Garland, Session One

The opening session of a teaching on Atisha's Bodhisattva's Jewel Garland, given at the Root Institute in Bodhgaya.

Root Institute for Wisdom Culture

Buddha Nature

A full teaching on what Buddha nature is and the common obstacles that keep us from recognizing and manifesting it.

Shantideva Center, FPMT

1h 43m

Khensur Rinpoche Geshe Tashi Tsering

Buddhism for Beginners, Session One

The first evening of a beginners' course at Jamyang in London, where he was resident teacher for many years.

Jamyang Buddhist Centre

1h 47m

Buddhist Heart Advice for a Happy Life

A full evening at Tushita in Dharamsala, where he taught as resident teacher for two and a half years.

Venerable Thubten Kalden

Tushita Meditation Centre

Chandrakirti's Entering into the Middle Way, Session One

1h 59m

Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche

Chandrakirti's Entering into the Middle Way, Session One

The first session of a course on Chandrakirti's Madhyamakavatara, given at Tushita in Dharamsala.

Tushita Meditation Centre

4 min

Kyabje Yongzin Ling Rinpoche

Choosing a qualified Buddhist teacher

What to look for, and what to be wary of, when deciding whom to study with.

Study Buddhism

Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche — Introduction to Dzogchen

1h 42m

Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche — Introduction to Dzogchen

Chögyal Namkhai Norbu gives an introduction to Dzogchen teachings.

Chögyal Namkhai Norbu

MsZanshin

7 min

Chögyal Namkhai Norbu on the Shang Shung Institute — Australia 2012

Chögyal Namkhai Norbu speaks to students on the founding of the Shang Shung Institute Australia.

Chögyal Namkhai Norbu

DzogchenTV

Courageous Compassion and Ultimate Reality

1h 37m

Courageous Compassion and Ultimate Reality

A dharma teaching at Tushita in Delhi on compassion and the view of emptiness together.

Geshe Tenzin Namdak

Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre Delhi

Cultivating a Daily Meditation Practice for Emotional Balance

1h 49m

Cultivating a Daily Meditation Practice for Emotional Balance

Sangye Khadro teaches how to build a steady daily meditation practice that supports emotional balance.

Venerable Sangye Khadro

Ocean of Compassion (Gyalwa Gyatso) Buddhist Center

Days of Miracles - Tushita Meditation Centre - February 26th, 2026

1h 9m

Talk · Kagyu2026

Days of Miracles - Tushita Meditation Centre - February 26th, 2026

A teaching given at Tushita Meditation Centre in Dharamkot on the Buddhist observance known as the Days of Miracles.

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo Archive

1h 23m

Developing Focus, Part 1

The first of two sessions on shamatha, the settled attention that other practices rest on.

Venerable Tenzin Namjong

Choe Khor Sum Ling

36 min

Shar Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö Rinpoche

Dharma Chat with H.E. Garchen Rinpoche

Informal conversation and teaching, representative of the low-key format in which Rinpoche often teaches today.

Garchen Rinpoche

Original source

Dharma in Everyday Life: Public Talk in Hungary

1h 35m

Talk · Jonang2026

Dharma in Everyday Life: Public Talk in Hungary

A public talk given in Hungary on carrying the dharma into ordinary days, with questions from the room.

Khentrul Rinpoche

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche ~ Selflessness & Compassion - Mahayana Buddhism

9 min

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche ~ Selflessness & Compassion - Mahayana Buddhism

Reading of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's teachings on selflessness and compassion in the Mahayana tradition.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Samaneri Jayasāra - Wisdom of the Masters

13 min

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche ~ The Empty Nature of Thoughts ~ Dzogchen

Reading of pith instructions from 'The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones' by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Samaneri Jayasāra - Wisdom of the Masters

2h 9m

Discovering Our Buddha Nature

A teaching on the Buddhist view that the mind is naturally pure, and how recognizing this innate nature supports the path.

Shar Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö Rinpoche

Ocean of Compassion (Gyalwa Gyatso) Buddhist Center

Discovering Shambhala: From Conflict to a Golden Age

1h 32m

Talk · Jonang2026

Discovering Shambhala: From Conflict to a Golden Age

Khentrul Rinpoche on Shambhala as the Kalachakra tradition understands it, and on the movement from a time of conflict towards a golden age.

Khentrul Rinpoche

1h 49m

Discovering the Nectar-Like Dharma

A teaching given in New York in December 2025 on what makes a teaching nourishing rather than merely interesting.

Jhado Rinpoche

Shantideva Center

59 min

Diving into the Heart of Emptiness

A session from her course at Thosamling on emptiness, taught to international nuns and lay students.

Geshema Dawa Dolma

Thosamling Nunnery & Institute

6 min

Kyabje Yongzin Ling Rinpoche

Do Buddhist rituals really work?

On what a ritual is actually doing, and what it cannot do on its own, asked plainly and answered plainly.

Study Buddhism

Do men have a greater potential for enlightenment than women?

19 min

Talk · Tibetan Buddhism2026

Do men have a greater potential for enlightenment than women?

Khandro Rinpoche takes on a question that has followed Tibetan Buddhism for centuries, and answers it from inside the tradition rather than around it.

Khandro Tseringma Rinpoche

4 min

Dream Yoga by Andrew Holecek

An introduction to dream yoga, the Tibetan practice of maintaining awareness while dreaming.

Andrew Holecek

Original source

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche: How the 3 Wisdoms Transform Our Mind

6 min

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche: How the 3 Wisdoms Transform Our Mind

A teaching on the classical three wisdoms: hearing, contemplating and meditating.

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

Original source

5 min

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche: To be interested in the path is rare

On genuine interest in the spiritual path as itself a rare and valuable quality of mind.

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

Original source

Dzogchen Center 2024 Fall Residential Retreat with Lama Surya Das

1 min

Talk · Nyingma2024

Dzogchen Center 2024 Fall Residential Retreat with Lama Surya Das

Footage from the Dzogchen Center's 2024 autumn residential retreat led by Lama Surya Das, posted on his own channel.

Lama Surya Das

LamaSuryaDas

25 min

Emptiness and the Nature of Mind

Twenty-five minutes at Temple University, pitched at people who have never meditated.

Khenpo Sodargye

Khenpo Sodargye's Teachings

11 min

Emptiness in Eleven Minutes

The director of Tibet House in Delhi lays out emptiness as briefly as it can honestly be done.

Geshe Dorji Damdul

3h 28m

Khensur Rinpoche Geshe Tashi Tsering

Essence of Eloquence, Day One

The opening day of a teaching on Tsongkhapa's Essence of Eloquence, his treatise on how to tell the interpretable from the definitive in the Buddha's word.

Jamyang Buddhist Centre

11 min

Talk · Tibetan Buddhism2026

Everyone loves bodhicitta, even demons

A short teaching on why the wish to awaken for the sake of others disarms whatever it meets.

Khandro Tseringma Rinpoche

2h 51m

Exploring the Nature of Mind: Mahamudra

Nearly three hours on mahamudra, the direct looking at mind itself, given at Nalanda Monastery in France.

Jhado Rinpoche

Nalanda Monastery

Grounding Yourself in a Distracted World

44 min

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

Grounding Yourself in a Distracted World

A shorter talk on staying grounded and present amid constant modern distraction.

Touching the Earth

2h 17m

Talk · Kagyu2012

Guru Yoga Teaching

A morning teaching on guru yoga given by the Twelfth Gyalwang Drukpa, with Vietnamese translation.

Gyalwang Drukpa

Drukpa Vietnam

H.E. Khandro Rinpoche: The meaning of taking refuge

15 min

Talk · Nyingma2012

H.E. Khandro Rinpoche: The meaning of taking refuge

A talk at the Karma Shedrup Ling retreat centre in Oslo on what the refuge vows mean.

Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche

KarmaTashiLing

4 min

Handshake Meditation | Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Tsoknyi Rinpoche teaches 'handshake meditation', his method for meeting difficult emotion in the body.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Original source

Heart Sutra Teaching with Tulku Lobsang Rinpoche

10 min

Heart Sutra Teaching with Tulku Lobsang Rinpoche

A teaching on the Heart Sutra, from Tulku Lobsang's own YouTube channel.

Tulku Lobsang

YouTube

How I Accidentally Healed Hundreds of Clients

12 min

Talk · Kagyu2026

How I Accidentally Healed Hundreds of Clients

Tara Springett tells how a method she had not set out to develop came out of her work with clients.

Tara Springett

Kundalini Support

1h 12m

How the Mind Works

The first part of a teaching on the Buddhist account of mind: what thoughts and emotions are made of, and why that makes them workable.

Ven. Robina Courtin

How to Be the Change: A Bodhisattva's Guide, Session 1

1h 36m

How to Be the Change: A Bodhisattva's Guide, Session 1

The opening session of a teaching series on cultivating a bodhisattva's motivation and conduct in daily life.

Himalayan Buddhist Meditation Center Kathmandu

16 min

Talk · Nyingma2015

How to Let Altruism Be Your Guide

Sixteen minutes on altruism as the one thing that answers all three timescales of our trouble at once.

Matthieu Ricard

TED

How to Transform Pain & Suffering into Creative Energy | Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche | Emotional Rescue

1h 4m

How to Transform Pain & Suffering into Creative Energy | Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche | Emotional Rescue

On working directly with difficult emotion as raw material rather than an obstacle.

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

Original source

32 min

Talk · Sakya2026

Interpretations of Emptiness

Half an hour mapping how the schools actually differ on emptiness, without taking sides early.

Lama Jampa Thaye

Introduction to the Eight Verses of Thought Transformation

1h 7m

Introduction to the Eight Verses of Thought Transformation

The opening session of a teaching on Langri Tangpa's eight verses, the short Tibetan text on turning everyday encounters into practice.

Drupon Ma Gyalten Samten

Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre

Introduction to the Eight Verses of Thought Transformation, Part 2

1h 38m

Introduction to the Eight Verses of Thought Transformation, Part 2

The second session, working through the verses on meeting ill-treatment and on seeing others as the source of one's own practice.

Drupon Ma Gyalten Samten

Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre

58 min

Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche

Karma, Love and Death

An hour on the three subjects people actually ask about, given at the Chinese Institute of Classical Learning.

Khenpo Sodargye

Khenpo Sodargye's Teachings

Khandro Rinpoche ~ Compassion versus Competition

1h 32m

Talk · Nyingma2010

Khandro Rinpoche ~ Compassion versus Competition

A public talk given at Lerab Ling in France in October 2010 contrasting the lojong training in compassion with a competitive mindset.

Lerab Ling

Kundalini Awakening and Spiritual Crisis

53 min

Talk · Kagyu2024

Kundalini Awakening and Spiritual Crisis

An hour on what a kundalini awakening can set off, and on the difference between a passage and a crisis.

Tara Springett

Kundalini Support

Lama Rod | Love and Rage: The Path of Freedom Through Anger | Talks at Google

A Talks at Google session on working with anger as part of the path, not apart from it.

Lama Rod Owens

Original source

Lama Tsultrim Allione | Feeding Your Demons

1h 11m

Lama Tsultrim Allione | Feeding Your Demons

An introduction to Feeding Your Demons, Allione's method adapted from Chöd practice.

Lama Tsultrim Allione

Original source

20 min

Learning the Great Treatises

A short talk at Sravasti Abbey on why the classical Indian treatises are studied at all, and what changes in someone who studies them.

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Sravasti Abbey

1h 14m

Talk · Nyingma2021

Living the Rhythm of Happiness

Phakchok Rinpoche teaches on finding a genuine rhythm of happiness in daily life.

Samye Institute

Lojong / Mind Training - Clear Mountain Monastery - December 18th, 2024

55 min

Talk · Kagyu2024

Lojong / Mind Training - Clear Mountain Monastery - December 18th, 2024

Tenzin Palmo explains the lojong mind-training tradition in a session hosted by Clear Mountain Monastery.

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo Archive

Lorig, class one: what is the mind?

The opening class of her course on lorig, the Tibetan study of how the mind knows things.

Geshe Kelsang Wangmo

58 min

Love and Rage - with Lama Rod Owens

A talk on holding both love and rage honestly, drawn from Owens's book of the same name.

Lama Rod Owens

Original source

Maintaining Our Practice and Awareness of Bodhicitta

1h 39m

Maintaining Our Practice and Awareness of Bodhicitta

On keeping a practice going once the retreat is over, and on what bodhicitta looks like in an ordinary week.

Paula Chichester

Tushita Meditation Centre

1h 7m

Make Your Mind an Ocean

A talk on Lama Yeshe's image of a mind wide enough that nothing thrown into it disturbs the whole.

Venerable Thubten Wangdu

Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom

23 min

Meditation on Emptiness

Sangye Khadro teaches on meditating on emptiness, a core Buddhist view of how things exist.

Venerable Sangye Khadro

Shantideva FPMT-Israel

Mind and Mental Factors in Sutra and Tantra

1h 57m

Mind and Mental Factors in Sutra and Tantra

The former abbot of Namgyal Monastery on how the Tibetan tradition maps mind into its parts, and why that matters in practice.

Jhado Rinpoche

Maitripa College

Mycelial Wisdom, Part I: Dismantling the Illusion of “I” with Lama Willa Blythe Baker

Talk · Nyingma2025

Mycelial Wisdom, Part I: Dismantling the Illusion of “I” with Lama Willa Blythe Baker

A Dharma Sunday teaching that uses fungal networks under the forest floor as a working image for dependent origination and for why a separate self does not hold up.

Willa Blythe Baker

Natural Dharma Fellowship

2h 38m

Nagarjuna's Precious Garland

One session of an ongoing teaching on Nagarjuna's Ratnavali, the letter of advice to a king that sets out both worldly conduct and emptiness.

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Drepung Loseling Institute of Texas

Non-Duality in Vedanta, Chittamatra and Madhyamaka

33 min

Non-Duality in Vedanta, Chittamatra and Madhyamaka

Where the three systems agree about non-duality and where they part, set out by a geshe trained in debate.

Geshe Dorji Damdul

1h 28m

Talk · Nyingma2015

On Altruism

An hour and a half in San Francisco, with more room for the Buddhist side of the argument.

Matthieu Ricard

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco

5 min

On Monkey Mind

A Dharmata Foundation talk on working with the restless, wandering 'monkey mind'.

Anam Thubten

Original source

Open Heart, Open Mind: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Tsoknyi Rinpoche

1h 1m

Open Heart, Open Mind: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Tsoknyi Rinpoche

A dialogue between Tsoknyi Rinpoche and Tara Brach on emotional openness in practice.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Original source

3 min

Talk · Gelug

Overcoming Negative Emotions

A teaching on working with anger and other negative emotions through Buddhist practice.

Dalai Lama

Original source

3h 6m

Parting from the Four Clingings

A line-by-line commentary on Drukpa Gyaltsen's mind-training text on releasing attachment to this life.

ChagTong ChenTong Tasmania FPMT

16 min

Talk · Sakya2023

Patterns in Emptiness

Dependent origination explained as pattern rather than as a chain of causes.

Lama Jampa Thaye

Pema Chödrön - Welcoming the Unwelcome | Super Soul Sunday S9E18 | Full Episode | OWN

42 min

Pema Chödrön - Welcoming the Unwelcome | Super Soul Sunday S9E18 | Full Episode | OWN

A Super Soul Sunday conversation on welcoming difficulty rather than resisting it.

Pema Chödrön

Original source

6 min

Pema Chödrön – Smile at Fear: Living from the Heart

Pema Chödrön on meeting fear directly rather than being ruled by it, drawn from Smile at Fear.

Pema Chödrön

Original source

3h 8m

Practical Buddhism for Everyday Life

A teaching of more than three hours on carrying the lamrim into work, family and the ordinary week.

Venerable Tenzin Namjong

Choe Khor Sum Ling

2h 20m

Practical Buddhism for Everyday Life

More than two hours at Choe Khor Sum Ling in Bangalore on taking the teachings into an ordinary working day.

Venerable Thubten Kalden

Choe Khor Sum Ling

48 min

Talk · Kagyu2020

Practice for Daily Life

A teaching in Kathmandu on how practice is meant to work inside an ordinary day rather than apart from it.

Gyalwang Drukpa

Stanzin Teri

1h 23m

Talk · Gelug2019

Praise for Dependent Arising, Session 1

The first session on Tsongkhapa's praise of dependent arising, the text in which emptiness and cause and effect are shown to need each other.

Geshe Thubten Rabten

Atisha Centre

1h 25m

Pramanavarttika: Introduction

The opening session of a course on Dharmakirti's Pramanavarttika, the Buddhist text on valid knowledge and how we come to it.

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Sravasti Abbey

Talk · Nyingma2025

Q&A with Phakchok Rinpoche, Fall 2025

Phakchok Rinpoche answers student questions live in a Q&A session recorded at Rangjung Yeshe Institute in fall 2025.

Rangjung Yeshe Institute

Questions & Answers with H.E. Garchen Rinpoche ~ 2025/12/13

1h 5m

Talk · Kagyu2025

Questions & Answers with H.E. Garchen Rinpoche ~ 2025/12/13

Recent (December 2025) question-and-answer session, a good example of his ongoing teaching activity from Arizona.

Garchen Rinpoche

Original source

2 min

Talk · Gelug

Real Beauty Is Inner Beauty

The Dalai Lama on cultivating inner qualities rather than outward appearance.

Dalai Lama

Original source

1h 22m

Reconnecting with Your True Nature

Phakchok Rinpoche teaches on reconnecting with our true nature beyond judgments of beautiful and ugly.

Samye Institute

50 min

Talk · Tibetan Buddhism2021

Reincarnation, Karma, and Grief

Anam Thubten addresses reincarnation, karma and grief from a Nyingma perspective.

Anam Thubten

Original source

58 min

Sacred Dance of Nepal

A talk and demonstration of the Nepalese sacred dance tradition, given for the religious studies department of the University of the West.

Prajwal Ratna Vajracharya

University of the West

Sakya Pandita's Sage's Intent: Inaugural Teaching

2h 2m

Talk · Sakya2022

Sakya Pandita's Sage's Intent: Inaugural Teaching

His first teaching after becoming the 43rd Sakya Trizin, on the classic text of the school he now heads.

Gyana Vajra Rinpoche

Sakya Centre

Searching for the Searcher | Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche | Talks at Google

53 min

Talk · Nyingma2016

Searching for the Searcher | Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche | Talks at Google

A Talks at Google session on turning meditation inquiry back onto the one who is searching.

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

Original source

Seeing Clearly: Perception Without Projection

1h 39m

Seeing Clearly: Perception Without Projection

On the difference between what is there and what the mind adds to it, and what practice does to that gap.

Venerable Thubten Wangdu

Shantideva Center

1h 18m

Shantideva's Chapter on Patience

One session of a course at Tibet House on the sixth chapter of Shantideva's Bodhicaryavatara, the chapter on patience and anger.

Geshe Dorji Damdul

Tibet House New Delhi

Stages of the Path in the Karma Kagyu Tradition

30 min

Talk · Sakya2023

Stages of the Path in the Karma Kagyu Tradition

The structure of the path as his own lineage lays it out, in thirty minutes.

Lama Jampa Thaye

38 min

Taking It Slowly with Vajrayana

Phakchok Rinpoche gives an overview of and practical advice for approaching Vajrayana practice gradually.

Samye Institute

51 min

Talk · Sakya2021

Tara Teachings, Day One

The first day of a teaching on Tara, the female buddha who answers quickly.

Gyana Vajra Rinpoche

Sakya Kalden Ling

Teaching on Two Truths

A full teaching in which Geshe Tenzin Zopa explains the two truths, conventional and ultimate, as the basis for perfecting bodhicitta and wisdom.

Shantideva Center, FPMT

1h 26m

Venerable Thubten Chodron

The Buddhist Worldview

Thubten Chodron lays out the Buddhist worldview for young adults, covering the nature of mind, rebirth, karma, and impermanence.

Sravasti Abbey

1h 6m

Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche

The Essence of the Buddha's Teachings

An evening at Tara Mandala in which Serkong Rinpoche lays out what he takes to be the core of the Buddha's teaching.

Tara Mandala

1h 34m

The Four Noble Truths

A teaching on the four truths, given in Tibetan and translated into English by Venerable Lobsang Dorje.

Geshe Thubten Rabten

Bodhi Dhamma Vihara Bendigo

1h 54m

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

The Future of Buddhism

A long public talk by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche in London on where Buddhism is heading and how to practise it honestly in the modern world.

Rigpa

The Role of Rituals and Prayer in Buddhism

3 min

Talk · Gelug2024

The Role of Rituals and Prayer in Buddhism

A short answer to a question that comes up often: what pujas and prayers are actually for.

Geshe Tenzin Namdak

Study Buddhism

56 min

The True Meaning of Taking Refuge

What refuge means once it stops being a ceremony you went through.

Khenpo Sodargye

Khenpo Sodargye's Teachings

The Wisdom of Darkness | Dr. Andrew Holecek | TEDxBoulder

11 min

The Wisdom of Darkness | Dr. Andrew Holecek | TEDxBoulder

A TEDx talk reframing darkness, sleep, death, the unknown, as a source of wisdom.

Andrew Holecek

Original source

10 min

The art of Buddhist debate

What the monastic debate courtyard is actually for, and why it is a form of study rather than argument.

Geshe Kelsang Wangmo

Study Buddhism

Three Principal Aspects of the Path, Part 1

1h 26m

Three Principal Aspects of the Path, Part 1

The first of two sessions on Tsongkhapa's short text: renunciation, bodhicitta and the correct view, taught for lay students.

Paula Chichester

Shantideva Center

Three Principal Aspects of the Path, Part 2

1h 19m

Three Principal Aspects of the Path, Part 2

The second session, working through the correct view and what it asks of a practitioner day to day.

Paula Chichester

Shantideva Center

1h 43m

Talk · Gelug2020

Transforming Suffering into Happiness

On thought transformation: what the tradition does with difficulty rather than around it.

Venerable Tenzin Namjong

Choe Khor Sum Ling

Webinar: Lama Surya Das: Deepening Your Meditation Practice: Pithy Instructions Dzogchen Tradition

1h 1m

Talk · Nyingma2020

Webinar: Lama Surya Das: Deepening Your Meditation Practice: Pithy Instructions Dzogchen Tradition

A Garrison Institute webinar in which Lama Surya Das presents short pointing-out instructions from the Dzogchen tradition for deepening meditation.

Lama Surya Das

Garrison Institute

Venerable Thubten Chodron

What Anger Really Is

A talk in which Thubten Chodron explains what anger is, why it arises, and how it connects to attachment and the wish for social change.

Sravasti Abbey

What Is Dzogchen: An Introduction

A public teaching on what Dzogchen is and how it is practised, from Lama Lena's own channel.

Lama Lena

Lama Lena Teachings

What It Means to Practice the Four Immeasurables

3 min