Onsite at Jewel Heart Ann Arbor, 1129 Oak Valley DriveWatch Live. Stream Later. Lam Rim is a step-by-step guide on the spiritual journey. For this retreat, Demo Rinpoche will cover the preliminary practices which explain how to cultivate the outer and inner environments to establish a deep and stable meditation practice. Retreat provides a focused…
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Onsite Ann ArborWatch Live. Stream Later. The Bodhisattva’s Way of Life is one of the most beloved and important contributions to the Mahayana Buddhist tradition. 8th-century Indian scholar Shantideva gives detailed instructions on how to live in accordance with the altruistic bodhisattva ideals of helping others. In this series, Demo Rinpoche will guide us through the…
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Onsite at Tibet House New YorkWatch Live. Stream Later. His Holiness the Dalai Lama lays out the fundamental principles of Tibetan Buddhism in his classic, Kindness, Clarity, and Insight. During this seminar, Demo Rinpoche will give a commentary on this beloved book, focusing on the chapters that cover the Four Noble Truths and the Luminous…
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Onsite at Tibet House New YorkWatch Live. Stream Later. Vesak Day is celebrated throughout all Buddhist traditions as the day commemorating Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana. On this special day that offers a chance to reflect on the 12 great deeds of the Buddha, Demo Rinpoche will give a public talk covering the action known…
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Tokden Rinpoche kindly accepted Demo Rinpoche and Jewel Heart’s invitation to return to Jewel Heart in Ann Arbor, Michigan and give the Heruka Initiation, Six Yogas of Naropa teaching, and conclude with a public talk and initiation still to be determined. Tokden Rinpoche is one of a handful of the great living Gelugpa masters educated…
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Sanskrit: Triṃśikā-kārikā; Tibetan ཚིག་ལེའུར་བྱས་པ་སུམ་ཅུ་པ་, Sum chu pa Onsite at Jewel Heart Ann Arbor, 1129 Oak Valley DriveWatch Live. Stream Later. The ancient Indian Buddhist scholar Vasubhandu’s famous Thirty Verses describes the conscious and unconscious psychological processes that give rise to the perception of self and other. It is his poetic expression in verse to succinctly present the core teachings…
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