WATCH PRE-RECORDED TALK TOGETHER ONLINE H. E. Professor Samdhong Rinpoche, the former Principal and Director of the Central Institute of Higher Studies in Varanasi, India and Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile was a childhood friend of Jewel Heart’s late Founder and Spiritual Director, Gelek Rimpoche. At the request of our current Spiritual Director, Demo…
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Watch Live. Stream Later. His Eminence Dagyab Rinpoche is one of the foremost Tibetan lamas living in the West and a lifelong friend and colleague of Jewel Heart’s late founder and Spiritual Director, Gelek Rimpoche. At the request of our current spiritual director, Demo Rinpoche, he has graciously accepted the request for a teaching on…
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Free and open to allOnline only During these special Friday Group Practice sessions, Muza Rinpoche has graciously offered to provide memorization techniques learned by the monks for reciting daily practices. Memorization is a key component to maintaining cognitive health and well-being. Tsog Muza Rinpoche 2026-08-07 18.50.24 tönpa la me…2026-07-17 – 18.49.15 Ganden Lhagyema Muza Rinpoche…
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Watch live. Stream later. The Heart Sutra is also known as The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom. This is a rare opportunity to receive teachings on this profound explanation of emptiness from the one of the greatest living masters of Tibetan Buddhist scholarship. Now in his 90’s, Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches based on his…
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Please be advised that we are encountering difficulties with Tokden Rinpoche obtaining a visa for his upcoming visit to Jewel Heart Ann Arbor this November.  We will continue to update you as the situation unfolds. Please do not book your travel until we have further clarity on the matter. If you do, please book fully refundable…
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“Commit not a single unwholesome deed,Cultivate a wealth of virtue,To completely tame and conquer your own mind—This is the teaching of the Buddha.” Changing habitual patterns is like swimming upstream. The fact that Buddhas effortlessly help others is also a habitual pattern, but it is preceded by a daily habit of developing altruism. — Gelek…
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Watch Live. Stream Later. We are taught that no other system of knowledge-gathering, Western or not, has or ever will have a more realistic picture of nature than modern science. For decades, thanks to the dialogue Western scientists sought out with Buddhist scholars, and to the revolutionary research that emerged from it, we’ve heard that…
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