Honoring His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 90th YearCelebrating the Year of Compassion Online via Zoom Thupten Jinpa is a prominent Tibetan Buddhist scholar who has served as His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s principal English translator. He emphasizes that compassion is not just a Buddhist concept but is a fundamental aspect of human well-being and a…
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Onsite at Tibet House New YorkOnline via Zoom Enlightening our mind begins with understanding the relationship between our mind and our actions. In this seminar with Demo Rinpoche we will explore questions such as “What is the mind? Can we train the mind? How might that take shape?” The Buddhist approach to training the mind includes…
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Onsite watch party at Jewel Heart Ann ArborOnline via Zoom (Live only) Jewel Heart is pleased to be given permission to screen the movie, The Dalai Lama’s Gift, an official selection of the South Asian International Film Festival, Tricycle Film Festival, International Buddhist Film Festival and many others. The screening will be followed by a…
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Onsite at Tibet House New YorkOnline via Zoom Buddhists and some Hindu religions are not the only ones that believe in rebirth. There are many incidents that reveal clues of rebirth even for non-religious people. For Buddhists in particular, without the concept of rebirth there is no way to understand and explain Buddhism as a…
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Online via Zoom SCHEDULE: In this last of three volumes on emptiness, the Dalai Lama takes us through the Sautrantika, Yogacara, and Svatantrika views on the ultimate nature of reality and the Prasangikas’ thorough responses to these, so that we gain the correct view of emptiness—the selflessness of both persons and phenomena. This view entails…
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama calls Je Tsongkhapa’s In Praise of Dependent Origination “a text that bears the blessings of the hard work Tsongkhapa put into understanding emptiness”. In 1398, at age forty-one after almost a year of intensive practice, Je Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Gelugpa tradition, achieved a breakthrough by realizing a profound…
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