Actually, Buddhism came first to Tibet in the early 700’s, but somehow it got mixed up with magical mystical aspects. It was about how to fly in the air and how to put daggers through rocks, and that type of thing. That occupied Tibet for 300 years. So, they really wanted to have something really…
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Glenn Mullin is a Tibetologist, Buddhist writer, translator of classical Tibetan literature, and teacher of Tantric Buddhist meditation. He lived in the Indian Himalayas between 1972 and 1984, and studied philosophy, literature, meditation, yoga, and the enlightenment culture under thirty-five of the greatest living masters of the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Glenn is the…
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JEWEL HEART COMMUNITY MEETING Thursday, December 13, 2018, 7:00pm – 8:30pm Jewel Heart executive directors Carole Corcoran and Nancy Jeffries hosted an update on Jewel Heart accomplishments and plans for the future. The meeting was held at Jewel Heart New York Center and broadcast live via webinar.  There was a question and answer session. Participants…
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At the same time, today is a very important Buddhist festival day. It is the day that the Prayer Festival, known as Mönlam festival, is held. Many of you are familiar with the word Mönlam. It is one of the important Tibetan spiritual celebration days. Even after we came to India in 1959, for a…
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There are so many paths to delivering the ultimate spiritual development to the individual. Rimpoche lists the divisions within Tibetan Buddhism, and Buddhism in general, explaining that a great yogi will see Lamrim and Delam as the real essence of Buddha’s teaching in Pangya Paramita (Transcendental Sutra).

LESSON SUMMARIES (20:07) Lesson 26 Rimpoche further discusses taking refuge and karma, emphasizing that every action of ours makes a difference. He boils Buddhism down to the bus-stop speech: “Avoid negativities, build positivities, watch your mind.” (25:33) Lesson 27 Nobody can hide from death. This awareness helps us to cultivate a mental state free of…
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  I always emphasize that Tibetan Buddhism is very much Buddhism and there is not so much difference. However, it has its own unique qualities. Today, I would like to emphasize one of these: morality. Many people may think or even say that this is vajrayana, or the mahasiddha path, and you may not need…
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JEWEL HEART COMMUNITY MEETING Thursday, September 20, 2017, 6:00pm – 6:45pm MEETING NOTES September 20, 2018 (A video recording of the meeting is at the bottom of this page) Presented by Nancy Jefferies and Mark Magill   We are happy to have our third community meeting to provide an update to our Sangha and friends….
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Buddha teaches us how to clear our inner obstacles and deepen our capacity to be loving, compassionate and wise. The Six Perfections highlight that process through recognition of how we conduct ourselves in everyday life with regard to ourselves, to others, and to the world around us. On the basis of six bodhisattva activities, the…
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Good morning and welcome to this Sunday talk. Last week I talked out of my subject, about the loss of Tibet, while celebrating 4th of July, the Independence Day of the United States, which was great. We are very proud to be part of this. Not only is it the independence of a nation, but…
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Third-century Mahayana Buddhist Master Aryadeva composed Four Hundred Stanzas on the Middle Way, a fundamental work on Mahayana Buddhist philosophy that illuminates how to rely on positive actions, overcome disturbing emotions and understand the nature of ultimate reality. Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe will present these teachings based on the commentary by Gyeltsap, one of Je Tsongkhapa’s…
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Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche (1939 – 2017) founded Jewel Heart in 1988.  Demo Rinpoche, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan since 2017, is Jewel Heart’s Spiritual Director. Jewel Heart is dedicated to the teaching, practice and preservation of Tibetan Buddhism, and carries on the living tradition of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, with a particular emphasis on…
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We appreciate and enjoy love. The moment we talk about love, we become happier. We welcome and look forward to it. Some spiritual practitioners will tell you that it is attachment and desire and not good. Maybe. But there is great usefulness, there is great helpfulness in that love. Don’t be so quick to reject…
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Since it is Tibetan uprising day, let me tell you one thing: Tibetans have sacrificed so much for this tradition, this religion. Honestly. Today, there are political games and issues, but I am talking about generations, over a thousand years. First, Tibetans didn’t get proper Buddhist teachings, and suffered for 500 or more years, sacrificing…
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The life from now to death, no matter how long it is, it is not long. It is short. Within that short life time, if we can’t make a difference once and for all, to our own life and the lives of others, then we are failures in our (in normal western language, “God-given duty,”)…
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