The 2025 Annual Jewel Heart Trip offers travelers the opportunity to join a pilgrimage visiting Buddha Shakyamuni’s birthplace in Lumbini and Kathmandu, Nepal. The trip will only happen if at least 8 participants sign up. If not, we will cancel by July 1, 2025.  Our journey begins in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Kathmandu Valley is surrounded by…
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WHITE TARA MEDITATIONS > GUIDED MEDITATIONS > PODCASTS > YOUTUBE > All Times ET Mondays at 12:00 – 1:00pm: Healing and Compassion Meditation Weekly sessions of guided meditations on healing and compassion for oneself and others and group discussion. Facilitated by Hartmut Sagolla. No sessions February 17, May 26 due to Spring Seminar. Wednesdays at…
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Celebrate Lama Tsongkhapa Day, known as Ganden Ngamchö in Tibetan, with a group Lama Chöpa recitation and Tsoh. This annual celebration recognizes the parinirvana of Jamgön Lama Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), the founder of the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Je Tsongkhapa was a famed scholar and Buddhist master whose many treatises built upon the foundation established…
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Nagarjuna’s Letter to a Friend (Skt. Suhṛllekha; Tib. བཤེས་པའི་སྤྲིང་ཡིག་, shepé tring yik) A Letter from a Friend, written by Nagarjuna in the 2nd century, is a well-known text of the Tibetan Mahayana tradition. Throughout the various lineages, all great Tibetan scholars have referred to this text in their teachings, including Je Tsongkhapa in his Lamrim. The intended audience…
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Venerable Tokden Rinpoche, one of the senior-most lamas of Tibetan Buddhism and particularly of the Gelugpa tradition, was born in 1944 in the Dagyab district of Kham Province, Tibet. He was recognized as a reincarnated lama from childhood and received basic teachings on Buddhism and Tibetan literature from Gen Rinchen Choedak, one of the main…
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Bob Thurman, known in the academic circles as Professor Robert A.F. Thurman, is a talented popularizer of the Buddha’s teachings, the first Western Tibetan Buddhist monk ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and was a longtime close friend of Gelek Rimpoche. A charismatic speaker and author of many books on Tibet, Buddhism, art, politics and…
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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe is a genuine contemplative master and a member of the last generation extensively trained in old Tibet. He received his monastic education at Drepung Loseling Monastery and, in 1969, was awarded the Geshe Lharampa, the highest degree of scholarship conferred within the Geluk School of Tibetan Buddhism. He is Professor Emeritus of Buddhist…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron is an author, teacher, and the founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey, the only Tibetan Buddhist training monastery for Western nuns and monks in the US. She graduated from UCLA, and did graduate work in education at USC. Ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun in 1977, she has studied extensively with His Holiness…
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Enjoy the slideshow of the previous pilgrimage Photos courtesy of Kathy Laritz The 2024 Annual Jewel Heart Trip offers travelers the opportunity to join a pilgrimage visiting Buddha Shakyamuni’s birthplace in Lumbini and Kathmandu, Nepal. Our journey begins in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Kathmandu Valley is surrounded by green mountains above which tower mighty snowcapped peaks. It…
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GLENN MULLIN has been a long time friend of Gelek Rimpoche and Jewel Heart. He is a Tibetologist, Buddhist writer, translator of classical Tibetan literature, and teacher of Tantric Buddhist meditation. He 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…
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