Vol. 8: Library of Wisdom and Compassion Realizing the Profound View by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron is the eighth volume in the Dalai Lama’s definitive and bestselling Library of Wisdom and Compassion series, and the second of three focusing on emptiness. This volume presents the analysis and meditations necessary to realize the…
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We are delighted to announce that H.E. Demo Rinpoche will lead a two-day teaching on the recitation of the 35 Buddhas, a powerful and popular Mahayana purification practice. Beginning from the foundation of refuge and bodhimind, the recitation of the 35 Buddhas expounds our call for help to Shakyamuni Buddha and all Buddhas. After prostrations, practitioners…
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An introduction Can we ever know anything in this world? If everything is empty––devoid of any essential nature as this or that––then all appearances are just like dreams or illusions. In that case, what reliable sources of information could we ever have?  How much can we trust what appears to our eyes and ears? Maybe we could rely…
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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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