On February 24, 2024 we continued our study of DCB22- Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Text of the Heart Sutra-I by exploring how the methods of the various sects or schools of Buddhism work and what it means...
Ven. Lodru Rinpoche. This past weekend I attended a teaching on Five Element Calm-Abiding Practice and Five Aggregate Vipashyana Practice from the Vajrayana tradition with Venerable Lodru Rinpoche, who is also known as...
Distilling words about phenomena should be known as the path of samatha, While a full analysis of their meanings should be known as the path of special insight (vipashyana). “Mahayana Sutralamkara (Ornament for the...
I want to share some background in preparation for our classes on the Paramitas–especially the last two, Meditation and Wisdom. I found that Tsongkapa in one of his many lamrims, the Middle-Length Treatise on the...
At the recent retreat where we focused on the “Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation (SAUMOL),” we had considerable discussion on the meaning of certain terms, especially those relating to...