Five Sciences
- Mahayoga Practices, Vajrayana
Tukdrup Barché Kunsel Shrine Diagram
Many students ask questions about how to set up a proper Tukdrup Barché Kunsel shrine for group practice or at home. Phakchok Rinpoche has kindly...
9 minutes
- Vajrayana
Accumulating Causes for Enlightenment
In this video teaching, Phakchok Rinpoche reminds us that the essence of our mind is already enlightened. Yet, even though our nature is pure, that...
9 minutes
8 minutes
- Meditation, Nine Yanas, Vajrayana
Four Qualities of Mind: Mind Nature
Phakchok Rinpoche explains the purpose of our meditation practice. Here he stresses that we can familiarize ourselves through direct experience with the four qualities of...
8 minutes
3 minutes
- Meditation, Nine Yanas, Vajrayana
Avoiding Spiritual Loneliness
Phakchok Rinpoche encourages us to meditate correctly every morning. Don’t meditate like a dead tree! That means that we are approaching the session alone....
3 minutes
2 minutes
- Vajrayana
Building Dignity Through Supplication
Building dignity through supplication may sound contradictory. In the Vajrayana path, however, supplication is continually emphasized. Why is this so?...
2 minutes
- Ground, Path, and Fruition, Mahayoga Practices, The Foundation, Vajrayana
Eight Essential Points for Every Practice Session
In this document, Phakchok Rinpoche shares the eight essential points to hold in mind for any meditation session. ...
- Nine Yanas
Perception and Inference, Particulars and Universals
This essay, Alan Pope continues his discussion of Buddhist logic by analyzing the two objects of knowledge: particulars and universals....
- Meditation, Vajrayana
Rituals at Tibetan Buddhist Dharma Centers
Rituals at Tibetan Buddhist Dharma Centers can delight, intrigue, and/or confuse newcomers. Here we offer some brief guidelines for the curious onlooker....
Tibetan Losar: New Year, New Habit!
The best way to welcome the New Year is to begin a new positive habit. In Tibetan, the word gom that we usually translate as...
- Nine Yanas
The Two Pramāṇas: An Overview
In this article, Alan Pope discusses the two instruments of knowledge (pramāṇas) of direct perception and inference....
- Holistic Living
Being Patient and Farsighted and Enduring Hardship
As social beings, we humans learn from those around us. And because we don’t have fixed, unchanging solidity as beings, we make choices. We can...
9 minutes
- Meditation, Nine Yanas, Vajrayana
Multiplying Effects: Five Ways of Multiplying Merit
Practitioners should take advantage of all opportunities to increase the accumulation of merit easily and swiftly. We need to know how to magnify our virtues....
video
9 minutes