Part 2 of Interview with the Teachers: Zasep Tulku Rinpoche discusses how...
Buddha Weekly continues its special series “Interviews with the Teachers” with part 2 of an extensive hours-long interview with the most Venerable Zasep Tulku Rinpoche. Rinpoche is spiritual director...
View ArticleTeaching Video Series: Featuring Talks from Noted Buddhist Teachers —— from...
Please enjoy a “trailer” presenting our long anticipated video series “What the Teachers Say” from Buddha Weekly. The “What the Buddhist Teachers Say” written features are among our most popular. In...
View ArticlePractice Overload and Too Many Commitments: Advice From the Teachers — Don’t...
Practice overload in Vajrayana Buddhism can become a top-of-mind issue for devoted practitioners who collect many initiations. If you are feeling stressed over your commitments, if your practice is not...
View ArticleProminent Scientists Declare “All Non Human Animals… Are Conscious Beings.”...
A prominent international group of cognitive neuroscientists and other experts made a strong declaration, endorsed by Stephen Hawking, affirming that all “nonhuman animals… including octopuses” are...
View ArticleVideo: Part 2 of Buddhist Teachings on Ngondro, the Foundation Practices with...
In part 2 of a teaching series on Buddhist Foundation Practices, Venerable Acharya Zasep Rinpoche introduces the fourth outer preliminary, the truth of suffering, in the context of boundless compassion...
View ArticleOne Hand Speaks: Dharma Teacher AlejAndro Anastasio Speaks with Buddha Weekly...
When Alejandro Anastasio was a child, he wanted to grow up to be a Jedi Knight. Instead, he grew into a popular inspirational speaker, Buddhist teacher and martial artist. Luke Skywalker would be...
View ArticlePart 2 Interview: Alejandro Anastasio, Martial Arts and Dharma Teacher, Sees...
In part one of our interview with dynamic Dharma Teacher AlejAndro Anastasio, he revealed how he came to Buddhism, how martial arts influenced his practice, and how mhe met his own teacher Dzogchen...
View ArticleVideo Advice from the Buddhist Teachers on Bereavement: Advice for Someone...
In the second of a new video series, Venerable Acharya Zasep Tulku Rinpoche answers a question from a student about loss of a loved one: What advice would you give for a student who is dealing with the...
View ArticleBW Interview: Bön Teacher Chaphur Rinpoche Explains How Bön is Different, and...
Chaphur Rinpoche of the Bon tradition. In our first interview with a Bön tradition teacher, the charismatic Geshe Chaphur Rinpoche frankly discusses the ways in which Bon school differs from the other...
View ArticleRemembering a Great Teacher: the learned and inspiring Gelek Rimpoche of...
The very learned and respected Gelek Rimpoche passed away April 15, 2017 at 6am — a great loss. [1] Born in Tibet in 1939, the great teacher spread the Dharma through his profound teachings, wonderful...
View ArticleBuddhist Teacher Advice Video 7: Keeping Motivated in Your Daily Practice,...
In the seventh in a new video series, “Advice from the Teachers”, the Venerable Acharya Zasep Tulku Rinpoche, Spiritual Head of Gaden for the West Centers, answers a student’s question: What advice...
View ArticleHealing and Foundation Practices Video: Learning from the Teachers Video...
Zasep Tulku Rinpoche teaches in Dharma centres around the world and is spiritual head of Gaden for the West in Canada, U.S., and Australia. In the second of a new Buddha Weekly Video Series, three...
View Article“Mahamudra is ultimately about trying to experience absolute truth”— and...
Venerable Zasep Tulku Rinpoche, spiritual director of many meditation centres in Canada, U.S. and Australia. The stirring beat of many drums and a festive rise of musical voices broke the serene...
View ArticleInterview Lama Dr. Shannon Young: Dzogchen teacher focuses on bringing Dharma...
Lama Dr. Shannon Young — Dzogchen Lineage teacher, Doctor of Pharmacy, and loving wife and mother — advocates bringing “Dharma” into daily life. “My teacher has always said that the Pharmacy is my...
View Article“Mind is the creator of our own happiness or suffering”—Venerable Zasep Tulku...
By Lee Kane “On one level all our minds are connected,” said Venerable Zasep Tulku Rinpoche in his introductory remarks at a weekend retreat dedicated to Lojong Seven-point mind training. “We are the...
View ArticleCankama Sutta: Walking Meditation Sutra: put some mileage on your Buddhist...
Meditation is the metaphorical transport vehicle on the journey towards Enlightenment. Mediation is a key practice within the Noble Eightfold Path, specifically: Right Concentration (samma samadhi) and...
View ArticleVideo: “Experience Buddhism” with Singha Namdrol Rinpoche “Buddhism...
Namdrol Rinpoche (left) with Lama Zopa Rinpoche (right). Namdrol Rinpoche’s root gurus are the late Khensur Rinpoche Geshe Lama Lhundrup Rigsel (the ex-Abbot of Kopan Monastery), Venerable Kyabje Jhado...
View ArticleVideo: “How do I deal with my anger? Sometimes it consumes me and hurts...
Venerable Zasep Tulku Rinpoche, spiritual director of Gaden for the West meditation centres in Canada, U.S. and Australia. Anger is, unquestionably, the largest obstacle to Buddhist practice — and the...
View ArticleTara Book excerpt and teaching: Who is Tara and how can She help us? An...
Tara in the Palm of Your Hand, a book by Venerable Zasep Tulku Rinpoche is available on Amazon.ca in paperback from Wind Horse Press. Who, or what is Tara that she can show us that Enlightenment is in...
View ArticleGuru Rinpoche answers Lady Tsogyal: Should we practice one or many yidams? Is...
Guru Rinpoche’s teachings to the Lady Tsogyal are as clear and wonderful today as they were centuries ago. Reading the recorded words of the Lotus Born Padmasambhava is almost like sitting at the feet...
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