<p>A Tibetan language book describing Tibetan cultural traditions and attempts toward conservation of the Tibetan environment.</p>
Two spiritual giants. Five days. One timeless question.Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their hardships—or, as they would say, because of them—they are two of the most joyful people on the planet.
In April 2015, Archbishop Tutu traveled to the Dalai Lama’s home in Dharamsala, India, to celebrate His Holiness’s eightieth birthday and to create what they hoped would be a gift for others. They looked back on their long lives to answer a single burning question: How do we find joy in the face of life’s inevitable suffering?
They traded intimate stories, teased each other continually, and shared their spiritual practices. By the end of a week filled with laughter and punctuated with tears, these two global heroes had stared into the abyss and despair of our time and revealed how to live a life brimming with joy.
This book offers us a rare opportunity to experience their astonishing and unprecendented week together, from the first embrace to the final good-bye.
We get to listen as they explore the Nature of True Joy and confront each of the Obstacles of Joy—from fear, stress, and anger to grief, illness, and death. They then offer us the Eight Pillars of Joy, which provide the foundation for lasting happiness. Throughout, they include stories, wisdom, and science. Finally, they share their daily Joy Practices that anchor their own emotional and spiritual lives.
The Archbishop has never claimed sainthood, and the Dalai Lama considers himself a simple monk. In this unique collaboration, they offer us the reflection of real lives filled with pain and turmoil in the midst of which they have been able to discover a level of peace, of courage, and of joy to which we can all aspire in our own lives.
Proceedings of the 2nd conference called "Bstan byol Bod-miʼi Bod kyi gso ba rig paʼi rgyal yoṅs sman paʼi tshogs chen" held in Dharamsala on Jan. 2-6, 2007 on Tibetan medicine.
This lecture by Tenzin Gyatso, the current Dalai Lama, was delivered at the Spirit and Nature Symposium at Middlebury College. He discusses Buddhist perspectives on the environment. (Steven Weinberger 2004-05-13)
<p>An introduction by Toni Huber to Tendzin Chökyi Lodrö's <em>Guidebook to Laphyi (La phyi gnas yig)</em> and Huber's critical edition of the text. (Steven Weinberger 2006-12-19)</p>
This lecture by Tenzin Gyatso, the current Dalai Lama, was delivered at The Christ and the Bodhisattva Symposium at Middlebury College in 1984. In it, the Dalai Lama discusses the bodhisattva practices. Note: there is a gap of several minutes in the middle of the file, beginning at around the 44 minute point. (Steven Weinberger 2004-05-13)
Comprehensive study on Tibetan medicine.
<p>Text of announcement by the 14th Dalai Lama at the Congressional Human Rights Caucus in Washington, D.C., September 21, 1987.</p>
<p>Text of address by the 14th Dalai Lama at European Parliament, Strasbourg, June 15, 1988. (Ben Deitle 2005-12-28)</p>
<p>"Detailed commentary on the first Panchen Lama's seminal Dge lugs mahāmudrā text" (Roger R. Jackson, “Mahāmudrā,” in Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Lindsay Jones, 2nd ed. (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005), vol. 8, p. 5601).</p>
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This site contains downloadable audio files (MP3) format of H.H. the Dalai Lama's teachings on Padmasambhava's <i>Garland of Views: Esoteric Instructions</i> (Man ngag lta ba'i 'phreng ba). This text, the only one actually attributed to Padmasambhava's authorship, is a commentary on the thirteenth chapter of the <i>Secret Essence Tantra</i> (Tib. gsang ba'i snying po'i rgyud; San. Guhyagarbha Tantra), the central Mahāyoga tantra for the Nyingma (rnying ma) School of Tibetan Buddhism.These teachings were given at the University of Miami September 20-21, 2004. There are audio files of the Tibetan with English translation by Geshe Thubten Jinpa as well as audio files of Mandarin Chinese translation. There is also a file of the Dalai Lama's public talk on September 22: "World Peace through Inner Peace." (Steven Weinberger 2004-10-01)
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- Practices Specific to Tibetan Buddhism,
- Contemplation by Tradition,
- Six Yogas (jordruk) of Kalachakra,
- Kalachakra,
- Empowerment (abhisheka, dbang),
- Practices of Buddhist Contemplation,
- Generation phase (utpattikrama, kyerim),
- Perfection phase (nispannakrama, dzokrim),
- Deity yoga (devata-yoga, lhé nenjor),
- Buddhist Contemplation
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<p>Distinguishing the Views and Philosophies, A Lamp of Essential Points (Lta grub shan 'byed gnad kyi sgron me) is a systematic exposition of Mipham's ('Ju mi pham rgya mtsho, 1846-1912) voluminous writings on the Middle Way authored by Bötrül Dongak Tenpé Nyima (1898-1959).</p>
Detailed study on remedies for various diseases according to Tibetan medical system.
By inviting the Dalai Lama and leading researchers in medicine, psychology, and neuroscience to join in conversation, the Mind & Life Institute set the stage for a fascinating exploration of the healing potential of the human mind. The Mind’s Own Physician presents in its entirety the 13th Mind & Life Dialogue, a discussion addressing a range of vital questions concerning the science and clinical applications of meditation: How do meditative practices influence pain and human suffering? What role does the brain play in emotional well-being and health? To what extent can our minds actually influence physical disease? Are there important synergies here for transforming health care, and for understanding our own evolutionary limitations as a species? This book presents this remarkably dynamic interchange along with intriguing research findings that shed light on the nature of the mind, its capacity to refine itself through training, and its role in physical and emotional health.
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