Tag: Tibetan Buddhism

New Podcast Episode - Train Your Mind: Lojong and the Art of Wise Compassion

By Windhorse Publi... on Tue, 22 Jul, 2025 - 12:11

New Podcast Episode - Train Your Mind: Lojong and the Art of Wise Compassion

By Windhorse Publi... on Tue, 22 Jul, 2025 - 12:11

What if your struggles could become tools for awakening? What if a few short slogans could reshape how you meet life’s challenges?

In this episode, Dhammamegha speaks with Dhirananda and Viryabodhi, authors of Train Your Mind: Tibetan Exercises in Wisdom and Compassion — a fresh, practical guide to the ancient Tibetan Buddhist practice of Lojong. Together, they explore how mind-training slogans like “Don’t expect applause”, “At this crucial time, practise the essentials”, and “Blame it all on the one culprit” offer pithy,...

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Samsaric Suffering (Dharmabytes Podcast)

By Centre Team on Mon, 29 Jul, 2024 - 11:00

Here Maitreyi looks at pleasure and suffering in the context of samsara - compassionate responses to self and other, and how to loosen the bonds…

Excerpted from the talk The Defects and Dangers of Samsara, the last in a five-part series The Four Mind-Turning Reflections of the Tibetan Tradition given at Tiratanaloka Retreat Centre, 2005.

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Vessantara - Finding Deeper and Deeper Reservoirs of Energy (Full Interview)

By Zac on Fri, 20 May, 2022 - 19:05

Things have changed in the last 10 years or so. A lot of it was just building on what I’d received from Bhante and other Order Members and other people… over the years. But I think, for me, it feels as if those three years with all that time to completely focus on the Dharma did sort of liberate things or bring to fruition a lot of seeds that had been planted by Bhante and other people over a long
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FBA Podcast: Imagining the Tantric Gathering

By Sadayasihi on Sat, 29 Feb, 2020 - 14:00

When we approach the Dharma and looking at Buddhism try to imagine the people from who it comes, the communities from which it arises. In the origins of Indian Tibetan Buddhism there isn’t a lot of material available, and there are lots of secrets!

Padmavajra rounds out a series of talks at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre (UK, 2017) on the Tantric Path with this thought-provoking investigation into the spiritual intimacies of Buddhist sangha.

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Buddhist Voices - Suryadhamma from Cambridge, Massachusetts

By Candradasa on Sun, 21 Sep, 2014 - 14:33

A fascinating set of tales from Suriyadhamma from his many years worth of Buddhist practice. Taking us from his first encounters with the writings of Alan Watts in the ’60s through his long discipleship with Chogyam Trungpa and eventual membership of the Triratna Buddhist Order itself. And a wonderful insight into practice for someone who has lost his sight and finds light and joy all around him, especially through meditation. Suriyadhamma’s is a compelling and encouraging voice.

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Dharmabytes Podcast #382 - 'Padmasambhava at Work' by Parami

By Candradasa on Tue, 16 Sep, 2014 - 20:21

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Find magic and ritual in today’s FBA Dharmabyte, ‘Padmasambhava at Work’. Parami shares what it’s like ordaining someone – a channel to the transcendental. She talks about her personal link with Sangharakshita and the birth story of Padmasambhava and his taking Buddhism to Tibet – the marriage of cognition, feeling and emotion. From the talk ‘Energy At Its Most Abundant’ by...

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Some Very Short Books About Buddhism

By Dhivan on Mon, 23 Dec, 2013 - 15:44

Some Very Short Books About Buddhism

By Dhivan on Mon, 23 Dec, 2013 - 15:44Matthew Kapstein, Tibetan Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2014.
(and also, in reverse date order:)
Damien Keown, Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 2013 (1st ed. 1996).
Jan Westerhoff, Reality: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2011.
Damien Keown, Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2005.
Susan Blackmore, Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2005.
Edward Craig, Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2002.
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