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Why So Many Americans Are Turning to Buddhism

By Olga Khazan — 2019

The ancient Eastern religion is helping Westerners with very modern mental-health problems.

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Guided Buddhist Meditations: Essential Practices on the Stages of the Path

The Stages of the Path, or lamrim, presentation of Buddhist teachings (a step-by-step method to tame the mind) is a core topic of Buddhist study. The lamrim meditations remind us that the process of transforming the mind, unlike so much of our frantic modern society, is a slow and thoughtful one.

Thubten Chodron, H.H. the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

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A Beginner’s Guide to Meditation: Practical Advice and Inspiration from Contemporary Buddhist Teachers

As countless meditators have learned firsthand, meditation practice can positively transform the way we see and experience our lives.

Rod Meade Sperry (editor), Shambhala Sun (editor)

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Cultivating a Compassionate Heart: The Yoga Method of Chenrezig

Chenrezig (Avalokiteshvara / Kuan Yin) is not only Tibet’s patron deity, he also is the embodiment of the compassion of all the Buddhas and as such is deemed the best possible contemplative gateway to the cultivation of compassion.

Thubten Chodron

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Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions

Buddhism is practiced by hundreds of millions of people worldwide, from Tibetan caves to Tokyo temples to redwood retreats. To an outside viewer, it might be hard to see what they all have in common.

The Dalai Lama, Thubten Chodron, Bhante Gunaratana

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Our Human Potential: The Unassailable Path of Love, Compassion, and Meditation

When His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave a series of lectures at Harvard University, they fulfilled magnificently his intention of providing an in-depth introduction to Buddhist theory and practice.

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Where Buddhism Meets Neuroscience: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the Spiritual and Scientific Views of Our Minds

Is the mind an ephemeral side effect of the brain’s physical processes? Are there forms of consciousness so subtle that science has not yet identified them? How does consciousness happen? Organized by the Mind and Life Institute, this discussion addresses some of the most troublesome questions...

The Dalai Lama, Zara Houshmand (editor), Robert B. Livingston (editor), B. Alan Wallace (editor)

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Teaching of the Dalai Lama: Introduction to Buddhism

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Mind and Life XVIII - Amishi Jha

May, 2009. Amishi Jha presents research on mindfulness training’s influence on attention and working memory to the Dalai Lama at the Mind and Life 2009 Conference in Dharamshala, India.

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Day 1 a.m.—Mind and Life XXVI: Mind, Brain and Matter

Morning session of the first day of the Mind and Life XXVI conference from Drepung Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka, India, held on January 17–22, 2013.

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Question & Answer Session with Thai Buddhists

His Holiness the Dalai Lama answers questions from Thai Buddhists at his residence in Dharamshala, India, on March 15th, 2011.

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