Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel is an American author and Buddhist teacher with a special interest in the Buddha’s teachings on dependent arising. She teaches throughout the United States, Europe, and Australia.
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Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, Retreat Master at Lonchen Jigme Samten retreat center in Colorado, offered this mini-meditation retreat that focused on a basic introduction to Tibetan Buddhism and meditation in general as a powerful means of addressing life's challenges and habituating our mind to a...
How do we find a resting place in a world that is complex and always changing? How do we practice spirituality beyond the limits of blind acceptance and doubt? Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel proposes that when we ask challenging questions like these, we access our deepest intelligence and most powerful...
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It doesn’t matter if you don’t know whom you’re praying to, says Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel. The very act of asking for help allows the heart to open and invite the world in.
In this first part of a series of short meditation instructions, Elizabeth focuses on the body, or posture, as well as how our attitude toward meditation influences how we sit.
Faith is a thorny subject these days. Its negative expressions cause many to dismiss it out of hand—but Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel urges us to reconsider, for faith is really nothing but our natural proclivity to find certainty in a world where certainty is hard to come by.
Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel examines common misconceptions about Buddhist practice that can derail even the most seasoned practitioners.
Mrs. Namgyel speaks about the essential purpose of empowerment: to awaken our potential. Beyond culture and ritual form, if we have a longing to wake up, then that aim meets with the intention of the empowerment, and the experience is powerful.
After an extended period of exploring faith through personal practice and study, Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel decided to bring her investigation out into the world to see what others thought.
Anam Thubten and Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel discuss the topic of emptiness in Buddhism.
What drives a young London librarian to board a ship to India, meditate in a remote cave by herself for twelve years, and then build a flourishing nunnery in the Himalayas? How does a surfer girl from Malibu become the head of the main international organization for Buddhist women? Why does the...
