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Full Ordination for Tibetan Buddhist Nuns | Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron

By Thubten Chodron — 2019

Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron succinctly explains the complex history surrounding the full ordination of Tibetan Buddhist nuns as well as the future proposals for how to resolve the challenges faced.

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Pushing Past Tokenism

La Sarmiento has been a leader of American LGBTQ and people-of-color Buddhist communities for close to a decade. I caught up with the trans, queer Filipino teacher before a silent retreat to discuss the dynamics of race and gender in a world that is typically White, cisgender and straight.

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Miriam Zoila Pérez
2016
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Meditation for Self-Mastery

Through the practice of meditation, there are certain changes that happen in the mind. One of the most important changes is that you become master of your mind.

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Sri Swami Satchidananda
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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...

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The Dalai Lama, Zara Houshmand (editor), Robert B. Livingston (editor), B. Alan Wallace (editor)
2018
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Glimpses of Abhidharma: From a Seminar on Buddhist Psychology

The Abhidharma is a collection of Buddhist scriptures that investigate the workings of the mind and the states of human consciousness. In this book, Chögyam Trungpa shows how an examination of the formation of the ego provides us with an opportunity to develop real intelligence.

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Chögyam Trungpa
2001
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