The Second Children’s Dharma Retreat, Deer Park 2026
A morning of questions and answers with the children of the Tibetan Children's Villages on the Buddha, the Three Jewels,…
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Full transcripts and summaries of Geshe-la’s teachings.
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A morning of questions and answers with the children of the Tibetan Children's Villages on the Buddha, the Three Jewels,…
Opening of the retreat: the Dependent Origination mantra, and the Buddha’s life story read through the opening verse of Ācārya…
Buddha nature as the potential for perfection in every being, the luminous nature of mind, and the two obscurations that…
The Four Dharmas of Gampopa, and detailed instruction on shamatha — posture, the five faults and eight antidotes, the nine…
The three kinds of suffering, with pervasive conditioned suffering as the mastermind of the rest; the four philosophical schools and…
Emptiness and dependent origination as one meaning — read through Lama Tsongkhapa’s In Praise of Dependent Origination.
The four essentials of analysis, identifying the object of negation, and the two errors of negating too much and too…
Cognitive obscuration, the five paths read through the Heart Sutra mantra, and the twelve links of dependent origination.
Selflessness of person and phenomena, the five omnipresent mental factors, and Chapter 26 of Nagarjuna’s Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle…