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From Lotsawa School News: The latest version of our Compendium of Quotations (version 6.0) in English and Tibetan is now available here...

From Lotsawa School News: Yesterday I had the good fortune to attend the Rangjung Yeshe Institute’s Symposium on Buddhism Translated. The speeches by John Dunne, Tom Tillemans and Sara McClintock were every bit as stimulating as I had anticipated, and each one of them brilliant in its own way...

It recently came to our attention here are at the House that plans are afoot to make a documentary about the work of E. Gene Smith and TBRC...

New on Lotsawa House Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö Complete with Tibetan text     

I have been a little busy recently (click here to see why), so I did not get chance to post about this great new site, Online Dharma Classics, which was created partly in response to an earlier post right here on the House blog. Anyway, go pay them a visit, browse the videos, and support the site...

Here’s more recommended reading. This time it is the forthcoming Mipam on Buddha Nature by my learned friend Douglas S. Duckworth. If you buy it from Amazon through this link, you will also be supporting Lotsawa House. Thanks.

More from Ga Rabjampa’s commentary on the Seven Points of Mind Training: Guru Yoga, the Method for Swiftly Receiving Blessings The Difficulty of Gaining the Freedoms and Advantages

Here is a new page on the site.

For Saga Dawa Düchen, the anniversary of the Buddha’s Enlightenment and Parinirvana, which is today, the following prayers and practices are...

This is the first in an ongoing series of posts highlighting the very best online Dharma teachings available on YouTube and other video sites. There are some genuine classics out there and I don’t know of any sites that showcase them...

Just a few days after the tragic death of Dzongsar Ngari Tulku, Khenpo Kunga Wangchuk, another disciple of Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro and the head of the Dzongsar Institute in India, passed away on 21 May 2008...

This is a moving video interview with Dzongsar Ngari Tulku, who tragically passed away on 19 May 2008. He was an important tulku from Dzongsar Monastery. The video is an extract from the forthcoming documentary, ‘The Life of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö’.

The latest addition to the House is Mipham Rinpoche’s Treasury of Blessings, a practice of Buddha Shakyamuni. It is added in time for Saga Dawa, the fourth Tibetan month, which is fast approaching, and in which the anniversaries of the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and parinirvana fall.

Here are the latest additions to the House, all from Ga Rabjampa Kunga Yeshe’s Stream of Nectar, a commentary on the Seven Points of Mind Training: Training in Relative Bodhichitta Meditation on Loving Kindness Meditation on Taking by Means of Compassion...

In case, you don’t subscribe to their news feed, here is a link to the translations page over at the Jonang Foundation, where they have new translations from the illustrious Cyrus Stearns.

The Heart of Dependent Origination by Nagarjuna

Prayer to the Lion of Speech by Karma Chakmé aka Raga Asya And Verses on the Buddha’s Previous Lives by Arya Shura I have also added Trulshik Rinpoche’s Prayer for Translators, which was on the old Lotsawa School site.

As mentioned in the last post, we have eight (yes, eight!) new Spanish translations on the House: Los Beneficios de Salvar Vidas por Chatral Rinpoche La Grandeza del Omnisciente Longchen Rabjam por Khenpo Shenga La Lluvia de Bendiciones en forma de Néctar Un Canto de Devoción Anhelante que...

Prayer for the Future of the Dharma from the words of the Buddha Also, we have added the Sweet Sound of Perfect Joy: In Praise of Sarasvati by Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro, which was on the old Lotsawa School site. And there are two new categories: Aspiration Prayers and Meditation...

As mentioned in the last post, we have eight (yes, eight!) new Spanish translations on the House: Los Beneficios de Salvar Vidas por Chatral Rinpoche La Grandeza del Omnisciente Longchen Rabjam por Khenpo Shenga La Lluvia de Bendiciones en forma de Néctar Un Canto de Devoción Anhelante que...

Prayer for the Future of the Dharma from the words of the Buddha Also, we have added the Sweet Sound of Perfect Joy: In Praise of Sarasvati by Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro, which was on the old Lotsawa School site. And there are two new categories: Aspiration Prayers and Meditation...

New on Lotsawa House: Mipham Rinpoche on Individual Selflessness