Lecture and Discussion on how to create and sustain happiness in your everyday life. http://gradcommons.soe.ucsc.edu/events/event/38

CALM ABIDING AND INSIGHT: How to Establish Calm Abiding, the Foundation of all Types of Concentration, and Insight “Mercy, the six, generosity and so forth, Calm-abiding together with special-insight, Those paths of union, Those skilful means, Exalted wisdom, merit, Paths, retentions, the ten grounds, and Antidotes; know that as the…

The Five Great Treatises" Program with Geshe Namgyal Ananda Dharma Center is proud to offer you a new program, recommended by H. E. Choden Rinpoche during the 2013 Oral Transmission of these great topics. This is the full description of the upcoming courses that will be offered at our center…

“The Stages of the Path” with Vietnamese and English translation. Lam Rim means “The Stages of the Path” in tibetan. It is the teaching that presents complete compendium of all the Buddhas teachings. Original Lam Rim had existed in many different forms and version in Tibetan History. Lam Rim presented…

 TWELVE LINKS OF DEPENDENT ORIGINATION: How we Remain Cycling Within Samsara Through those Twelve Links “Devoid; bearing the object of utilization that recollects The nature of the buddhas’ accumulation of merit; Together with means; signless; Rejoicing by the buddhas;” VS. 2.22 We repeatedly cycle within samsara due to karma we…

FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS: The Foundation of All our Practices “Then, due to having absorbed into the meditative stabilization Of the loftily looking lion, He realizes the forward order and Reverse order of dependent-arising.” VS. 5.23 Our Teacher taught the Four Noble Truths during the first turning of the wheel of…

  How the Resultant State of Buddhahood is Certain to Arise from its Cause, Buddha Lineage.   A seed can be referred to as “lineage” and in this sense the seed that is suitable to become a buddha is known as “buddha lineage”. If sentient beings did not possess such…

The Five Great Treatises" Program with Geshe Namgyal will begin on Saturday, August 3rd, 10AM Ananda Dharma Center is proud to offer you a new program, recommended by H. E. Choden Rinpoche during the 2013 Oral Transmission of these great topics. This is the full description of the upcoming courses…

Lam Rim means “The Stages of the Path” in tibetan. It is the teaching that presents complete compendium of all the Buddhas teachings. Original Lam Rim had existed in many different forms and version in Tibetan History. Lam Rim presented in all four Buddhist schools, and taught by different teachers…

http://anandadharma.org/FirstTurning