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37 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -Buddhist teachings from Dharma Teachers at Lama Yeshe Ling. Teachings are in Tibetan and English. Teachings will cover a range of topics from classic Mahayana Buddhist texts.
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Guided Lam Rim Meditation #4 - Reducing Eight Worldly Concerns (in Tib. & Eng.)
November 14, 2021 21:22 - 17 minutes - 14 MBContinuing with our stages of the path (Lam Rim) series, Geshe Sonam Ngodup leads a meditation on recognizing and decreasing the eight worldly concerns (eight worldly dharmas). These concerns are outlined by Nāgārjuna in Letter to a Friend: You who know the world, take gain and loss, Happiness and unhappiness, fame and insignificance praise and blame, Make them the same and don't disturb your mind. Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator ...
Guided Lam Rim Meditation #3 - Precious Human rebirth (in Tib. & Eng.)
November 14, 2021 20:49 - 13 minutes - 10.5 MBIn the third session on the Lam Rim series of meditations , Geshe Sonam Ngodup guides us through a contemplation and meditation on our precious human rebirth, how it is greatly meaningful and difficult to find. Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/ More about our teachers: https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please subs...
Guided Lam Rim Meditation #2 - Nature of the Mind (in Tib. & Eng.)
October 25, 2021 03:03 - 22 minutes - 17.5 MBIn this session, Geshe Sonam guides a meditation on the nature and potential of the mind . Although this is not traditionally part of the Lam Rim outlines, understanding a little bit about our mind and its nature is an excellent preliminary contemplation for our Lam Rim/Stages of the path practice. Geshe la gives an introduction, leads a short visualization meditation to settle the mind, and then gives impulses for meditation on the mind's fundamental nature. Visit our Facebook page for mo...
Guided Meditation - Nature of the Mind (in Tib. & Eng.)
October 25, 2021 03:03 - 22 minutes - 17.5 MBIn this session, Geshe Sonam guides a meditation on the nature and potential of the mind . Although this is not traditionally part of the Lam Rim outlines, understanding a little bit about our mind and its nature is an excellent preliminary contemplation for our Lam Rim/Stages of the path practice. Geshe la gives an introduction, leads a short visualization meditation to settle the mind, and then gives impulses for meditation on the mind's fundamental nature. Visit our Facebook page for mo...
Guided Meditation - Visualization of the Field of Accumulation (in Tib. & Eng.)
October 25, 2021 02:58 - 23 minutes - 18.3 MBIn this session, Geshe Sonam guides a meditation on the preliminary practice for the Lam Rim meditation - visualizing the field of accumulation. This meditation includes a brief recitation of the mantra of the Buddha TADYATHĀ OṂ MUNE MUNE MAHĀ MUNAYE SVĀHĀ. Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/ More about our teachers: https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To...
Guided Lam Rim Meditation #1 - Visualization of the Field of Accumulation (in Tib. & Eng.)
October 25, 2021 02:58 - 23 minutes - 18.3 MB*New Series Alert* - Stages of the Path (Tibetan: 'Lam Rim') Preliminaries – the Field of Accumulation: This week, we begin the first of what will be between 22-23 weekly short videos on the topics of the Stages of the Path (Lam Rim). The aim of this series is to give students a brief taste of these topics in a format that can be used for meditation. In this session, Geshe Sonam guides a meditation on the preliminary practice for the Lam Rim meditation - visualizing the field of accumula...
Shantideva on Wisdom (in Tib. & Eng.)
September 27, 2021 21:48 - 19 minutes - 16.4 MBGeshe Sonam quotes a verse from Shantideva's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra on how all the teachings are for the sake of arising wisdom. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. All the teachings are for the sake of arising wisdom ཡན་ལག་འདི་དག་ཐམས་ཅད་ནི། All these branch [practices] were taught ཐུབ་པས་ཤེས་རབ་དོན་དུ་གསུངས། By the mighty one for the sake of wisdom དེ་ཡི་ཕྱིར་ན་སྡུག་བསྔལ་དག། Therefore those who wish to pacify suffering ཞི་བར་འདོད...
Āryadeva on Overcoming Afflictive Emotions (in Tib. & Eng.)
September 19, 2021 23:53 - 20 minutes - 16.2 MBIn this episode, Geshe Sonam teaches that we overcome all the afflictive emotions by overcoming confusion. He quotes a verse from Āryadeva's Four Hundred Verses. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. From Āryadeva's Four Hundred Verses: ལུས་ལ་ལུས་དབང་ཇི་བཞིན་དུ། As tactile sense [pervades] the body གཏི་མུག་ཀུན་ལ་གནས་གྱུར་ཏེ། Confusion is present in all places དེ་ཕྱིར་ཉོན་མོངས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱང། By overcoming confusion (ignorance) one also ...
Dromtonpa on the Three Baskets and Three Capacities (in Tib. & Eng.)
September 06, 2021 19:58 - 19 minutes - 15.8 MBIn this teaching, Geshe Sonam teaches a short but profound verse by Dromtonpa Gyelwa Jungne ('brom ston rgyal ba 'byung gnas) on three Baskets and three Capacities. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. རྒྱལ་བའི་འབྱུང་གནས་ཀྱི་གསུང་ལས། From Gyalwa Jungne (Dromtonpa) ངོ་མཚར་བཀའ་ནི་སྡེ་སྣོད་གསུམ་པོ་དེ། This wonderful speech of the Buddha, the Tripitaka (Three Baskets) དམ་པ་སྐྱེས་བུ་གསུམ་གྱིས་མཛད་པ་ཡི། The excellent deeds [accomplished] by...
Introduction to Seven Point Mind Training Teachings by Don Handrick
September 06, 2021 19:50 - 51 minutes - 40.4 MBIn this episode, Don Handrick presents the introductory session to the "Seven Point Mind Training Teachings". Don provides a comprehensive history and overview of these precious and practical teachings. Hope you enjoy this teaching! If you would like to learn more about Don Handrick, please take a look at his website: https://www.donhandrick.com More about our teachers: https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe to our ...
Meditation on Bodhicitta with Don Handrick
September 06, 2021 19:29 - 8 minutes - 4.52 MBThis is a short meditation on Bodhicitta from the first session led by Don Handrick, from the Seven-Point Thought Transformation teachings at Lama Yeshe Ling. If you would like to learn more about Don Handrick, please take a look at his website: https://www.donhandrick.com
Interview with Don Handrick for the Seven Point Mind Training Course
September 06, 2021 19:23 - 18 minutes - 14.3 MBPresenting a short interview with Don Handrick, talking about his experience with the teaching on Giving and Taking "Tong-Len", in the Seven-Point Thought Transformation teaching. These practices are very practical and powerful tools for transforming problems into happiness. If you would like to learn more about Don Handrick, please take a look at his website: https://www.donhandrick.com More about our teachers: https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our ...
Four Points for Successful Practice (in Tib. & Eng.)
July 03, 2021 19:16 - 23 minutes - 18.7 MBIn this instalment of the teaching, Geshe Sonam explains four points for successful practice. 1. Placing the mind in the direction of love and compassion 2. Clearing away the obstacles to setting in that direction 3. If obstacles are (again) encountered, how to transform them into opportunities for virtue. 4. To abide in the continuity of love and compassion in the mind, using mindfulness and introspection. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable ...
Nagarjuna on the Three Causes of Enlightenment (in Tib. & Eng.)
July 03, 2021 19:12 - 20 minutes - 16 MBIn this teaching, Geshe Sonam explains, using a verse by Arya Nagarjuna from the text 'Precious Garland of the Middle Way', on the three causes of Complete Enlightenment or Buddhahood. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. The Three Causes of Enlightenment བདག་ཉིད་དང་ནི་འཇིག་རྟེན་འདིས། Oneself and [others] of this world, བླ་མེད་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཐོབ་འདོད་ན། If they wish to attain the unsurpassed enlightenment: དེ་ཡི་རྩ་བ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས། Its roots...
Verse on Buddha Nature from Uttaratantra Shastra (in Tib. & Eng.)
June 22, 2021 02:55 - 22 minutes - 17.5 MBIn this teaching Geshe Sonam explains the potential of all sentient beings to achieve Enlightenment which is known as the Tathagata Garbha or Buddha Nature (Buddha Essence). Geshe la explains how due to this potentiality, all sentient beings can achieve full Enlightenment. All Sentient Beings Possess Buddha Nature སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་རིགས་ཡོད་པ། From the Uttaratantra Shastra (Sublime Continuum) རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་ལས། Because a perfect Buddha's body (enlightened qualities) are perva...
Qualities of Extraordinary Dharma Teachers (in Tib. & Eng.)
June 05, 2021 20:10 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBOn this bonus episode, Ven. Jamyang Khedrup elaborates about qualities that mark exceptional teachers: Equal care to the integrity of the teachings and well-being and freedom of the listeners. Enjoy! Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and English translator Ven. Jamyang Khedrup https://www.facebook.com/LamaYesheLing/ More about our teachers: https://lamayesheling.org/teachers-and-facilitators/ To know more about our upcoming programs, please subscribe to...
Saka Dawa Greetings (in Tib. & Eng.)
June 05, 2021 19:31 - 15 minutes - 16.8 MBSaga Dawa Greetings! ས་ག་ཟླ་བ་དུས་ཆེན་ལ་བཀྲིས་བདེ་ལེགས། In this special teaching on the special day of Saga Dawa, Geshe Sonam Ngodup wishes all our viewers greetings and hopes everyone is well. Geshe La teaches how and why this day is important, and because it is important what activities one should engage in on this holy day. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. Visit our Facebook page for more teachings by Geshe Sonam Ngodup and Englis...
Shantideva on Benefits of Bodhichitta (in Tib. & Eng.)
June 05, 2021 19:27 - 18 minutes - 20.9 MBIn this short teaching, Geshe Sonam Ngodup explains to us about the benefits of Bodhichitta by quoting a verse from Chapter 1 of Shantideva's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra or Bodhicaryāvatāra (Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་ byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa). Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. More Benefits of Bodhicitta །བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་སྐྱེས་གྱུར་ན་སྐད་ཅིག་གིས། The moment an awakening mind arises །འཁོར་བའི་བཙོན་རར་བསྡམས་པའི་ཉ...
Analytical Meditation on Object of Negation (in Eng.) - Session 4
May 26, 2021 19:34 - 22 minutes - 12.4 MBIn the fourth and final session from Venerable Yönten's teaching, she will guide us through a brief analytical meditation on Identifying the Object of Negation, the inherently existent self. Please enjoy! Venerable Yönten is an American-born Buddhist nun in the Gelug Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003, and who is now a fully ordained Bhikshuni/Gelongma in the Dharmaguptaka tradition. If you would like to learn more about Venerable Yönten, please take a look at her website. https://...
Analytical Meditation on Dependent Origination (in Eng.) - Session 3
May 26, 2021 19:34 - 21 minutes - 11 MBIn the third session from Venerable Yönten's teaching, she will guide us through a brief analytical meditation on the King of Reasonings - Dependent Origination. Venerable Yönten is an American-born Buddhist nun in the Gelug Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003, and who is now a fully ordained Bhikshuni/Gelongma in the Dharmaguptaka tradition. If you would like to learn more about Venerable Yönten, please take a look at her website. https://lozangyonten.wixsite.com/website
Analytical Meditation on Karma - Actions and Results (in Eng.) - Session 2
May 26, 2021 19:32 - 22 minutes - 11.1 MBIn the second session from Venerable Yönten's teaching, she will guide us through a brief analytical meditation on the topic of Karma - Actions and Results. Venerable Yönten is an American-born Buddhist nun in the Gelug Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003, and who is now a fully ordained Bhikshuni/Gelongma in the Dharmaguptaka tradition. If you would like to learn more about Venerable Yönten, please take a look at her website. https://lozangyonten.wixsite.com/website
Analytical Meditation on Laws of Karma (in Eng.) - Session 1
May 26, 2021 19:31 - 28 minutes - 13.9 MBWe are happy to present to you a series of guided meditations led by visiting teacher Venerable Yönten at Lama Yeshe Ling. The first session is a guided analytical meditation on Laws of Karma. Venerable Yönten is an American-born Buddhist nun in the Gelug Tibetan tradition who was ordained in 2003, and who is now a fully ordained Bhikshuni/Gelongma in the Dharmaguptaka tradition. If you would like to learn more about Venerable Yönten, please take a look at her website. https://loza...
A Verse from Lama Tsongkhapa's Three Principal Aspects of the Path
May 18, 2021 20:55 - 18 minutes - 20.1 MBGeshe Sonam presents glimpses of Buddhist meditation and wisdom in a practical way. The teachings are the perfect way to bring some calm and compassion into your day.In this teaching, Geshe La will explain the first verse from Lama Tsong famous text "Three Principal Aspects of the Path" and will show us how this verse contains all the essential aspects of Buddha Shakyamuni's teaching. Enjoy this short teaching. The Very Essence of the Buddha's Teachings From Lama Tsongkhapa's Three Princi...
Mother's Day Special (in Tib. & Eng.)
May 14, 2021 03:01 - 20 minutes - 21.5 MBIn this special teaching, recorded before Mother's Day, Geshe Sonam Ngodup explains how we should see our mothers as more precious than a wish fulfilling jewel because of the kindness and care they show. Also, how we can extend this understanding and experience to encompass all sentient beings, with a mind of love and a wish to benefit them. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. ཨ་མ་ཡོངས་རྫོགས་་ཡིད་བཞིན་གྱི་ནོར་བུ་ལས་ཀྱང་ལྷག་པ་མ་ཟད་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམད་...
Interview with Venerable Yönten - Upcoming sessions on 'Karma and Reality'
May 12, 2021 16:25 - 6 minutes - 5.64 MBThis week we have a special guest teacher at Lama Yeshe Ling, Ven. Yönten. She is a very popular traveling teacher at FPMT (Foundation of Preservation of Mahayana), and her style of teaching incorporates guided meditations and a contemporary approach. This is a brief interview with Ven. Yönten to introduce herself and also the topics she will be teaching at Lama Yeshe Ling on May 15 & May 16 2021. Please join us for this special event with Ven. Yönten (Details below). In case you miss it...
Shantideva on kindness of Buddhas and Sentient Beings (in Tib. & Eng.)
May 05, 2021 22:20 - 16 minutes - 17.3 MBIn this brief teaching, Geshe Sonam Ngodup explores the reason why the kindness of the enlightened ones (the Buddhas) and kindness of Sentient beings is equal. Also, why we depend on sentient beings for our own Spiritual development towards Enlightenment. He explains this using a verse from Bodhicaryāvatāra by Shantideva. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་སངས་རྒྱས་དང་བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་ཆུང་འདྲ་བའི་རྒྱུ་མཚན། The reason why the Bu...
Verse from Six Session Yoga (in Tib. & Eng.)
April 29, 2021 02:20 - 15 minutes - 17.1 MBIn this short teaching, Geshe Sonam Ngodup gives an explanation of a verse from the Six Session Guru Yoga. Specifically, he will explain the verse which teaches, how after bringing forth a mind of Bodhichitta, rooted in Love and Compassion, rejoicing in them can be powerful. He will also explain some different methods for arising love that sees all beings equally, not holding some close and others far away. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. ...
Aryadeva on Dependent Arising (in Tib. & Eng.)
April 27, 2021 21:37 - 25 minutes - 25.5 MBIn this episode of the podcast, Geshe Sonam Ngodup explains a verse from the Great Indian Pundit Aryadeva's 'Four Hundred Verses'. This verse is about the importance of developing wisdom, specifically 'Dependent arising'. Geshe la explains some techniques for using this in our daily life. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. Wisdom's Key ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ལྡེ་མིག། རྟེན་ཅིང་འགྲེལ་བར་འབྱུང་བ་གང། When dependent arising is seen མཐོང་ན་གཏི་མུག་འབྱུང...
Meditation - Calm Abiding and Compassion (in Tib. & Eng.)
April 25, 2021 01:19 - 17 minutes - 14.1 MBIn this episode, we share with you a brief guided meditation on Calm abiding, Love and Compassion by Geshe Sonam Ngodup. This meditation was recorded as part of a live Zoom teaching. In this guided meditation, Geshe la walks us through different techniques aimed at increasing our relaxation, develop single pointed concentration and generate a mind of Loving Kindness & Compassion. We hope you enjoy this guided meditation, which is suitable for everyone. As always, Geshe la leads the meditatio...
Shantideva On Generating A Mind Of Joy (in Tib. & Eng.)
April 24, 2021 19:28 - 18 minutes - 19.9 MBIn this installment of the podcast, Geshe Sonam Ngodup explains a verse from the Bodhisattvacharyavatara (Way of the Bodhisattva) ( Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་, changchub sempé chöpa la jukpa) by great Indian master Shantideva about the importance of the mind of Bodhichitta, mind of awakening. Geshe la will explain how this mind, rooted in Love and Compassion can activate great openness and happiness allowing our mind to go from joy to joy. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his t...
Glorious Chandrakirti on Stable Happiness (in Tib. & Eng.)
April 13, 2021 16:44 - 13 minutes - 31.6 MBIn this episode of the podcast, Geshe Sonam Ngodup speaks about the importance of developing our wisdom and discernment. Also, how developing our wisdom and discernment will empower all our other qualities such as Love, Compassion and Bodhichitta. He explains this point with a verse from 'Uma la Jukpa' (skt. 'Madhyamakāvatāra') by renowned seventh-century Indian master Chandrakirti. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. Enjoy the teachings! " As ...
Glorious Chandrakirti on Stable Happiness
April 13, 2021 16:44 - 13 minutes - 31.6 MBIn this episode of the podcast, Geshe Sonam Ngodup speaks about the importance of developing our wisdom and discernment. Also, how developing our wisdom and discernment will empower all our other qualities such as Love, Compassion and Bodhichitta. He explains this point with a verse from 'Uma la Jukpa' (skt. 'Madhyamakāvatāra') by renowned seventh-century Indian master Chandrakirti. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. Enjoy the teachings! " As ...
Accomplishing One's Wishes (in Tibetan & English)
April 07, 2021 20:55 - 18 minutes - 17.5 MBIn this episode of the podcast, Geshe Sonam Ngodup, explains how a person endowed with great merit, can accomplish all their wishes (བསོད་ནམས་ལྡན་པའི་མི་ཡིས་བསམ་དོན་རྣམས་འགྲུབ་ཐུབ་པ།). He recites and explains a verse from the Sutra ‘Gyacher Rolpa’ (Skt. ‘Lalitavistara Sutra’, Eng. ‘The Play in Full Sutra’). This verse is recited during the Geshe graduation ceremony. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. Enjoy the teachings! བསོད་ནམས་རྣམ་སྨིན་བ...
Activating the Potential for Happiness (in Tibetan & English)
March 31, 2021 20:26 - 18 minutes - 17.5 MBIn this episode of the podcast, Geshe Sonam Ngodup talks about the best way to achieve stable happiness. He also quotes a verse from the Bodhisattvacharyavatara (Way of the Bodhisattva) ( Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་, changchub sempé chöpa la jukpa). Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. Enjoy the teachings! བདེ་བའི་ནུས་པ་རྣམས་སྨིན་པའི་ཐབས་ཡག་ཤོས། The Best Way to Activate the Potential for Happiness སྲིད་པའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་...
Wish fulfilling Tree with Inexhaustible Harvest (in Tibetan & English)
March 29, 2021 22:07 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MBIn this episode of the podcast, Geshe Sonam Ngodup explains a verse from the Bodhisattvacharyavatara (Way of the Bodhisattva) ( Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་, changchub sempé chöpa la jukpa) . Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. Like a Wish fulfilling tree its good fruits are not exhausted. སྤྱོད་འཇུག་ལས། དགེ་བ་གཞན་ཀུན་ཆུ་ཤིང་བཞིན་དུ་ནི། All other virtues are like a plantain tree, འབྲས་བུ་ཕྱུང་ནས་ཟད་པར་འགྱུར་བ་ཉིད། After bea...
Mantra of Dependent Arising (in Tibetan & Eng)
March 18, 2021 22:19 - 18 minutes - 17.5 MBIn this episode of the podcast, Geshe Sonam Ngodup explains the meaning of the 'Mantra of Dependent Arising' (Tibetan: Tendrel, Sanskrit: Pratitya-Samutpada). Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. English Transliteration of Mantra: "OM YE DHARMA HETU-PRABHAVA HETUM TESHAM TATHAGATO HYAVADAT TESHAM CHA YO NIRODHA EVAM VADI MAHASHRAMANAH (YE) SVAHA" Meaning of the Mantra in English: "All dharmas originate from causes. The Tathagata has taug...
Our Mind is like an Ocean (in Tibetan & Eng) by Geshe Sonam
March 15, 2021 21:49 - 19 minutes - 18.4 MBIn this episode of the podcast, Geshe Sonam Ngodup explains that our mind is like an ocean; and love, kindness and so forth are like the ocean's waves. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup. Geshe la also recites a shloka (verse) from the Bodhisattvacharyavatara and explains the meaning of this verse ( Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་, changchub sempé chöpa la jukpa) སེམས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་དང་བྱམས་བརྩེ་སོགས་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་རྦ་རླབས་དང་འདྲ་བ། གལ་ཏེ་བཅོས་སུ...