Freeing the Heart and Mind ll

His Holiness the Sakya Trichen provides a clear and wise unpacking of two texts by the thirteenth-century master Drogön Chögyal Phagpa, the fifth Sakya patriarch. As a founding father of the Sakya school and the first imperial preceptor under Kublai Khan, Phagpa converted the Mongols to Tibetan Buddhism. The two texts, “A Gift of Dharma […]

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Words of Awakening: Freeing the Heart and Mind Book Launch Speech

His Holiness the Sakya Trichen (the 41st Sakya Trizin) gave this speech on the auspicious occasion of the book launch for Freeing the Heart and Mind, Volume 2, held at Tsechen Kunchab Ling on June 16, 2018. In this speech, His Holiness highlights the significance of the two texts compiled in this book, “A Gift […]

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Parting from the Four Attachments

His Holiness the Sakya Trichen (the 41st Sakya Trizin) bestowed this teaching on October 6, 2023, at the International Buddhist Academy in Kathmandu, Nepal. His Eminence Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche and the Rangjung Yeshe Institute requested this teaching from him. Parting from the Four Attachments is a profound Buddhist teaching originally transmitted by Mañjuśrī to Sachen […]

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Nature of Suffering: Discovering Bliss Beyond

His Holiness the Sakya Trichen (the 41st Sakya Trizin) gave this teaching at the request of Jamyang Buddhist Centre, London, United Kingdom in 1991. All of us, regardless of our background—be it rich or poor, healthy or sick, educated or uneducated, powerful or powerless—experience various forms and levels of suffering. The desire for liberation from […]

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Sleeping Yoga Instruction

His Holiness the Sakya Trichen (the 41st Sakya Trizin) gave this teaching on Amitābha sleeping yoga at the request of the Singapore Buddha Sasana Society (Sakya Tenphel Ling) on February 19, 2011. Death is a topic many would avoid perceiving it as negative, yet everyone born will have to face and experience it eventually. Instead […]

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Basic Human Goodness and the Spiritual Path

His Holiness the Sakya Trichen (the 41st Sakya Trizin) bestowed a two-day teaching on May 28 and 29, 2012 at Tai Pei Buddhist Center, Singapore, jointly organized by Sakya Tenphel Ling (Singapore Sasana Center) and Pureland Marketing. Addressing people at all levels of the path and all states of belief, His Holiness emphasizes in this […]

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Wisdom and Compassion

His Holiness the Sakya Trichen (the 41st Sakya Trizin) bestowed this teaching in 2003 at Ahimsa Institute, South Egremont, Massachusetts, USA. We often focus on the results that we desire without precise attention to the causal factors that will produce them. This is true whether we are speaking of worldly or spiritual goals: success, happiness, […]

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