Advice Before the Maitreya Initiation

His Holiness the 43rd Sakya Trizin, Gyana Vajra Rinpoche, gave this advice online on February 10, 2024, at the request of the Vajrayana Sakya Manjushri Center in Taipei, Taiwan. Many people understand the teachings of the Buddha to be a religion. While it may incorporate religious elements to cater to certain mental inclinations, its essence […]

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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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