His Holiness the 43rd Sakya Trizin, Gyana Vajra Rinpoche, gave this public talk on December 6, 2025, at the request of Sakya Monastery, Seattle, U.S.A. How can we claim to know ourselves when we have no idea what thought will arise in our own mind one second from now? We spend much of our lives […]
At the request of Maitripa College, His Holiness the 42nd Sakya Trizin, Ratna Vajra Rinpoche, delivered this teaching at the Jokhang Meditation Hall in Portland, Oregon, on July 27, 2024. What if the very things that frustrate, humiliate, and disappoint you were actually your greatest teachers? That is the radical proposition at the heart of […]
His Holiness the Sakya Trichen (the 41st Sakya Trizin) gave this teaching at the request of Tsechen Kunchab Ling, U.S.A. on June 26, 2024. Throughout life, we all experience joy and sorrow, gain and loss. Yet a quiet question follows us: why do some choices lead to happiness, while others bring pain or suffering? Many […]
His Holiness the 42nd Sakya Trizin, Ratna Vajra Rinpoche, delivered this talk on January 13, 2022, at Tsechen Kunchab Ling, U.S.A., in commemoration of the mahāparinirvāṇa anniversary of Lobpon Rinpoche Sonam Tsemo. Source: This teaching was obtained from the Tsecheb Kunchab Ling Youtube. Lobpon Sonam Tsemo, the second of the Five Sakya Patriarchs, was the […]
His Holiness the 42nd Sakya Trizin, Ratna Vajra Rinpoche, delivered this talk on January 24, 2022, at Tsechen Kunchab Ling, U.S.A., in commemoration of the mahāparinirvāṇa anniversary of Drogön Chögyal Phagpa. Drogön Chögyal Phagpa, the fifth Sakya patriarch, is an extraordinary figure in Tibetan history. He was an accomplished Buddhist teacher who was given the […]
His Holiness the Sakya Trichen (the 41st Sakya Trizin) gave this public talk at the request of a local community in New York City in April 2014. Mindfulness is widely known and practiced by many, including those outside the Buddhist tradition. However, the mindfulness commonly used outside Dharma is not the same as the mindfulness […]
His Holiness the 42nd Sakya Trizin, Ratna Vajra Rinpoche, delivered this talk on January 16, 2022, at Tsechen Kunchab Ling, U.S.A., in commemoration of the mahāparinirvāṇa anniversary of Sakya Paṇḍita. Sakya Paṇḍita, a luminary of the 13th century, remains one of the most revered figures in Tibetan Buddhism. As the fourth Sakya patriarch, he is […]
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 […]
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 […]
His Holiness the 43rd Sakya Trizin, Gyana Vajra Rinpoche, shared this advice before imparting the two-day Vajrakīlaya empowerment at the request of Tsechen Kunchab Ling in Walden, New York, U.S.A., on April 6-7, 2019. Although this teaching was given on a particular occasion to prepare students for a Vajrakīlaya empowerment, its insights will be helpful […]