His Holiness the Sakya Trichen (the 41st Sakya Trizin) gave this teaching at the request of the Sakya Great Tantric College in India, which was shared online in Tibetan on November 13, 2021. Being human offers us a unique leverage over our own lives that we often fail to use. In this distilled teaching, the […]
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 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 Sakya Trichen (the 41st Sakya Trizin) gave this public talk at the request of Karma Tashi Ling Buddhist Center, Oslo, Norway, on July 27, 2023. All of us—rich or poor, educated or uneducated, old or young, regardless of skin color, social status, or beliefs—share a common longing. Whether we admit it or […]
His Holiness the Sakya Trichen (the 41st Sakya Trizin) gave this two-day teaching at the request of the Singapore Buddha Sasana Society (Sakya Tenphel Ling) on March 10 and 11, 2009. Bodhicitta, the mind of enlightenment, is a central concept for practitioners of the Mahāyāna path, representing the commitment to attaining buddhahood for the benefit […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]