“In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.” – Bob Thurman
Events
Menla Yogic Sciences Teacher Training
September 3, 2020-12:00 am - 3:00 am EDT
Join us for this totally unique yoga teacher training, exploring the philosophical and experiential interface between Hatha Yoga and Indo-Tibetan Vajra Yoga traditions in the pristine hidden mountain valley of Menla—a Medicine Buddha land. This will be an intensive immersion designed for students and teachers of Indian and Tibetan yogas wishing to take their practice […]
Passion without Attachment: Practicing with Embodied Emptiness with Rick Hanson
January 28-7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST
“Neurons that fire together wire together. Mental states become neural traits. Day after day, your mind is building your brain. This is what scientists call experience-dependent neuroplasticity.” – Rick Hanson
Embraced by Infinite Love: Vajra Yoga Valentine’s Celebration with Michele Loew
February 12-5:00 pm - February 14-5:00 pm EST
Celebrate Valentine’s Day & Tibetan New Year “Losar” with us in this 3-day practice immersion as we dive deep into the bliss of Vajra Yoga. Professor Robert Thurman will elucidate the Buddha’s teachings on the Vajra path, and Michele will share the physical & meditative practices that move and open the channels and winds and expand us […]
What Modern Science Can Learn from Buddhist Science – An Online Dialogue with Joe Loizzo
February 15-6:30 pm - March 8-8:30 pm EST
Given the unprecedented crisis we face today, the recent dialogue between modern science and Buddhist science seems more promising and more vital than ever. The fact that Western science has confirmed many of the discoveries Asian Buddhists made in astrophysics, evolutionary biology and neuropsychology, and has even shown the effectiveness of Buddhist techniques in shifting […]
Death and the Art of Dying: The Pure Lands with Andrew Holecek
February 26-11:00 am - February 28-5:00 pm EST
The Pure Lands are an integral aspect of Indian Mahayana, Tibetan and East Asian Buddhisms rarely taught in the West. For most of us, they represent our greatest opportunity after death. These two weekends on exoteric (sutra) and esoteric (tantra) Pure Lands are designed to provide everything you need to know about the Pure Land […]
Yuthog Nyingthig Mahamudra with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang
March 26-10:30 am - March 28-5:00 pm EDT
In this special teaching, Dr. Nida will transmit the teachings of Mahamudra according to the Yuthog Nyingthig tradition. Mahamudra means ‘Great Seal’ and is one of the most advanced meditation methods of the Vajrayana tradition, a direct path to reveal the nature of the human mind and cut off the dualistic sufferings of Samsara at […]
Courses
Indian & Tibetan River of Buddhism :
Robert Thurman | EdX
Explore an overview of the history and philosophy of Buddhism throughout India, South and Southeast Asia, Tibet, and Central Asia, featuring the basics of the Buddhist view of reality and its educational principles of sciences, mind and social ethics with Bob Thurman.