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Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels: The Complete Companion Guide to Awakening, Vows, and Daily Renewal with video
RENEW YOUR REFUGE Video Thumbnail Taking Refuge: Buddhism's Most Important Practice — With Pali, Sanskrit & English Chants. VIDEO is ...
Descending Light: Celebrating Lhabab Duchen 2026 — The Day of Ten Million Multiplied Merits: Buddha’s Descent From Heaven
Buddha Weekly graphic illustrating the Buddha's Descent from Heaven. A Special Buddha Weekly Feature for Sunday, November 1, 2026 "Lhabab ...
Buddhist Dharma Dates: clearing the confusion on the 3 plus 1 calendars: Lunisolar, Lunar and Solar and — Which do You Celebrate
Sacred lunar days - and the Confusion Over Lunar Calendars The Core Distinction: Three Systems (plus), Not One Dharma ...
Alavaka Sutta Protection Paritta: Chant away fear, hostility & negative forces — in 20 minutes.
Thumbnail of Music Album cover Alavaka Sutta Protection Parittaby 3 Gems Band. IN THIS Image: Alavaka, after offering violence to ...
You Are Never Alone; You were Never Impure: The Meaning of the Śuddha Mantra. Power of Chants: Overview
Video Thumbnail: You Were Never Impure: The Meaning of the Śuddha Mantra Why Every Buddhist Practice Begins With the Śuddha ...
Guardians of the Word: How the First Buddhist Council Committed the Buddha’s Teachings to Sacred Text
First Buddhist Council in the Saptaparni Caves (near Rajgir) around 483 BCE, approximately 3 months after Buddha's Parinirvana. Editorial illustration, ...
Śuddha – Purity Mantra: Also known as the Śunyata mantra, and the “Universal Love” mantra, all Buddhist practices begin with it
Śuddha Purification Mantra Video Thumbnail The Śuddha Mantra, also called the Purity Mantra or the Śunyata mantra, is among the ...
SUPPORTING MEMBERS: DHAMMA MUSIC VIDEO: Āḷavaka Sutta Paritta — Our 20-Minute Dhamma Sutta Opera Chant away fear & danger
Alavaka Sutta Protection Parita Video Thumbnail 🎵 NEW RELEASE: Āḷavaka Sutta Paritta — Our 20-Minute Sutta Opera 🎵 (FULL LYRICS ...
Buddha Weekly's Latest Videos
Medicine Buddha video teaching: the Four Immeasurables are immeasurably important; meditation and commentary — H.E. Zasep Rinpoche
"To do effective healing, beneficial healing it is suggested that we practice the Four Immeasurables. Four Immeasurables. Immeasurable of love, ...
Video Medicine Buddha Retreat, part 1: open self-healing weekend with visualization, mantras and teachings with H.E. Zasep Rinpoche
Part 1 of a series featuring a full Medicine Buddha weekend retreat, suitable for anyone who wishes to meditate on ...
Video part 2 of Heart Sutra Commentary by H.E. Zasep Rinpoche: how understanding Heart Sutra can help us overcome unhappiness, attachments, aversions and fear
H.E. Zasep Tulku Rinpoche with a line from his "long life prayer" which was composed by his teacher HH Kyabje ...
Video: Heart Sutra Commentary by H.E. Zasep Tulku Rinpoche Part 1: Teachings on Emptiness and the Skandas of Form and Feeling
Part 1 of an important commentary on Heart Sutra, and especially on the true nature of Shunyata (Emptiness) — a ...
Video: Vipashyana Mahamudra (Vipassana) short teaching on Madyamuka and brief guided meditation with H. E. Zasep Tulku Rinpoche
Venerable Zasep Tulku Rinpoche, spiritual director of many meditation centres in Canada, U.S. and Australia, returns to Gaden Choling Toronto ...
Shakyamuni Mantra video — chant these Holy sounds to bring in a prosperous lunar new year. Happy Year of the Earth Dog!
Bring the sacred and blessed sounds of Shakyamuni Buddha's mantra into the Lunar New Year 2018, Year of the Earth ...
Video Teaching: Amitabha Amitayus Powa teaching and guided meditation — transfering consciousness to the Pureland when dying or as a practice for “healing the mind.”
H.E. Venerable Zasep Tulku Rinpoche is the spiritual head of Gaden for the West Mahayana Buddhist meditation centres. H.E. Zasep ...
Video: Amitabha Buddha Mantra Om Ami Dewa Hri — bring infinite light and love into your life: powerfully chanted by Yoko Dharma with animated visualizations
Perhaps the best known Buddhist mantra — after Om Mani Padme Hum — is the name mantra of Amitabha Buddha: ...
Buddha Weekly Online Magazine, published since 2007, takes a topical approach to modern Buddhist feature writing — topics of interest to modern Buddhists, from the multiple points-of-view of many teachers of different traditions.
WHAT THE BUDDHIST TEACHERS SAY
Our writers and editors are senior students who seek out, or research, the opinions of teachers on important Dharma issues, such as: the implications of non-human animal sentience; or palliative care and assisted dying as we all grow older; alternative healing; practice overload in busy, modern lives; internet Dharma.
THE SCIENTIFIC BUDDHIST
Most of our contributors are interested in how science compliments and reinforces Buddhist concepts. We take Dharma topics, often the Buddha's own words, and look how modern science might support ancient truths. We cite research and quote scientists and Buddhist teachers. Past topics have included: meditation for healing, the evidence for rebirth, how to understand emptiness, and why "compassion" should be put on the scientific map.
INTERVIEWS WITH THE TEACHERS
Our newest special series is "Interviews with the Buddhist Teachers". We interview, in person, a well-known teacher. These extensive interviews cover wide-ranging topics — such as Karma, Rebirth, Dharma, Buddhist Deities, Meditation, Healing and more — and are a great way to gain diverse teacher-led insight into important Dharma topics and practices.
ADVICE FROM THE TEACHERS
Buddha Weekly's new "Advice from the Teachers" videos take student questions to teachers for a short 5 minute video-recorded answer. In our first series of ten, teachers respond to questions about Karma, healing for chronic illness, losing a loved one, loss of a beloved pet, keeping motivated in your practice, dealing with memory loss, how to purify negative karma, and other important topics.
2018 Buddhist Practice Calendar with Tsog Dates
Beautifully illustrated by Jampay Dorje with full lunar and western calendar. MORE>>
