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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
Video: chanting Green Tara by Yoko Dharma; from our guided meditation series, Green Tara images and mantra to empower your practice
Green Tara "is one of the most popular devotional and meditational deities, honored all around the world, practiced by all ...
Green Tara guided meditation video, guided by H.E. Zasep Rinpoche with beautiful Tara images and animations; finishing with magnificent Tara mantra chanted by Yoko Dharma
Venerable Zasep Rinpoche teaching at a Tara weekend using the commentary book, Tara in the Palm of Your Hand, as ...
Teaching video: Why is it important to state Bodhichitta motivation and dedicate the merit of practice? answered by H.E. Zasep Tulku Rinpoche
Every Mahayana Buddhist practice or meditation should begin with a Bodhichitta motivation and end with a Bodhichitta dedication. This is ...
Video mantra chanting: Lama Tsongkhapa’s Migtsema wonderfully chanted by Yoko Dharma. Benefits: healing, compassion, metta, wisdom
The benefits of the powerful Migtsema prayer or mantra is well-documented by many great teachers of the Gelug lineage — ...
Video: Buddhist Teachings on Ngondro, The Foundation Practices with Venerable Zasep Rinpoche
This week's Buddha Weekly teachings video introduces the first three outer preliminaries of Foundation Practices in Vajrayana Buddhism. Don't miss this ...
Video with wonderful mantra chanting: Om Gate Gate Paragate Para Samgate Bodhi Soha, the essence of Heart Sutra and Emptiness
The profound essence of Buddha Nature and Emptiness is beautifully expressed in the Heart Sutra Mantra, magnificently chanted by Yoko ...
Taking Refuge in Buddha, Dharma and Sangha and the Four Immeasurables sung by amazing Yoko Dharma with video visualizations
At the heart of Buddhist practice is "Taking Refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha" — the Three ...
Video: “How do I deal with my anger? Sometimes it consumes me and hurts others”: a Buddhist student asks teacher Ven. Zasep Tulku Rinpoche
Venerable Zasep Tulku Rinpoche, spiritual director of Gaden for the West meditation centres in Canada, U.S. and Australia. Anger is, ...
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>>
