
A Mind Training Approach to the Four Reminders with Acharya Tashi
How can we turn our minds towards the path of freedom and kindness? Join Acharya Tashi for a series of dharma talks exploring the four reminders with a mind-training approach.
Nalandabodhi is a worldwide community of practitioners offering the timeless wisdom and boundless compassion of the Buddha to inspire individuals and create kind communities in today’s world, under the guidance of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche.

How can we turn our minds towards the path of freedom and kindness? Join Acharya Tashi for a series of dharma talks exploring the four reminders with a mind-training approach.

How did the Karmapas develop the Buddhist teachings inherited from India into the Karma Kagyü’s distinctive system of view and meditation? Please join Karunika Martin Marvet in exploring the continuities in the teachings between Karmapas and with the Buddhist traditions of India within the historical panorama of Tibetan society.

How do we train the mind to benefit all beings? Join Nalandabodhi Colorado in exploring Atisha’s Lojong slogans with Karunika Andrew Clark—practical guidance for this profound practice on our path to freedom.

Our local sanghas around the world and Nalandabodhi Akasha offer online meditation practices throughout the week. All are welcome to join, regardless of background or experience

Inspired by the Kagyü lineage and the lives and teachings of the Karmapas, as well as Ngulchu Tokmé’s classical text, our friends at Karmapa Center 16 offer Sunday Meditation for All with weekly Dharma talks and practice.

To end conflict and strife in this world for the benefit of all beings, NB Europe offers a Chenrezig Practice every Monday.

In part two, Patricia, Tommy, and Tom, offer reflections on Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen’s teachings on calming the mind in turbulent times. How to train our minds with patience, kindness, and discipline?

Precious teachings were given by Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen on Calming the Mind in Turbulent Times. Here is a beautiful first article with reflections and practice suggestions based on this teaching day hosted by Nalandabodhi York.

We are delighted to share that our friends at Nitartha Publications have recently released the expanded second edition of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche’s oral commentary on the Saṃdhinirmocana Sūtra (Unraveling the Intent of the Buddha), a key scripture of the Yogācāra tradition.Accompanied by the oral translation of Mitra Tyler Dewar, Rinpoche’s commentary illuminates subtle points of non-dual awareness, conceptual analysis, and direct realization—bringing them to life with clarity and depth, and making them accessible for contemporary practitioners.

The 2026 Complete Tibetan Calendar is now available! This year of the Fire Horse features inspiring images and quotes on Faith & Devotion in Buddhist teachings, while preserving the rare Kagyu Tsurluk lunisolar astrological system.

We often hear references to the three or more kāyas of the Buddha, but what are they and where are they? Hosted by Nalandabodhi Montréal, Mitra Karl Brunnhölzl taught an inspiring weekend workshop exploring the universe of the kāyas as presented in the Sūtrayāna and Mahayana traditions, as well as in the Vajrayana texts.

From July 4th to 10th, monastics and lay practitioners gathered together with Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche at Tek Chok Ling Nunnery in Kathmandu to commemorate the first parinirvāṇa anniversary of Venerable Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche.

GŌM – your refreshingly simple meditation and practice companion. Developed by Nalandabodhi Taichung, this new meditation app allows you to set goals, track your practices, and personalize your experience.

We’re pleased to announce that the Introduction to Buddhism study materials are now available as e-books.
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“We are made of the love and kindness that other people have selflessly given us, and other beings benefit from the love and kindness we provide them,” writes sangha member Justin Hellier.

Sangha member Alicja Bardin writes from Poland: “I have often thought about people I know but don’t have daily contact with. We are connected, interconnected by circumstances, places, other people . . . After all, being connected is not the same as being in constant touch.”

Mitra Lee writes, “Usually we focus on ourselves, on our own well-being, our goodness or badness, and our perceptions of pleasure and pain, right and wrong, like or dislike. In the practice of the four immeasurables, we train to extend our attention beyond ourselves and our habitual, conditioned thoughts. They help us to open a place for others in our mind and, beyond this, to see others as the same as ourselves.”

In the months following my serious fall and its traumatic aftermath, it was difficult for me to stay present. . . . Although I knew that thoughts of the past and future are futile, it was a challenge to let them go and be in the present moment, moment by moment.

What can we learn from the events or problems that encourage us to pause? My hope for us all is that we will not resist the challenges that arise, but see them as opportunities. I hope we will welcome these obstacles, these pauses, these moments of reflection. And while we do, let us practice loving-kindness toward ourselves and those around us.

It can be easy for me to fall into self-pity. I find myself clinging to a solid sense of self when I experience physical or emotional pain. But when I apply what I have learned in my longtime Buddhist practice, I can let go of my self-clinging and self-pity, and I can experience compassion for all suffering beings, including myself.
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Meditation opens your mind so you can get to know and accept yourself, and then experience the world with greater kindness and compassion.

Mindful activity makes every moment meaningful, allowing you to find joy in every aspect of your life and interactions with others.

Nalanda Digital Dharma, a new, online study path developed under the guidance of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche is pleased to offer the Introduction to Buddhism course. Learn at your own pace — from anywhere and at any time.
FInd here the Curriculum-courses offered by our local sanghas.

How can we train the mind like a music instrument, playfully? Andreas Fosdal shares about the Oboe, the Buddhist path and how we can bring more love into our world.

What is at the heart of our podcast Taking a Leap? Where does ‘Take a leap’ refer to? And how can ‘leaping’ help in our daily life, in the world of today?

How can we feel and act upon our interconnectedness? Stephanie Mikolaj expresses how we can and need to empower each other in our interconnected world community.

“In today’s turbulent world, I find myself at a loss for words witnessing the unimaginable actions humans perpetrate against each other. It’s easy to perceive the world as dominated by negativity and despair. However, it is vital to remember the unparalleled power of the mind.” Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche.

Selected and inaugurated by Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche and founded by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche in 2004, Nalanda West became our contemplative center in Seattle offering programs from diverse wisdom traditions.

Nestled in the breathtaking Canadian Rockies, MRC is in the Columbia River Valley surrounded by the Banff, Yoho and Kootenay National Parks. It is a wonderful spot for going out and exploring nature as well as turning inward exploring your mind.

“Prisoners should have the same opportunity as any one of us” – Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche.Mind Without Borders is Nalandabodhi’s prison dharma program, providing Buddhist study through correspondence courses, dharma pen pals and practice instructors. It is a way to directly benefit others and let harmony and happiness flourish in our deeply interconnected worlds.
