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.
Please join our friends at Nitartha for the 30th Summer Institute, with teachings by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche on the Mahamudra Siddhas and Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen on Maitreya’s text Distinguishing Phenomena and Pure Being.
Please join Nalandabodhi Taipei for an inspiring journey into the heart of Mahāmudrā, guided by Karunika Joshua Erickson and based on Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche’s profound work, Wild Awakening.
How do we find a quiet heart and steady joy amid the shifting tides of the world?Please join Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen in exploring the nature of reality and ways to cultivate peace from within.
How might the practice of Mind Training (lojong) help us gently transform our minds and hearts in everyday life?Join Acharya Tashi as he explores six essential Buddhist teachings, offering simple yet profound tools to meet life’s challenges with kindness, clarity, and a touch of joy.
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.
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.
From June 28th to July 1st, monastics and lay practitioners gathered at Tek Chok Ling nunnery in Kathmandu to offer long-life practices to Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche.
The responsibility of bodhisattvas may feel daunting and great courage is needed to engage in this practice, but why not give it a chance?Mitra Karl Brunnhölzl together with Karunika Stephanie Johnston offered rich and inspiring teachings that spoke directly to our paths.
Traditionally intended to request permission and blessings from the earth in order to create auspicious conditions for building on the land and supporting future beneficial dharma activities, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche presided over a Land Blessing Ceremony in Colorado on February 1st (2025) and visited Nalandabodhi Colorado the next day.
What is the quality of your mind, right now? That was the question Acharya Lama Tenpa Gyaltsen posed at the beginning of a weekend teaching on the topic of Mahāmudrā and Bodhicitta at Milarepa’s Yak Horn, our center in Hong Kong.
Christmas, New Year, all samsaric things like this naturally come. However, to practice Dharma, making a deep connection with our own mind, requires a lot of effort. Rather than turning inward, Lama Rabten Tshering noted that we tend to choose samsara– suffering. Why?
2025 is the year of the Wood Snake and this year’s calendar features images and quotes inspired by Exemplary Women in Buddhism. Now available!In addition to supporting our meditation practice and daily activities, the aspiration for the calendar, as originally set into motion by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, is cultural and lineage preservation.
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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Sangha member Patti Fraser sees the magic and draws a powerful lesson from a chance encounter: “Seize the moment in its fullness before it, too, disappears.”
“When I can relax and let go, when I can cease clinging to myself as being independent and separate from the environment, I see that everything is alive with interconnection,” writes Nick Vail. “There is no ‘me,’ and there is no ‘out there.’ There is only vibrant, spacious interdependence.”
“When something disturbs me bodily, mentally, or emotionally, my first movement, a deep-rooted habit, is to look outward,” Adela Iglesias writes. “I too often forget that the main source of my suffering (and of my liberation) is within me, in my own mind.”
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.
Study helps you understand your life and the choices you make with greater precision and awareness.
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.
