How is the awakened and awakening heart depicted? How can the practices of looking at and creating buddhist art be a support on our path to awakening?Please join Karunika Stephanie Johnston for a weekend workshop hosted by Nalandabodhi Germany to explore these questions using Buddhist Visual Literacy, a practice that joins art, clear seeing, and symbolism with the Buddhist path.
The Aspiration Prayer of Samantabhadra, one of the most famous and often-recited Dzogchen texts, is a uniquely profound prayer.Please join NB Seattle and Karunika Nick Vail in reciting this prayer as part of the Vernal Equinox Practice for 2025.
Please join Nalandabodhi Vancouver for celebrating Chötrul Düchen. Mitra Lee Worley will begin the celebration with reflections on this auspicious occasion. An English-language liturgical practice will follow (screen-shared), presided over by Lama Rabten Tshering.
Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, all our Acharyas, Lamas, Mitras, and the Nalandabodhi Sangha wish you a Female Wood Snake Year full of peace, positive energy, great joy and happiness!
Mitra Karl Brunnhölzl will offer a weekend retreat, hosted by our friends at Bodhicarya, based on the traditional Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness as taught by Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche.
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.
