“Life Before Life” is the first book on reincarnation by Dr. Jim Tucker of the University of Virginia. It’s definitely worth reading if you are interested in learning the truth about life.

If we don’t want to be a slave to our emotions but rather be the master of them, we must practice to develop meditative concentration as that is the only source from which we can draw enough strength to keep our emotions under control.

Life transcends the flesh. The latter is limited, the former is immeasurable. Infinite life travels through the endless universe with bodies as its various means of transport.

I was invited to give lectures at Sydney University. Buddhism offers wisdom beyond religion; it’s suitable for all people and can benefit every sentient being.

Lives that experience emotions are deemed sentient beings; killing them constitutes the sin of taking lives because they can feel pain. Plants are not sentient beings as they don’t have emotions; plant-based eating does not result in the karma of taking lives because the plants don’t feel any pain. Unlike the definition of living beings given by people in general, plants are not beings according to the Buddhist definition. There is a difference in how such terminology is defined.

Khenpo's blog published on 29 June 2015

Going against the flow can be a wonderful thing to do; as bodhisattvas also go against the flow in samsara.

We are often fooled by our own minds because we don’t understand the axiom that the mind always changes.

An ascetic monk and a traveling monk are brothers of the same Sakya Clan.

When a person, in his or her value system, holds material things above all else, there is not much happiness to be found in this person’s life.