7 Jul 2023
As the title indicates, the focus of this chapter is the locations of bodhisattvas. It enumerates twenty-three dwelling places, giving the names of the bodhisattvas who reside in the first nine while omitting the names of those who reside in the remaining fourteen.
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27 Jun 2023
This coming Chökor Düchen, a day that marks the first turning of the wheel of Dharma, we invite you to join us live with Chagdud Khadro who will speak on the importance to all of us of there having been a Buddha’s teaching in this world, and on the importance of continuing to request the teachings.
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22 Jun 2023
Within the Tantra section of the Degé Kangyur there are six dhāraṇī scriptures (Toh 545–550) gathered together that provide instruction in recitation practices centered on the bodhisattava Mañjuśrī.
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9 Jun 2023
The Perfection of Wisdom “Kauśika” is a condensed prajñāpāramitā sūtra in which the Buddha summarizes the various meanings of the perfection of wisdom. In particular, the Buddha equates the characteristics of the perfection of wisdom with the characteristics of all phenomena, the five aggregates, the five elements, and the ten perfections.
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4 Jun 2023
The Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines is among the most important scriptures underlying both the “vast” and the “profound” approaches to Buddhist thought and practice. Known as the “middle-length” version, being the second longest of the three long Perfection of Wisdom sūtras, it fills three volumes of the Kangyur.
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1 Jun 2023
This Saga Dawa Düchen—in celebration of the Buddha’s birth, awakening, and parinirvāṇa—we are delighted to present a special event with 84000 Senior Editor John Canti.
This Sunday, we will be publishing our translation of this auspicious text, and John will offer a few approaches to reading it in translation and navigating its vastness that may help open it up and bring it alive to anyone.
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26 May 2023
Set on Gayāśīrṣa, the hill near Bodhgayā from which its title is derived, the sūtra presents its teaching in the form of the Buddha’s inward examination, a conversation between the Buddha and the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī, and dialogues between Mañjuśrī and three interlocutors—two gods and a bodhisattva.
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20 May 2023
It’s time to REJOICE!
As we enter this auspicious month marking the birth, awakening, and parinirvāṇa of the Buddha, we invite all those who supported our recent campaign, The Perfection of Wisdom for All, to SAVE THE DATE: June 18.
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12 May 2023
In this Sūtra, the Buddha presents to the brahmin youth Śuka Taudeyaputra a discourse on the workings of karma. This is enlivened by many examples drawn from the rich heritage of Buddhist narrative literature, providing a detailed analysis of how deeds lead to specific consequences in the future.
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28 Apr 2023
“It’s in the cloud.” Though it has been less than twenty years since that metaphorical expression was first coined (by Eric Schmidt of Google at a conference in 2006), many of us are now as accustomed to understanding “the cloud” to mean a huge store of digital data, somewhere up there in cyberspace that we can access from anywhere, as we are to the real clouds up there in the sky. But Buddhist tradition has been using clouds in a similar metaphor for at least two thousand years.
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