Buddhist Psychology:
Mind Explained
From The Treasury of Abhidharma
Exploring the Roadmap of the Human Mind
The transmission is just beginning and you will have access to all the Buddhist Psychology courses as part of your Vajrayana Online subscription.
Dear Friend, the Transmission starts on August 3, 2024, and you will have access to the launch event with Mingyur Rinpoche as well as all the Buddhist Psychology courses as part of your Vajrayana Online subscription. For now, we encourage you to sign up for the first online retreat of this transmission!
The transmission is just beginning. Join Vajrayana Online now and start the Essence of Buddhist Psychology course!
Mingyur Rinpoche composed a step-by-step meditation guide to the Abhidharma teachings called Stainless Prajna in 2021 while he was on retreat. This is the first time Mingyur Rinpoche will teach this text to a Western audience. We welcome you to join this precious transmission!
Exploring the Roadmap of the Human Mind
Mingyur Rinpoche composed a step-by-step meditation guide to the Abhidharma teachings called Stainless Prajna in 2021 while he was on retreat. This is the first time Mingyur Rinpoche will teach this text to a Western audience. We welcome you to join this precious transmission!
Learning Path for
2024‒25 Transmission
Opening Webinar
Buddhist Psychology: Mind Explained
Vajrayana Online Courses
Voices of Buddhist Psychology
The Abhidharma tradition will come alive for you through the voices of great teachers, scholars, and practitioners, including Mingyur Rinpoche, Joseph Goldstein, Beth Jacobs, Daniel Aitken, and our Tergar guides as they share teachings and personal insights from this profound set of teachings.
Essence of Buddhist Psychology
Buddhist Psychology Immersion
In this 9-month immersion, divided into two courses, we will explore Mingyur Rinpoche’s new text Stainless Prajñā: Stages of Meditation (Meditation Manual) on the Treasury of Abhidharma. In this text, Mingyur Rinpoche brings the otherwise very technical teachings of Abhidharma from the cognitive level into the experiential arena. Rinpoche teaches us how we apply the Abhidharma teachings in our meditation practice and how to make them relevant in our day to day lives.
Online Retreats
Buddhist Psychology:
Exploring Reality Retreat
Buddhist Psychology:
Four Foundations of Mindfulness Retreat
This retreat will offer a meditative exploration of “the four foundations of mindfulness,” a central teaching from the Buddhist tradition that shows how mindfulness can be applied to the full range of human experience, including our embodied physical experience, our thoughts and emotions, and even consciousness itself. This retreat will conclude his transmission of the teachings from his meditation manual on Abhidharma called Stainless Prajna, focusing on the last three foundations of mindfulness — sensations, mind, and phenomena — as well as the inner transformation that occurs as a result of practicing these teachings.
Stainless Prajna
by Mingyur Rinpoche
Learning Path for
2024‒25 Transmission
Buddhist Psychology: Mind Explained
This talk is dedicated to giving an overview of Abhidharma and marks the beginning of Tergar’s 2024/25 Transmission — Buddhist Psychology: Mind Explained — a series of online courses and retreats with Mingyur Rinpoche on Abhidharma.
Buddhist Psychology: Exploring Reality Retreat
Explore Mingyur Rinpoche’s newly written text Stainless Prajna, a meditation manual that gives step-by-step instructions for exploring and transforming the mind. Rinpoche will guide us through the key principles and practices of the Abhidharma tradition, offering detailed teachings on the practices of calm abiding and insight meditation.
Voices of Buddhist Psychology
Essence of Buddhist Psychology
The Abhidharma teachings offer a step-by-step path to exploring and transforming the mind. They teach us how to uproot the causes of suffering by examining our mental habits and emotional states, leading to a profound sense of ease and inner freedom. In this 8-week course, Mingyur Rinpoche will teach the essential points of Abhidharma, offering a taste of this freedom and how we can begin to live our lives from this perspective.
Buddhist Psychology Immersion
Buddhist Psychology:
Four Foundations of Mindfulness Retreats
This retreat will offer a meditative exploration of “the four foundations of mindfulness,” a central teaching from the Buddhist tradition that shows how mindfulness can be applied to the full range of human experience, including our embodied physical experience, our thoughts and emotions, and even consciousness itself. Drawing on this teaching, Mingyur Rinpoche will show how we can free ourselves from destructive mental and emotional habits by exploring our inner experience through meditation. This retreat will conclude his transmission of the teachings from his meditation manual on Abhidharma called Stainless Prajna, focusing on the last three foundations of mindfulness — sensations, mind, and phenomena — as well as the inner transformation that occurs as a result of practicing these teachings.
Resources:
Stainless Prajna
by Mingyur Rinpoche
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