The Three Capable Persons (Practitioners)

(The following transcript is of a talk by His Eminence Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche on The Three Capable Persons, in the context of the stages of the path to enlightenment, given through webcast, as a series of such webcast talks, in July – August 2020, on subjects of spiritual practices requested …

A public talk on Democracy and Unity

At the request of National Democratic Party of Tibet, Dharamshala, on 13 April 2018 His Eminence Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche gave a public talk, in the hall of Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts, Dharamshala, on the requested theme of “Democracy and Unity.” After a welcome speech and explanation for organising the …

Dreaming about Future Tibet

– A discourse by Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, at Auroville Former Kalon Tripa (Former Prime Minister of the Central Tibetan Administration) (From archives) Presenter: It is not necessary to introduce Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche again, though there are many things we could say about him, but perhaps, Rinpoche will not like to …

Introduction to Buddhism

Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche’s Talk to an exchange group from New Orleans, USA Facilitator: Rinpoche, thank you for coming today. I have already informed our group about some of your many, many accomplishments over many years; very important work. But I want to just remind the group that Rinpoche has worked …

The Dynamics between Consciousness and Reality (tendrel)

With Impulses for Dialogue with other Religions and Worldviews Interdependent arising, in Tibetan “tendrel” is a translation of the Sanskrit expression “pratityasamutpada”. The word pratityasamutpada has a very complex connotation. Actually the entire Buddhist philosophy is based on the concept of pratityasamutpada, which can be very roughly interpreted in the …