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Discover a whole new world of profound Dharma content from eminent Rinpoches, senior lamas, and beloved teachers including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Mingyur Rinpoche, Venerable Chodron, Bhikkhu Analayo, Shaila Catherine, and more.

Read 170+ Dharma Books Now in the Reading Room

Plus and In-Depth members of the Wisdom Experience can read over 170 books in our Reading Room. Including the Pali Canon, books by the Dalai Lama, Lama Zopa, Lama Yeshe, Bhante Gunaratana, and many more.

You’re invited to join the Wisdom Experience and Study with Eminent Rinpoches, Senior Lamas and Beloved Teachers

Imagine having full access to one of the largest, most authentic resources for Buddhist teachings to support your practice, all in one place.

Imagine that whenever you want, you can learn form beloved teachers such as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, His Holiness the Sakya Trichen, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Venerable Chodron, and many others.

Imagine getting personalized recommendations on what to read, watch, and listen to next to help you on your path.

We’ve built a revolutionary platform so that you can do just this: it’s the premier membership site for Buddhists.

And as a nonprofit organization, we’ll be sending all membership revenue right back into supporting dharma teachers and creating more amazing Buddhist content. We’d love for you to be a part of that.

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GOMPA WISDOM TEACHINGS

We are delighted to have formed a partnership with fellow non-profit Gompa – Tibetan Monastery Services, the online services site for the major monasteries and nunneries of India and Nepal, to create Gompa Wisdom Teachings.

Each year we work with Gompa – Tibetan Monastery Services to bring our Plus, All-Access, and In-Depth members three courses and/or teachings by eminent Rinpoches, scholars, and practitioners given in their monasteries and nunneries in India and Nepal. Our current Gompa Wisdom Teaching provides the rare opportunity to receive a two-week course of teachings by the Venerable Khenpo Dr. Ngawang Jorden on ‘Cultivating Method and Realizing Wisdom’. Just as a bird depends on two wings to fly, the path to awakening comprises two essential components: method and wisdom. In the first week of this course, devoted to method, Khenpo Jorden will give teachings on mindfulness and introspection. Without these two qualities, it is impossible to make significant progress on the path. It is therefore important to learn how to cultivate these skilfully, not only in meditation, but also in daily life, in order to establish continuity in one’s practice. The teaching will be based on two chapters of Shantideva’s ‘The Way of the Bodhisattva’ (Bodhicaryavatara) and will include essential meditation instructions.

In the second week, Khenpo Jorden will explore two core areas for the development of wisdom: dependent arising and emptiness. The Buddha’s teachings on dependent arising are the foundation for attaining liberating insight into the nature of ultimate reality. These teachings explain how things come to appear in the world and, most significantly, how we are caught in a net of suffering and dissatisfaction and how we might liberate ourselves from this net of suffering and dissatisfaction. The correct understanding of dependent arising builds the foundation for the profound teachings on emptiness. To explore this subject, Khenpo Jorden will base his explanation on Rongton Sheja Kunrig’s commentary on the ‘Heart Sutra’, one of the most widely recited Mahayana scriptures. In just a few paragraphs, this text conveys the essence of the highest Buddhist wisdom, which is insight into the nature of ultimate reality.

Previous Gompa Wisdom Teachings have included: H. H. the 42nd Sakya Trizin, Ratna Vajra Rinpoche on ‘The Beautiful Ornament of the three Visions;’ H. H. the Drikung Kyabgon Thinley Lhundup on ‘Introduction to Mahamudra: The Co-emergent Unification;’ and a special teaching and guided meditation by H. H. the Sakya Gongma Trichen Rinpoche titled ‘Introduction to Meditation Practice on Chenrezi (Avalokiteshvara) and the Six Syllable Mantra OM MANI PADME HUM.’

Special discounted access to all of Gompa’s online services and member-supporter benefits including access to Gompa’s extensive library of teachings and courses by eminent Rinpoches and senior teachers is available to Plus, All-Access, and In-Depth members.

Gompa – Tibetan Monastery Services offers an easy way of participating with the teachings and special events at over seventy partner monasteries and nunneries in India and Nepal and to sponsor prayers and pujas for yourself and your loved ones at the partner monasteries and nunneries. Gompa – Tibetan Monastery Services was established in 2014 to provide online services for the monasteries and nunneries in India and Nepal and especially as a way to make it easy to ‘support the source’, ie to engage with and support the monasteries and nunneries, where the living classical educational system, the foundational legacy of all our learning, is maintained.

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A Wealth of Buddhist Teachings

Your membership to the Wisdom Experience means you can study with a range of teachers across many traditions, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama,  the Sakya Trichen, Bhikkhu Anālayo, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Koshin Paley Ellison, and many other powerful teachers.

Read 170+ Books From Anywhere

The Reading Room is your personal library with over 170 books in it, and more books are added every month. Start reading the Pali Canon, The Library of Wisdom and Compassion, or books by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Bhante Gunaratana, Thupten Jinpa, Venerable Chodron, and more right now.

Discover Inspiration

Discover inspiration through a wide range of other content including Gompa Wisdom Teachings, Lecture Series, recordings of events and teachings guided meditations, Wisdom Dharma Chats, and more. Wisdom Experience members can enjoy over hundreds of hours of exclusive, ad-free Buddhist video content with the most beloved Buddhist thinkers and teachers.

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Wisdom Masterclass

Our Masterclass courses feature beautifully-produced videos that will teach you the skills you need to enhance and advance your understanding of Buddhism. Our first Masterclass, produced in partnership with the Tsadra Foundation, is Translating Tibetan with Thupten Jinpa, His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s principal English translator.

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