Gyalo Thondup, the second-eldest brother of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, has died at age 97 in his home at Kalimpong, Northern India. He served not only as an advisor to His Holiness, but as the Tibetan government-in-exile’s Prime Minister in 1991 and...

‘Remain in the Buddha-mind. Then you’ll never stray, then you’ll be a living Buddha for all time.’ Bankei

‘When we say that there is no self, people get worried, or angry. Their attachment and identification to this idea of a self is so strong.’ Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

‘Despite their limitations, words remain indispensable. The Buddhist tradition itself is built upon texts, dialogues, and commentaries—words pointing beyond words. The challenge is not to avoid language, but to use it skilfully, without becoming trapped by it.’...

My dear friends, suppose someone is holding a pebble and throws it in the air and the pebble begins to fall down into a river. After the pebble touches the surface of the water, it allows itself to sink slowly into the river. It will reach the bed of the river without...

‘Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so too this Dhamma-Vinaya has one taste, the taste of liberation.’ The BuddhaUdāna Sutra