Shambhala Publications has been sharing traditional Buddhist teachings for fifty years and now Prajna Studios brings you traditional Buddhist teachings in a modern format. Each course contains teachings from experienced Buddhist teachers along with suggested readings for further exploration and many practices to help you incorporate the teachings into your everyday life.
Exploring Self, Selflessness, and the Roots of Attachment
Imagine having Pema Chödrön sitting in your living room, speaking directly to you. This course, set in the intimate environment of remote Gampo Abbey, presents Pema teaching how to step outside ourselves to see how our sense of self develops and leads us to negative patterns of thinking.
How to Practice Buddhism and Make It Count
Tibetan Buddhist master Anyen Rinpoche and his teaching partner Allison Choying Zangmo share what it takes to achieve realization on the spiritual path with a practical and approachable means for bringing our practice alive and actualizing the wisdom of the Buddha in our hearts.
An Immersion in a Seven-Step Method for Deepening Meditation Practice
Learn a seven-step meditation practice, concisely and practically adapted from the meditation techniques of three major Buddhist traditions—Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana—which Tibetan Buddhism knits into a seamless whole.
The Hinayana Teachings of Chögyam Trungpa
The Hinayana path is the foundation of the Buddhist teachings. To enter the path of Buddhist practice, one must start here. Based on training in mindfulness and awareness and in cultivating a deeper understanding of one’s own mind, the Hinayana is what allows us to take delight in our everyday life just as it is.
The Mahayana Teachings of Chögyam Trungpa
Once the essential foundation of the Hinayana teachings has been laid, the next step begins with opening the focus of practice to include the world beyond oneself. This personal paradigm shift is the gate to the Mahayana teachings, beginning with shunyata, the essential emptiness of all phenomena, and with the compassion that naturally arises from that understanding.
The Tantric Teachings of Chögyam Trungpa
The tantric path requires complete engagement and fierce dedication. There is a quality of directness, abruptness, and wholeheartedness to it, and it is said to be the more rapid but more dangerous path.
The Tantric Teachings of Chögyam Trungpa
Mahamudra is a meditation tradition within tantric Buddhism that points to the nature of awareness itself, elevating our ordinary perception to the level of the sacred. In this view, all experiences arise from a mind that is naturally vast, empty, and luminous.
The Mahayana Teachings of Chögyam Trungpa
In this online course, esteemed Buddhist teacher and editor Judith Lief takes us on a journey through the mandala principle teachings of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche as presented in his Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma.
Making Friends with Yourself through Meditation and Everyday Awareness
In this online course, the practice of meditation will be accompanied by practices for expanding awareness in everyday activities, dissolving the boundary between meditation and everything else we do in our lives. This is a course for new meditators, for those who want to deepen their meditation practice, and for mindfulness trainers and teachers. The approach is based on the mindfulness teachings of Chögyam Trungpa, from his book Mindfulness in Action.
Exploring Wisdom Beyond Wisdom
For Zen Buddhists—and many others—the heart sutra expresses the nature of reality in ways both profound and paradoxical. In this online course, Kazuaki Tanahashi and Roshi Joan Halifax collaboratively explore the depths of the sutra’s teaching through talks, chanting, readings, and group discussions.
A Course on Meditation for Meeting Your World with an Open Heart
Want to learn to ride the waves of life with mindfulness and compassion? We all do—and yet we so often fall short of our goal to bring more wisdom into our lives at work, at home, and with our friends. In this course, author and Buddhist teacher Lodro Rinzler serves as your guide in how to develop a spiritual backbone, regardless of whether or not you’re interested in religion.
