Accurately taking refuge in the Buddha is said to be the one single act that makes any person a Buddhist. And so the next ACI course explores how we do this: ...read more

by Choney Lama, Drake Shedrup (1675-1748) Translated by Geshe Michael Roach & Ben Kramer Every small group of people, on every small patch of land on this huge planet, has a different belief system. This system determines everything about how those particular people run their lives, down to how they cut their hair, and what clothes they wear. And by this belief system, people everywhere do their very best to be happy & prosperous. ...read more

El Cortador de Diamantes, el libro de Michael sobre cómo cualquiera puede utilizar los mismos principios para tener éxito en su vida empresarial y personal, se convirtió en un superventas internacional. Esta edición del 20 aniversario incluye más de 40 páginas de material nuevo para ayudarle a sembrar las semillas mentales para lograr el mayor éxito en su vida. ...read more

Level One of Buddhist Logic and Perception (Pramana) This Course is based upon the Compendium on Valid Perception (Pramana Samuchaya) by Master Dignaga (440 AD), the Commentary on Valid Perception (Pramana Varttika) by Master Dharmakirti (630 AD), Light on the Path to Freedom (Tarlam Selje) by Gyaltsab Je (1362-1432), and Jewel of the True Thought (Tsema Gong-gyen) by Geshe Yeshe Wangchuk (1928-present). Topics include: the definition of valid perception, the three levels of perception, who has valid perceptions and how, evaluating things beyond our direct perception, how great compassion is developed, the nature of omniscience, the material cause of the mind, proofs of the mind's source, proofs for the existence of past and future lives, and how desire leads to rebirth - an explanation of crucial links in the chain of dependent origination. ...read more

Translated By Khen Rinpoche Geshe Lobsang Tharchin with Geshe Michael Roach. The entire teachings of Buddhism explained in a few short pages by the greatest Buddhist master of ancient Middle Asia. The spread of the teaching of Gautama Buddha began in India over two thousand years ago and reached perhaps its highest peak in the hidden mountain kingdom of Tibet, five centuries before our time. The great illuminary of this renaissance of the religion of total peace was Tsongkapa (1357-1419). He inspired a movement that at its height saw nearly a million monks and nuns living in thousands of cloisters around the country. ...read more