Language: English

Śīla, Samādhi, Prajñā

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Khen Orgyen Rinpoche and our dear friends from the Dudjom Tersar Dhanakoshaling group from Hanoi for organizing the online lectures and for sharing the recordings.

We would also like to extend our great thanks to Anna for the simultaneous interpretation into Vietnamese. Simultaneous interpretation of highly specialized lectures is not easy. Anna has our sincere appreciation.

Dudjom Tersar Dhanakoshaling Hanoi
Online lectures with Venerable Dhammadipa
(Guest Lecture Series of the DDL Shedra 4-Year)

Course Duration: 23 December 2025 – 27 January 2026
Fixed Classes: Every Tuesday (6 sessions total)
Class Time: 20:00 (8:00 PM) – Hanoi time 14:00 (2:00 PM) – Madrid time
Language: English with Vietnamese interpretation
Format: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be shared after registration only)

Detailed information: https://www.facebook.com/events/1326163915929207/

Registration is still open for the next session, and everyone is warmly welcome to join. Please note that registration is required.
Register on organizers webpage here: https://forms.gle/vjuk8c6b5e7HUzeEA

We will prepare the audio recording later. For now, please listen to the lectures from the video recording.

Silent Meditation Retreat

Date: September 16. – 25. 2025
Place: Deer Park Institute, Bir, Himachal Pradesh, India (www.deerpark.in)

Audio: Download or Archive.org

We would like to thank our friends from Deer Park for organizing this course. We would also like to thank Rajender ji for recording, sorting, and processing the recordings. The recordings are of very high quality. We know this took a lot of work and time, and we really appreciate it.

The understanding of training in samadhi in the tradition of disciples and of Bodhisattvas is based on scriptures and personal experience in these two types of training.

The present course is suitable for all kinds of students interested in meditation on breath as the basis for training in both concentration and wisdom. The students will learn how the breath is used to develop different stages of absorption into the breath, in and out breath, whole body breath in the intermediate periods between in and out breath and ultimately for understanding of the insight practice in both traditions, that of disciples, and in the non-dualistic tradition connected with the bodhisattva training. A background in the study and practice of Theravada and Chinese tradition will be appreciated, but is not necessary. The main aim of the course is to share the experience of training assisted by outstanding teachers in both traditions.

This is Very Important to Understand …in the words of Thomas Dhammadipa

We thank Christian Bernert for creating this lovely book. We also thank Christian and brother Tenzin for the beautiful photographs. Our thanks also go to the publisher, Vajra Publications.

This book is an offering of selected quotes from Thomas Dhammadipa. They were collected and compiled over several years, during meditation retreats and courses held mainly at the International Buddhist Academy in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Organized by theme, each quote stands alone without context or commentary, inviting the reader to engage with these texts as points of departure for personal contemplation.

Detailed information and free download or hard copies:
chodungkarmo.org/this-is-very-important-to-understand-in-the-words-of-thomas-dhammadipa/

Vajra Publications: vajrabookshop.com

Heart Sutra

Resting in the nature of mind
Teachings on the Heart Sutra by Thomas Dhammadipa and Dolpo Tulku Rinpoche
Dolpo Tulku Rinpoche taught according to the Tibetan tradition and Thomas Dhammadipa introduced us into Chinese tradition.

Place: Shanta Vana (shantavana.cz), Czech
Date: 22th – 27th April 2025

Audio: Archive.org or Download

Shamatha in Mahayana

Place: Buddha Pada (buddhapada.in), Kalimpong, India
Date: 29 September – 6 October 2024

Audio: Download or Archive.org
Note: The recording from the evening of October 3 was not successful due to technical reasons. The topic was Introduction to Awakening Faith into Mahayana I. Bhante continued the following day with next lecture, Awakening Faith into Mahayana II. If this topic is unclear for anyone and they need the first missing lecture, please listen to this theme from another courses that was dedicated to Awakening Faith into Mahayana.

We thank Buddha Pada for organizing these great courses.

Four elements meditation

Date: 14-23 September, 2024
Place: International Buddhist Academy (IBA), Kathmandu, Nepal
Audio: Download or Archive.org
Text: Knowing and Seeing by the Most Venerable Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw

The four elements meditation is a profound practice of mindfulness and insight, based on the contemplative exploration of the characteristics of the elements of earth, water, fire, and air in one’s own body. It opens the door to deep insight into the nature of the body and the world of our experience.

This analytical-meditative approach was systematized in the Visuddhimagga by Buddhaghosa and is extensively taught in the Abhidhamma based forest tradition of Burma, by teachers such as the Most Venerable Pa Auk Tawya Sayadaw.

A Heartfelt Thank You to Our Interpreters:

A huge thank you to our interpreters for making the lectures accessible in Spanish and Russian!
Nadia – our dear friend, professional Buddhist translator, translating from Tibetan, Nepali, Spanish, and English. Contact: [insert contact].
Zoya – our dear friend who kindly helped with Russian translation. Please bear with minor inaccuracies, as the topic was very specialized.
We deeply appreciate their incredible effort and dedication!
Simultaneous translation into Russian
Simultaneous translation into Spanish

Technical Difficulties with Recordings:

We encountered technical difficulties, and unfortunately, the sessions from the first two days are unavailable. However, you can access lectures covering the same material from a similar course held in English at Deer Park in 2019. Below, you will find a table of recordings we have compiled based on detailed lecture notes.

Lecture English  Russian  Espanol
14.1 Introduction to 4 element meditation + wind element ✗ ✗ ✗
14.2 Wind element – vibration ✗ ✗ ✗
14.3 Wind element – pushing ✗ ✗ ✗
14.4 Summary + earth element ✗ ✗ ✗
15.1 Earth element – raffness, heaviness ✗ ✗ ✗
15.2 Summary ✗ ✗ ✗
15.3 Mindfulness, cetasikas + four elements ✗ ✗ ✗
15.4 Summary ✗ ✗ ✗
16.1 Morning short summary ✓ ✗ ✗
16.2 Wind element – supporting ✓ ✓ ✓
16.3 Five hidrances in meditation ✓ ✓ ✓
16.4 Ven. Tenzin ✓ ✓ ✓
16.5 Q&A ✓ ✓ ✗
17.1 Explanation of 4 elements + water and fire element ✓ ✓ ✓
17.2 Q&A ✓ ✓ ✓
17.3 Ven. Tenzin ✓ ✗ ✗
17.4 Recitation ✓ ✗ ✗
18.1 Southern and northern buddhism + fire element ✓ ✓ ✓
18.2 Q&A ✓ ✓ ✗
18.3 Ven. Tenzin ✓ ✗ ✗
18.4 Summary ✗ ✓ ✗
19.1 Water element ✓ ✓ ✓
19.2 Q&A ✓ ✓ ✓
19.3 Ven. Tenzin ✓ ✗ ✗
19.4 Summary ✓ ✓ ✓
20.1 Shamatha ✓ ✓ ✓
20.2 Q&A morning ✓ ✓ ✓
20.3 Q&A evening ✗ ✓ ✗
20.4 Various abhidharma systems ✗ ✓ ✗
21.1 Shamatha ✓ ✓ ✓
21.2 Q&A ✓ ✓ ✓
21.3 Ven. Tenzin ✓ ✓ ✗
21.4 Ven. Tenzin Q&A ✓ ✓ ✗
22.1 Shamatha ✓ ✓ ✓
22.2 Q&A ✓ ✓ ✓
22.3 Ven. Tenzin Q&A ✓ ✓ ✗
22.4 Closing talk Dhammadipa and kempo Jordan ✓ ✓ ✓
22.5 Closing talk venerable Tenzin and Christian ✓ ✗ ✓