Dharma Talks at Columbus KTC

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled My Perfect Teacher by Lama Tom Broadwater. Devotion is a needed quality in any student of Tibetan Buddhism. But what happens if we find […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled The Kagyu Path: Meditation, Compassion & Devotion by Lama Kathy Wesley.   When Khenpo Karthar Rinpoché founded Columbus KTC in 1977, he gave us a […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Buddhist Pilgrimage – Join the Journey by Cathy Lhamo Jackson. Why do people travel to the ends of the earth to experience spirituality? Where […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled The Kagyu Path: Lineage by Lama Kathy Wesley. KTC Columbus represents the Karma Kagyu lineage. But what IS lineage, and why is it important […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Dharma Path; A Path to Self Recognition by Eric Weinberg. When the Buddha became enlightened he realized that all beings have the same nature […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Once More with Feeling by Lama Tom Broadwater. As a follow-up to September’s talk on the twelve links of dependent origination, we will take […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Empathy: Finding One’s Heart by Lama Kathy Wesley. Empathy is getting a lot of attention these days in the media, with some saying it’s […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Why Chant the Tashi Prayer? by Cathy  Lhamo Jackson. Weekly, we gather on Zoom or in person to practice meditation or attend classes on […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Balancing Practice and Study by Lama Adam Berner. The Karma Kagyu is known as the practice lineage, and Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche once said, “No […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled A Teaching on Interdependence and Emptiness by Lama Tom Broadwater. Thirty years ago, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche gave a talk. In this talk he spoke […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Transforming Confusion into Wisdom: The Five Buddha Families, Part 2 by Lama Kathy Wesley. We can sometimes feel intimidated by the path to awakening; […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Transforming Confusion into Wisdom: The Five Buddha Families, Part 1 by Lama Kathy Wesley. We can sometimes feel intimidated by the path to awakening; […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled This Precious Life by Lama Kathy Wesley. When we face hard times, it’s hard to remember what the Buddha taught about our lives – […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Absolute and Relative Bodhicitta: What They Are, Why They Matter, and a Simple Way to Meditate on Them by Eric Weinberg. Eric sums up […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled “The Essence of Buddhism, Part 2” by Lama Tom Broadwater. In “The Essence of Buddhism, Part 1,” Lama Tom explained that the essence of […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Vivid and Insubstantial by Lama Adam Berner. Ourselves and everything we experience are both vivd and insubstantial.  Fixation on either one alone inevitably leads […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Finding the Sacred in Every Moment: The Purpose of Buddhist Ritual by Lama Kathy Wesley. Tibetan Buddhism is famous for its many types of […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled “Independence Day: Freeing Ourselves from Samsara” by Lama Kathy Wesley. The Buddha taught ways to free ourselves from the bondage of Samsara – the […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled “Customs and Rituals – Why we take off our shoes” by Cathy  Lhamo Jackson. Have you ever wondered why we have so many customs […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Essence of Buddhist Teaching by Lama Tom Broadwater. When the Dalai Lama says love is his religion, he is expressing the very heart of […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Mantra of Great Compassion by Lama Kathy Wesley. One of the main practices of the Columbus KTC since the beginning is the practice of […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled The Four Thoughts That Turn the Mind To Dharma by Eric Weinberg. The great Nyingma Lama Dudjom Lingpa said, “It is vital that you […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled Doing No Harm by Lama Adam Berner. Our lives are a process, full of change and uncertainty.  Forgetting this, we suffer.  One method the […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled The Short Vajradhara Lineage Prayer by Lama Tom Broadwater. This short prayer outlines the Kagyu path in a very concise and beautiful way. We […]

This week’s Dharma Talk is entitled “All My Mothers, Throughout Space …” by Lama Kathy Wesley. Using a famous Refuge prayer as her basis, Lama Kathy will talk about Buddhist […]