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Practice Tips is an ongoing video series offering practical guidance for productive practice. Here, “practice” refers to engaging the Buddha’s Threefold Path and Training: the cultivation of higher understanding, higher virtue, and higher awareness.   Venerable Tenzin Tarpa is the founder and director of SBT –The Secular Buddhist Tradition. A fully ordained Buddhist monk and student of The Dalai L...

Secular Buddhist Essentials is a weekly online program that shares the timeless wisdom of the Buddha. As a Secular Buddhist Organization, SBT offers a practical presentation focused on the positive life-affirming message of the Buddha, while deemphasizing the more religious, mystical, and cultural content found in traditional Buddhism. Our aim is to inform and guide without sharing presumptions of...

Secular Buddhist Essentials is a weekly online program that shares the timeless wisdom of the Buddha. As a Secular Buddhist Organization, SBT offers a practical presentation focused on the positive life-affirming message of the Buddha, while deemphasizing the more religious, mystical, and cultural content found in traditional Buddhism. Our aim is to inform and guide without sharing presumptions of...

Secular Buddhist Essentials is a weekly online program that shares the timeless wisdom of the Buddha. As a Secular Buddhist Organization, SBT offers a practical presentation focused on the positive life-affirming message of the Buddha, while deemphasizing the more religious, mystical, and cultural content found in traditional Buddhism. Our aim is to inform and guide without sharing presumptions of...

Secular Buddhist Essentials is a weekly online program that shares the timeless wisdom of the Buddha. As a Secular Buddhist Organization, SBT offers a practical presentation focused on the positive life-affirming message of the Buddha, while deemphasizing the more religious, mystical, and cultural content found in traditional Buddhism. Our aim is to inform and guide without sharing presumptions of...

Secular Buddhist Essentials is a weekly online program that shares the timeless wisdom of the Buddha. As a Secular Buddhist Organization, SBT offers a practical presentation focused on the positive life-affirming message of the Buddha, while deemphasizing the more religious, mystical, and cultural content found in traditional Buddhism. Our aim is to inform and guide without sharing presumptions of...

Secular Buddhist Essentials is a weekly online program that shares the timeless wisdom of the Buddha. As a Secular Buddhist Organization, SBT offers a practical presentation focused on the positive life-affirming message of the Buddha, while deemphasizing the more religious, mystical, and cultural content found in traditional Buddhism. Our aim is to inform and guide without sharing presumptions of...

Secular Buddhist Essentials is a weekly online program that shares the timeless wisdom of the Buddha. As a Secular Buddhist Organization, SBT offers a practical presentation focused on the positive life-affirming message of the Buddha, while deemphasizing the more religious, mystical, and cultural content found in traditional Buddhism. Our aim is to inform and guide without sharing presumptions of...

SBT Sangha Spotlight This interview series shines a light on the lives and journeys of our community members. Hosted by our dear Tenzin Tashi, each episode features heartfelt conversations with fellow SBT Sangha members as they share their unique paths. SBT – the Secular Buddhist Tradition, is an international spiritual community dedicated to Secular Buddhism and the timeless wisdom of the Buddha....

Secular Buddhist Essentials is a weekly online program that shares the timeless wisdom of the Buddha. As a Secular Buddhist Organization, SBT offers a practical presentation focused on the positive life-affirming message of the Buddha, while deemphasizing the more religious, mystical, and cultural content found in traditional Buddhism. Our aim is to inform and guide without sharing presumptions of...

Secular Buddhist Essentials is a weekly online program that shares the timeless wisdom of the Buddha. As a Secular Buddhist Organization, SBT offers a practical presentation focused on the positive life-affirming message of the Buddha, while deemphasizing the more religious, mystical, and cultural content found in traditional Buddhism. Our aim is to inform and guide without sharing presumptions of...

What the Buddha Taught. Secular Buddhist Essentials: Episode 3 Secular Buddhist Essentials is a weekly online program that shares the timeless wisdom of the Buddha. As a Secular Buddhist Organization, SBT offers a practical presentation focused on the positive life-affirming message of the Buddha, while deemphasizing the more religious, mystical, and cultural content found in traditional Buddhism....

What is Buddhism? Secular Buddhist Essentials: Episode 2 Secular Buddhist Essentials is a weekly online program that shares the timeless wisdom of the Buddha. As a Secular Buddhist Organization, SBT offers a practical presentation focused on the positive life-affirming message of the Buddha, while deemphasizing the more religious, mystical, and cultural content found in traditional Buddhism. Our a...

Program Orientation Secular Buddhist Essentials: Episode 1 Secular Buddhist Essentials is a weekly online program that shares the timeless wisdom of the Buddha. As a Secular Buddhist Organization, SBT offers a practical presentation focused on the positive life-affirming message of the Buddha, while deemphasizing the more religious, mystical, and cultural content found in traditional Buddhism. Our...

SBT Sangha SpotlightThis interview series shines a light on the lives and journeys of our community members. Hosted by our dear Tenzin Tashi, each episode features heartfelt conversations with fellow SBT Sangha members as they share their unique paths. SBT – the Secular Buddhist Tradition, is an international spiritual community dedicated to Secular Buddhism and the timeless wisdom of the Buddha....

Venerable Tenzin Tarpa is the founder and director of SBT – The Secular Buddhist Tradition. A fully ordained Buddhist monk and student of The Dalai Lama, Venerable Tarpa is a teacher, author, and philosopher with nearly three decades in Buddhist studies, including a decade in Buddhist monasteries in India. SBT – the Secular Buddhist Tradition, is an international spiritual community dedicated to S...

Venerable Tenzin Tarpa is the founder and director of SBT – The Secular Buddhist Tradition. A fully ordained Buddhist monk and student of The Dalai Lama, Venerable Tarpa is a teacher, author, and philosopher with nearly three decades in Buddhist studies, including a decade in Buddhist monasteries in India. SBT – the Secular Buddhist Tradition, is an international spiritual community dedicated to S...

Introduction to Meditation: Level 3 This 5-week program shares a deeper exploration of meditation and mindfulness practice,  Our Program Text https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ktpE6VdZHvtkBGeerh8n5gyYmlVOYDuJ/view?usp=sharing Venerable Tarpa is the founder and director of SBT – The Secular Buddhist Tradition. A fully ordained Buddhist monk and student of The Dalai Lama, Venerable Tarpa is a teacher...

Introduction to Meditation: Level 3   This 5-week program shares a deeper exploration of meditation and mindfulness practice,  Our Program Text https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ktpE6VdZHvtkBGeerh8n5gyYmlVOYDuJ/view?usp=sharing Venerable Tarpa is the founder and director of SBT – The Secular Buddhist Tradition. A fully ordained Buddhist monk and student of The Dalai Lama, Venerable Tarpa is a teach...

Venerable Tenzin Tarpa is the founder and director of SBT – The Secular Buddhist Tradition. A fully ordained Buddhist monk and student of The Dalai Lama, Venerable Tarpa is a teacher, author, and philosopher with nearly three decades in Buddhist studies, including a decade in Buddhist monasteries in India. SBT – the Secular Buddhist Tradition, is an international spiritual community dedicated to S...

Introduction to Meditation: Level 3 This 5-week program shares a deeper exploration of meditation and mindfulness practice,  Our Program Text https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ktpE6VdZHvtkBGeerh8n5gyYmlVOYDuJ/view?usp=sharing Venerable Tarpa is the founder and director of SBT – The Secular Buddhist Tradition. A fully ordained Buddhist monk and student of The Dalai Lama, Venerable Tarpa is a teacher...

Introduction to Meditation: Level 3   This 5-week program shares a deeper exploration of meditation and mindfulness practice,  Our Program Text https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ktpE6VdZHvtkBGeerh8n5gyYmlVOYDuJ/view?usp=sharing Venerable Tarpa is the founder and director of SBT – The Secular Buddhist Tradition. A fully ordained Buddhist monk and student of The Dalai Lama, Venerable Tarpa is a teach...

Venerable Tenzin Tarpa is the founder and director of SBT – The Secular Buddhist Tradition. A fully ordained Buddhist monk and student of The Dalai Lama, Venerable Tarpa is a teacher, author, and philosopher with nearly three decades in Buddhist studies, including a decade in Buddhist monasteries in India. SBT – the Secular Buddhist Tradition, is an international spiritual community dedicated to S...

Introduction to Meditation: Level 3 This 5-week program shares a deeper exploration of meditation and mindfulness practice,  Our Program Text https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ktpE6VdZHvtkBGeerh8n5gyYmlVOYDuJ/view?usp=sharing Venerable Tarpa is the founder and director of SBT – The Secular Buddhist Tradition. A fully ordained Buddhist monk and student of The Dalai Lama, Venerable Tarpa is a teacher...

Introduction to Meditation: Level 3   This 5-week program shares a deeper exploration of meditation and mindfulness practice., Our Program Text https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ktpE6VdZHvtkBGeerh8n5gyYmlVOYDuJ/view?usp=sharing Venerable Tarpa is the founder and director of SBT – The Secular Buddhist Tradition. A fully ordained Buddhist monk and student of The Dalai Lama, Venerable Tarpa is a teach...