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Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche: The Nalanda Approach (#243)

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2026/10/02

This Wisdom Podcast episode, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features special guests Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, Justin Kelley, and Sandra Fernandez. They share how Tergar Institute is bringing traditional Buddhist teaching into daily modern life. Rinpoche shares his examples from his wandering retreat, including a near-death experience and how it impacted his view of the world. They also explore the Nalanda framework of view, meditation, and application, and how Tergar Institute condenses

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Venerable Bhikkhu Anālayo: The Perfection of Wisdom...

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2026/09/26

This Wisdom Podcast episode features special guest Venerable Bhikkhu Anālayo. Venerable Anālayo is a scholar of early Buddhism and a meditation teacher. He completed his PhD research on the Satipaṭṭhānasutta at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, in 2000 and his habilitation research with a comparative study of the Majjhimanikāya in light of its Chinese, Sanskrit, and Tibetan parallels at the University of Marburg, Germany, in 2007. His over five hundred publications are for the most part based

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Thupten Jinpa: The Nature of Reality (#241)

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2026/09/18

This Wisdom Podcast episode, recorded live as a Dharma Chat, features special guest Thupten Jinpa. Join Jinpa and host Daniel Aitken as they discuss Jinpa’s newest Wisdom Academy online course, The Nature of Reality. Journey into the nature of reality and emptiness with the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Jinpa contrasts the “mundane,” unexamined view with the yogi’s disciplined inquiry into appearance and reality, explaining how grasping and belief in a true self arise through mental

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1:05:37

H. E. Gyalwa Dokhampa: The Restful Mind (#240)

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2026/09/11

This Wisdom Podcast episode, recorded live as a Dharma Chat, features special guest, His Eminence Gyalwa Dokhampa. His Eminence oversees 32 Drukpa lineage centers worldwide and authored The Resting Mind. In this episode, host Daniel Aitken and His Eminence discuss the path of courage, impermanence, equanimity, and Vajrayana practice in everyday life. They also explore the themes and lessons His Eminence learned from the King Gesar epics and how to bring these teachings into our daily rituals

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H. E. Khangser Rinpoche: Wisdom from Gyuto Monastery...

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2026/09/05

This Wisdom Podcast episode, recorded live as a Dharma Chat, features the newly enthroned abbot of Gyuto Tantric Monastery H. E. Khangser Rinpoche. Take a look inside as Rinpoche and host Daniel Aitken discuss monastic life inside Gyuto Monastery. Explore the role Gyuto Monastery plays in the Gelugpa tradition. Learn about the duties of an abbot and discover the path from abbot to Ganden Tripa. Rinpoche and Daniel then transition to discussing Tsongkhapa’s yogic life, the values of analytical

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1:00:25

Thupten Jinpa: Illuminating the Intent – An Encore...

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2026/08/10

In celebration of our fourth Wisdom Academy online course with Thupten Jinpa, launching September 25, we’re re-releasing this special episode. Originally released as episode 109 in April 2021. In Jinpa’s new course, The Nature of Reality in the Four Schools of Buddhist Philosophy, you will discover each school’s core arguments and increasingly refined accounts of reality. In the end, you’ll deepen your understanding of grasping, emptiness, and how view is brought into meditation and

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1:26:07

Ācārya Malcolm Smith: A Dzogchen Perspective (#235)

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2026/07/20

This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features special guest Ācārya Malcolm Smith. In this episode, hosted by Daniel Aitken, Malcolm answers questions from his Wisdom Academy course The Nine Yānas. Together, they unpack some key terms of Dzogchen such as dharmatā, dharmadhātu, and dharmakāya. Exploring the concepts of emptiness, pristine consciousness, and direct perception from a Dzogchen perspective.Malcolm and Daniel also discuss: Vajrayana clear

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Venerable Robina Courtin: Discovering Your True...

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2026/06/19

This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features special guest Venerable Robina Courtin. Join Venerable and host Daniel Aitken as they discuss Lama Yeshe’s teachings and discovering your true nature. Dive deep into an understanding of your mind and contrast Mahāmudrā’s experiential approach with theory-first methods. Challenge your understanding of mental consciousness, conceptual construction, and explore the links between contact, feeling, attachment, and karma

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1:00:51

H. E. Serkong Tsenshap Rinpoche, Atisha Mathur, and...

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2026/06/12

This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features special guests H. E. Serkong Tsenshap Rinpoche, Atisha Mathur, and Fabrizio Pallotti. Together with host Daniel Aitken, they tackle the topic of Buddhist education in the modern world. Discussing the value of rigorous critical thinking in improving Western Dharma study. How students can benefit from collaboration such as the collaboration with Serkong Institute, Association Manjushri Lotsaw, and University of Pisa to

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Geshe YongDong Losar and Jesse Moussa: Becoming The...

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2026/06/05

This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features special guests Geshe YongDong Losar and Jesse Moussa. Geshela is a Tibetan Bön lama in the Yungdrung Bön lineage, and Jesse has been a Class A Professional with the CPGA since 2007. Together with host Daniel Aitken, they discuss the release of Becoming The Master On The Course And In Life, Wisdom from a Golf Pro and a Meditation Master. Discover how this pair met and join them as they dive into the physical, spiritual, and mental relationship between

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55:06

Gerardo Abboud: Translating the dharma (#231)

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2026/05/23

This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features special guest Gerrardo Abboud. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Gerardo went on to spend 14 years living in India and Nepal studying the Tibetan language. In 1986, he became president of the Dongyuling Center in Argentina. Since 1992, he has served as an interpreter for many lamas throughout Latin America, including Tsoknyi Rinpoche and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In this episode, host Daniel Aitken and Gerardo discuss Gerardo’s introduction to Buddhism

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1:08:07

Lama Justin von Bujdoss: Dark Retreat (#230)

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2026/05/15

This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features special guest Lama Justin von Bujdoss. Lama Justin is an American Buddhist teacher, author, and the founder and Spiritual Director of Yangti Yoga Retreat Center. In this episode, host Daniel Aitken and Lama Justin explore the Tibetan Buddhist practice of dark retreat. Lama Justin shares his introduction to Buddhism and dark retreat practice from teachers Ani Dechen Zangmo, Kyabje Pathing Rinpoche, His Eminence Gyaltsab Rinpoche, and the Ngakpa doctor, Dr

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1:20:49

Jet Li: Beyond Life and Death (#229)

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2026/05/05

In this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken is joined by Jet Li. Jet is a renowned martial artist, actor, and thirty-year practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. Together, they celebrate the release of Jet’s new book, Beyond Life and Death. Jet and Daniel explore prioritizing experience over knowledge, bodhicitta, emptiness, awareness in daily life, and using success to help others. Jet also shares his experiences receiving refuge vows, teachings from Tai Situ Rinpoche, and more! View

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His Eminence Kalu Rinpoche and Michele Loew: The Yoga...

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2026/03/28

This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features special guests His Eminence Kalu Rinpoche and Michele Loew. Together with host Daniel Aitken, they celebrate the release of The Yoga of Niguma, available now at wisdom.org. This new publication interweaves Buddhist and yogic practices, making them accessible to both Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. Rinpoche shares personal stories about learning the practice and now teaching it, while Michele explores how yoga and

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John Makransky: How Compassion Works (#226)

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2026/03/20

In this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken is joined by John Makransky. John is Associate Professor of Buddhism and Comparative Theology at Boston College, senior advisor for Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche’s Centre of Buddhist Studies in Nepal, and developer of the Sustainable Compassion Training model for accessing innate capacities of compassion and awareness. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. As a meditation teacher and a practitioner of Tibetan meditations of

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1:02:00

Eva Natanya: Śamatha and Vipaśyanā: Part 2 (#225)

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2026/01/18

This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features special guest Eva Natanya. This episode is part of a two-part series discussing the themes in Śamatha and Vipaśyanā. You can listen to Part 1 with Lama Alan Wallace, Lama Alan Wallace: Śamatha and Vipaśyanā: Part 1 (#217). In this episode, […]The post Eva Natanya: Śamatha and Vipaśyanā: Part 2 (#225) appeared first on The Wisdom Experience.

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Khamtrul Rinpoche: Exploring the Drukpa Lineage –...

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2026/01/07

January 7, 2025 In this special video episode of The Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken is joined by Khamtrul Rinpoche, The 9th Gyalwa DhoKhampa, Shedrup Nyima. Join Rinpoche and Daniel as they discuss the history, teachings, and practices of the Drukpa lineage. Learn about the teachings and meditations associated with the lineage, including mahamundra and […]The post Khamtrul Rinpoche: Exploring the Drukpa Lineage – Special Video Episode (#224) appeared first on The Wisdom Experience.

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Professor John Dunne: Buddhist Philosophy and the...

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2025/12/27

This episode, previously recorded as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features Professor John Dunne. John is the distinguished chair in contemplative humanities at the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He works with Buddhist philosophy and contemplative practice. He is also an author of the winner of the 2025 Khyentse Foundation Prize for Outstanding […]The post Professor John Dunne: Buddhist Philosophy and the Nalanda Tradition (#223) appeared first on The Wisdom

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Wisdom Dharma Chat | Tenzin Choegyal – December 2025

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2025/12/12

December 11, 2025 Please enjoy our special prerecorded episode of Wisdom Dharma Chats featuring Tenzin Choegyal. Tenzin stopped by the Wisdom Studio in advance of the release of his newest album, Be The Sky, digital album available now on Bandcamp. Tenzin’s music is a staple across various Wisdom Publications media. In this episode, hosted by […]The post Wisdom Dharma Chat | Tenzin Choegyal – December 2025 appeared first on The Wisdom Experience.

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1:15:39

David M. DiValerio: Mountain Dharma (#221)

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2025/12/06

In this episode of The Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken is joined by David M. DiValerio. Join David and Daniel as they discuss David’s newest book, Mountain Dharma: Meditative Retreat and the Tibetan Ascetic Self. David shares his journey into Tibetan Buddhist studies, as well as his experiences and research on Tibetan retreats over the […]The post David M. DiValerio: Mountain Dharma (#221) appeared first on The Wisdom Experience.

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