Public Talks

84 teachings

Open-to-the-public dharma talks introducing core Buddhist concepts to general audiences without requiring prior study.

Public Talk (Geshe Nawang Dhargyey)

2 teachings

Public Talk — 1985-04-28 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Geshe Nawang Dhargyey addresses a fundamental tension at the…
Public Talk — 1985-04-28 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Geshe Nawang Dhargyey delivers a 48-minute public talk examining…

Public Talk (Khyentse Rinpoche)

4 teachings

Public Talk — 01 PT Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Khyentse Rinpoche opens this 41-minute public talk with an…
Public Talk — 02 PT Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Khyentse Rinpoche explores what emptiness truly means beyond the…
Public Talk — 03 PT Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 14-minute public talk, Khyentse Rinpoche uses the…
Public Talk — 04 PT Apr 14, 2026
Teacher: Khyentse Rinpoche Duration: 2m This transcript was generated using AI speech recognition and correction File: 04 PT.mp3 Collection: Audio Recordings — Public Talk UUID:…

Public Talk (Ven Kaye Miner)

1 teachings

Public Talk — 1995-07-07 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 45-minute public talk given at Buddha House…

Public Talk - Tibetan Buddhism (John Landaw)

2 teachings

Public Talk – Tibetan Buddhism — 1995-03-31 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this wide-ranging public talk from 1995, John Landaw…
Public Talk – Tibetan Buddhism — 1995-03-31 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. John Landaw explores the apparent paradox at the heart…

Public Talks (Geshe Pema Tsering)

6 teachings

Public Talks — 2003-04-06 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Opening with Śāntideva's pledge to remain in existence until…
Public Talks — 2003-04-06 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Starting from an unusual interfaith comparison, Geshe Pema Tsering…
Public Talks — 2005-07-30 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Deliberately stepping outside Buddhist framing, Geshe Pema Tsering offers…
Public Talks — 2005-07-30 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 17.5-minute Q&A session, Geshe Pema Tsering opens…
Public Talks — 2006-01-14 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 77-minute public talk, Geshe Pema Tsering builds…
Public Talks — 2003-07-07 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Starting from the claim that wrong views — not…

Public Talks (Ven Sanghy Khandro aka Kathleen McDonald)

2 teachings

Public Talks — 2005-02-11 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 116-minute public talk, Venerable Sangye Khadro teaches…
Public Talks — 2005-02-12 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 113-minute introduction to Buddhist approaches to emotions,…

Public Talks 1988-2003 (Khensur Rinpoche)

40 teachings

Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1988-10-23 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. An airplane analogy — likening Tibet's four Buddhist schools…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1988-11-06 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 38-minute public talk at Buddha House, Khensur…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1989-02-26 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. "Contentment is the greatest wealth" — this pivotal claim…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1989-02-26 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 45-minute public talk at Buddha House, Khensur…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1991-02-03 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Structured around a single four-line verse — "never do…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1989-03-19 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Opening with the Indian master Śāntideva's image of human…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1989-03-19 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. "Mistaken compassion" is the thread Khensur Rinpoche pulls on…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1989-05-07 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 89-minute public talk, Khensur Rinpoche grounds a…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1989-09-03 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A single verse from the Buddha — cease all…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1989-11-04 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. "What stops us from making effort?" is the practical…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1989-11-05 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Khensur Rinpoche opens this 90-minute public talk with a…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1989-12-15 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 49-minute talk, Khensur Rinpoche opens with Tsongkhapa's…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1989-12-15 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The claim that Buddhahood can be reached in as…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1990-03-16 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 68-minute address to Buddha House members in…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1990-05-08 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Starting from Śāntideva's verse that all suffering arises from…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1990-06-16 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 96-minute address to Buddha House members, Khensur…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1990-10-01 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 49-minute public talk, Khensur Rinpoche opens with…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1990-10-01 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 50-minute public talk, Khensur Rinpoche traces how…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1990-11-25 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Anchored by a single four-line verse attributed to the…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1991-03-03 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 85-minute talk, Khensur Rinpoche opens with a…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1991-04-07 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. We are wearing the costume of a human being…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1991-11-16 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. "Why do we revere Buddhas with incense and prostrations…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1991-11-16 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The image of snakes and scorpions — rebirths caused…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1991-11-16 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A war crimes trial then underway in Adelaide becomes…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1992-04-05 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Beginning with airplanes, cars, and trains as proof of…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1992-12-08 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 48-minute talk, Khensur Rinpoche opens with a…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1992-12-08 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Framing five minutes of meditation on the awakening heart…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1993-03-29 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Using a leaking roof as his central image —…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1993-04-04 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The root of fear and anxiety lies not in…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1993-05-18 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Using a room heater that first warms and then…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1993-09-05 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. "Wisdom without joyous effort is like a corpse" —…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1993-11-21 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Opening with a brief four immeasurables meditation, this 74-minute…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1994-08-14 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Khensur Rinpoche opens this nearly 70-minute talk with a…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1994-11-06 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Khensur Rinpoche opens this 85-minute public talk with a…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1997-09-28 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Opening with a verse from Candrakīrti's Supplement to the…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1998-09-27 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A moment of anger, Khensur Rinpoche explains in this…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 1999-08-15 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Opening with the observation that some people go to…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 2000-03-12 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 89-minute talk at Buddha House, Khensur Rinpoche…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 2003-08-02 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 70-minute talk, Khensur Rinpoche gives a layer-by-layer…
Public Talks 1988-2003 — 2003-08-02 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 71-minute talk, Khensur Rinpoche works through every…

Public talks 1988-2010 (Ven Jampa Gendun)

19 teachings

Public talks 1988-2010 — 1988-03-13 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Starting with a guided loving-kindness meditation rather than a…
Public talks 1988-2010 — 1988-03-13 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 44-minute public talk, Ven Jampa Gendun opens…
Public talks 1988-2010 — 1988-03-16 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Ven Jampa Gendun opens this 44-minute talk by admitting…
Public talks 1988-2010 — 1988-03-16 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Ven Jampa Gendun opens by pressing on why attachment…
Public talks 1988-2010 — 1988-04-10 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 46-minute public talk at Buddha House in…
Public talks 1988-2010 — 1988-04-10 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A parable from Ven Jampa Gendun's time at a…
Public talks 1988-2010 — 1989-07-09 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. The "C grade person" — someone who has unconsciously…
Public talks 1988-2010 — 1990-08-28 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Ven Jampa Gendun opens this 47-minute talk with a…
Public talks 1988-2010 — 1990-08-28 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. "Understanding is love itself" — a line from Thich…
Public talks 1988-2010 — 1990-09-21 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Opening with the Dhammapada verse "We are what we…
Public talks 1988-2010 — 1990-11-19 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Ven Jampa Gendun uses the Tibetan Wheel of Life…
Public talks 1988-2010 — 1991-05-26 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Framing the ego as a compulsive, self-perpetuating feedback loop…
Public talks 1988-2010 — 1993-02-07 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Ven Jampa Gendun opens this 92-minute talk with a…
Public talks 1988-2010 — 1993-02-07 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A divorce he didn't choose and a move to…
Public talks 1988-2010 — 1995-05-07 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 77-minute talk, Ven Jampa Gendun introduces the…
Public talks 1988-2010 — 2007-03-25 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. A king who wants to protect his feet commissions…
Public talks 1988-2010 — 2008-02-17 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Two parables give this 83-minute public talk its spine:…
Public talks 1988-2010 — 2010-04-14 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. Starting from a Dalai Lama quote on mental attitude…
Public talks 1988-2010 — 2010-04-21 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 104-minute talk, Ven Jampa Gendun uses a…

y Public Talks (Ven Robina Courtin)

8 teachings

y Public Talks — 1998-11-13 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. As a Chenrezig initiation approaches on Sunday, Ven Robina…
y Public Talks — 2000-12-11 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 90-minute talk, Ven Robina Courtin reframes a…
y Public Talks — 2000-12-11 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 18-minute public Q&A, Ven Robina Courtin addresses…
y Public Talks — 2002-01-17 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 90-minute introductory talk, Ven Robina Courtin opens…
Public Talks — 2002-01-17 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 28-minute talk, Ven Robina Courtin explores the…
y Public Talks — 2006-08-04 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 121-minute public talk, Ven Robina Courtin examines…
y Public Talks — 2000-06-03 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 92-minute teaching, Ven Robina Courtin explores karma's…
y Public Talks — z public talk July 31 Apr 14, 2026
Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors. About this talk. In this 89-minute talk, Ven Robina Courtin teaches that…