The text below was offered to TLC for a teaching given by Khentrul Lodrö T’hayé Rinpoche and translated by Paloma Landry in March of 2025. To access the teaching via video, visit our "Free TLC Videos" page HERE. We anticipate its release during the summer of 2025. The text below is best viewed on a large screen or monitor.

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​"The Heart Essence of Interdependent Origination" is the essential instruction passed down through the centuries due to the kindness of the Indian monk and Mahayana Buddhist philosopher, Nagarjuna. This brief but profound text gives us an ever-deepening understanding about "why we are here". Interdependence, or dependent origination, is the operating system for all phenomena. It is the reason for all experience – happiness, suffering, death, dying, and our future. When we understand how all things occur interdependently, we will know how to produce happiness and eliminate suffering. We will also learn about the experience of the consciousness during the dying process and after death. This teaching illuminates the heart essence of dependent origination in just seven four-line verses. By hearing, contemplating, and practicing these teachings, we learn how to transform suffering and fear into aspects of our spiritual path. As the negativity in our mind and life subsides, love and compassion effortlessly unfold, and what to do at the time of death becomes clear. 

 

Khentrul Lodrö T’hayé Rinpoche is the abbot of a monastery in Tibet and oversees meditation groups across North America, Australia, and South Africa. He is the author of the book, 'The Power of Mind: A Tibetan Monk’s Guide to Finding Freedom in Every Challenge'. Since 2002 Rinpoche has traveled year-round teaching seminars and leading retreats. He is one of the only monks in the world with three khenpo degrees—equivalent to three PhDs in Buddhist philosophy. 

 

Paloma Landry has been Khentrul Rinpoche's esteemed translator of both oral and written Buddhist teachings for over two decades.​​​​​​​​​​