Broadcast Live at Women at Wisdom Lectures, San Francisco, CA
September 3, 2002

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. -- His Holiness Dalai Lama

Changing the Mind

Changing the Mind

Broadcast Live at Gyalwa Gyatso Buddhist Center in Saratoga, CA
September 5, 2002

Importance of Bodhicitta

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Recorded at Gyalwa Gyatso Buddhist Center in Campbell, CA
June 13, 2001

Why Bad Things Happen

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Recorded at Gyalwa Gyatso Buddhist Center in Campbell, CA
June 6, 2001

Transforming the Mind

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Recorded at Gyalwa Gyatso Buddhist Center in San Jose, CA
December 11, 1999

Wheel of Life

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Recorded at Gyalwa Gyatso Buddhist Center in San Jose, CA
September 18, 1999

Cause and Effect

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Recorded at Gyalwa Gyatso Buddhist Center in San Jose, CA
June 5, 1999

Liberation from Suffering

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Recorded at Gyalwa Gyatso Buddhist Center in San Jose, CA
April 20, 1999

One Being Human

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Venerable Robina Courtin has been a Tibetan Buddhist nun for twenty-three years. She was the editorial director of Wisdom Publications until 1987. At the end of 2000 she resigned as editor of MANDALA, international magazine of Buddhism, to increase teaching at Buddhist centers around the world.

Since 1997, she has run the Liberation Prison Project for Buddhist Practitioners, which works with people in prisons throughout the US, helping them with their practice and studies by writing them and sending books and tapes and other materials. She visits prisons in California, Massachusetts, Kentucky, North Carolina and Virginia, giving teachings to groups and meeting them one-to-one. Several of these men are on death row or have life sentences, and some have been involved in gangs, both on the streets and in prison.

Venerable Robina was born in Melbourne, Australia and brought up as a Catholic. She studied classical singing until her early twenties, then went to London in 1967, where she lived for four years. She became actively involved in the radical left, working mainly with a London-based support group for black and Chicano prisoners. In the early seventies she became a feminist and returned to Melbourne in 1972 to work with other radical feminists. Robina began studying martial arts in 1974 in her quest for a spiritual path, moving to New York where she studied karate. She continued karate in Melbourne until 1976, when she attended a Tibetan Buddhist course in Queensland given by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. She went to Kathmandu, Nepal, eighteen months later, in November 1977, and became ordained as a Buddhist nun at Kopan Monastery.