The Knowledge Base – Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand

The Wisdom of Arya Nagarjuna Course 6: Medicine Buddha & Nagarjuna’s Wisdom (2024, Arizona)

In these classes, we will continue our exploration of Nagarjuna’s Wisdom, the most famous book ever written on Buddhism’s most important idea: emptiness, which clarified and became the basis…

byGeshe Michael Roach

A Gift of Liberation 44: The Spark of Joy (2024, Kyoto)

The final course on our 14 year journey through the Steps on the Path and the profound teachings of Pabongka Rinpoche's Liberation Thrust into the Palm of Your Hand. Having just finished a…

byGeshe Michael Roach

Idea Images: A Gift of Liberation 44: The Spark of Joy (2024, Kyoto)

Here is a collection of Idea Images (Idims) which represent all the important ideas of the final final course on our 14 year journey through the Steps on the Path and the profound teachings of…

byGeshe Michael Roach

Idea Images: A Gift of Liberation 43: The Modern Bodhisattva (2024, Arizona)

Here is a collection of Idea Images (Idims) which represent all the important ideas of this course. It's a great tool to connect the image mentally with the important idea. There's a tradition…

byGeshe Michael Roach

A Gift of Liberation 43: The Modern Bodhisattva (2024, Arizona)

We're excited to reach the part of Liberation Thrust into the Palm of Your Hand that talks about the six main practices of a bodhisattva, and Geshe Michael will explore with us what it is to…

byGeshe Michael Roach

A Gift of Liberation 42: The Power to Dream: Bringing Great Ideas to Life (2023, Kyoto)

Compassion stands unrivaled as the most potent force for good. How can we integrate compassion as a foundational element of our daily lives? And how can we channel the immense force of…

byGeshe Michael Roach

The Wisdom of Arya Nagarjuna Course 5: Medicine Buddha & Nagarjuna’s Wisdom (2023, Arizona)

In these classes, we will continue our exploration of Nagarjuna’s Wisdom, the most famous book ever written on Buddhism’s most important idea: emptiness, which clarified and became the basis…

byGeshe Michael Roach

Idea Images: A Gift of Liberation 41: The Power of a Good Heart (2023, Guadalajara)

Here is a collection of Idea Images (Idims) which represent all the important ideas of this course. It's a great tool to connect the image mentally with the important idea. There's a tradition…

byGeshe Michael Roach

New: A Gift of Liberation Interactive Outlines

A Gift of Liberation Interactive Outlines

Tibetan Interactive Outline – A Gift of Liberation 01: The Deepest Meditation (2010, Phoenix)

A Gift of Liberation Interactive Outlines

English Interactive Outline – A Gift of Liberation 01: The Deepest Meditation (2010, Phoenix)

A Gift of Liberation 44: The Spark of Joy (2024, Kyoto)

The final course on our 14 year journey through the Steps on the Path and the profound teachings of Pabongka Rinpoche's Liberation Thrust into the Palm of Your Hand. Having just finished a deep explanation of the Perfection of Giving, this final chapter of Pabongka Rinpoche’s Steps on the Path will explore the…

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A Gift of Liberation 21: The Joy of Impermanence Retreat (2016, Arizona)

byGeshe Michael Roach

A Gift of Liberation 22: Unlimited Fortune Retreat (2016, Mexico)

byGeshe Michael Roach

A Gift of Liberation 05: Finding What We Were Always Meant to Be (2011, Arizona)

byGeshe Michael Roach

A Gift of Liberation 34: Victory Over Our Negative Thoughts (2019, Bali)

Advice to Yoga Teachers, Part Three: Help Them Define Their Dream

On the Meaning of Om: A Brief Essay on the Meaning of the Sacred Syllable Om (2005, Tucson)

Lady Niguma’s Yoga (2010, Hong Kong)

The Principles of Yoga: The Connection Between Breath and Prana

Advice to Yoga Teachers, Part Two: Get Them to Practice Daily

ACI In-Depth Course 1 Teacher Training – Teachings of the Future Buddha: The Uttara Tantra of Maitreya (2003, Arizona)

Meditations on Emptiness: An Explanation of the Steps For Developing an Understanding That Nothing is Itself

byGeshe Michael Roach

ACI In-Depth Course 3: Master Shantideva’s Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, Exchanging Self and Others (2004, New York)

byGeshe Michael Roach

Shastra on the Door to Understanding the Hundred Dharmas: Master Vasubandhu’s Treatise on Higher Abhidharma (China, 2014)

byGeshe Michael Roach

Entering the Middle Way (Ongoing, Arizona)

byGeshe Michael Roach

ACI Course 15: What the Buddha Really Meant (1998, New York)

byGeshe Michael Roach

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ACI In-Depth Course 4: The Art of Interpretation, Part 1 (1998, Bylakuppe, Geshe Thupten Rinchen)

In this fourth course of the ACI In-Depth Course Series, we will dive deeply into the study of emptiness and learn the art of interpreting what the Buddha really meant. This is one of the most…

byGeshe Thubten Rinchen

ACI In-Depth Course 1: Teachings of the Future Buddha: The Uttara Tantra of Maitreya (2003, Arizona)

byGeshe Michael Roach

The Devil Debates an Angel, Part 5: A Simple Path to Happiness (2012, Phoenix)

Life is like this. You are driving you car down the street at dusk. Suddenly you see a kitten scurrying across the road. You slam on the brakes—it almost sends everybody through the…

byGeshe Michael Roach

How to do a Daily Practice 10: All Day Meditation (1998, New York)

byGeshe Michael Roach

How to do a Daily Practice 13: Office Meditation (1998, New York)

byGeshe Michael Roach

How to do a Daily Practice 04: A Daily Practice for Quick Happiness (1998, New York)

byGeshe Michael Roach

A Gift of Liberation (Lam Rim) Course Series

A Gift of Liberation 11: The Art of Appreciating Yourself & Your Life (2013, Arizona)

Want a good relationship, financial independence and great energy – as well as inner peace, or peace in our world? Then you must learn to master the Art of Appreciating Yourself and Your Life,…

byGeshe Michael Roach

A Gift of Liberation 12: Master Magnet Retreat (2013, Prescott)

byGeshe Michael Roach

A Gift of Liberation 13: Jorchu: The Meditation Song (2013, Arizona)

byGeshe Michael Roach

A Gift of Liberation 14: The Beauty of a Teacher (2014, Guadalajara)

byGeshe Michael Roach

How to do a Daily Practice

How to do a Daily Practice 15: Meditation to Help Those Who Have Recently Died (1999, New York)

This collection of classes is for the purpose of having a regular daily practice. It’s different than many of the other courses here on The Knowledge Base which are meant to teach the…

byGeshe Michael Roach

How to do a Daily Practice 07: The Gift of Deathlessness (1998, New York)

This collection of classes is for the purpose of having a regular daily practice. It’s different than many of the other courses here on The Knowledge Base which are meant to teach the…

byGeshe Michael Roach

How to do a Daily Practice 09: A Guided Meditation on Compassion for Yourself (1998, New York)

byGeshe Michael Roach

How to do a Daily Practice 01: Guided Meditation through the Preliminaries and Giving and Taking (1997, New York)

byGeshe Michael Roach

How to do a Daily Practice 16: Meditation for Depression, Anxiety, and Low Self-Esteem (1999, New York)

byGeshe Michael Roach

The Wisdom of Arya Nagarjuna

The Wisdom of Arya Nagarjuna Course 3: The Emptiness of Mantra (2021, Arizona)

If you really understand the emptiness of your primary practices, they become much, much more powerful. This is our third course covering the most famous of all works by Nagarjuna (c.…