Beloved teacher Venerable Gendun leads us next to the Radiant Ground and to the discovery of our own Buddha-nature in this well-received practical meditation program. New students with prior experience in Buddhist practice are welcome to join!
Having cultivated the foundational practices of shamatha and vipashyana in the first year and explored Yogācāra’s profound psychology of ignorance and awakening in the second, we now turn to the very heart of Tibetan Buddhism: the nature of emptiness and the luminous potential that resides within every living being.
This year’s journey will weave together the profound view of Madhyamaka, as presented by Nāgārjuna and his successors, with the compassionate vision of Tathāgatagarbha, the Buddha-nature teachings that reveal our deepest potential for awakening. Far from abstract philosophy, these teachings offer a radical reorientation of how we perceive ourselves and the world—pointing us beyond habitual grasping to a space of clarity, openness, and profound compassion.
This year is an invitation to let the view of emptiness infuse your practice—not as abstract philosophy, but as living experience: clear, liberating, and rooted in compassion. Our aim is not to gather concepts, but to transform how we see and relate to the world. Through study, reflection, and meditation, we learn to meet life with less grasping, more openness—and a heart that naturally responds with wisdom and care, held by the strength of community.
Practical information
- Time & place: Term 1 runs Sep 6 to Nov 29. Saturdays 4.30pm – 7pm (Helsinki time), online. We also meet regularly in person with students in Finland, and keep in touch through Whatsapp.
- Language: English, simultaneous translation into French available
- Who can join: anyone with previous experience in practicing the Mahāyāna path and understanding of its core teachings
- Cost: Approx. 230€ per term (paid upon signup).
✅ Sign up on Yeshin Norbu Stockholm’s website below. If you’re in Finland and would like to join our local study group, please also send an email to info@taraliberation.fi so we can add you!
Your teacher: Venerable Losang Gendun
After two decades of practicing Theravada Buddhism Venerable Gendun became a monk in the Tibetan tradition in 2006. He studied Buddhist philosophy for nine years at Nalanda Monastery in France, and has practised under various teachers from Gelug and Theravada Forest traditions. In total, Venerable Gendun has spent more than four years in retreat. He has been teaching for over 15 years in the Netherlands, France, Monaco, the US, and the UK. He actively promotes interfaith practice and gender equality.
He is the founder of the Buddha Project which aims to create access for a modern Western audience to the full range of traditional Buddhist contemplative and meditative methods.
Venerable Gendun’s teachings stem from a deep understanding of the Dharma, vast personal experience that ranges the full gamut of practices aimed at achieving enlightenment for sentient being. He teaches with an engaging combination of relatable, informative stories, profound teachings, and piercing insight flawlessly serving the students’ progress on the path.
About In-Depth Meditation Program
The FPMT In-Depth Meditation Training (IDMT) is a four-year online training course that offers meditators long-term support to help them progress in their meditative practice. It thereby provides the opportunity to experience a genuine taste of the nature of reality and bodhicitta.
- Authentic traditional instructions, in contemporary language, aimed at providing a comprehensive set of meditation tools for students to transform their knowledge of the Dharma into personal experience.
- Traditional and modern theories on supplementary topics such as models of healthy psychological and spiritual development, ritual, narrative, ethics, and social engagement.
- An international community of meditators, online and live.
- Weekly meditations and teachings, as well as several retreats per year.