Mission

The result of a Buddhist teacher’s personal struggle to carve a path through sectarian tendencies

This is a journey of overcoming cultural biases and experiencing the Dharma beyond intellectual understanding. The project is a way to repay the immense kindness of the teachers who generously shared their wisdom and guided him on his path.

Although every aspect of The Buddha Project is necessarily well grounded in the theory and practice of both the Gelug Tibetan Buddhist and Theravāda traditions, the practitioner takes central stage. The destination of the path, full awakening, is the same for every practitioner. The road to get there varies from person to person.

Some progress by calm, some by insight, some through reasoning, and some through faith. The Buddha always intended methods to fit the journey of the individual practitioner. Eastern methods need to be translated to make the vast Buddhist knowledge accessible to practitioners with a Western background.