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Saturday 04/11/2026 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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$50.00 Karma Discourse
The Wheel of Sharp Weapons: A Teaching on Karma & the Liberation of the Mind
with Khenpo Migmar | Saturday, April 11 | ?12:00–3:00 pm | Stil Studio
The Wheel of Sharp Weapons is one of the most profound and direct texts in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. It is a poetic work written in verse, composed during Dharmarakshita's solitary retreat in a jungle inhabited by fierce animals, and represents the distilled essence of his spiritual realization. Composed over a thousand years ago by the Indian master Dharmarakshita and brought to Tibet by the revered Atisha, it offers a remarkably honest map of how karma actually works , and what we can do about it.
The teaching is built on a single, luminous image: the wheel of sharp weapons that we throw out into the world through our self-centered actions, which inevitably circles back and cuts us. Illness, loss, conflict, heartbreak, frustration, the text traces each form of suffering back to a specific root cause, and then points us toward a remedy.
In this 3 hour workshop, Khenpo Migmar will guide us through the heart of this teaching, exploring how the ego and its habit of self-cherishing lies at the root of suffering, and how the practices of lojong (mind training) and tonglen (giving and taking) can be used to reverse that pattern.
This workshop is open to everyone. No prior experience with Buddhism or meditation is required.
*We will follow the discourse with a transmission of Green Tara Mantra.
Space is limited. Bring Meditation Cushion. Located at Stil Studio
Donation $50 per person. All proceeds to benefit Sakya Institute
Lama Migmar Tseten
Lama Migmar Tseten has served as Buddhist chaplain at Harvard University since 1997. He received both a traditional and a contemporary education in India, graduating from the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies at Sanskrit University in Varanasi. He served as the head of the Sakya Center in Rajpur, India, and the Sakya Monastery in Puruwalla. Lama Migmar has supervised the editing and publication of more than fifty rare volumes of Sakya literature and is the author of many books, including Awakening to the Noble Truth, Wisdom Gone Beyond, The Tibetan Book of Awakening, Play of Mahamudra, and Reality and Wisdom. As the founder of the Sakya Institute for Buddhist Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Lama Migmar leads retreats throughout North America and Europe.
