“ROOT INSTITUTE: From The Ground Up” - documenting 30 years of a Buddhist community in India!
Here’s a short film I just completed in India about Root Institute in Bodhgaya (where the Buddha got enlightened). It chronicles the early pioneering history and hardships, birth and swell of social service projects, spiritual programs offered, and ongoing vision. Root celebrates their 30th anniversary this week - and incidentally the 20th anniversary of Phenomenal World Cinema just passed! So strap yourself in and enjoy these 17 minutes of education/amusement in the spirit of these special occasions!
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Director: Marc Israel
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Present! - The Root Institute for Wisdom Culture in Bodhgaya, India
In this video we have a visual your of the Root Institute for Wisdom Culture complex in Bodhgaya, India.
Root Institute in Bodhgaya, India
From the rootinstitute.com website: Root Institute provides an ideal location for the study and practice of Buddhist meditation and philosophy. We are located in Bodhgaya, India, where the Buddha attained enlightenment under the bodhi tree.
I stayed here in December, 2010, and highly recommend it! It's a peaceful oasis in a rural location away from all the noise and high energy in Bodhgaya.
Acupuncture session at the Root Institute - Bodhgaya, India
Welcome to Root Institute for Wisdom Culture (video by Paolo Regis)
An introduction to Root Institute for Wisdom Culture - a Buddhist centre in the Tibetan tradition located in Bodhgaya, India where Lord Buddha attained enlightenment. We offer a tranquil place to stay, study & practice and do retreat. We also serve Bodhgaya and surrounding villages through our three social service projects.
Please visit our website: rootinstitute.ngo to learn more.
Our deepest gratitude to Paolo Regis for making this video.
Roots Institute - Bodhgaya, India
This was a visit to the Root Institute in Bodhgaya, India. The place where Buddha became enlightened and the place where my beautiful Uncle Pratul forever lives on.
Root Institute - Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India
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Root Institute Bodh Gaya
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Travel blogs from Root Institute:
- ... So we took a rickshaw to Root Institute, the retreat center where we'll be for the latter half of december, and dumped our bags there ...
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Photos from:
- Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India
Photos in this video:
- Statue at the Root Institute in Bodhgaya by Aprovo10 from a blog titled Abby is in Bodhgaya
- The Sangha of Root Institute by Schnitz from a blog titled Making Friends with Death & Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- Me outside Root Institute by Schnitz from a blog titled Making Friends with Death & Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- Root Institute 1 by Schnitz from a blog titled Making Friends with Death & Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- Root Institute 3 by Schnitz from a blog titled Making Friends with Death & Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- Root Institute 4 by Schnitz from a blog titled Making Friends with Death & Lama Zopa Rinpoche
- Root Institute 2 by Schnitz from a blog titled Making Friends with Death & Lama Zopa Rinpoche
‘Humaari Anubhūti’ in Bodhgaya, Bihar with Root Institute & Maitreya School Girls
As a part of my initiative 'Anubhuti' that I started a few years back with a view to build confidence and other life-skills among the girls of under-served communities, I fortunately got an opportunity to serve the girls of Maitreya School which is a part of Root Institute for Wisdom Culture, with that I reached to the auspicious land of Lord Budda in Bodhgaya, Bihar.
It was a 3 week long workshop with 30 Girls (12 to 16 yrs of age) of Maitreya School who belonged to the most vulnerable backgrounds. The parents were mostly into farming, rag-picking and daily wage laborers.
Read more about it here :
From all of us at Root Institute...
Whether you’ve visited us, studied with us, followed us on Facebook, donated, provided moral support from afar, thought of, heard of or just seen the name Root Institute over the past 30 years....This video is dedicated to YOU. ☺
THANK YOU!!!
The nature of mind: a teaching at the Root Institute, January 3, 2013, Bodhgaya
On the morning of January 3, 2013, the Gyalwang Karmapa gave an impromptu teaching on the nature of mind to a large group of international students gathered at the Root Institute for Wisdom Culture, Bodhgaya. Teaching in a mixture of Tibetan and English, he began the session by inviting questions from the students gathered. The first question was soon put forward: How do we experience Buddha-nature on a practical level? I thought that if you asked me questions it would make it easier for me, he joked in English in response to the depth of the question, adding, But this question makes it more complicated for me!
As the laughter died down, the Gyalwang Karmapa delivered a profound and reasoned teaching on Buddha-nature and the nature of mind. All sentient beings are endowed with the potential for complete Buddhahood, he began.
They are inherently Buddhas, and inherently that Buddha-nature is completely free of any stains -- it is stainless, and perfect. Yet, at the level of relative or immediate experience, our experience is not this way. Our experience is that this perfectly pure Buddha-nature is veiled by our confused outlook.
Shifting the teaching to a deeper level, the Gyalwang Karmapa then described the dharmakaya, or the Buddha's enlightened mind. Lord Gampopa said that the nature of thoughts is dharmakaya, he explained.
Thoughts and dharmakaya are inseparable. We have this dualistic approach of seeing dharmakaya as pure and thoughts as impure, but we need to understand the inseparability of thoughts and dharmakaya.
The Gyalwang Karmapa spoke directly in English as he continued:
Every moment that we have thought, every moment that thought arises, we have the opportunity to recognize the nature of thought as emptiness or dharmakaya, whatever you want to call it. Thought and the emptiness of its nature are inseparable. We can't make them separate; there's no separation. Because thought itself is emptiness that means actually in everyday life we have lots of opportunity to recognize and realize the nature of thought, or nature of emptiness, or dharmakaya. But we just follow the appearances, the illusions -- we don't look deeper.
The Gyalwang Karmapa then responded to several more questions from the audience, teaching briefly on the progressive views of emptiness within Tibetan Buddhism which culminate in the final Madhyamaka view. The final questioner echoed the thoughts of many gathered when she asked the Gyalwang Karmapa how his students could help and support him. I feel energized and inspired by all the love and the support that I receive from all of you. That really is sufficient. I don't need anything more than your love and support, he replied, to resounding applause.
Continuing an annual tradition, the teaching took place at the request of the Root Institute for Wisdom Culture. The Gyalwang Karmapa taught to an overflowing gompa, with hundreds of students spilling out into the surrounding balconies and gardens. In addition to mostly international students, the audience also included local Indian children from the Root Institute's school.
Guru Puja under the Bodhi Tree, Mahabodhi Temple, Bodhgaya, India
Guru Puja led by the monks of the Bodhgaya branch of the Namgyal Monastery sponsored by Root Institute for Wisdom Culture during Saka Dawa 2017.
Guru Puja offered by Root Institute sponsors, Mahabodhi Temple, Bodhgaya
The monks of the Bodhgaya branch of Namgyal Monastery read the Root Institute dedications aloud during the sponsored Guru puja on the auspicious, merit-multiplying day of Lhabab Duchen 2017.
Protector Puju at Root Institute, Festival of Lights & Merit 2017
Protector puja offered by Root Institute sponsors led by the monks of the Bodhgaya branch of Namgyal Monastery during the Festival of Lights & Merit, Lhabab Duchen 2017.
History of Root Inst LZR 20190101
A brief History of Root Institute. As told by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Bodhgaya Jan 1 2019.
Rangjung Neljorma - Khandrola - New Year Teachings at the Root Institute
Rangjung Neljorma - Khandro Namsel Dronma is a realised Rimey (non sectarian) dharma practitioner and teacher, regarded by many Lamas as an emanation of Tara or Khandro Yeshe Tsogyel, etc.
She gave this dharma teaching ta the Root Institute in Bodhgaya, India, on the 01/01/2018.
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Bodhgaya, India.
Root Institute (FPMT) Jan. 2012
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Bodhgaya, India.
Root Institute (FPMT) Jan. 2012
Dharma Talk at the Root Institute
His Holiness Karma gives a Dharma talk at the Root Institute in Bodhgaya, India.
Kindness like Limitless Sky, Lama Zopa Rinpoche & benefits of hearing His Holiness the Dalai Lama
The benefits of going to India to hear His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Kindness like limitless Sky. A praise by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Jan 1 2020 at Root Institute Bodhgaya. Advice given to a group of students from Tara Institute in Melbourne and a group from LDC in Malaysia.
Leadership Workshop Based on Ethical Values at Maitreya School
Leadership Workshop Based on Ethical Values at Maitrey School, Root Institute, Bodhgaya, Bidhar, India