Anam Thubten

Anam Thubten is the founder of Dharmata Foundation and the author of Releasing the Knot of the Mind: Instructions on Resting in Stillness and Awareness.

Recent Articles

Ethics are the Heart of Spiritual Practice

Genuine awakening depends on grounding our practice in nonviolence, compassion, and self-honesty, says Anam Thubten.

Right Understanding

Anam Thubten on how to understand both ultimate and relative reality — and why this is so important today.

Lessons from a Wildfire

When his community’s beloved retreat center burned to the ground in 2016, Anam Thubten took it as a teaching on impermanence.

The Sacred Desire to Exist

Out of the primordial desire to exist, everything comes into being. This sacred force, says Anam Thubten, is different from clinging, which is the source of our suffering.