Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is a meditation master in the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. He is the guiding teacher of the Tergar Meditation Community, a global network of meditation groups and centers. His books include Turning Confusion into Clarity and In Love with the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying .

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Recent Articles

Pure Perception – How Poison Becomes Medicine

This article, part of Mingyur Rinpoche’s new year-long teaching series, Blueprints of Awakening, explores how pure perception and the wisdom of buddhanature can transform even our deepest suffering into a path of liberation.

The Dalai Lama, a Beacon of Hope

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche tells us what His Holiness the Dalai Lama means to the Tibetan people.

How I Stopped My Panic Attacks

Stricken with anxiety as a child, Buddhist teacher Mingyur Rinpoche learned how to heal his panic with awareness. He teaches us three techniques that helped him.

Four Ways Mindfulness Can Transform an Unhealthy Sense of Self

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche shares a teaching on Buddhism’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness — form, feeling, mind, and phenomena — and how they lead us to experience the deeply analytical insights found in the Abhidharma, known more colloquially as “Buddhist psychology.”

Exploring the Four Elements in the Body

In this new video — part of an ongoing teaching series on Mingyur Rinpoche’s text Stainless Prajña: Stages of Meditation on the Treasury of Abhidharma — Rinpoche guides us to reflect on The Four Elements in the Body, exploring how these elements manifest within ourselves. This is followed by a short reflection by Tsunma Kunsang Palmo.