Religion & Spirituality
azw3 |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:Anne Carolyn Klein

Merely the way that the Sautrantikas Following Scripture posit definitions and illustrations of the two truths is similar to that of the Vaibhasikas, but their [further] presentations of these differ ...
( Category: Philosophy January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-04-25 | Author:Dalai Lama & Christine Cox & Thupten Jinpa

After having undertaken the practice of refuge, you should observe the precepts of refuge, the abandonments and the affirmations. All these precepts should be studied from Lamrim Chenmo by Lama ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-04-16 | Author:Mipham, Jamgon [Mipham, Jamgon]

Just as a sesame seed is filled with oil, so too is the nature of the mind pervaded by primordial wisdom, ultimate and self-arisen, dwelling within it as the youthful ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-08-25 | Author:Alejandro Chaoul & Yongdzin Lopon Tenzi Namdak & Tenzin Wangyal

FIGURE 6. Damaru. Illustration by Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak. The skulls and their desired characteristics seem to be the most symbolic aspect of the damaru. They represent the state of union ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Mipham, Jamgon & Chandrakirti [Mipham, Jamgon]

(c) Even conventionally, there is no such thing as naturally existent other-production. If there were, it could not be disproved on the ultimate level 36 When an analysis is made ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 1982-11-15 | Author:Khetsun Sangpo Rinbochay

Khetsun Sangpo Rinbochay's commentary on the second part of The Sacred Word of Lama Gun-sang Going for refuge to the Three Jewels - Buddha, his Doctrine and the Spiritual Community ...
( Category: Worship & Devotion January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-11-14 | Author:Thupten Jinpa Ph.d.

This training is the great counterbalance to happiness, and the great successor to misery; it is a charm that attracts misfortune, and a wish capping the useless ones.126 These are ...
( Category: Meditations January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 1990-05-02 | Author:Chogyal Namkhai Norbu & Adriano Clemente & John Shane

In Tibet the cuckoo is considered to be a sign of good fortune and prosperity because it heralds the arrival of spring. When the Tibetan people heard the cuckoo's song ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-09-25 | Author:Lama Zopa Rinpoche & Ailsa Cameron

Dedications Ven. René : Let’s dedicate the ocean of merits we have created during the day by taking the Eight Mahayana Precepts, by practicing the sadhana of Medicine Buddha and ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:Karma Chagme

- The emptiness of the mind is not a mere vacuity, or nothingness. Rather, while it is empty, it manifests as the embodiments and primordial wisdoms of a Buddha. It ...
( Category: Karma January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-09-25 | Author:Thekchok Dorje & Jamgon Kongtrul Lodo Taye

White Feast No. S z°1N ~°l °l~~ ~~ ~l (RIG DRUG NE TONG MA) ("Emptying the Six Realms") Again, as in the BUM GYE MA [i.e., White Feast No. 31, ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Carpenter, Russ & Carpenter, Blyth [Carpenter, Russ]

Now we move to a place fairly close to Chodzom’s house, a temple called Changangkha (which dominates a hill overlooking modern Thimphu). The story features a character called Lama Paljor, ...
( Category: Religion January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Kunsang, Erik Pema [Kunsang, Erik Pema]

10. The five degenerations are shorter life span, decline in the quality of things, an increase in disturbing emotions, low and wrong views, and inferior health and welfare. 11. Guru ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences January 22,2015 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-03-03 | Author:B. Alan Wallace

If memories are indeed stored in a continuum that precedes this life, we might well ask, why is it that we do not remember our past lives? Tibetan Buddhism likens ...
( Category: Comparative Religion January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-14 | Author:Jonathan Landaw & Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa Rinpoche

The Fully Renounced Mind If all the main points of the Dharma were reduced to their essentials, they could be grouped into three categories commonly called the three principal aspects ...
( Category: Meditations January 22,2015 )