Buddhism
azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-02-16 | Author:Karma Chagme

[704] These are the profound practical instructions of Avalokitesvara. Having already presented introductions to both the Breakthrough and Leap-over stages of the Great Perfection, the reason why the union of ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 1991-08-06 | Author:Chogyam Trungpa

Taking the bodhisattva vow is a public statement of your intention to embark on the bodhisattva path. Simply acknowledging that intention to yourself is not enough. You have to be ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2006-10-10 | Author:Brown Ph.D., Daniel & Robert Thurman

TABLE 18: A COMPARISON OF SŪTRA AND MAHĀMUDRĀ STAGES OF CONCENTRATION 6. SPECIAL INSIGHT THROUGHOUT THE STAGES of concentration, the practitioner has gained considerable insight into the workings of the ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-02-09 | Author:Norman, Alexander [Norman, Alexander]

Accordingly, Lobsang Gyatso instructed Sonam Rabten to compose a letter to Gushri Khan authorizing an attack on the king of Beri, but requesting that his troops return to Mongolia directly ...
( Category: Chinese January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-11-15 | Author:Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

But this discrimination is itself in the service of a paean to the nondiscriminating amplitude of the Buddha's pedagogy. "I explain the law to creatures, after having recognized their inclinations," ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-09-25 | Author:Glenn H. Mullin

While residing at Tashi Lhunpo, the Second Dalai Lama made frequent visits to other holy places and monasteries in the area, teaching and giving initiations in them. Included in the ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-09-10 | Author:Chogyal Namkhai, Norbu

The Eighth Word of Advice Stewards, close friends, principals, and cooks Are indeed the pillar of life[44] of the monastic community; Yet commitment to these roles is a cause for ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2005-04-15 | Author:Geshe Tashi Tsering & Tashi Tsering (geshe) & Gordon McDougall

Most Buddhist philosophical schools agree on the way that karmic imprints are created, but opinions differ about where they are based. Some scholars use the word stored for imprints, but ...
( Category: Philosophy January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Trungpa, Chogyam [Trungpa, Chogyam]

13 Making Friends with Fear WE ARE DISCUSSING HOW to benefit others by joining heaven and earth, while fulfilling our own wishes and developing a perfect notion of warriorship. Because ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 1992-08-25 | Author:Rnin-ma-pa

Vajrayana sadhanas are intended to remedy human alienation from the totality of what is: the energies that constitute the play of the universe, and their corresponding active presence within the ...
( Category: Philosophy January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-09-16 | Author:Gen Lamrimpa & B. Alan Wallace

As I have stated, ignorance apprehends the “I” as being truly existent; it apprehends true existence with reference to the “I,” and the “I” is apprehended upon its basis of ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:Reginald A. Ray

THE EMPTY ESSENCE IS RIGPA The empty essence is rigpa, knowing. This knowing quality has two options. It can face away from itself towards external objects, making thoughts that grasp ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-06-09 | Author:Lama Zopa Rinpoche & Nicholas Ribush

Recite the mantra seven or twenty-one times or as many times as possible, practicing the three techniques of downward cleansing, upward cleansing and instantaneous cleansing.1 GENERATING FAITH IN HAVING BEEN ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Nagarjuna & Sakya Pandit

Other Dharma Publishing Books The Voice of the Buddha: The Beauty of Compassion. Complete translation of the Lalitavistara Sutra, the Buddha's own account of his life, enlightenment, and early teachings. ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-03-10 | Author:Westerhoff, Jan [Westerhoff, Jan]

3.2.3. The Epistemic Instruments as Self-established [40-41] 40. If the epistemic instruments are self-established, the epistemic objects will be independent of the establishment of the epistemic instruments for you, for ...
( Category: Linguistics January 22,2015 )