Tibetan
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Trungpa, Chogyam & Gimian, Carolyn Rose [Trungpa, Chogyam]

1. Vajra is a Sanskrit word meaning “diamond,” “adamantine,” or “indestructible.” The thunderbolt scepter held by Indra, the king of the gods in Indian mythology, is known as a vajra. ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-06-03 | Author:Robert Thurman

A particularly sad fact of human history is that conflicts have arisen in the name of religion. Even today, individuals are killed, their communities destroyed, and societies destabilized as a ...
( Category: Diplomacy January 22,2015 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-10-25 | Author:Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye

This natural luminosity is distinguished by great bliss. It is emptiness (the letter E) and great compassion (the letter VAnn).875 It is primordial wisdom, which is the unification of clarity ...
( Category: Sacred Writings January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Norbu, Chogyal Namkhai [Norbu, Chogyal Namkhai]

19 The Death of Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö IN THE YEAR OF THE EARTH DOG (1958), I began the study of Sanskrit at the Namgyal Research institute in Gangtok, capital ...
( Category: Religious January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-07-28 | Author:Dalai Lama & Geshe Lobsang Jordhen & Losang Choephel Ganchenpa & Jeremy Russell

In order to accomplish the purposes of both others and ourselves, all obscurations should be eliminated. Those who intend to realize transcendent wisdom in such a way should initially practice ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Preece, Rob [Preece, Rob]

The hazards of this projection are that we must be alert to the possibility that the guru will not carry this projection particularly well. He may not know how to ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 1983-01-02 | Author:Aryasura

From this story one can see how an unfounded opinion that they possess some virtuous quality acts upon the virtuous like a spur. One can see how important it is ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2002-11-25 | Author:Gyatrul Rinpoche & B. Alan Wallace & Sangye Khandro

The text begins with the author's homage and then the statement of his commitment. The author pays homage to the guide and spiritual mentor Vajrasattva in the first stanza of ...
( Category: Meditations January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-06-28 | Author:Sam van Schaik

WHOSE GAME? By the close of the nineteenth century, British India was very different from what it had been in the days of Warren Hastings and George Bogle. The gentleman ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 1988-12-15 | Author:Emil Schlagintweit

districts of the Himálaya the Lamas wear during the summer large hats of Straw. The shape of the caps varies considerably, but it is curious that they are all of ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Lama Zopa Rinpoche

You then become bored with even the inner happiness derived from meditation and seek indifference. You then look at the form realm as suffering in nature and see the formless ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-12-15 | Author:Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

The Twenty Types of Emptinesses (Tib. tong pa nyi shu) 1. Emptiness of internal phenomena 2. Emptiness of external phenomena 3. Emptiness of internal and external phenomena 4 Emptiness of ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Chodron, Pema [Chodron, Pema]

63 Widening the Circle Further HOW IS THERE going to be less aggression on the planet rather than more? Bring this question down to a personal level: How do I ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-07-10 | Author:Khensur Jampa Tegchok

NO PARTLESS PARTICLES According to the ancient Indian formulation of the form aggregate, all matter is a mass comprised of the four elements—earth, water, fire, and air—and its derivatives. The ...
( Category: Meditation January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2007-10-08 | Author:Wallace, B. Alan [Wallace, B. Alan]

The Many Worlds of Ontological Relativity An essential feature of quantum reality is that it includes the physical world as a whole that does not consist of parts. We can ...
( Category: Science & Religion January 22,2015 )