Tibetan
epub |eng | 2013-09-27 | Author:Vessantara

Plate One Vajrapāṇi - wrathful form Plate Two Green Tārā Plate Three White Tārā Plate Four Maitreya Plate Five Prajñāpāramitā Plate Six Vajrasattva Plate Seven Padmasambhava with the set of ...
( Category: Tibetan June 28,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jan Willis

CHI, THE HISTORICAL In his monumental work Tibetan Painted Scrolls, published in 1949, the great Tibetologist Giuseppe Tucci compared namthar with Christian hagiography and suggested that history was never the ...
( Category: Tibetan April 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-14 | Author:The Dalai Lama [Lama, Dalai]

The terms ultimate and conventional are also found employed in the Sublime Continuum, in relation to taking refuge in the Three Jewels.22 Here, they denote ultimate and conventional refuge, ultimate ...
( Category: Meditation April 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-09 | Author:Thubten Zopa

( Category: Inspirational April 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lama Zopa Rinpoche

CONCENTRATION ALONE IS NOT ENOUGH Many traditions have a practice of concentration; it is not just a Buddhist teaching. For instance, the Hindu religion places great emphasis on samadhi meditations, ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice April 7,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2002-12-09 | Author:Judith Simmer-Brown [Simmer-Brown, Judith]

The conventions regarding human ḍākinīs developed in an oral tradition of ḍākinī lore that has never been systematized or formalized. There is no definitive list of human characteristics that identify ...
( Category: Karma April 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-29 | Author:Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche & Orgyen Topgyal Rinpoche & Lama Putsi [Urgyen Rinpoche, Tulku]

Samantabhadra and Consort Dissolving Duality CONFERRING EMPOWERMENT If you were to zoom in on the peaceful or wrathful deities, you would see that in each of their heart centers is ...
( Category: Tibetan March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-15 | Author:Dalai Lama

( Category: Inspirational March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-21 | Author:Klaus-Dieter Mathes

When the Madhyamaka view of this [mahāmudrā system] has arisen in the mindstream, the natural mind is said to have been actualized and the dharmakāya to have been made directly ...
( Category: Philosophy March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-07 | Author:Chagdud Tulku [Tulku, Chagdud]

15 Wishing and Engaging Bodhicitta Bodhicitta has two frameworks: the welfare of others, or compassion; and enlightenment, or wisdom. We wish for enlightenment not just to escape samsara but also ...
( Category: Tibetan March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-17 | Author:Thubten Chodron

180 Our Purpose in Life If the purpose of our life is simply to keep the body alive, to eat, sleep, and experience pleasure, then at the end of our ...
( Category: Meditation March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-31 | Author:Michael Gordon, Geshe Michael Roach, Lama Christie McNally

ANCIENT WISDOM All failure comes from misunderstanding. —The Wheel of Life, 500 BC PLAYING THE ODDS We almost called this part “Fifty Thousand Years of Flops.” It’s estimated that organized ...
( Category: Tibetan March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-03 | Author:Graham Coleman, Thupten Jinpa

Until yesterday, because you were distracted, even though so many aspects of the intermediate states have arisen, you did not attain recognition. Up to this time, you have experienced so ...
( Category: Tibetan Book of the Dead March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-15 | Author:Yeshe Tsogyal

Listen, Tibetan masters and disciples who form a dharmic link. At first, the masters should train in reaching perfection in learning. Next, they should bring forth signs of accomplishment by ...
( Category: Tibetan March 7,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:James B. Apple

Further, a sūtra states: “There is not thought; the nature of thought is clear light.”688 [Query:] Of what is it empty? [Reply:] One’s own mind itself is empty of this ...
( Category: Tibetan March 5,2020 )