Tibetan
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 |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 | 2005-09-25 | 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 | 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 | 2007-10-10 | Author:Thomas Laird

I came back to the Dalai Lama armed with my research. As I briefly narrated, with a sense of indignation and outrage, the game Russia and Britain had played, the ...
( Category: Buddhism January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2002-06-25 | Author:Ngorchen Konchog Lhundrub & Sakya Trizin

For the common practitioner with the common transic absorption is the vision of the common experience. The common practitioner is a person who practices the Perfections and the common path. ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 1997-09-02 | Author:Thinley Norbu

ATHEISM The Pope says: Buddhism is in large measure an atheistic system. (p. 86) Atheism means not believing in God, or more generally, not having any spiritual view. The Pope ...
( Category: Comparative Religion January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-12-13 | Author:Luisi, Pier Luigi [Luisi, Pier Luigi]

Reflections As we started moving toward the exit at the end of the session, most of us were absorbed in thought. My own mind was still on Matthieu’s presentation about ...
( Category: History January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:Chodron, Pema [Chodron, Pema]

6.56 Better far for me to die today, Than live a long and evil life. However great may be my length of days, The pain of dying will be all ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-05-16 | Author:Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche

Now, this does not involve inference of any kind. It is not a matter of thinking, "Thoughts must be like this; they must come from here or go to there." ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 22,2015 )