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Buddhism / Dalai Lama 99
Buddhism / Dalai Lama 99 Activating Bodhichitta and A Meditation on Compassion His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Translated by Gonsar Rinpoche The awakening mind is the unsurpassable way to collect merit. To purify obstacles bodhicitta is supreme. For protection from interferences bodhicitta is supreme. It is the unique, all-encompassing method. Every kind of ordinary and supra-mundane power can be accomplished through bodhicitta. Thus, it is absolutely precious. Although compassion is cultivated in one’s own mind, the embodiment of it is the deity known as Avalokiteshvara (Tib. Chan-re- PY: 1979,2006 zig). The various aspects that are visualized in meditation practices and 5.5 X 8.5 represented in images and paintings are merely the interpretative forms of 80 pages Avalokitephvara, whereas the actual definitive form is compassion itself. ` 140 paperback ISBN: 81-86470-52-2 Awakening the Mind, Lightening the Heart His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Edited by Donald S.Lopez,Jr. Awakening the Mind, Lightening the Heart is His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s gentle and profoundly eloquent instruction for developing the basis of the spiritual path: a compassionate motive. With extraordinary grace and insight, His Holiness shows how the Tibetan Buddist teachings on compassion can be practiced in our daily lives through simple meditations that directly relate to past and present PY: 2008 relationships. 5.5 X 8.5 This illuminating and highly accessible guide offers techniques for 178 pages deepening and heightening compassion in our lives and the world around ` 215 paperback us. ISBN: 81-86470-68-9 Commentary on the Thirty Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Translated by Acharya Nyima Tsering Ngulchu Gyalse Thogmed Zangpo’s The Thirty Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva is one of Tibetan Buddhism’s most popular texts, incorporated in the Mind Training text and also able to be explained according to the Lam Rim tradition. -
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo DIRECTOR GATSAL
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo DIRECTOR GATSAL ISSUE No. 34 SUMMER 2018 Celebrating International Womens Day in Peru Dr Wallace will return again at the end of this year to continue with Dear friends, the Vipassana section of this Dudjom Once more the months flow by and Lingpa terma. The retreat was recorded the nuns are now busy revising for and made available on the Meridien their end-of-term exams – walking or Trust website as a resource for other sitting with their noses in a book! Tibetan speakers. In August 2017 the nuns In December Yonge Mingyur participated in a 10 days Goenka Rinpoche again graciously visited Vipassana retreat conducted by DGL Nunnery and gave a talk on five charming lady instructors who meditation to all the nuns as well as had travelled by train from Pune in visiting the nuns in long-term retreat. Maharashtra. This was the first time He had given teachings at Sherab Ling our nuns had sat such a retreat and which Tsunma Aileen and I attended. they felt great benefit from so many Later that month I visited Pune for hours of introspective meditation. my annual talks. There is a growing In October the nuns were invited to interest in Buddhism among the Indian participate in the inauguration of the middle class and we have many dear Temple at Bhuntar near Kullu. This is friends in Pune and Mumbai. Then we the monastery of Kyabgon Choegon travelled to Sankassa in Uttar Pradesh Rinpoche who is a good friend of DGL. where the people claim to be descended Many thousands of people attended from the original Shakya clan of the this event, mainly from Kinnaur Indigenous Faces of the World, Buddha. -
Jamgn Mipham's Seven Line Guruyoga
ÉÊ Ê7'0-0#ë,-0Ü-.0-bÜ-2Ý#-/¸¥,-v-07Ü-F:-7eë9-2ì#<-0&ë+-T,- */<-`Ü<-/{,-ý-,#-7ië<-/t#-&ë#-·¦-/!ë+-ý-/º¥#<-<ëÊ Ê JAMGÖN MIPHAM'S SEVEN LINE GURUYOGA FEAST OFFERING ADORNED WITH AN APPENDIX AND ARRANGED TO BE READ STRAIGHT THROUGH Compiled by HIS HOLINESS JIGDAL DAGCHEN SAKYA KYABJE DILGO KHYENTSÉ RINPOCHÉ KYABJE DUDJOM RINPOCHÉ KYABJE KHAMTRUL RINPOCHÉ and VENERABLE DHONGTHOG RINPOCHÉ SAKYA MONASTERY OF TIBETAN BUDDHISM SEATTLE WA Published by: Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism 108 N.W. 83rd Street Seattle, WA 98117 © 2015, 2019 Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism Translation: Jeffrey Schoening Transcription, Editing and Formatting: Ken Hockett Proofreading: Venerable Dhongthog Rinpoche Geshe Thuchey Wangchuk Thuba Gyatso (Lee Harris) Ani Kunga Palmo Eric Dulberg Dennis Oliver Stephanie Prince Jerry Fabrizio Stacey Koenig ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Instructions for Preparation .............................................................................................. iv Padmasambhava ................................................................................................................ vi Rain of Blessings: A Guruyoga Connected with the Seven Line Prayer ...................... 1 The Adamantine Seven Line Prayer ..................................................................... 1 Refuge ...................................................................................................................... 2 Producing the Thought of Enlightenment ............................................................ 3 The Seven Branch Practice -
Karmapa Karma Pakshi (1206-1283)
CUỘC ĐỜI SIÊU VIỆT CỦA 16 VỊ TỔ KARMAPA TÂY TẠNG Biên soạn: Karma Thinley Rinpoche Nguyên tác: The History of Sixteen Karmapas of Tibet Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje XVI Karma Thinley Rinpoche - Việt dịch: Nguyễn An Cư Thiện Tri Thức 2543-1999 THIỆN TRI THỨC MỤC LỤC LỜI NÓI ĐẦU ............................................................................................ 7 LỜI TỰA ..................................................................................................... 9 DẪN NHẬP .............................................................................................. 12 NỀN TẢNG LỊCH SỬ VÀ LÝ THUYẾT ................................................ 39 Chương I: KARMAPA DUSUM KHYENPA (1110-1193) ...................... 64 Chương II: KARMAPA KARMA PAKSHI (1206-1283) ......................... 70 Chương III: KARMAPA RANGJUNG DORJE (1284-1339) .................. 78 Chương IV: KARMAPA ROLPE DORJE (1340-1383) ........................... 84 Chương V: KARMAPA DEZHIN SHEGPA (1384-1415) ........................ 95 Chương VI: KARMAPA THONGWA DONDEN (1416-1453) ............. 102 Chương VII: KARMAPA CHODRAG GYALTSHO (1454-1506) ........ 106 Chương VIII: KARMAPA MIKYO DORJE (1507-1554) ..................... 112 Chương IX: KARMAPA WANGCHUK DORJE (1555-1603) .............. 122 Chương X: KARMAPA CHOYING DORJE (1604-1674) .................... 129 Chương XI: KARMAPA YESHE DORJE (1676-1702) ......................... 135 Chương XII: KARMAPA CHANGCHUB DORJE (1703-1732) ........... 138 Chương XIII: KARMAPA DUDUL DORJE (1733-1797) .................... -
REACHING OUT: a History of and Contemporary Look at the Centers, Projects and Services of FPMT
REACHINGOUT REACHING OUT: A history of and contemporary look at the Centers, Projects and Services of FPMT Lama Yeshe supervises building of Kopan FPMT pioneers: Peter Kedge, Lama Yeshe, Gompa extension, 1976 Sister Max1 and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, 1982 We make the ocean and the fish will come. – Lama Thubten Yeshe pi-o-neer: And funding? Lama Yeshe was brutal in his insistence 1. One who ventures into unknown or unclaimed that centers and students be self-sufficient and often territory to settle. encouraged them to start businesses. Lama’s early students 2. One who opens up new areas of thought, research or were made up of those from the anti-establishment genera- development. tion and many had been quite proud to cheat on their taxes, accept welfare payments, shoplift or sell marijuana as ama Thubten Yeshe (1935-1984), founder of the methods to remain on the fringes of society. Lama insisted Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana that his students “do what society people do” and function LTradition (FPMT), was many things to many people. as professional members of the world. Breaking the law or What seems a constant impression from those who knew following the “hippie” notion that money and capitalism him was that Lama Yeshe was big. “Think big,” “big love,” were necessary evils would get them nowhere. It was one’s – these are catch-phrases commonly attributed to Lama. motivation that corrupted ventures in commerce, and since Some students even claim he often appeared to physically his students were engaging in business practice to be of grow far bigger than his 5 ft 6 in (167 cm) frame. -
Teaching from the Vajrasattva Retreat Lama Zopa 1
TEACHINGS FROMTHE VAJRASATTVARETREAT Previously published by the LAMAYESHEWISDOMARCHIVE Becoming Your Own Therapist,by Lama Yeshe Advice for Monks and Nuns,by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche Virtue and Reality, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Make Your Mind an Ocean,by Lama Yeshe Forthcoming (for initiates only) A Chat about Heruka,by Lama Zopa Rinpoche A Chat about Yamantaka,by Lama Zopa Rinpoche (Contact us for information.) May whoever sees, touches, reads, remembers, or talks or thinks about the above booklets or this book never be reborn in unfortunate circumstances, receive only rebirths in situations conducive to the perfect practice of Dharma, meet only perfectly qualified spiritual guides, quickly develop bodhicitta and immediately attain enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. LAMAZOPARINPOCHE TEACHINGS FROMTHE VAJRASATTVARETREAT Land of Medicine Buddha, February–April, 1999 Edited by Ailsa Cameron and Nicholas Ribush LAMAYESHEWISDOMARCHIVE•BOSTON A non-profit charitable organization for the benefit of all sentient beings and a section of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition www.fpmt.org First published 2000 LAMAYESHEWISDOMARCHIVE POBOX356 WESTON MA 02493, USA © Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche 2000 Please do not reproduce any part of this book by any means whatsoever without our permission. ISBN 1-891868-04-7 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Front cover: Vajrasattva, painted by Peter Iseli, photo by Ueli Minder Back cover photo of retreat group, April 30, 1999, by Bob Cayton Cover and interior design by Mark Gatter -
BIBLIOGRAPHY I. Primary Sources I. 1. Pāli and Sanśkrit Texts
BIBLIOGRAPHY I. Primary Sources I. 1. Pāli and Sanśkrit Texts Aṅguttara Nikāya, Ed. R. Morris & E. Hardy, 5 vols., London: PTS, 1885- 1900. Tr. F. L. Woodward, vols. I, II & V; E. M. Hare, vols. III & IV. The Book of the Gradual Sayings, London: PTS, 1955 – 1970. Avataṃsaka Sūtra, Tr. Thomas Cleary, the Flower Ornament Scripture, Shambhala – Boston & London, 1985. Bodhicaryāvatāra of Śāntideva, Commentary by Shri Prajñkaramati, Varanasi, India, Bauddha Bharati: 1988. Bodhicaryāvatāra of Śāntideva, Tr. Stephen Batchlor, A Guide to the Bodhisattva‘s Way of Life, New Delhi: 1998. Bodhicaryāvatāra of Śāntideva, Tr. The Padmakara Translation Group, The Way of The Bodhisattva, Boston: Shambhala, 1997. Bodhisattvabhūmi, Ed. N. Dutt, Vol. II, K. P. Jayaswal Research Institute, Patna: 1978. The Bodhisattvapiṭaka (Its Doctrines, Practices and their Position in Mahāyāna Literature), Ulrich Pagel, the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Tring, U. K.: 1995. Daśabhūmika Sūtra, Ed. Dr. P. L. Vaidya. Buddhist Sankrit Texts, No.7. Darbhanga, India: Mithila Sanśkrit Institute, 1976. 229 Dharmapada (Pāli Text and Translation), Tr. Ven. Nārada Maha Thera, Maha Bodhi Information and Publication Division, Maha Bodhi Society in India, Isipatana Deer Park, Sanarth Centre: 2000. The Dhammapada, Ed. K. Sri Dhammananda, Sasana Abhiwurdhi Society, Buddhist Vihara, Kuala Lumpur: 1992. Dīgha Nikāya, Ed. T. W. Rhys Davids & J.E. Carpenter, 3 vols., London: PTS, 1890-1911. Tr. T. W. & C.A.F. Rhys Davids; Dialogues of the Buddha, 3 vols., London: PTS, 1899, 1910 & 1957 respectively (reprints). Dipavamsa, Ed. Herman Oldenbery, New Delhi: 1982. Gandhavyūha Sūtra, Ed. Dr. P. L. Vaidya, Buddhist Sanśkrit Texts, No. 5. Darbhanga, Mithila Sanskrit Institute, India. -
Consecration Ritual: Extremely Abbreviated Rab Nä
Extremely Abbreviated Rab Nä Invitation and Request All buddhas and bodhisattvas abiding in the ten directions, please pay attention to me! Until all sentient beings equaling the extent of space are placed in the stage of non‐abiding nirvana, may all the Conquerors not pass beyond sorrow but remain firmly. In particular, may the exalted‐wisdom beings, the Conquerors, who were produced and invited in these supports of the holy body, speech, and mind not pass beyond sorrow but remain firmly, until the supports are destroyed due to being harmed by the four great elements. Also, having remained firmly, please bestow upon me and others ‐ all sentient beings – the supreme and ordinary siddhis without exception. (3x) Mantra of Dependent Origination OM NAMO RATNA-TRAYAYA YE DHARMA HETU-PRABHAVA HETUN TESHAN TATHAGATO HYAVADAT TESHAN CHA YO NIRODHA EVAM-VADI MAHA-SHRAMANAYE SVAHA (3x) Mantra of Stainless Ushnisha OM TRAIYADHA SARVA-TATHAGATA-HRIDAYA-GARBHE JVALA-DHARMA-DHATU-GARBHE SAMHARANA AYUH SAMSHODHAYA PAPAM SARVA-TATHAGATA-SAMANTA USHNISHA-VIMALE VISHUDDHE SVAHA (3x) Mantra Requesting to Remain OM SUPRATISHTHA VAJRA YE SVAHA Dedication Like an assortment of many types of jewels Set in the Meru of layers of exquisite refined gold, May these supreme holy bodily forms, That we can view insatiably, Remain firmly until the end of existence. May there be the auspiciousness of the immutable‐Meru holy body, May there be the auspiciousness of the sixty branches of holy speech, May there be the auspiciousness of the limitless ultimate holy mind. May there be the auspiciousness of the Conqueror’s holy body, speech and mind. -
A Concise Set of Buddhist Healing Prayers and Practices – Preface
A Concise Set of Buddhist Healing Prayers and Practices revised edition by Jason Espada “It is said that whenever we practice Dharma it should always be pervaded by compassion at all times – in the beginning, in the middle and at the end of our practice. Compassion is the source, the real essence of the entire path.” - Khenpo Appey Rinpoche 1 Preface - I A Concise Set of Buddhist Healing Prayers and Practices – Preface In April of 2009, I was able to complete the first edition of A Collection of Buddhist Healing Prayers and Practices. That work contains background essays on the foundation of healing in Buddhism, as I understand it, as well as a good deal of supplementary material, such as Tibetan Buddhist Sadhanas (practice texts, or ‘methods of accomplishment’). I felt it was necessary to set the practices that are used for healing in their proper context, as part of Buddhist Tradition, and also to show how they can be used by someone today, in 21st century American culture. Over the last two years, I’ve written a few more essays, and some more poetry that I plan to include in later editions of that book. I’ve also continued to practice with a concise set of reflections, prayers and visualizations, that is relatively just a few pages. Almost as soon as I finished the first work I thought it would be good to have a brief text that can be used for daily practice, or that can be taken as a suggestion for another person who wants to draw together various prayers and practices for their own personal use. -
The Preliminary Practice of Tsa-Tsas
The Preliminary Practice of Tsa-Tsas Translation and Commentary by Lama Zopa Rinpoche FPMT Inc. 1632 SE 11th Avenue Portland, OR 97214 USA www.fpmt.org © 2009 FPMT Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, record- ing, or by any informati on storage and retrieval system or tech- nologies now known or developed, without permission in writi ng from the publisher. Set in Calibri 12.5./15, Century Gothic, and Lydian BT. Printed in the USA. Contents The Practice of Making Tsa-Tsas 5 Commentary on the Practice 25 by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Stories from Tsa-Tsa Makers 57 Finding Freedom, by Ven. Amy Miller 59 Repaying the Kindness, by Ven. Thubten Munsel 67 Practical Advice on Materials and Process 71 Tsa-Tsa Materials 73 The Process of Making Tsa-Tsas 81 Helpful Resources 91 4 The Preliminary Practice of Tsa-Tsas The Practice 5 The Practice of Making Tsa-Tsas by Tropu Lotsawa translated and with additions and instructions from Lama Zopa Rinpoche Here is the advice of uti lizing the tsa-tsa practi ce in the path to enlightenment, writt en by the great translator Tropu. Namo Guru, I prostate to the gurus who are the glorifi ed saviors of senti ent beings, the lords of omniscience and compassion, the refuge object of transmigratory beings, and the step towards lib- erati on, who have completely conquered all opposing conditi ons. Please grant the sublime and general realizati ons to me and all other transmigratory beings. -
The Answer Was Travel, Serious Travel by Nick Ribush Dr
Your COMMUNITY THE ROAD TO KOPAN The Answer Was Travel, Serious Travel By Nick Ribush Dr. Nick Ribush was practicing medicine in Australia when, for various reasons, he got a bit disillusioned with it and, in May 1972, set off to travel the world. By the end of the year he was living at Kopan, beginning what is, at this point, an almost four-decade career within FPMT. “If at the time someone had told me what would happen to my life if I did that course,” he said, “I probably would not have done it!” Since then, he has, on behalf of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, founded and directed Wisdom Publications, Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre, Kurukulla Center and the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, which he has run for the past 15 years. Nick generously shared his story with Mandala as part of our ongoing feature, The Road to Kopan. Nick at Kopan Monastery, January 1973. Photo courtesy of Nick Ribush. 48 MANDALA July - September 2011 I was lying on my bed on the farm at Maleny, European hippies on their way to Australia to earn enough Queensland, when I noticed a lump in my left iliac fossa. money to either go back to India or get back home. It was a George Costanza moment: “Oh my god. My life is Eventually even paradise got boring, as it does, and we perfect and now I’m being punished with cancer.” That’s moved on to Java. Our first stop was a coffee plantation near the type of hypochondriac I was. -
Intimate Reflections
INTIMATEREFLECTIONS INTIMATE REFLECTIONS Twenty-five years after the passing of Lama Yeshe, students who were there in the early years remember their time with this extraordinary guru as if it were yesterday. This section is devoted to the intimate reflections of those early students, forever transformed by the guidance and care of their Lama. Step back with them as they recall the precious advice, the amusing stories, the first Kopan courses, Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa’s perfect partnership and the end of this particular dream when Lama Yeshe passed. here we were, about fifty out-of-control Westerners There were about a dozen hippies there. They were too Tfrom all over the world, strangers stuck together for freaky for me and I was sure if you turned them all upside a month, most of us listening to Dharma teachings for down you wouldn’t get more than one hundred dollars out the first time. Up at 5:00 A.M., out into the cold, to sit of the lot of them. cross-legged for an hour and a half’s meditation. A Peter Kedge, at the time a Rolls-Royce aeronautical engineer from England, on his experience at the second Kopan course, 1972. I fronted up feeling ill and dirty. Even the flower I presented to Lama Yeshe smelled bad. But when it was my turn to stand in front of him, something remarkable happened – my awful hangover disappeared and I felt incredibly clean and fresh. People told me I even looked younger. I will never forget that one smile he gave me and felt I really had taken refuge.