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A lamentation requesting blessings from the Great Co...
A request for blessings to Avalokiteshvara.
View PostLong life prayers
Prayers for the long lives of our spiritual mentors and for Sravasti Abbey to continue…
View PostCommentary on the Heart Sutra
Commentary on the Heart Sutra and how it outlines the five paths that culminate in…
View PostPlanned parenting
Becoming a parent can be of incredible benefit by transmitting from generation to generation the…
View PostChapter 2: Verses 1-6
The first verses of Chapter 2 describe the Three Jewels of refuge and how and…
View PostAwakening compassion
His Holiness the Dalai Lama's foreword to "Cultivating a Compassionate Heart," on how the Chenrezig…
View PostLama Tsongkhapa’s kindness
How Je Rinpoche brought immense benefit through his teachings on emptiness and lamrim, and how…
View PostCultivating the correct view
The importance of meditating on emptiness. How ignorance leads to suffering and wisdom eliminates suffering.…
View PostMonastic practices
A discussion among Western and Asian monastics highlights some of the practices in their particular…
View PostArya Tara: A star by which to navigate
Who Tara is, an explanation of the practice of Tara, and how Tara frees us…
View PostLama Zopa on emptiness
An interview with Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the Prasangika Madhyamaka view of emptiness and its…
View PostBlossoming in Plum Village
A nun discusses entering the 5-year monastic training with the core community at Thich Nhat…
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