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Tibetan buddhist monastics bowing and chanting.
Chants from the Chinese Tradition

Homage to Shakyamuni Buddha chant

Explanation and recording of the homage and bowing to the Buddha done at Sravasti Abbey.

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Light comes through behind fir trees.
Helping the Dying and Deceased

Death meditation

The nine-point death meditation and the importance of practicing the Dharma now as a means…

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Light comes through behind fir trees.
Helping the Dying and Deceased

Contemplating death

Ignoring the reality of death is often the norm, but there are benefits to contemplating…

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Seven-point Mind Training

The self and the aggregates

Selflessness of persons: how to investigate if the self is inherently one with the aggregates.

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Stages of the Path in the Guru Puja

Hindrances to concentration: Desire and ill will

The first two of the five hindrances to concentration. How sensual desire and malice/ill will…

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Seven-point Mind Training

Review: Object of negation

A review of the commentary on identifying the object of negation: the reasoning used to…

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An informal discussion: Venerable Tenzin Kacho, Venerable Thubten Chodron, Venerable Wu Yin, Venerable Jendy, Venerable Heng-ching.
Tibetan Tradition

Multi-tradition ordination (long version)

Detailed research establishing a precedent in Tibet where ordination was given together by monks from…

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A hand lighting a white candle.
Theravada Tradition

The five points

Taken from "Where We Are Now," a letter by Elders' Council of the Forest Sangha,…

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Group photo of sangha in theravada bhikshuni ordination in sravasti abbbey.
Theravada Tradition

Bhikkhunīs in Theravāda

Tracing the valid­ity of bhikkhunī ordin­a­tion within the Theravāda tradition, events through time and space,…

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Tibetan nuns seated in a prayer hall.
Tibetan Tradition

“I will do it”

The Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa steps up to address the issue of bhikshuni full ordination in…

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