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Amitabha

Amitabha practice: Refuge visualization

A description of the refuge visualization for the Amitabha Buddha practice.

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Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions

Chapters 1-10: Review

Venerable Thubten Chodron begins the third installment of the course by reviewing the first ten…

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Amitabha

Bowing and making offerings to Amitabha

The seven-limb prayer as part of the Amitabha sadhana: the practices of bowing and making…

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Stages of the Path to Awakening Podcast

Meditative stability

Teaching on the conditions and objects of focus for engaging in the far-reaching practice of…

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White Tara

Love, compassion, and bodhicitta

Cultivating equanimity as the basis for genuine love, compassion, and bodhicitta.

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Ven. Tenpa translating for Ven. Chodron at a teaching in Russia.
Western Monastics

Buddhist practice in the West

Interview on topics such as the role of monastics, compassion and the world, a simple…

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Thangka image of Amitabha Buddha.
Amitabha

Amitabha Buddha deity sadhana with guided meditation

Guided meditation on Amitabha Buddha with sadhana.

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Gomchen Lamrim

Great compassion and the great resolve

Commentary on the seven-point cause and effect method to develop bodhicitta. Developing great compassion by…

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Cover of book Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness.
Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland

Outline of Nagarjuna’s “Precious Garland”

An outline of Nagarjuna's "Precious Garland of Advice for a King" according to Gyaltsap Je's…

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