Response to a student’s request for re-visiting a previous conference talk she gave on healing after the suicide of a loved one.
Loss of a loved one to suicide
Tag Archives | death
Amitabha practice: Prayer for the time of death, part 2
Continued explanation of the prayer for the time of death from the Amitabha sadhana. Meditating on death to put our life in perspective.
Amitabha practice: Prayer for the time of death, part 1
An explanation of the prayer for the time of death. Through practice and familiarity with the death process it can be a positive experience.
Mindfulness of death and impermanence
Maintaining an awareness of death and impermanence brings energy to making our life meaningful and setting priorities.
“Precious Garland” review: Quiz 7 questions 4-7
Venerable Thubten Tarpa leads a review on Quiz 7 questions 4-7, on the qualities we look out for in good friends and strive to cultivate ourselves.
My father’s death
A student reflects on the death of his aged father.
How to be reborn in a pure land
The qualities of pure lands and the qualities that we need to cultivate in order to be born in a pure land.
The “Vimalakirti Sutra”
The Buddha’s profound teachings are conveyed through an engaging dialogue between his great arhat and bodhisattva disciples and the bodhisattva Vimalakirti.
Quiz questions Part 7 for Precious Garland
Questions to review our understanding of the most recent talks on Nagarjuna’s “Precious Garland of Advice for a King.”
A suicide
An inmate learns of his cousin’s death.