Texts to Recite and Contemplate
Essential teachings to recite aloud or reflect upon as part of a meditation session.
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Chandrakirti - Aug 7, 2022
Homage to Compassion
Chandrakirti praises compassion as the source of bodhicitta.
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Nubpa Rigdzin Drak ༄༅། །ནུབ་པ་རིག་འཛིན་གྲགས་ཀྱིས་མཛད་པའི་ཞེན་པ་བཞི་བྲལ་...
Instruction on parting from the four attachments by Nubpa Rigdzin Drak (bilingual-Tibetan/English).
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Freedom from the Four Fixations
English translation of the root text containing instructions on freedom from the four fixations by…
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Parting from the Four Attachments
English translation of the root text containing instructions on parting from the four attachments by…
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Vasubandhu The Ten Great Vows by Vasubandhu
The Ten Great Vows, based on great compassion, were written by Vasubandhu in the 4th…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Sorrow and Hope
A prayer to Kuan Yin, a female manifestation of the Buddha of Compassion, in light…
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Twenty-Verse Prayer from Nagarjuna’s “Precious...
Twenty verses that Nagarjuna encourages us to recite three times a day to accumulate the…
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A Song to Mummy Tara in These Dire Times
At the request of Venerable Lobsang Tenpa and Friends of Sravasti Abbey Russia, Venerable Chodron…
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Drakpa Gyaltsen
- Jun 8, 2015
Parting from the Four Clingings
Verses describing what to practice and what to abandon along the path to awakening.
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Vajradhara Losang Jinpa
- Apr 14, 2012
A glance meditation on all the important points of l...
A very brief, yet meaningful, meditation text covering the stages of the path to awakening.
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Lama Tsongkhapa The Foundation of All Good Qualities
This short text by Lama Tsongkhapa outlines the lamrim teachings in a clear and succinct…
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Bodhisattva Samantabhadra
- Jun 18, 2011
La Reyna de las Plegarias
Una introducción, y texto completo a esta inspiradora plegaria que puede llenar de optimismo nuestra…
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