Prayers and Practices
Buddhist prayers and ritual practices to steer our thoughts and actions in a beneficial direction.
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Purification: What it is, why we need it and how to ...
What purification practice is, why it's important and how to use the four opponent powers…
View PostTwenty-Verse Prayer from Nagarjuna’s “Precious...
Twenty verses that Nagarjuna encourages us to recite three times a day to accumulate the…
View PostA Song to Mummy Tara in These Dire Times
At the request of Venerable Lobsang Tenpa and Friends of Sravasti Abbey Russia, Venerable Chodron…
View PostParting from the Four Clingings
Verses describing what to practice and what to abandon along the path to awakening.
View PostThe privilege of making offerings
How to think while making offerings and the meaning of making the eight offerings to…
View PostThe King of Prayers: Verses 29-63
Prayer of aspiration summarizing the extraordinary activities of bodhisattvas.
View PostThe King of Prayers: Verses 1-28
Buddhist prayer illuminating the practices and views of bodhisattvas as they seek to alleviate the…
View PostGenerating wealth
The antidote to feeling poor is generosity, might it be in material or in immaterial…
View PostRefuge and Dedication practice
Explanation of each of the chants for taking refuge in the Triple Gem. This is…
View PostMore on the Amitabha Buddha practice
How prayers to Amitabha can brighten the mind and how to visualize Amitabha's pure land,…
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