Prayers and Practices
Buddhist prayers and ritual practices to steer our thoughts and actions in a beneficial direction.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Motivation for taking the eight Mahayana precepts
A description of the benefits of taking each of the eight Mahayana precepts and the…
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Explanation of the extensive offering practice
An explanation of the symbolism of the extensive offerings practice; imagining vast offerings in order…
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Recovering after Hurricane Wilma
Advice to a Buddhist group on developing renunciation and bodhicitta in the aftermath of Hurricane…
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Gyelsay Togmay Zangpo - Apr 16, 2005
Gyelsay Togmay Zangpo The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas
Verses on developing the qualities of a bodhisattva by Gyelsay Togmay Zangpo, plus a recording…
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Prayers for Asian Tsunami victims
Advice to a Dharma student on prayers and practices that can be done to benefit…
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Extraordinary aspiration: The seven-limb practice
A powerful practice from the King of Prayers that can be done daily to purify…
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Introduction to the seven-limb practice
Seven ways to purify the mind and to accumulate merit, the purpose and ways of…
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Lama Tsongkhapa
- Apr 16, 2002
The Three Principal Aspects of the Path
Verses on the essence of the path to awakening by Je Tsongkhapa, the founder of…
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama 
The purpose of rituals and chanting
Some questions and answers about the meaning and purpose of rituals and chanting in Buddhist…
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The King of Prayers
An introduction to, and the full text of, this inspiring prayer that can fill our…
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