tantra

Scriptures taught by the Buddha describing the Vajrayana practice. A means to becoming a fully awakened Buddha through identity with meditational deities.

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Wooden Kuan Yin statue on a pedestal with an aura of light around it.
Chenrezig Weeklong Retreat 2013

Dependent arising in the sadhana

The seven-limb prayer and emptiness meditation in the context of the Chenrezig sadhana.

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Cover of How to Free Your Mind.
Books

As close as a mother to her children

Lama Zopa Rinpoche shares how the practice of Tara can solve our problems.

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Cover of How to Free Your Mind.
Books

The practice of Tara the liberator

An introduction to How to Free Your Mind as a well as a meditation on…

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Statue of Lama Tsongkhapa.
Texts to Recite and Contemplate

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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Cover of Taming the Mind.
Taming the Mind

Integration of sutra and tantra in Tibetan Buddhism

How Buddhist teachings help to increase constructive states and decrease destructive states of mind.

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Cover of Taming the Mind.
Taming the Mind

Buddhist traditions: finding what suits us

Similarities of the various traditions and the principal teachings common to all.

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Deity Meditation

Vajrayana foundation

How Vajrayana fits in in relation to other Buddhist practices.

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Middle Way Philosophy

Jonang

Jonang: the philosophical school that believes Buddha nature exists right now in ordinary beings, nothing…

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