[From an unpublished teaching on Taking and Sending given in Battle Creek, Michigan, by Lama Tashi Topgyal in 2013. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.] No matter how much may be said about bodhichitta, and how much we may know about it and learn about it, it all comes down to benevolence, benevolence towards others. If […]
]]>This book then is a compilation of Khen Rinpoche’s opening remarks and motivations at a five year study program launched at Amitabha Buddhist Centre, an affiliate of the FPMT, in August 2003 at the request of its spiritual director, Lama Zopa Rinpoche. These teachings offer valuable advice related to our Dharma studies and practice: how to check whether our practices […]
]]>From 1976: Heaven is Now! by Adele Hulse, Big Love author: Another American, Connie Miller, had arrived on Christmas Day 1975 to stay at Kopan. A couple of weeks earlier in December, she had come up to Kopan to visit her friend Karuna Cayton, a fellow student from The Evergreen State College in Washington State […]
37 Practices of Bodhisattvas, by Togmey Zhangpo, is a well known and cherished mind training text. Repeatedly reciting and thinking about these verses can give someone a framework for training the mind into thinking a particular way, and then using that to alter our behavior in relation to ourselves and others. Reciting as a Daily […]
]]>General Reading: Karen Armstrong. Buddha. London: Phoenix, 2004. Samuel Bercholz and Sherab Chödzin Kohn. The Buddha and his teachings. Boston: Shambhala, 2003. Rick Fields. How the swans came to the lake: A narrative history of Buddhism in America. Boston & London: Shambhala, 1992. Buddhist magazines: Tricycle: Awake in the world. Quarterly. http://www.tricycle.com/ Shambhala Sun: Buddhism, culture, meditation, life. Bimonthly. http://www.shambhalasun.com/ […]
Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha Shakyamuni, lived and taught about 2,600 years ago in the southern foothills of the Himalayas. His philosophical discoveries and teachings have resounded down through the centuries, traveling from teacher to student across continents and oceans to reach us today. Like a pebble dropped in a calm pond, Buddha’s impact traveled like […]
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]]>[From the White Khechari Practice Instructions, Part 1 of 3 given by Lama Tashi Topgyal in October 2011 at Kunzang Palchen Ling. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso. Edited by Matt Willis. All rights reserved. Complete teaching available as an MP3 download at the KPL Bookstore.] Whatever aspects of the teachings we practice, the only point […]
]]>– The Mahāyāna and its canon were not taught by the flesh and blood Śākyamuni. One could argue that they are the product of the sambhogakāya, which is a legitimate metaphysical view to hold, though such ideas are mystical and have no place in the secular academy which is effectively founded on a physicalist ontology. […]
]]>Manjushri the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, normally holds a sword in one hand, to cut off all delusion, and a Prajnaparamita Wisdom text in the other. Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) texts, are said to be the closest Buddhists ever got to putting truth (impossible task) into words. Manjushri, as meditation experience, is a powerful image representing […]
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