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- Mobility for Meditators
- Training in Compassion
- Yoga Asanas for Sitting Meditation
- Path of Meditation Level One
- Path of Meditation Level Two
- The Noble Wisdom of the Time of Death Sutra
- Training the Mind
- The Seven Points of Mind Training
- The 37 Bodhisattva Practices
- The Nine Yanas: Shravakayana
- The Concise Sang Offering
- The Seed of Supreme Awakening
- Tibetan for Practitioners
- Tukdrub Barché Kunsel Ngöndro
Interact
- Discussion Forums
- Ask a Practice Question
- Volunteer for Us
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- Phakchok Rinpoche Biography
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All-access Courses
- Mobility for Meditators
- Training in Compassion
- Yoga Asanas for Sitting Meditation
- Path of Meditation Level One
- Path of Meditation Level Two
- The Noble Wisdom of the Time of Death Sutra
- Training the Mind
- The Seven Points of Mind Training
- The 37 Bodhisattva Practices
- The Nine Yanas: Shravakayana
- The Concise Sang Offering
- The Seed of Supreme Awakening
- Tibetan for Practitioners
- Tukdrub Barché Kunsel Ngöndro
Interact
- Discussion Forums
- Ask a Practice Question
- Volunteer for Us
More
- Phakchok Rinpoche Biography
- Request Prayers
- Visit the Samye Wiki
- Learn More About Samye
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About
The Vajrayana tradition is unique in offering practices to help us navigate the bardos after our deaths. These methods can help us to attain a favorable rebirth to continue our practice in subsequent lifetimes, aid us to take rebirth in a pure realm, and ultimately to attain complete and total enlightenment.
Video Teachings
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Path of Realization» Phowa and Amitabha Practices» Q&A with Phakchok Rinpoche
A Liberation Upon Hearing, Part 14: Student Questions on the Bardo
Phakchok Rinpoche
Phakchok Rinpoche responds to questions about how to purify the four obscurations with Vajrayana practice....
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8 minutes
Path of Realization» Ground, Path, and Fruition» Phowa and Amitabha Practices» Enhancing and Dispelling Obstacles
A Liberation Upon Hearing, Part 13: Dedicating Merit for Others
Phakchok Rinpoche
Liberation upon hearing is a powerful method for offering merit to the deceased. Phakchok Rinpoche talks about how to develop certainty in the benefit our...
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8 minutes
5 minutes
Path of Realization» Phowa and Amitabha Practices
A Liberation Upon Hearing, Part 12: The Transmission
Phakchok Rinpoche
Phakchok Rinpoche confers the reading transmission for A Liberation Upon Hearing....
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5 minutes
7 minutes
Path of Realization» Phowa and Amitabha Practices
A Liberation Upon Hearing, Part 11: The Bardo of Becoming
Phakchok Rinpoche
Phakchok Rinpoche talks about the Bardo of Becoming, the final bardo state. Recognition in this state results in being able to choose the site of...
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7 minutes
12 minutes
Path of Realization» Phowa and Amitabha Practices» Q&A with Phakchok Rinpoche
A Liberation Upon Hearing, Part 10: Student Questions on the Bardo
Phakchok Rinpoche
Phakchok Rinpoche answers student questions on the no-self doctrines and the bardo, Amitabha's pure land, and practicing phowa in a coma....
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Path of Realization» Phowa and Amitabha Practices
A Liberation Upon Hearing, Part 9: Benefiting Beings in the Bardo
Phakchok Rinpoche
Phakchok Rinpoche talks about the bardo of becoming, and how we can aid beings passing through this state....
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22 minutes