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Terminology
དྲི་མ་དྲུག།
The Six Stains of the Listener are part of a list of 14 types of mistaken conduct described by Buddhist...
Last updated on February 19, 2024
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Terminology
སྣོད་ཀྱི་སྐྱོན་གསུམ།
In traditional Buddhist teachings, the three defects of the vessel are explained as something students should avoid when receiving dharma...
Last updated on February 19, 2024
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Terminology
མི་འཛིན་པ་ལྔ།
The Five Wrong Ways of Remembering is a list of five common mistakes a student can make when listening to...
Last updated on February 19, 2024
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Ritual, Symbols & Iconography
ཕྱག་རྒྱ།
Learn the famous offering mudras used in Tibetan Buddhist ritual practices.
Last updated on February 3, 2024
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Ritual, Practices
བསང་མཆོད།
This article discusses the imporance of scent offerings such as the Sangchö (cleansing smoke offering) to Vajrayana Buddhism.
Last updated on February 2, 2024
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Great Masters
འཇམ་མགོན་མི་ཕམ་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
Mipham Rinpoche, or Jamgön Mipham Gyatso, was an exceptional scholar-practitioner and one of the foremost Tibetan commentators of the early...
Last updated on January 16, 2024
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Terminology
Translating the Buddhadharma from Indic languages into Sanskrit was a monumental effort. Under the sponsorship of Tibetan emperors, bilingual lexicons...
Last updated on January 19, 2024
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Terminology
དྲན་པ།
Mindfulness in the Buddhist tradition is a technical term. It emphasizes remembering or holding something in mind and is considered...
Last updated on January 15, 2024
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Terminology
བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདད་འདད།
Bhagavān is one of the many epithets of the Buddha.
Last updated on January 5, 2024
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Symbols & Iconography
རླུང་རྟ།
Tibetan prayer flags have now become very popular throughout the world. What is their history and significance?
Last updated on January 2, 2024
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Ritual
འཆམ།
Cham is a performance of masked and costumed dance performed within the context of Vajrayana ritual ceremonies in the Himalayan...
Last updated on December 29, 2023
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Terminology
བྱམས་པ།
Loving kindness or love in Buddhist terminology refers specifically to the wish that all sentient beings have happiness and the...
Last updated on December 27, 2023
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Ritual, Symbols & Iconography
གཏོར་མ།
Torma are sculptures made traditionally of edible dough. In Vajrayana Buddhism they can be used in a variety of contexts,...
Last updated on January 3, 2024
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Terminology
དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ།
“Foe Destroyer,” the English translation of the Tibetan dgra bcom pa (pronounced dra chom pa) may sound like an old-fashioned or unusual term....
Last updated on December 15, 2023
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Terminology
དཀོན་མཆོག་གསུམ།
The Three Jewels of the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha are the rare and supreme objects of refuge for...
Last updated on December 15, 2023
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Terminology
ཞིང་ཁམས།
Buddhafields as described in Mahayana activity are displays of wisdom spontaneously created by buddhas. Texts offer detailed descriptions of the...
Last updated on September 15, 2023
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Terminology
བར་དོ།
Bardo is a Tibetan term that translates as “the period between two events”. The Tibetan syllable “bar” means “between” or...
Last updated on January 10, 2024
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Terminology
རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ།
The Vajrayāna, the “Diamond” or “Thunderbolt” Path of Buddhism is also known as the Mantrayana. The ultimate fruition of Buddhahood...
Last updated on August 11, 2023
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Auspicious Days, Ritual
Ullambana festival (yu lan pen) is celebrated on the 15th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar. The...
Last updated on August 4, 2023
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Practices, Chokling Tersar
འཁོར་བ་དོང་སྤྲུག།
Korwa Dongtruk is a teaching given by Guru Rinpoche and revealed by Chokgyur Dechen Lingpa. The practice, “Shaker of Saṃsāra...
Last updated on August 4, 2023
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Terminology
སྡུག་བསྔལ།
Suffering exists. The Buddha revealed this fact based on his own empirical observation. He noted that every sentient being experiences...
Last updated on July 24, 2023
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Bodhisattvas
ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ།
Ākāśagarbha is a bodhisattva who features in the group known as the “eight close sons of the Buddha”. He is...
Last updated on July 18, 2023
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Sacred Places, Symbols & Iconography
བདེ་བ་ཅན།
Sukhāvatī or Dewachen is the western pure land of the buddha Amitābha. This land is said to be a paradise...
Last updated on February 22, 2024
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Practices, Chokling Tersar
ཚེ་དཀར་སྒྲུབ་སྒྲུབ་ཆེན།
The Tsekar (White Amitāyus) Drubchen is an extensive group practice from the Chokling Tersar tradition.
Last updated on July 14, 2023
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Ritual
ཕྱིའི་མཆོད་པ།
The eight outer offerings are a simple yet profound way to cultivate merit, respect for oneself and others, and a...
Last updated on July 7, 2023
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Terminology, Deities
སངས་རྒྱས།
Buddha, meaning “awakened one” is a title of great respect given to those who have completely accomplished the purification of...
Last updated on October 16, 2023
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Terminology
རིགས་དྲུག།
Buddhism teaches that sentient beings cycle repeatedly through saṃsāra, taking rebirth in six main classes or realms. Each of these...
Last updated on January 19, 2024
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Terminology
བླ་མའི་ཡོན་ཏན་བཅུ།
Buddhist texts stress the importance of following a good teacher as one proceeds along the path. Traditionally, students are advised...
Last updated on February 22, 2024
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Terminology
བླ་མ།
Lama is the Tibetan title for a teacher of the Buddhadharma and is the translation of the Sanskrit word guru....
Last updated on January 10, 2024
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Terminology, Ritual
དབང།
Empowerment is a translation of the Sanskrit abhiṣeka. The term contains several meanings. We can translate it as “pouring” or...
Last updated on July 10, 2023
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