Prayer and Rituals

(1) Through my constructive act of having (reflected upon and) composed Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior, may all wandering beings become (adornments for the world,) engaged in the behavior of bodhisattvas. (2) As many beings as there are in all directions, diseased with...

Bodhisattva Vows For practicing the engaged state of bodhichitta and being best able to practice the six far-reaching attitudes, we need to take the bodhisattva vows. This involves refraining from committing the 18 root downfalls and the 46 faulty actions that transgress these...

Atisha’s “Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment” is the forerunner of the Tibetan lam-rim tradition. It places special emphasis on the bodhisattva vows and their necessity for successful tantra practice.

This practice derives from Shantideva’s “Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior.” Doing these preliminaries before daily meditation or Dharma study helps to establish a properly receptive state of mind.

Dr. Berzin’s recollections of his relation with his teacher.

The “Guru Puja” – “Lama Chopa” in Tibetan – is a tantric practice, in the Gelug tradition, of making offerings to the spiritual master and includes a review of all the points of the combined sutra and tantra path to enlightenment

An overview of the basic Buddhist concepts that allowed Islam to consider Buddhists “People of the Book” – those who follow the ethical teachings of a higher authority.

After completing preliminary practices and following an initiatory ceremony that activates our Buddha-nature potentials, along with taking bodhisattva and tantric vows, we transform our minds in tantra by imagining ourselves as a Buddha-figure and our environment as a mandala,...

Yongdzin Ling Rinpoche’s long life prayer to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama invokes the spiritual masters of the Nalanda tradition.