Prayer and Rituals

Doing the seven-limb practice before listening to or reading about the Dharma, or before contemplating or meditating on the Dharma helps us to establish a properly receptive state of mind.

Kriya tantra (ritual tantra) is found in the Nyingma and Sarma classification schemes. It’s a practice with deity visualization that emphasizes cleanliness, vegetarianism and purification.

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

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,...

The tulku system of reincarnate lamas is unique to Tibetan Buddhism. Learn the minimum stage of practice required for generating a line of tulkus.

Alternative Kalachakra deals with the methods for overcoming being under the influence of the external and internal cycles of time. The Kalachakra Tantra presents these methods in its third, fourth and fifth chapters. The third chapter deals with the empowerment, the...

Verses of homage and praise to the 21 forms of Tara, each of which protects us from a specific type of harm or interference.

Everyday practice of praise and prostration, sutra recitation, and dedication.

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

This prayer is the framework within which the practices associated with recitation of Tsongkhapa’s Migtsema mantra are done