Prayer and Rituals

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,...

“A Meeting of Two Oceans; Dialogue on Sufism and Buddhism”: a dialogue at the Roshan Center for Persian Studies, University of Maryland.

The mechanism for how receiving an initiation prepares us 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.

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

These verses of homage to Manjushri, delineating all his qualities, is considered part of the Kalachakra literature and contains reference to all the essential features of tantra.

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

Learn how to balance the intellectual, the emotional and the devotional approach we have toward the Dharma.

Much confusion has arisen in Tibetan Buddhism about Dharma protectors, therefore it is beneficial to examine their history in Buddhism to better understand what role they play on the path to enlightenment.

The purpose of prayer in Buddhism.