Prayer and Rituals

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

The purpose of prayer in Buddhism.

A prayer by Tsongkhapa to be able to engage in constructive actions at the beginning, middle and end of the path to enlightenment.

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

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,...

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

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.

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...