Prayer and Rituals

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.

A short prayer by Yongdzin Ling Rinpoche for the Dharma to flourish in the West.

Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey’s prayer to Maitreya, the future Buddha.

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

A prayer to the reborn in Shambhala at the dawn of the golden age and to make the best progress there on the path to enlightenment.

A guru-yoga practice for seeing our guru as inseparable from Kalachakra and for making requests to him for inspiration to develop the various realizations along the Kalachakra path to enlightenment.

The purpose of prayer in Buddhism.

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

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.