The essentials for practicing Buddhism in the West do not significantly differ from what they have always been: being sincere and realistic in working on ourselves.

Then those hundreds of thousands of bodhisattvas approached the Tathagata Suvarna-ratna-kara-cchatra-kuta. Paying homage with their heads at the feet of the Tathagata Suvarna-ratna-kara-cchatra-kuta, they stood to one side. Having stood to one side, the numerous hundreds of...

Then indeed the bodhisattva Ruchira-ketu rose from his seat, placed his upper robe over one shoulder, knelt his right knee on the ground, folded his hands in reverence towards the Tathagata and praised the Tathagata: Lord of Sages, you are gloriously adorned with thousands of...

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

Understanding Different Interpretations and Analysis in Buddhist Schools We have presented the Sautrantika way of enumerating the different ways of knowing. As we go deeper in our studies we find that there are certain variants to be found. For instance, in Asanga’s...

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

Verses 2 through 4 Today, you are going to listen to me talk. But the words coming out of my mouth have already been spoken by the Buddha himself many times, and by His Holiness the Dalai Lama many times. Gyalse Togme Zangpo, the author of the text, is teaching us...

A Precious Human Rebirth It is very important to appreciate the fact that we have a precious human body as a working basis and that it enjoys all the various respites from all the difficult situations with no chance to practice and that it also has the enriching factors of...

The Flourishing of Dharma At the time when the Buddha himself was alive in India, the land of Tibet was mostly under water. Buddha prophesized that this water would drain and disappear, and then the land of Tibet would become solid ground on which his teachings would flourish....

The qualifications a translator of Buddhist texts must have and guidelines for how to translate Tibetan texts.