Lee Kane
Lee Kane is the editor of Buddha Weekly, since 2007. His main focuses as a writer are mindfulness techniques, meditation, Dharma and Sutra commentaries, Buddhist practices, international perspectives and traditions, Vajrayana, Mahayana, Zen. He also covers various events.
Lee also contributes as a writer to various other online magazines and blogs.
Chanted Praise to the 21 Taras in Sacred Sanskrit sung by Hrishikesh Sonar!
Podcast
The 21 Praises to Tara are famous for blessing activity, protection, healing, long-life practice and wish-fulfillment. Tara, the Mother of the Buddhas, emanates in countless forms to help suffering beings in our troubled world. Each of these forms ...
Heruka and Dakini’s Special Months: Honoring the Blissful Wisdom Mother in the 11th Month and the Compassionate Hero in the 12th
Buddhist Practices, Dakini, Dakini Wisdom, Deities
Each year, Vajrayana Buddhists honor and celebrate the highest manifestations of Wisdom and Compassion in the 11th and 12th Lunar months — and especially on the Tsog feast offering days on the waning and waxing moons in those ...
Prayer Wheels — “Mindful meritorious, mantra wheels” — Holy Land Prayer Wheels, guided by advice from H.E. Garchen Rinpoche
Buddhist Living, Garchen Rinpoche, Vajrayana
Responding to a question in Sutra from Shariputra, Buddha taught: “For those who turn the prayer wheel… during the times of the great festivals, but also daily, it is like the continuous flow of an unobstructed river. For ...
Vajrayogini’s 8 Lines of Praise in Sanskrit chanted by the amazing Yoko Dharma!
Podcast
Chant along now, with the Amazing Yoko Dharma, as she beautifully sings the glorious eight lines of praise to Vajra yogini in Sanskrit, with beautiful meditative images. These, unlike the mantra, are not generally considered restricted, although be ...
Mahakala: Miracles of Great Black and the Dalai Lama — three Men in Black, the Mahakala brothers, the Dalai Lama, and a crow
Avalokiteshvara, Deities, Tantra, Vajrayana
What do crows, the three men in black, Black Mahakala and the Dalai Lama have in common? Why is Mahakala associated with miracles and protection in Tibetan Buddhism? What do crows, three men in black, black dogs, black ...
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Auspicious Buddhist traditions for New Year. Celebrating with joy, optimism, and compassion — for the benefit of all sentient beings!
Buddhist Living
Buddhists around the world celebrate different New Year dates around the world — although the traditions of warm wishes of good fortune and celebration are common to all of them. Why so many dates? Calendar New year is ...
Preparing for Losar and Lunar New Year 2023, Year of the Water Rabbit. May All Beings be Happy!
Buddhist Living
Lunar New Year is celebrated in many countries around the world — as Losar or the Tibetan New Year, and as Chinese New Year, or just as "lunar" new year. Most special occasions in Buddhism align with the ...
Subtle body as the path to Enlightenment and lighting the inner fire— the five chakras, three channels and two drops of Tantric Buddhism and their practice
Buddhist Practices, Tantra, Vajrayana
"In my teaching I emphasize that Enlightenment is found in the body. This draws on Dzogchen, where you are told that when you put your awareness in the body in the right way, you encounter your awakened state. ...
Shakyamuni Buddha, born to “warrior caste” taught how to be a fearless Buddhist: overcoming ignorance and suffering with the “weapons” of wisdom and compassion
Bodhisattvas, Buddhist Living, Dharma
Shakyamuni Buddha was born to the warrior caste, a prince and heir. As a young adult, when Shakyamuni Buddha cut his hair, he symbolically separated himself from the worldly, including his past role as a princely member of ...
21 Taras in the Narjuna, Atisha and Nyingma lineages: a profound, powerful, precise, pleasing daily practice
Mahayana, Tara, Vajrayana
Tara practice is among the most beautiful and inspiring practices in Mahayana Buddhism, but — why are there so many Taras? In every Mahayana tradition, there are many aspects or emanations of Tara — seemingly one for every ...
Video: 10 Benefits of Vajrayogini practice & how to practice, chanting 8 praises by Yoko Dharma
Videos
Why do many Buddhist teachers describe Vajrayogini as the one practice for our busy, hectic, terrifying times which can lead us, in one lifetime, to Enlightenment? Why is Vajrayogini the Sarva Buddha Dakini — the Dakini who is ...
Member ad-free video: 10 Benefits of Vajrayogini Practice documentary with chanted 8 lines of praise to Vajrayogini by Yoko Dharma
Member Videos
Why do many Buddhist teachers describe Vajrayogini as the one practice for our busy, hectic, terrifying times which can lead us, in one lifetime, to Enlightenment? Why is Vajrayogini the Sarva Buddha Dakini — the Dakini who is ...
Podcast: 10 Benefits of Vajrayogini Practice documentary with chanted 8 lines of praise to Vajrayogini
Podcast
Why do many Buddhist teachers describe Vajrayogini as the one practice for our busy, hectic, terrifying times which can lead us, in one lifetime, to Enlightenment? Why is Vajrayogini the Sarva Buddha Dakini — the Dakini who is ...
What are the ten benefits of Vajrayogini practice? Why is her practice recommended in our busy, terrifying times?
Deities, Vajrayana
Why do many Buddhist teachers describe Vajrayogini as the one practice for our busy, hectic, terrifying times which can lead us, in one lifetime, to Enlightenment? Why is Vajrayogini the Sarva Buddha Dakini — the Dakini who is ...
The Hero’s Journey — is imagination the path to Enlightenment? Can truth be discerned with creativity? Why visionary Buddhism is about “practice” rather than “study”
Meditation, Vajrayana
Buddha taught abhutaparikalpo’sti, which translates as something like “unreal imagination exists.”[1] Buddha said, "All teachings are preceded by imagination." This is why both Buddha and Jesus taught in parables — bridging imagination with intellect. It is also why ...
Buddhist Healing: Vajrapani Hayagriva King Garuda Healing Practice, Guided by Venerable Zasep Rinpoche — Video Teaching
Mantra
Venerable Zasep Rinpoche leads a short healing teaching and mantra with visualization on Vajrapani Hayagriva King Garuda. He teaches the mantra and describes how to visualize the healing, both for people with initiation, and without. This famous healing ...
December 18, 2022 is Lama Tsongkhapa Day 2022 — Ganden Ngamchoe, Anniversary of Lama Tsongkhapa’s Parinirvana!
Buddha, Teachers
The parinirvana of the great sage of the Land of Snows, Lama Je Tsong Khapa, is celebrated on December 18, 2022, this year. (Lama Tsongkhapa Day is celebrated on the 25th day of the Tibetan lunar calendar each ...
VIDEO Ushnisha Vijaya Namgyelma Long-Life and Health Mantra beautifully chanted 108 times with images
Videos
Ushnisha Vijaya (Tibetan: གཙུག་གཏོར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་མ།) or Tsuktor Namgyelma, is one of the most beloved and widely practiced Buddhas in Mahayana Buddhism. She represents the epitome of physical health, vitality, and longevity. Her practices are highly recommended for increasing these ...
Member Video: Ad-Free Ushnishavijaya Healing & Long Life Mantra 108 times beautifully chanted
Member Videos
Ushnisha Vijaya (Tibetan: གཙུག་གཏོར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་མ།) or Tsuktor Namgyelma, is one of the most beloved and widely practiced Buddhas in Mahayana Buddhism. She represents the epitome of physical health, vitality, and longevity. Her practices are highly recommended for increasing these ...
Podcast: White Tara’s Healing and Long Life Mantra
Podcast
Early listen for supporting members: Buddhist teachers are universal in their enthusiasm for White Tara practice. Almost every teacher has real-life stories of people close to them who have been helped by White Tara, especially for health, ...
Ushnishavijaya Healing & Long Life Mantra 108 times beautifully chanted
Podcast
Ushnisha Vijaya (Tibetan: གཙུག་གཏོར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་མ།) or Tsuktor Namgyelma, is one of the most beloved and widely practiced Buddhas in Mahayana Buddhism. She represents the epitome of physical health, vitality, and longevity. Her practices are highly recommended for increasing ...
2023: Celebrating the Lunar: Special “moon” dates for Buddha Dharma Practice including Buddha Days, Tsog, Medicine Buddha, Tara
Buddhist Living, Buddhist Practices
Most special days in Buddhist Practices tend to align on lunar calendars. Buddha's birthday, for example, varies on the Western calendar year-to-year. (Dates below are updated to 2023!) Losar, or Tibetan New Year, is celebrated on the Lunar ...
Amitabha Day Monthly
Amitabha Puja Day, Calendar
Tuesday, December 26, 2023 15th of Lunar Month, Full Moon Amitabha's special puja day is on the full moon of each month, the 15th of the lunar month. On this day we celebrate Amitabha Pujas, or in informal ...
Bodhi Day — Awakening Day
Buddha Annual Sacred Days, Calendar, Special Days
Friday, December 8, 2023 Bodhi Day is the precious day we celebrate Gautama Shakyamuni Buddha's Enlightenment, primarily in Mahayana Buddhist traditions. Although it is, perhaps, the most important day of the Buddhist calendar — celebrating the ultimate goal ...
Lama Tsongkhapa Day
Birthdays of Teachers, Bodhisattva Annual Days, Buddha Annual Sacred Days, Calendar
December 7, 2023, Ganden Ngamchoe Paranirvana Day On the Tibetan Calendar Month 10, 25th Day, year 2150 is the day we celebrate and honor the great Enlightened Being Lama Tsongkhapa — the anniversary of his Paranirvana! Traditionally a ...
Amitabha Day Monthly
Amitabha Puja Day, Calendar
Monday, November 27, 2023 15th of Lunar Month, Full Moon Amitabha's special puja day is on the full moon of each month, the 15th of the lunar month. On this day we celebrate Amitabha Pujas, or in informal ...
Guan Shi Yin Renunciation Day
Calendar
Thursday, November 2 2023 Guan Yin’s Renunciation Day on the 19th day of the 9th lunar month Guanshiyin Bodhisattva's Renunciation Day! For a feature on Guanyin's three sacred days, and how to celebrate, see>> One sacred practice, good ...
Tara Puja Day
Calendar, Tara Puja Days
December 30, 2022 Lunar 8th Day, recurs monthly (this western calendar month has two Tara Days in December). HAPPY TARA DAY! Every day is Tara day, although typically we celebrate especially on the eighth day of the lunar month ...
Obon — Ancestor Day
Calendar, Special Days
Sunday, August 13 (to 15th), 2023 Obon is typically celebrated between August 13th and 15th, though the dates may vary slightly depending on the region of Japan. Certain regions such as Okinawa may observe Obon on a lunar-based ...
H.H. Dalai Lama’s birthday!
Birthdays of Teachers, Calendar
July 6, 2023 With kindness that shines like a beacon to the world, His Holiness the Dalai Lama celebrates his birthday on July 6th. Born July 6, 1935 (Wood Pig year, 5th month, 5th day), His Holiness has ...
Asala — Dharma Day: Commmerating the First Teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha
Buddha Annual Sacred Days, Calendar
Monday, July 3, 2023 Asalha (or Asala) Puja is a Theravada Buddhist festival which typically takes place in July, on the full moon of the month of Āsādha. It is celebrated in Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Laos, ...
Tara Puja Day
Calendar, Tara Puja Days
May 27, 2023 Lunar 8th Day, recurs monthly HAPPY TARA DAY! Every day is Tara day, although typically we celebrate especially on the eighth day of the lunar month , which is auspicious for Tara practice. The second auspicious ...
Vesak Buddha Day!
Buddha Annual Sacred Days, Calendar, Special Days
Friday, May 5, 2023 Vesak Buddha Day (celebrated on different days depending on calendar and tradition) is the “most sacred day to millions of Buddhists around the world” — UN Mark May 5, 2023 on your calendar as ...
Tara Puja Day — Why it’s important; simple ways to celebrate, how to participate; sponsoring pujas for merit; offering from the heart
Buddha, Tara
"Green Tara is especially swift in granting the wishes of sentient beings. Tara is also known as the “Mother of all Buddhas” because she embodies wisdom – all buddhas are born from this wisdom." —Lama Zopa Rinpoche [3] ...
Tara Puja Day
Calendar, Tara Puja Days
Friday, April 28, 2022 Lunar 8th Day, recurs monthly HAPPY TARA DAY! Every day is Tara day, although typically we celebrate especially on the eighth day of the lunar month , is auspicious for Tara practice. The second ...
Tara Puja Day
Calendar, Tara Puja Days
Friday, April 28, 2023 Lunar 8th Day, recurs monthly HAPPY TARA DAY! Every day is Tara day, although typically we celebrate especially on the eighth day of the lunar month , is auspicious for Tara practice. The second auspicious ...
Theravadan New Year Songkran
Calendar, Special Days
Thursday, April 6, 2023 Theravadan New Year (Maha Songkram or Songkran) is celebrated all over South East Asian countries such as Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand and India — is typically a three-day celebration beginning with a ...
Tara Puja Day
Calendar, Tara Puja Days
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 Lunar 8th Day, recurs monthly HAPPY TARA DAY! Every day is Tara day, although typically we celebrate especially on the eighth day of the lunar month, which is auspicious for Tara practice. The second ...
Magha Puja Day
Buddha Annual Sacred Days, Calendar, Special Days
March 6, 2023 Māgha Pūjā (also written as Makha Bucha Day) is the second most important Buddhist festival after Vesak, celebrated on the full moon day of the third lunar month in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Sri Lanka and on the full moon day of Tabaung in Myanmar. It ...
Tara Puja Day
Calendar, Tara Puja Days
Monday, February 27, 2022 Lunar 8th Day, recurs monthly HAPPY TARA DAY! Every day is Tara day, although typically we celebrate especially on the eighth day of the lunar month, which is auspicious for Tara practice. The second ...
Nirvana Day
Buddha Annual Sacred Days, Calendar, Special Days
Wednesday, February 15, 2023 Many Mahayana Buddhists celebrate the Paranirvana of Buddha — not his death, but release from karma and the cycle of suffering. It is a day celebrated around the world with light, festival and important ...
SPECIAL HERUKA DAY!
Calendar, Daka Tsog (Tsok) Dates
Tuesday, January 31, 2023 The most important DAKA TSOG offering of the year to Heruka Yogis and Yogini! The 12th lunar, Heruka’s special month, in 2022-3 on the solar western calendar is from January 22 to February 20th, ...
HERUKA MONTH BEGINS!
Calendar, Daka Tsog (Tsok) Dates
Sunday, January 22, 2023 The 12th lunar, Heruka’s special month, in 2022-3 on the solar western calendar is from January 22 to February 20th, 2023, and his special annual day is on the 10th day (of the 12th ...
ANNUAL VAJRAYOGINI DAY!
Calendar, Dakini Day and Tsog
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 The 25th day of the 11th lunar is Vajrayogini’s annual special tsog day in 2023 on the solar western calendar. The entire 11th month is Vajrayogini Month, when all Vajrayogini practices are especially auspicious ...
Mahayana New Year
Calendar, Special Days
Saturday, January 7, 2023 The most commonly celebrated date for Mahaya New Year is January 7 this year. However, the Mahayana New Year dates differ for each country based on their customs and traditions. While some Mahayana Buddhists ...
Vajrayogini Month!
Calendar, Dakini Day and Tsog
December 24, 2022 - January 21, 2023 The 11th lunar, Vajrayogini’s special month, in 2022-23 on the solar western calendar is from December 24th to January 21, 2023 and her special annual day is on the 25th day ...
Important December Dharma Dates including exciting empowerment events: 2022
Dharma
Buddha Weekly Monthly Dharma Dates As part of our mission to Spread the Dharma, we've tried to publicize important Dharma practice dates across all the traditions — Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana over the last ten years. We've diligently attempted ...
Mahamudra, vast like space and beyond mind; polluted by nothing with nothing to obscure openness
Buddhist Practices, Meditation
Mahamudra is the ultimate practice in Tibetan Buddhism in many ways — yet it is profoundly simple. Maitripa, Tilopa's great Mahasiddha student, described Mahāmudrā as: "Mahāmudrā, that which is unified and beyond the mind, is clear yet thoughtless, ...
Vajrasattva as Yidam: the most powerful healing and purification method in Vajrayana Buddhism is also a profound Meditational Deity
Deities, Mantra, Tantra, Vajrayana
Vajrasattva — like all Buddhist deities — defies the notion of ego. Therefore, there is no "who" and there is no "what." It can be said that Vajrasattva, in ultimate reality is no different from any other Buddha. ...
Long Life Prayer to Amitayus, Padmasambhava, Vajrakumara and White Tara: Chokgyur Lingpa (1829–1870). Translated from the Tibetan by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
Buddhist Practices, Deities, Mantra
Why do we aspire to long life in Buddhist practice — especially given we are also instructed by our teachers, and by Sutra teachings to renounce clinging and attachment to things such as long life? The reason to ...
Three Principal Paths — the peerless path of Renunciation, Bodhichitta, Shunyata
Buddhist Practices, Lama Tsongkhapa, Mahayana, Vajrayana
The peerless teaching in Mahayana Buddhism is collectively known as the Three Principal Paths. These three are Renunciation, Bodhichitta and Shunyata. Together, they represent the most important teachings. Inevitably, all teachings begin — and later reinforce over-and over ...
Tara protects us from the eight great external dangers and eight internal obstacles
Tara
Why is Buddha Tara so beloved around the world? Is it because she is the Mother of All the Buddhas — the embodiment of wisdom? Or, because she is the swift one — the one who comes to ...
Beautiful Video: White Tara’s healing and long-life mantra beautifully chanted 108x with stunning visualized images
Videos
Buddhist teachers are universal in their enthusiasm for White Tara practice. Almost every teacher has real-life stories of people close to them who have been helped by White Tara, especially for health, long-life and auspiciousness. Chant along with ...
White Tara mantra chanted 108 times with stunning visualizations for healing and long life: supporting Members Ad-Free Video
Member Videos
Buddhist teachers are universal in their enthusiasm for White Tara practice. Almost every teacher has real-life stories of people close to them who have been helped by White Tara, especially for health, long-life and auspiciousness. According to Venerable ...
Video: Mother Tara’s powerful activity mantra 108 times — saving from the eight great dangers
Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v5O9YAeNw8 Green Tara is famous for her windy activity, sweeping to the rescue of sentient beings, with the force and speed of a hurricane. In Vajrayana Buddhism, Female Buddhas represent Wisdom. For this reason, she is described ...
Member ad-free video: Mother Tara’s powerful activity mantra — saving from the eight great dangers
Member Videos
Green Tara is famous for her windy activity, sweeping to the rescue of sentient beings, with the force and speed of a hurricane. In Vajrayana Buddhism, Female Buddhas represent Wisdom. For this reason, she is described as the ...
Podcast: Mother Tara — Powerful Mantras of Activity and Protection
Podcast
Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha Green Tara is famous for her windy activity, sweeping to the rescue of sentient beings, with the force and speed of a hurricane. In Vajrayana Buddhism, Female Buddhas represent Wisdom. For this reason, ...
Guru Rinpoche teaching Lady Yeshe Tsogyal: on Taking Refuge “an end to birth and death”
Guru Rinpoche
To celebrate Guru Rinpoche Day — this month on November 3 — it is traditional to Take Refuge, and chant Guru Rinpoche's mantra: Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum. [See embedded video of the mantra beautifully ...
How Tara Buddha saved my life — appearing beside my hospital bed
Tara
Four weeks ago, I took what I thought was a routine heart stress test — only to be rushed to the hospital by ambulance halfway through my test. A few days later, I would see Tara standing beside ...
Long-Life Buddha Uṣṇīṣavijayā — Victorious Crown Ushnisha Vijaya and Her Dharani create the conditions for longevity, good health and auspiciousness
Deities, Tara, Vajrayana
Ushnisha Vijaya, also known as Namgyelma in Tibetan, is one of the most beloved and widely practiced buddhas in Vajrayana Buddhism. She represents the epitome of physical health, vitality, and longevity and her practices are highly recommended for ...
Featured Healing Videos: 14 Buddha Weekly meditation, visualization, mantra and practice videos on Youtube
Videos
This extraordinary video playlist includes many healing topics in Buddhism including: Medicine Buddha visualizations and mantras, White Tara visualization, Tonglen practices, Black Manjushri healing meditation, La Gug practice, Vajrapani Hayagriva King Garuda healing, Hayagriva, and others. Don't miss ...
The Disease Specialist: Black Manjushri Practice Has a Reputation for Successfully Helping Victims of the Most Dangerous Diseases
Buddhist Practices, Deities, Teachers, Vajrayana, What the Buddhist Teachers Say
When all is well with the world, and you're in peak health, it's probably enough to eat well, exercise, and see a family doctor once a year. But, if that annual doctor's visit brings dreaded news, a diagnosis ...
Dhaniya Sutta — “Go ahead and rain” Dhaniya the Cattleman: a mystical message meaningful in today’s stressful world
Sutras & Sutta
Among the most poetic and beautiful of Suttas, is the Dhaniya Sutta, which at times seems like a Greek Drama in verse, or the song of a great Troubadour. It is unique amongst the Suttas, and widely published, ...
Intergalactic Buddha: if Buddha was an alien from another planet, galaxy or dimension — or alternate reality — what would he be like? Compassionate and wise, regardless of illusory appearances.
Buddha
In the Lotus Sutra (chapter 25) Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva can take any shape, personality or manifestation — whatever is most suited to the beings to be helped. In the Flower Garland Sutra, Buddha teaches that there are unlimited universes, ...
October Dharma Dates 2022 — Meritorious Practice Days and Events
Dharma
OCTOBER 2022 3 Tara Puja Day and Medicine Buddha Puja Day Also good for Fire Puja, Naga Puja, Precepts. About Tara Puja Day 5 Daka Tsog and Guru RInpoche Padmasambhava Day Anniversary of Guru Nyima Ozer, a manifestation ...
VIDEO: Vajrapani Documentary: indestructable hand of the Buddha. All about the “Lord of Secrets”; ends in 108 mantras
Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P88Jmwt_ADE Why does Vajrapani Bodhisattva's name mean "indestructible hand of the Buddha?" Why is he also called the "Lord or Secrets"? Why is Vajrapani one of the three most important Bodhisattvas? Come along with us now as ...
Early view: Vajrapani Documentary for Supporting Members (ad free HD)
Member Videos
Why does Vajrapani Bodhisattva's name mean "indestructible hand of the Buddha?" Why is he also called the "Lord or Secrets"? Why is Vajrapani one of the three most important Bodhisattvas? Come along with us now as we get ...
Podcast: Vajrapani, indestructable hand of the Buddha: Documentary plus 108 chanted mantras!
Podcast
Why does Vajrapani Bodhisattva's name mean "indestructible hand of the Buddha?" Why is he also called the "Lord or Secrets"? Why is Vajrapani one of the three most important Bodhisattvas? Come along with us now as we ...
PODCAST: Vajrapani’s powerful mantra — protective power 108 times chanted with short intro
Podcast
Description In Buddhism, Bodhisattva Vajrapani's ultimate power activity mantra is famous for its inspiring benefits — protecting, strengthening and empowering our practice. His mantra is the highest expression of ultimate activity, or karma. Listen or chant along ...
FEATURED VIDEO: Medicine Buddha Healing visualization, practice and mantra with Ven. Zasep Rinpoche
Videos
A beautiful visualized and guided short (16-minute) Medicine Buddha meditation and "mini teaching" from Venerable Zasep Tulku Rinpoche, from the learning video series from Buddha Weekly. CONTENTS with Timecodes below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5MpjfQh7XU CONTENTS BY TIME 00:00 Introduction 00:43 ...
Video: Vajrapani’s powerful mantra — protective power 108 times chanted beautifully with meditative images
Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVBreJSkDxE In Buddhism, Bodhisattva Vajrapani's ultimate power activity mantra is famous for its inspiring benefits — protecting, strengthening and empowering our practice. His mantra is the highest expression of ultimate activity, or karma. Listen or chant along with ...
Member Video: Patrons and Members: Vajrapani 108 Mantras beautifully chanted with meditational images
Member Videos
In Buddhism, Bodhisattva Vajrapani's ultimate power activity mantra is famous for its inspiring benefits — protecting, strengthening and empowering our practice. His mantra is the highest expression of ultimate activity, or karma. Listen or chant along with the ...
NEW Member Video, ad-free HD version of: Vajrasattva’s Purifying and Healing 100-syllable mantra in Sanskrit beautifully chanted
Member Videos
For Patrons and Members HD and ad-free: Buddha taught us how to purify obstacles, obscurations, negative karma, even disease, through Vajrasattva meditation, visualization and mantras. Chant along the 100-syllable Sanskrit mantra, here beautifully chanted by Hrishikesh Sonar, with ...
The Seven Great Parables of the Lotus Sutra; some of the most important teachings of Buddha for the Mahayana Buddhist path
Sutras & Sutta
The lotus flower is among the most beautiful and delicate of blossoms. It grows in the mud and mire at the bottom of a pond, and yet it is not stained by the dirty water. Instead, the lotus ...
10 ways Science aligns with Buddhist concepts: Science and Buddhism concur on method, openess, cosmology, temporal concepts and more
Scientific Buddhist
What ten ways do current science and modern Buddhism actually appear in agreement? What ten teachings of Buddha align well with well-accepted modern science? We look at these questions, and much more, in this special feature of "The ...
Featured Video: Guided White Tara visualization and teaching with Mantra, Venerable Zasep Rinpoche
Videos
Wonderful 30-minute White Tara teaching: how to practice, including visualizations — with the profound practice of five-colour healing light — from Venerable Zasep Rinpoche, with animated visualization graphics. EVENT NOTICE: Please join Zasep Tulku Rinpoche (featured in this ...
Celebrating the extraordinary activities and life of His Holiness Kyabgon Gongma Trichen Rinpoche, the Sakya Trichen
Buddhist Living
His Holiness the 41st Sakya Trichen exemplifies the compassionate activities of a highly realized guru. On this, his birthday, we remember and honor his great accomplishments. His Holiness Sakya Trichen. As a supreme lama and teacher, ...
Yodhajiva Sutta — the warrior Sutta? The four great qualities of the warrior compared to the qualities of the monk: full English
Sutras & Sutta
The so-called Warrior Sutta is a fascinating, short sutra. The way of the warrior and the way of the monk are often compared from the point of view of discipline. In Tibetan Buddhism, there is the notion of ...
Buddha Dharma practice reboot? With Refuge and Bodhichitta, you are not alone — methods to supercharge your enthusiasm for Buddhist practice
Buddhist Living, Buddhist Practices
Am I alone in struggling with enthusiasm for my Buddhist practice? Why did I lose my enthusiasm for meditation? How can I find time to practice in our stressful modern world? These are questions that frequently stall Buddhist ...
Buddha taught temporal cosmology, the multiverse and non-linear time — 2500 years ahead of modern science (and Marvel comics). How is this possible?
Scientific Buddhist, Sutras & Sutta
How is it possible that Buddha predicted the sun would consume the earth in roughly 7.5 billion years – a theory scientists only recently confirmed? That places Buddha at least 2500 years ahead of modern science — in ...
In the spaces we find Wisdom: “All Dharmas are forms of emptiness” : What do Dzogchen, Mahamudra, mindfulness, Chod and sensory deprivation experiments have in common?
Buddhist Practices
The sages and the Buddhas found ultimate wisdom in the spaces between thoughts, between sounds, between images, between feelings. The ancient saying "all Dharmas are forms of emptiness" isn't just a fun pun — how can there be ...
“The Dalai Lama will see you now” — chapter excerpt from Threads of Awakening by Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo.
Book / Movie Review, Buddhist Living
Excerpt: Piece 1 from Threads of Awakening by Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo, This is an excerpt from Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo's amazing new book Threads of Awakening. In Threads of Awakening, Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo beautifully tells her story as a personal spiritual memoir, ...
Threads of Awakening: Interview with artist and author Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo
Buddhist Living, Buddhist Practices
With a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the book Threads of Awakening — An American Woman's Journey into Tibet's Sacred Textile Art, by Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo is more than the fascinating story of one woman's quest to ...
PODCAST: Vajrakilaya short documentary with beautifully chanted mantras 108 times
Podcast
Why is wrathful Buddha Vajrakilaya, described by Garchen Rinpoche as "the mind of great love?" Can such a ferocious embodiment of Enlightenment really calm the mind and tame our obstacles, both external and internal? Why is ...
Member Ad-Free Video: Vajrakilaya Buddha documentary: Cutting the 3 poisons with the sharpest weapon, plus chanted mantras
Member Videos
Why is wrathful Buddha Vajrakilaya, described by Garchen Rinpoche as "the mind of great love?" Can such a ferocious embodiment of Enlightenment really calm the mind and tame our obstacles, both external and internal? Why is Vajrakilaya — ...
September Dharma Dates 2022 — Meritorious Practice Days and Events
Dharma
SEPTEMBER 2022 Buddha Weekly Monthly Dharma Dates As part of our mission to Spread the Dharma, we've tried to publicize important Dharma practice dates across all the traditions - Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana over the last ten years. ...
Limitless Buddhist Multiverse — Limitless You: Flower Garland Sutra and ultimate Buddhism: is-ness, thus-ness, all-ness
Sutras & Sutta
The multiverse is far larger than Buddhism, Hinduism, Quantuum realities — and Marvel Comic books. Tathata, literally, is bigger than all of these. The multiverse is, literally, as stated in the Suttas — "limitless." "There are innumerable universes ...
Overcoming the Poison of Jealousy with Mudita, “Sympathetic Joy”! How can joyful Tara, and other methods, help us overcome the dangerous klesha of Envy?
Tara
Jealousy or Envy (irshya in Sanskrit) is among the most dangerous of the "poisons" of Buddhism. Why is Jealousy so dangerous? Why is overcoming jealousy a critical, urgent mission for Buddhists seeking realizations? It comes down to one ...
Destroyer of Death Yamantaka: Buffalo-headed Vajrabhairava, supremely wrathful Yidam manifestation of Manjushri, the Buddha of Wisdom
Deities, Tantra, Vajrayana
Death itself is conquered by this towering, wrathful deity, Yamantaka. Conquering death, and the cycle of samsaric suffering, is at the very heart of Buddhism. As the "death destroyer" Yamantaka symbolizes this aspiration, and his meditational deity practice ...
This Week’s Featured Video: 21 Praises to Tara in English with Tara’s mantra — for the benefit of all beings!
Videos
Tibetan Buddhists often start and end their days with the 21 Praises to Tara — the Mother of All the Buddhas. Tara, who represents the activity of all the Buddhas is the fastest, surest way to bring blessings ...
PODCAST: Vajrakilaya’s Mantra beautifully chanted 108 times in Sanskrit — cutting the three poisons, overcoming your obstacles
Podcast
Vajrakilaya and his mantra are important in our modern world — since Vajrakilaya is the activity of all the Buddhas. He is the wrathful Heruka emanation of glorious Buddha Vajrasattva. At the same time, he is the ...
Video: Vajrakilaya Buddha documentary: cutting the 3 poisons with the sharpest weapon, plus chanted mantras
Videos
Why is wrathful Buddha Vajrakilaya, described by Garchen Rinpoche as "the mind of great love?" Can such a ferocious embodiment of Enlightenment really calm the mind and tame our obstacles, both external and internal? Why is Vajrakilaya — ...
Dana, power of giving — a beggar offers the clothes off her own back to the Buddha and becomes a goddess
Sutras & Sutta
One of the most moving stories of generosity is found within the cycle of sutta stories featuring "The Great Benefactor" Anathapindika. Anathapindika, who was very wealthy, remains one of the most recognizable from Buddhist stories. He famously donated ...
Power of dana and generosity “within our means” — the Sutta stories of Anathapindika, who gave Buddha Jetavana park
Sutras & Sutta
Anathapindika is famous for his supreme generosity. He is the benefactor immortalized through his gift of Jetavana park — used in rainy seasons throughout the centuries by Buddhist monks for retreat. This great feat of generosity cost him ...
Supporting Member Video: Ad-Free version HD of Manjushri Mantra beautifully chanted with visualization images.
Member Videos
Manjushri Mantra 108 Times beautifully chanted by Hrishikesh Sonar with Visualization images. This is the ad-free version HD, as a thank you to our wonderful supporting members:
Buddhist practice and worldly obstacles — we all have them, but how do you overcome and purify negativities? Advice from Dalai Lama, Garchen Rinpoche and others.
Buddhist Practices
Obstacles are plentiful in daily life. Whether we're dealing with an emergency with our children, rushing around trying to find an emergency plumber, dealing with the aftermath of an accident — or even something more terrible, such as ...
Podcast: Manjushri Mantra in Sanskrit 108 times beautifully chanted
Podcast
NEW PODCAST In Buddhism, Manjushri's ultimate wisdom mantra is famous for its cognitive and meditative benefits. His mantra is the highest expression of ultimate wisdom, or prajna. Listen or chant along with the Sanskrit version of his mantra ...