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NEW MOON – UPAVASATHA Uposatha RENEWAL DAY: Shakyamuni Buddha Day! Extra Merit Day
✨UPAVASATHA RENEWAL DAY (30th Lunar Day – NEW MOON!) MERIT MULTIPLIED for all Practices! Special Day Each Month especially for SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA! Also extra merit for Vajrasattva Purification and Vajrakilaya (wrathful Vajrasattva) practices to ensure all obstacles are removed prior to the new month! SPECIAL PRACTICE FOR NEW MOONS: 28 Buddhas Protection Paritta Sutta (Beautifully […]
28 Buddhas Protection Paritta | Powerful Chant for Health, Protection & Blessings
🙏 Greetings, Dhamma friends! We are deeply blessed to share with you our new song: the Atthavisati 28 Buddhas Protection Paritta. This is not just a Sutta and Paritta chant; it is a profound journey through time, invoking the boundless compassion and protective power of the twenty-eight Buddhas—from Taṇhaṅkara, the first of this era, to […]
Why are Mantras Important in busy, modern lives? What are the 9 benefits? Who can chant them? A Complete Buddhist Practice Guide
Why are Mantras important in Mahayana and Vajrayana practice, especially in modern, busy times? What are the nine benefits of mantra as taught by Buddha and lineage teachers? How do mantras actually work? What is transmission from Sutra or lineage? Why and how do we accumulate mantras in our lifetime? We answer these questions and […]
Vajrakilaya “Activity of All the Buddhas: Wrathful Heruka of the Karma family, Emanation of Vajrasattva
Vajrakilaya Heruka Buddha, the wrathful aspects of Vajrasattva Buddha, crowned by Amoghasiddhi, is the Heruka of the great Activity Karma Family of Tara and Amoghasiddhi. When we need “sligltly more active” activity we turn to Vajrakilaya and Tara Diptachakra, the wrathful aspects of Amoghasiddhi and Tara. Famously, they are the “activity of all the Buddhas. […]
29th Lunar: Dharma Protector Day – Removing Obstacles Day (Black Tea Day)
🌟🔥🔥🔥 The 29th Lunar: Dharma Protector Day (Black Tea Day) 🌟🔥🔥🔥 This sacred day is your powerful opportunity to: Purify and REMOVE obstacles with protector mantras on the 29th Lunar (the day just before the new moon and a new month) ABOUT PROTECTOR DAY>> Quick Facts on Dharma Protector Day Dharma Protector Day is an […]
8th LUNAR: SUPREME ACTIVITY DAY: Mother Tara Day, Medicine Buddha Day
Supreme Activity Day is on the first quarter moon, the 8th Day of the lunar month. As Enlightened Activity Day, it is, therefore special to Mother Tara and the Karma Buddha Family of Amoghasiddhi. In wrathful form the karma activity deities are, Vajrakilaya and Diptachakra. Or, for example, if the activity you are practicing is […]
Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels: The Complete Companion Guide to Awakening, Vows, and Daily Renewal with video
Taking Refuge: Buddhism’s Most Important Practice — With Pali, Sanskrit & English Chants. VIDEO is FOLLOWED by an In-Depth Guide on Taking Refuge 🙏The Gateway of Merit: Why Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels Matters Most 🙏Why Light Offerings & Taking Refuge Are Buddhism’s Most Powerful Practice 🙏Renew Your Refuge & Precepts on Buddha Days […]
Descending Light: Celebrating Lhabab Duchen 2026 — The Day of Ten Million Multiplied Merits: Buddha’s Descent From Heaven
A Special Buddha Weekly Feature for Sunday, November 1, 2026 “Lhabab Duchen is a profound time to feel deep gratitude to the Buddha for what he did, and to the whole lineage of teachers down to our own teachers, who preserved these precious teachings so that we could come into contact with them.” Venerable Thubten […]
Buddhist Dharma Dates: clearing the confusion on the 3 plus 1 calendars: Lunisolar, Lunar and Solar and — Which do You Celebrate
Sacred lunar days – and the Confusion Over Lunar Calendars The Core Distinction: Three Systems (plus), Not One Dharma practice can be challenging enough with daily life, so we try to rely for special days on Dharma Calendars. It does cause some confusion, however due to the three plus one ways that calendars are […]
Alavaka Sutta Protection Paritta: Chant away fear, hostility & negative forces — in 20 minutes.
🎵 NEW RELEASE: Āḷavaka Sutta Paritta — Our 20-Minute Sutta Opera 🎵 (Releases October 29 on Music Streaming Platforms such as Spotify, Apple, Youtube and many others.) Friends, we’re thrilled to share our most ambitious chant yet: the Discourse to Āḷavaka the Demon, a full dramatic sutta opera in the traditional Paritta tradition. (FULL LYRICS […]
You Are Never Alone; You were Never Impure: The Meaning of the Śuddha Mantra. Power of Chants: Overview
Why Every Buddhist Practice Begins With the Śuddha Mantra Oṃ svabhāva śuddhāḥ sarvadharmāḥ svabhāva śuddho ‘haṃ. Why does almost every formal Buddhist sadhana begin with this one ancient Sanskrit chant? And why did Lama Thubten Yeshe call it the “Universal Love Mantra”? What are the 7 Benefits of this powerful mantra? Video (Transcript is […]
Guardians of the Word: How the First Buddhist Council Committed the Buddha’s Teachings to Sacred Text
More than 2500 years have passed since the time of Gautama Buddha. The teachings of Buddha had to be passed on to the future generation. A very effective method was adopted by the then King of Magadha. This played a vital role in the growth and evolution of the Dhamma as we know it today. […]