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Happy Chinese New Year: Year of the Wood Snake 2025 – How to Celebrate and Prepare: Purify, Clean and Sweep in Prosperity

Happy Chinese New Year 2025 (January 29), Year of the Wood Snake.
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Chinese New Year and Tibetan Losar are often on different dates -- based on two different lunar calendars. The Lunisolar Chinese Lunar calendar starts the new year in 2025 on January 29. (Losar -- see the...
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9 Enlightened Padma Deities, Wangdu Cloud of Blessings: Wish-Fulfilling Prayer

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A lovely under-7-minute recitation in English of the great Wangdu, the Great Cloud of Blessings, the practice of the 9 Enlightened Deities of the Lotus Family, together here with Refuge, Bodhichitta, and 7 Limbs of Practice. This is a mind terma...
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SUPPORTING MEMBER VIDEO: Tara, Vajrasattva, Ushnisha Vijaya: Chanted Mantras and Practice for Protection, Purification, Wisdom

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A Beautiful 10-minute practice including wonderfully chanted mantras of the Three Supreme Deities of Protection, Purification and Wisdom: Green Tara, Vajrasattva and Ushnisha Vijaya. RECOMMENDED FOR LOSAR, LUNAR NEW YEAR, END OF MONTH PURIFICATION, and as a DAILY PRACTICE FOR MERIT,...
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Five Wisdom Dakinis: “The source of the five activities is the dakini” —Padmasambhava: full feature, documentary video and more

Three of the Five Wisdom Daknis, art by Laura Santi. (See detailed art below for each of the Five Dakinis in the detailed section. Laura Santi's art can be found at Laura Santi Sacred Art on Etsy>>
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What are the Five Wisdom Dakinis? Why are they central to...
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Samantabhadra’s King of Prayers

Bodhisattva Aspiration in Sanskrit A Complete Practice with Refuge, 7 Limbs of Practice, and Dedication.   Why is the King of Prayers, the king? This prayer, recommended by many Mahayana teachers, is translated as “The Extraordinary Aspiration of the Practice of Samantabhadra”  is from the Gandavyuha Sutra. Samantabhadra, Universal Good Bodhisattva, offers...
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Amoghasiddhi Karma Buddha Concise Daily Practice with Mantra – Auspicious Activities of the Karma Family

9-Minute Daily Practice - Amoghasiddhi Buddha, with Chanted Mantras. Especially powerful on the 8th Lunar Day of each month, called SUPREME ACTIVITY DAY: Tara and Amoghasiddhi Day, on the First Quarter Moon Waxing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXqVMPhiIrk You can download a PDF of this practice in full color from BuddhaWeekly.com here>> This is part of...
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Concise Healing Practice – Medicine Buddha with Chanted Dharani and Mantras

Here follows the Path to Happiness and Peace, a Practice of Medicine Buddha, Guru King of Healing, by the great teacher Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo. Anyone may recite and benefit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5PTOU-v2ZM PDF or this recitation, with beautiful images and the 12 Vows of Medicine Buddha is here in our Dharma Downloads>>  Namo guru-bhaishajya...
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Chintachakra White Wish-Granting Wheel Tara: The All-in-One Mother of Buddhas in Vajrayana Buddhism – Her Significance, Mantra and Why Her Practice is Essential

Chitachakra Wish-Granting White Tara with a rainbow aura of colors representing the five activities and protective tents.
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Frequently referred to as Chintachakra White Wish-Granting Wheel Tara or simply White Tara, is embodiment of sublime enlightenment beautifully encapsulates all five key activities and wisdoms of the Buddha Families: pacifying,...
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SUPPORTING MEMBER VIDEO: Vaishravana Heavenly King: Dharma Protector of Wealth and Prosperity Practice

Who is Vaishravana, Heavenly King of the North? Why is he the protector deity recommended for most Dharma students, especially in modern times? Why is his practice especially recommended on the 29th of the lunar month? What does it mean, describing him as a worldly protector? Video: https://vimeo.com/1048044698?share=copy#t=0   We answer these...
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Medicine Buddha Short Practice The Path to Happiness and Peace By Jamyang Kynetse Wangpo

In times of pain, sickness, or stress, many Mahayana Buddhists rely on sacred Medicine Buddha meditation for healing. Although meditation is not a replacement for professional medical help, it certainly helps to reinforce with the healing energy of Medicine Budhda, Lord of Healing. Although there are other healing mediations, why do most...
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Video: Vajrasattva 15-Minute Concise Daily Practice with 100-Syllable Mantra: Purification and Merit

This beautiful Concise Vajrasattva Sadhana translated in the Tradition of Venerable Marpa of Lhodrak: A River of Wisdom is for Purifying Karma and Obstacles from our lives and our practice. Traditionally, we chant a short Sadhana and three mantras daily, or at least the last 7 days of each year to purify...
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Supporting Members Video: 8-Minute Daily Practice of Vairochana Buddha With Miraculous Mantra of L

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Vairochana, the Unfailing Buddha, Lord of all the Buddha Families (in the center of the Five Buddha's Mandala) is famous for removing all obstacles and purifying all negative Karmas. Lama Zopa recommended his practice for preventing harm (ourselves and all...
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Buddha Weekly’s Special Section

Tara, Mother of all Buddhas

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Loving face of the Mother of All Buddhas Green Tara. Detail from art by Ben Christian.
Karma Mother

How does Tara Help?

Tara, like any Mother, is ready to jump to our aid, even in mundane areas of life. She is the “practical Buddha” — the “Karma Mother” — the Buddha most active in our lives. Her Sanskrit name translates as “a star by which to navigate” — and like a star, she is always with us whenever we look for her.

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21 Taras Mantra Video Playlist

An entire playlist of every one of the mantras for the 21 Taras. Don't miss the amazing Tara mantra chanting of Yoko Dharma for the each Tara of the 21 Taras according to Surya Gupta lineage. One video with many repetitions and visualized images for each Tara. The final video is the English-translated 21 Praises to Tara sung in English.

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