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PODCAST: Supreme Mother Protector Palden Lhamo, Aspect of Tara
As a child, who did you go to for protection: the parent who let you do anything and smiled while you did it, or the parent who yanked you back from the brink with a stern voice and scowl. When all is right with the world, we go to the smiling parent....
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Literary Legacy Celebrated with Charitable Bundle of ebooks: No Mud, No Lotus excerpt
Thich Nhat Hanh's words, teachings and books have been a comfort and refuge for many Buddhists around the world. The great teacher's wisdom and compassion live on in his many books. Now, Parallax Press, a non-profit publisher founded by Thich Nhat Hanh in 1986, is celebrating his great legacy with an ebook...
Video: Healing Parnashavari Tara Mantra 108 times with beautiful master art visualizations sung beautifully by Hrishi
Parnashavari is Tara's Healing emanation, also lovingly known as Tara Dressed in Leaves. Her mantra is renowned through the centuries, for healing and especially for effectiveness against epidemics. In this Buddha Weekly special presentation, enjoy the healing mantras and visualization images of Healing Paranashari. Sing-along MANTRA (Sanskrit) Om Pishachi Parnashavari Sarvajora Prashamanayeh...
Video: Five Buddhist Wisdom Dakinis: Dharma Activities including Chod, with Mantras sung by Yoko Dharma – 49 languages subtitled
Five Wisdom Dakinis: awareness dances into elemental form, wisdom of the Five Buddhas, empowering Chod and Dharma activity Play video (subtitles and languages enabled): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUOOD95WrBU What are the five Wisdom Dakinis? Why are they central to Tibetan Buddhist practice? Why are they associated with activity practices— peaceful, increasing, magnetizing, subjugating and supreme...
Video: 3 Principal Paths — Essence of Lamrim: Part 1 Renunciation for laypeople: Ven Zasep Rinpoche
The Lamrim teachings on the Three Principal Paths — it can be spelled Principal or Principle, either is correct with slightly different contexts — is considered the very essence of Buddha's teaching. (Therefore his Principles but also his Principal teachings.) The three are Renunciation, Bodhichitta and Shunyata. How can I practice Renunciation,...
Mandala Offering: offering “everything to the Buddha” — purify karma and accumulate merit daily
Mandala Offerings require only minutes each day and can be considered the "perfect" complete practice. We offer literally everything — the entire cosmos, even our internal mind, and body — to the Enlightened Ones. Mandala offerings, when dignified with tangible activities (as contrasted to purely visualized mandalas, which also have great benefit)...
Celebrating Lunar New Year! Happy Year of the Tiger: roaring back for 2022. Wishing you every auspiciousness!
Tuesday, February 1, 2022, is Lunar New Year, celebrated in Brunei, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, North Korea, Philippines, South Korea, Singapore and Vietnam! [Tibetans are on a slightly different lunar calendar, see below.] HAPPY YEAR OF THE WATER TIGER! From the team at Buddha Weekly, we wish you — and your families...
“Learning how to die” and “Why Meditating on Death May Bring Joy to Life”: What the Buddhist Teachers Say About End of Life, Dying, and Palliative Care
Thich Nhat Hanh: "The notion of death cannot be applied to reality." The great teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, who passed away at 00:00hrs on 22nd January, 2022, at the age of 95, often wrote about impermanence, with an optimistic take on death: "When you look a cloud... and then later the cloud...
Chod practice: offering yourself to all beings, the ultimate expression of bodhichitta
The vivid and visceral imagery of Chod Practice — where you visualize offering your own body to all sentient beings, chopped up into grisly bits, and presented in a human skull — can lead to extreme misunderstanding. Teachings such as Chod are advanced and profoundly effective practices that help us "cut" our ego,...
The Great Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh passed away at age 95 — his message of peace shook the world.
The great teacher, Bodhisattva and scholar, Thich Nhat Hanh — who shook the world with his message of peace — has passed away at 95, "at his home in the Tu Hieu Temple in Hue, Vietnam", announced by Plum Village. "The International Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism announces that our beloved...
The Emptiness of Prayer—Who Do We Pray To? “You and the Buddha are not separate realities.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
"A prostration based on the perception that Buddha has a separate self from your own, and that you have a self separate from the Buddha, can only be called superstition," wrote Thich Nhat Hanh, one of the world's most noted teachers. The teacher explained that when you bow to or pray to...
Sutra of Golden Light brings “peace and happiness” and “long life”; also, Sutra transmission of Chod, alleviating fear, and healing
The dominant theme of many Mahayana Sutras — the Great Vehicle Teachings — is “benefiting others.” To Mahayana Buddhists, there are three principal paths, expressed wonderfully in the “King of all Sutras” the “Sutra of Golden Light”: Renunciation, Bodhichitta (loving kindness) and the Wisdom of Emptiness. [Download link below for pdf of...
Buddha Weekly’s Special Section
Tara, Mother of all Buddhas
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.
Tara on YouTube
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.