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Yidam Enneagram: Which Buddha Are You? 15 Questions to Unlock Your Buddha Nature?

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15 Multiple Choice Questions: Unlock Enlightenment with Your Yidam Key! Which of the 25 Buddha Types are you?   Why is your biggest emotional flaw also the key to your ultimate Enlightenment? What does this have to do with the Five Buddha Families...
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San Francisco’s Tu Quang Temple: Vietnamese Buddhism and Regeneration in the Heart of the City

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Down the hill from the San Francisco Mint towards a bustling intersection at Duboce Avenue and Market Street, the beautiful blue and white sculptural relief of the Buddhist Goddess Guanyin in flowing gowns juts out from a bright...
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SUPPORTING MEMBER VIDEO: Buddhist Six Session Nidra Sleep Yoga – Concise Protection to help you Sleep Like a Yogi

Why is sleep yoga considered indispensable in Buddhism -- and also to non-Buddhists? What is Six Session Yoga Nidra? Why do 30 percent of adults suffer from insomnia, according to WHO data? Why is sleep time considered the best time to practice purification and protection yogas? How can we actually sleep deeper,...
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How Understanding Dependent-Arising, the Idea of Inter-Being, Can Help People Live More Sustainably

The most Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh walking mindfully. From the movie "Walk With Me" releasing in 2017.
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“Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with everyone else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can...
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Buddha’s Enlightened Journey: An In-Depth Illustrated Timeline of Shakyamuni Gautama’s Life from 563 BCE to 483 BCE

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2500 years ago, a child was born who shook the world, literally, and influenced history for the next 25 centuries.  Over five centuries before the Common Era, Siddartha Gautama was born, a world-changing event that has become a major turning point in history. Although, inevitably,...
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Mo Dice and Mo Mala, Bamboo Sticks, and other “divinations” — “Mo could prove beneficial…” HH Sakya Trizin

Although Mo is a common Tibetan Buddhist practice, not every Buddhist may be comfortable with Mo Dice or Mo Mala Divination — either because of a lingering prejudice, or as a rational mind rejecting non-objectively observable phenomenon. However, His Holiness the Sakya Trizin wrote: “MO: Tibetan Divination System — should be seen...
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SUPPORTING MEMBER VIDEO: Shakyamuni Buddha Sadhana: Purify Aeons of Karma; 12-Minute Practice (Do this daily!)

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MERIT MULTIPLIED MILLIONS OF TIMES ON BUDDHA DAYS such a SAGA DAWA, LOSAR and other BUDDHA DAYS. Supreme Merit and Purification practice, purifying even heinous negative karma. Here begins the concise practice of Shakyamuni Buddha. In front of...
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Video: 100 Million Merit Day – Saga Dawa: Holiest Day in Buddhism on June 11 and the Month of Merits

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Saga Dawa 2025 honoring Buddha's Birth, Enlightenment and Paranirvana: PRACTICE June 11: 100Mx Merit Day. The entire month is extra merit month May 28 to June 25 (new moon to new moon) - Called "mont of Merits. " (Video...
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SUPPORTING MEMBERS VIDEO: 100 Million Merit Day Saga Dawa: Holiest Day in Buddhism

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What if one day of practice, generosity and devotion could multiply your karmic merit 100 million times? That day is Saga Dawa Duchen — celebrating Shakyamuni Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and nirvana. And this year, it’s June 11. Whether you’re...
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Mewa Number: Who is my Enlightened Buddha Protector based on year of birth

Who is my birth year Enlightened Buddha protector in my journey through this lifetime according to Vajrayana Buddhism? Full feature is here>> Below are the Date charts only. Scroll down the list for the date of birth. Remember that Mewa numbers are based on lunar calendar, so if you are born November...
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SUPPORTING MEMBERS: Who are my Enlightened Buddhist Protectors According to Mewa, Lunar Zodiac and Kalachakra?

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Who is my birth year Enlightened Buddha protector in my journey through this lifetime according to Vajrayana Buddhism? Which Enlightened protector is at my side constantly according to Birth Mewa? Who is our Zodiac protector according to Kalachakra teachings? How can...
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SUPPORTING MEMBERS VIDEO: Heavenly King Vaisravana Mantra: Prosperity, Good Fortune, Luck, Growth Vaishravana 闻天王 Namtoshe

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PROSPERITY AND GOOD FORTUNE HEAVENLY KING MANTRA: oṃ vaiśravaṇaye svāhā Chanted beautifully in Sanskrit! Video: https://vimeo.com/1086932695?share=copy#t=0 Leading the Four Heavenly Kings who "Watch the World" and Protect the Dharma, is none other than the chief Vaisravana (Vaishravana, वैश्रवण or Vessavaṇa (Pali; Tibetan: རྣམ་ཐོས་སྲས་, Namtösé...
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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.

Tara 6 Tara Victorious Over Three Worlds Trailokya Vijaya Tara.
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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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