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Supporting Members Video: 8-Minute Daily Practice of Vairochana Buddha With Miraculous Mantra of L
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...
SUPPORTING MEMBER VIDEO: 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. Video: https://vimeo.com/1043210813?share=copy#t=0 RECITATION Namo guru-bhaishajya rajaya. Namo guru-bhaishajya rajaya. Namo...
SUPPORTING MEMBERS VIDEO: NEW YEAR’s Auspiciousness: Ratnasambhava 9-Minute Practice with Dharani and Chanted Mantras
For NEW YEAR and the BEGINNING OF EACH MONTH, Bring the blessings of the wish-granting Buddha, the Jewel Family Buddha Ratnasambhava, into your life with a short 9-minute concise...
SUPPORTING MEMBER 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,...
SUPPORTING MEMBER VIDEO: Akshobhya Buddha Vajra Dharani: Purifies All Negative Karma, Delivers from Lower Realms
Akshobhya's supreme Vajra Dharani from Sutra, was recommended by Karma Chags Med (Karma Chakme, 17th century) for all purification of our negative obstacles, past lives, ancestor karma, and for purifying...
SUPPORTING MEMBERS VIDEO: 10 Benefits: Lama Tsongkhapa’s 10-Minute Concise Practice Sadhana and Migtsema Mantra, Yoko Dharma
In these difficult times, we need practices that generate the healing powers of Compassion, Wisdom and Power. These are usually personified, from a Mahayana Buddhist point-of-view in the...
SUPPORTING MEMBER VIDEO: Akshobhya 7-Minute Concise Sadhana with Chanted Mantras in Sanskrit for Daily Practice
This short 7-minute Sadhana, by Karma Chakmé is ideal as either a daily short merit and meditation session, and on Supreme Reflection Day, on the 23rd of each lunar month (the half moon or waning quarter moon.) Video: https://vimeo.com/1038326311?share=copy#t=0 We...
SUPPORTING MEMBERS VIDEO: Vajrapani 9-Minute Daily Practice with Vajra Armor Mantra and Heart Mantras Recited beautifully
Vajrapani's Vajra Armor and Daily Sadhana practice is famous for protection, not only from obstructions and danger, but from 404 types of disease and all other types of harm. Vajrapani...
SUPPORTING MEMBERS VIDEO: Amitabha Sukhavati Practice in 11 minutes: Refuge, 7 Limbs, Offerings, Mantras, Dharani
The short Sadhana, presented here, is a daily practice to draw you closer to the great, compassionate Buddha, and to develop the common and uncommon siddhis or powers. Video (transcript and recitation below): https://vimeo.com/1038757705?share=copy#t=0 THIS SADHANA is available as...
SUPPORTING MEMBER VIDEO: Green Tara 7-Minute Daily Practice with Sadhana, chanted Mantra and visualizations
Mother Tara's practice is for everyone. This Sadhana praises Tara and creates merit and virtue. Merit is multiplied on Tara Days (the 8th of each lunar month, or first quarter moon) but this is a daily practice. Tara is the...
SUPPORTING MEMBERS VIDEO: Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava 8-Minute Practice Sadhana and Chanted Mantras for Guru Rinpoche Day
A Concise 8-Minute Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava Sadhana for GanaPuja Days or any day with Mantras. May all beings benefit. This is an ideal daily practice for merit accumulation, with the mantra chanted together with a full puja, offerings and 7...
Supporting Members Video: Four Buddhist Heavenly Kings: Documentary, Mantras and Sadhana
In Mahayana Buddhism, who are the Four Guardians of the World? Why are they called the Watchers of the World and the Four Heavenly Kings? How...
SUPPORTING MEMBER VIDEO! 21 Taras’ Mantras in 21 Minutes: a Daily Practice – Blessings of Green Tara and 21 Taras
Bring the blessings and heroic activities of the 21 Taras, and Mother Green Tara into your life,...
SUPPORTING MEMBERS VIDEO MANTRA: Tara’s Supreme Dharani from Sutra – Protects from 8 Dangers and Fears with 5 Activities
Tara’s Great Dharani from The Noble Sūtra Tārā Who Protects from the Eight Dangers is the Supreme Protective Dharani. Here, we chant in the...
Supporting Member Video: Vajrapani Vajra Armor Mantra: Supreme Protection of Dorje Godrab Vajrakavaca from Padmasambhava
Why is the great Vajra Armor Mantra, the Kavica or armor of Padmasambhava, famous for helping remedy 404 types of diseases? In what way can it provide protection from violence, sicknesses, bad...
Supporting Member Video: 8 Great Bodhisattvas: 8 Practices, Sadhana and 8 Mantras
Who are the Eight Great Bodhisattvas and why are they so important to Mahayana Buddhist practice? Why are they also called the Eight Great Heirs or Eight Great Heroes? In what way do they represent the Eight Great Qualities of...
Supporting Member Video: 3 Supremes: Vajrasattva, Tara, Ushnisha Vijaya: Purification, Removing Suffering, Enlightenment
Why are Vajrasattva, Tara and Ushnisha Vijaya described as the Three Supremes or the Three Special Deities? What is their triad of practice? Why are Purification, overcoming...
Supporting Members Video: 7th Wrathful Black Tara Mantra Crushes Enemies, Black Magic, War, Natural Disasters, Evil
Black Tara's powerful mantra is the ultimate of protections, 7th Black Tara (of 21 Taras) chanted 108 times in Sanskrit with beautiful new...
Supporting Members Video: 16 Red Tara Mantra: Tara Who Increases Wisdom and Overcomes Enemies, Evil Magic, Disaster
Red Blazing Tara is also known as “Red Tara Who Arises from the Hum of Intrinsic Awareness” and like all Red Tara’s her mantra magnetizes the powers we...
Supporting Members Video: 20th Saffron Red Tara 108 Times Sanskrit Mantra Dispels Epidemics and Disease
Mantra: om tare tuttare ture visharata svaha ॐतरेतुत्तरेतुरेविसरतास्वहा Video: https://vimeo.com/1016596913?share=copy#t=0 This supplicates Saffron Red Tara (Orange-Red) -- Red Tara, Remover of Disease -- to magnetize the conditions necessary...
Supporting Member Video: 4 Practices of Multiplied-Merit Lunar Days: Practicing Activity, Merit, Reflection, Renewal
Why are lunar days, such as the new moon and full moon special in Buddhism? What are the four special practice days based on lunar phases that have extra merit for Dharma practice? Why is the New Moon on the...
Supporting Members Video: 14 Invincible Black Tara: Mantra Destroys 9 Types of Evil and 8 Types of Harm-Doers
The Fourteenth Tara is also called “Black Tara Who is Frowning Wrathfully” With her great pestle and mortar, she destroys, crushes, and transforms all harm-doers: any evil Maras,...
Supporting Members Mantra Video: 12 Yellow Gold Tara Mantra of Auspiciousness: Endless Knot of Balance, Good Fortune, Blessings, Harvests, Growth, Balance
om tare tuttare ture mangalam svaha ॐ तरे तुत्तरे तुरे मङलम स्वहा This is a supplication for auspicious “mangalam” (Sanskrit for aupsiciousness or good fortune) circumstances in our life. In Sanskrit her name is: Tārā Maṅgalārthā (Tara of Auspiciousness.) Video:...
Supporting Members: Red Black Tara Who Averts War and Anger, Tara 13 Mantra Ablaze with Flames
Tara 13 of the 21 Taras is called “Tara who destroys the power of enemies”, in Tibetan Drolma Drapung Jomma. She is...