Waterbowl Offerings
Extensive advice on how to make waterbowl offerings, starting with the correct motivation.
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Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices
Teachings
Completing the Preliminaries
Finished Preliminaries
More Preliminaries
More Preliminary Practices
Sponsoring a Monastery to Complete Preliminary Practices
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Mandala Offerings
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Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices > Mandala Offerings
Mandala Offerings and Guru Yoga Practice
More Talks on this Topic: Mandala Offerings
Visualization When Offering a Mandala
Visualize Many Offerings of the Best Quality
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Preliminary Practice Advice
Dharma Practice Is the Most Important Thing
Many Years of Practice
Practices to Purify Negative Karma
Preliminaries Before Long Retreat
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Prostrations
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Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices > Prostrations
Prostration With Folded Hands
Prostrations Are Most Important
Prostrations at Bodhgaya
Prostrations in the Morning
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The Purpose of Preliminary Practices
Preliminary Practices
Preliminary Practices are the Best Thing
Reasons for Preliminary Practices
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How to Offer a Mandala
A compilation of teachings on the mandala offering, a practice that pacifies all hindrances to temporal and ultimate happiness
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Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices
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Kadampa Teachings
Commentary on the teachings of Atisha and the Kadampa geshes, the exemplary practitioners of Buddhism in Tibet.
Topics:
Lineage Lamas > Kadampa Teachings
Chapters:
Kadampa Teachings
Editor's Preface (Ailsa Cameron)
Kadampa Teachings 1: Bodhgaya, January 2003
Kadampa Teachings 2: Bodhgaya, December 2003 - January 2004
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Kadampa Teachings (Audio and Unedited Transcripts), Continued
Teachings given at Root Institute, Days 5 - 7; includes a commentary on Atisha's Jewel Garland
Topics:
Lineage Lamas > Kadampa Teachings
Chapters:
Day Five: Jewel Garland Commentary - Cherishing the practice and turning away from samsaric happiness
Day Five: Jewel Garland Commentary - Protecting ordination by reflecting on impermanence and suffering of samsara
Day Five: Jewel Garland Commentary - Protecting the senses by analyzing how attachment arises
Day Five: Dedications
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Kadampa Teachings (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
Teachings at Root Institute, Days 1 - 4; includes an oral transmission and commentary on Atisha's Jewel Garland
Topics:
Lineage Lamas > Kadampa Teachings
Chapters:
Day One: The cause of problems
Day One: Seeing suffering of others and developing the wish to offer them the highest benefit
Day One: Developing the wish to repay the kindness of others, Dedications
Day Two: Precious Human Rebirth
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Eight Verses of Thought Transformation (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
A commentary given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on an essential mind training text composed by Kadampa Geshe Langri Tangpa.
Topics:
Lineage Lamas > Kadampa Teachings
Chapters:
Day One: Perfect Human Rebirth
Day One: Renunciation
Day One: Shortcomings of Desire Part A
Day One: Shortcomings of Desire Part B
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Brief Instructions for the Preliminary Practices
A guide to accomplishing the recommended preliminary practices
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Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices
Teachings from 100 Million Mani Retreat, 2000 (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
Rinpoche explains the benefits of mani pills, the Thirty-five Buddhas practice, and the importance of purifying negative karma in this evening session during the 100 Million Mani Retreat at Chenrezig Institute, Australia.
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Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices
Teachings on Offerings (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings on offering practices during a Cittamani Tara Puja at Amitabha Buddhist Centre, Singapore in 1992.
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Buddhist Practices > Preliminary Practices