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TEACHINGS ON JE TSONGKHAPA'S THREE PRINCIPAL ASPECTS OF THE PATH

By H.H. the Dalai Lama His Holiness gave this teaching at the request of a group of students from France in the main temple at Thekchen Choling in the Autumn of 1989 Today I am going to explain the Three Principal Aspects of the Path. As usual, before beginning a teaching, we will do the three practices for cleaning our mental continuums and then we will recite the Heart Sutra. Now make the mandala offering. Whatever...

GURU DEVOTION BY LAMA ZOPA RINPOCHE

Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this teaching at Aryatara Institute, Germany, 7 April 2001. Every one of us has universal responsibility. If you have a good heart, loving kindness-compassion, then in your daily life, numberless living beings, including the people around you, animals, insects, in fact, all other living beings, do not receive harm from you. If you develop a good heart, loving kindness-compassion, not only do other sentient...

KACHE MARPO

Who is He? Kache Marpo is the main attendant to Dorje Shugden alongside Namkar Barzin. He is said to be the direct emanation of Hayagriva. Although Kache Marpo takes the appearance of a wordly form, he is fully enlightened. Hayagriva is the wrathful form of Avalokiteshvara. His compassion transforms itself as a fierce and strong energy. He manifests his compassion through wrath to force us to overcome both our inner and outer...

OFFERINGS

By Panchen Otrul Rinpoche Offerings are the formal religious expression of the fundamental Buddhist virtue of giving. The perfection of giving, dana-paramita in Sanskrit, is the first of the six or ten perfections. It encompasses every kind of generosity, whether it involves a gift to those higher than ourselves, such as deities in the merit field, or the poor or needy, who are worse off than we are. In giving to a being in an...

NAGARJUNA'S LIFE, LEGEND AND WORKS

Precious little is known about the actual life of the historical Nagarjuna. The two most extensive biographies of Nagarjuna, one in Chinese and the other in Tibetan, were written many centuries after his life and incorporate much lively but historically unreliable material which sometimes reaches mythic proportions. However, from the sketches of historical detail and the legend meant to be pedagogical in nature, combined with the...

THE THREE ROOTS: GURU, YIDAM AND PROTECTOR

How relying sincerely on all three roots forms the basis of our spiritual practice "The practice of analytic meditation should begin with the topic of how to serve a spiritual teacher. If you contemplate skillfully for about seven days the benefits of serving a teacher and for about seven days also the faults of failing to serve a teacher, you will produce a mental transformation. You must bring forth the realization which...

DHARMAPALA SETRAB CHEN

Who is Setrab? Lord Setrab is actually an ancient protector who can be traced back to the days of Shakyamuni Buddha, from Bodhgaya where Shakyamuni was enlightened. Lord Setrab is an emanation of Buddha Amitabha who had sworn to Buddha Shakyamuni to protect the teachings of Buddhism in general. Hence, Lord Setrab is definitely an Enlightened Protector. The practice of Lord Setrab was brought to Tibet by Loden Sherab...

ADVICE BY HIS HOLINESS KYABJE LING RINPOCHE

If, after receiving an initiation, you practice well, you can become like Vajradhara. This means you should keep perfectly the root and branch Tantric vows and all aspects of the samayas (commitments). You should understand the samayas of eating, drinking, protection, sleeping and so forth, and study well the details of the three levels of ordination. There are teachers at your Dharma centers and you can learn all this from...

REMOVING CURSES AND NEGATIVITY

Question: Does anyone here know how to remove curses and negativity from places and objects? If our prayer beads, sadhanas and other ritual objects is being tainted by the touch of those who slander our Spiritual Guides, Deity or Dorje Shugden, is there any way to cleanse them and restore their purity? Answer: I will do a short explanation for you and hope it helps. There is the general methods and Tantric methods. The Tantric...