One of Tibet’s greatest gift to us is the profound and beautiful spiritual path of Tibetan Buddhism, which offers tools and hope to anyone who wishes to live a more meaningful life, experience joy, be relieved of emotional pain and suffering, and generally be a more calm and happy human being. It’s no accident that the Tibetan people, known for their enduring kindness, resilience and good cheer, are inextricably connected to Tibetan Buddhism. We don’t pretend to be experts on this vast, deep and ancient spiritual tradition, but we are profoundly curious and keen to know more. Explore with us if you wish, whether as a curious newcomer who is simply interested to know more about this gentle and free spiritual path, or an experienced practitioner, walking the path with beginner’s mind.
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Om Mani Padme Hum: What Could Mean More? Om mani padme hum is an ancient mantra that is related to the boddhisatva of compassion, Avalokiteshvara, and with therefore the Dalai Lama. |
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Green Tara Mantra: Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha In Tibetan Buddhism, om tare tuttare ture soha is an ancient mantra that is related to Tara, the “Mother of all Buddhas,” and especially to her manifestation as Green Tara. |
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If You Know Nothing About Tibetan Buddhism Our response to the question: “If you were to recommend one book for someone who knows nothing about Tibetan Buddhism, what would it be?” |
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Long Life Prayer for His Holiness the Dalai Lama We offer here the short version of the Long Life Prayer for His Holiness the Dalai Lama, with a translation for and pronunciation of the Tibetan prayer. |
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Losar – Tibetan New Year A guide to how Tibetans celebrate the Tibetan New Year, including making a losar shrine, recipes for guthuk, khapse and dresil, nyi shu gu traditions, momos and how to make po cha and tsampa! |
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Open your Generous Heart: Create a Losar Shrine In Tibetan homes the Losar altar serves as a prominent, central symbol of a wish to cultivate a generous heart and to invoke beautiful blessings into the lives of our family, friends and community for the New Year. |
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White Tara A Tibetan perspective of White Tara and her mantra: om tare tuttare ture mama ayur pune gyana puntin kuru soha. |
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Learn Hand Mudras Practices A video and post from the Venerable Thupten Donyo’s hand mudra class teaching you how to use the Vajra and Bell with your offering mantras. |
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Shantideva’s Prayer from His Holiness the Dalai Lama The beautiful dedication from Shantideva’s Guide to a Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, as revised by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. |
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Saka Dawa: A Month Honoring the Buddha’s Life In this most sacred of Buddhist holidays Tibetans celebrate the birth, enlightenment and death (parinirvana) of the Buddha Shakyamuni. The merit of any good deeds that you perform during this month are considered to be multiplied many times over. |
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Tibetan Singing Bowls An introduction to singing Tibetan bowls, the origins of which are as mysterious and otherworldly as the harmonies the bowls produce when we play them. With video. |
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Your Guide to Sand Mandalas A clear explanation of the sacred Tibetan Buddhist art form, with a video demonstration by the Drepung Loseling monks. |
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Water Offering Bowls Lobsang Wangdu shows you how to set up water offering bowls on your shrine to help in the practice of cultivating generosity and relief of the pain of greed and selfishness. |
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Buddha Shakyamuni Mantra: Om Muni Muni Maha Muniye Soha The Buddha Shakyamuni Mantra – Om Muni Muni Maha Muniye Soha – is one of the most common and popular Buddhist mantra among Tibetans. |
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Interview with His Holiness the Dalai Lama In an interview with Yolanda O’Bannon at his residence in Dharamsala, India, from 1996, His Holiness the Dalai Lama discusses, among other topics, his reincarnation. |
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Calm your Mind with Tibetan Buddhist Meditation With this post, we would like to begin to explore the vast and subtle topic of Tibetan Buddhist meditation. Since we are no experts ourselves, we let the experts do the talking, beginning with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. |
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Be Happy, Help Tibet Help these amazing charities give the Tibetan people something they really need – health, education, support for spiritual training, and a path to self sufficiency. |
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Studying Tibetan Buddhism Online One of the greatest pleasures of running the YoWangdu site is meeting new friends who love Tibetan culture as much as we do, and sharing … |
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How to Say the Refuge Prayer in Tibetan Lobsang Wangdu teaches you how to say the basic Tibetan Buddhist refuge prayer by Atisha. |
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Lhasa’s Sacred Jokhang |
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H.H. the Dalai Lama Teaching You How to Find Inner Peace His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teachings, from the 2011 Kalachakra for World Peace in Washington DC, on the source of ultimate peace. |
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Who is the Dalai Lama? A short biography of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama. |
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Lives of Tibetan Buddhist Masters A guest post introducing the Treasury of Lives, which is an on-line biographical encyclopedia of Tibetan, Himalayan, and Inner Asian religion. The goal of the project is to publish a biography of every known historical figure. |
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His Holiness, Facebook and You You can get daily inspiration and wisdom from Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, when you connect with him on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. |
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