Rangjung Yeshe Institute

Teachings on Tara, 12 June 2014, Sao Paulo, Brazil

We practice Dharma to be awakened, for enlightenment. But how do we long for something so abstract and un-longeable? Buddhist teachings use human psychology as a stepping stone for the path. In this case, shunyata appears as a shape, colour, 21 forms, etc. Our longing for a mother, sister, protector takes us to Tara; it makes us approach the deity. That longing then becomes a communication link.

Deity is all to do with our perception. It's not like Tara existed before we knew her. How she communicates and functions depends entirely on how we relate to her. According to how wholeheartedly we relate to her, in that same way we will have communication from her.

"The main thing is remembering her — anytime, anywhere, however short, even if it is a few moments, remembering Tara and considering that as a proper practice and being happy with that."

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Teachings on Tara, 12 June 2014, Sao Paulo, Brazil - Part 1

"𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭;
𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦;
𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬
𝘚𝘰 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘵.”

You Are Your Own Master

Talk from Kalapa Valley Lhasang - Gesar Puja, 6 August 2021, Kalapa Valley, Canada

Rinpoche talks about the importance of this moment's mind and the myriad skillful methods used by Buddhism in order to invoke it, recognise it and take advantage of it.

Talk from Kalapa Valley Lhasang - Gesar Puja, 6 August 2021, Kalapa Valley, Canada

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Day 18 is the Green Tara mantra. Like Avalokitesvara, Tara is especially associated with compassion – the quintessence of compassion. When we chant the Tara mantra we can feel that we are contacting deep compassion. If you wish, you could imagine asking her for aid, especially if you are suffering. Today’s mantra is chanted by the Songsters.

For more resources on recovery: www.thebuddhistcentre.com/eightsteps

21 Day Meditation For Recovery - 18. Tara Mantra

The Four Immeasurable Thoughts, May 13 - 14 2023, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - Part 2

Seven-Line Prayer to Guru Rinpoche

HUNG  %

ORGYEN  YUL  GYI  NUP  CHANG  TSAM  %
Hung.  In the North-West of the country of Oddiyana

PÉMA  KÉSAR  DONGPO  LA  % 
In the heart of a lotus flower

YATSEN  CHOK  GI  NGÖ  DRUP  NYÉ  % 
Endowed with the most marvellous attainments 

PÉMA  JUNGNÉ  SHYÉ  SU  DRAK  % 
You are renowned as the “Lotus Born”

KHOR  DU  KHANDRO  MANGPÖ  KOR  %
Surrounded by many hosts of Dakinis 

KHYÉ  KYI  JÉ  SU  DAK  DRUP  KYI  % 
Following in your footsteps 

CHIN  GYI  LAP  CHIR  SHEK  SU  SOL  %
I pray to you to come and bless me with your grace 

GURU  PÉMA  SIDDHI  HUNG  % 


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7-Line Prayer to Guru Rinpoche

November 10, 2011 talk at Sarah Harding's in Boulder, Colorado

Using Illusion on the Path

Using Illusion On The Path

sakya Teachings

The Three Levels of Perception - 2

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche chants the concise severance (chod) ritual of Troma Nagmo by Dudjom Lingpa.
Lama Tharchin Rinpoche and the Vajrayana Foundation (www.vajrayana.org)
Text available in letter format: https://sellfy.com/p/h0Vz/ and half-page format for tablet: https://sellfy.com/p/TsUn/

Original Daily Practice Book

Troma Nagmo Concise Chod

Prof. John Makransky's workshop was entitled : "We are Already Held in the Qualities We Seek: An Introduction to Innate Compassion Training."

Dr. Makransky will present the theory and practice of the Innate Compassion Training Model (ICT) that he has introduced to both Western Buddhists and to people in caring roles and professions. For Western Buddhists, these forms of practice can help energize and further inform their existing contemplative and ritual practices. Each session includes lecture, meditation exercises, and Q&A.

To generate inclusive and unconditional love and compassion and the wisdom that supports them, a secure base of trust and confidence in the source of those qualities is essential. In Buddhist traditions, such a base of trust is instilled in large part by devotional practices, where practitioners experience themselves and their world to be held by those who have actualized the same unconditioned compassion and wisdom that they themselves seek to realize, i.e., the Buddhas and bodhisattvas. This kind of practice comprises the “receptive mode” of ICT. This receptive mode of meditation can help strengthen the trust needed to settle more deeply into the source of compassion and wisdom found in the deep nature of our minds. Note that attendance at all four sessions is strongly encouraged, although participants may miss sessions if necessary.

John Makransky, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Buddhism and Comparative Theology at Boston College, senior advisor for Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche’s Centre of Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute, former president of the Society of Buddhist-Christian studies, and co-founder of the Foundation for Active Compassion and Courage of Care Coalition. For the past eleven years, in consultation with his Tibetan teachers, John has been teaching meditations of innate compassion and wisdom, adapted from Tibetan Buddhism for Western Dharma students and those in caring roles and professions. As part of this effort, John developed the Innate Compassion and Wisdom Training model (ICT) that he’ll explain in these lectures. He gave workshop to the students of RYI from 24 - 27th Sept. 2019

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Prof. John Makransky - "We are Already Held in the Qualities We Seek" Day 1

The Mahāsūtra “On Entering the City of Vaiśālī”
ཡངས་པའི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་དུ་འཇུག་པའི་མདོ་ཆེན་པོ།
Vaiśālīpraveśamahāsūtra
Toh 312

Invited to visit the city of Vaiśālī, which has been ravaged by a terrible epidemic, the Buddha instructs Ānanda to stand at the city’s gate and recite a proclamation, a long mantra, and some verses that powerfully evoke spiritual well-being. Ānanda does so, and the epidemic comes to an end. One of the mahāsūtras related to the literature of the Vinaya, this text, like other accounts of the incident, has traditionally been recited during times of personal or collective illness, bereavement, and other difficulties.

We are humbled to share here both a recitation in English, as well as a recitation in Tibetan by our Founding Chair, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche(https://soundcloud.com/translate84000/toh-312-entering-the-great-city-of-vaishali-recited-by-dzongsar-khyentse-rinpoche) to help those unsure of where or how to begin.

So open the text in our Reading Room (https://read.84000.co), and recite along!
https://read.84000.co/translation/toh312.html

Ep. 1 | English | "On Entering the City of Vaiśālī" recited and produced by Gary Dyson

Our newly published text "The Dhāraṇī of Parṇaśavarī" is the focus of the fourth episode in our Sūtras for Well-Being series, that explores sūtras traditionally recited for resilience and well-being during times of adversity, and the stories behind them. And today we are thrilled to be able to share with you a recitation of this text in Tibetan by His Holiness 41st Sakya Trichen; as well as a reading in English [by Catherine Fordham]. 

"The Dhāraṇī of Parṇaśavarī" [https://read.84000.co/translation/toh736.html] is a short incantation dedicated to the piśācī Parṇaśavarī, who is renowned in Buddhist lore for her power to cure disease, avert epidemics, pacify strife, and otherwise protect those who recite her dhāraṇī from any obstacles they may face.

Visit our Sūtras for Well-Being page for more on this series: https://84000.co/wellbeing

「消災祈福」系列經典之四｜ 第41任薩迦法王親誦藏文版《葉衣佛母陀羅尼》
「消災祈福」系列經典之四｜英文版《葉衣佛母陀羅尼》誦讀

84000新近發布的英譯《葉衣佛母陀羅尼》是「消災祈福」系列的第四部佛典。「消災祈福」系列經典是84000編輯團隊特選的一些常於病疾災害降臨時被人們廣泛讀誦抄寫的經文，望能藉此為世界祈福。願疫疾快速平息，社會和諧，人心安樂。

應我們的祈請，尊貴的第41任薩迦法王專門為我們誦讀了藏文版的《葉衣佛母陀羅尼》。英文版由Catherine Fordham念誦。

《葉衣佛母陀羅尼》https://read.84000.co/translation/toh736.html 為祈請葉衣佛母之短咒。葉衣佛母以其療癒疾病、消除瘟疫、平息戰亂和保護持咒者免於障難的力量而聞名。

請點擊此 https://84000.co/p12491/ 了解更多關於「消災祈福」系列經典的詳情。

Ep. 4 | Tibetan | "The Dhāraṇī of Parṇaśavarī" recited by His Holiness 41st Sakya Trichen

Today we share with you a recording of Mayum Kunsang Dechen reciting the recently published, "Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage," as well as one of Yoshiko Crow reading the text in English.  

For Tibetan Buddhists, "Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage," [https://read.84000.co/translation/toh438.html] is undoubtedly the most popular prayer to the deity Tārā. It is recited on a daily basis by many monks, nuns, and lay practitioners.

As the pandemic continues, and environmental and social uncertainty rage around the world, we continue on with our Sūtras for Well-Being series to bring to you the texts traditionally recited for resilience and well-being in times of adversity, and the stories behind them.

Visit our Sūtras for Well-Being page for more on this series: https://84000.co/wellbeing

第六集 |《度母二十一禮讚》｜藏文版唸誦者：佛母昆桑德欽

84000近期出版了新英文版《度母二十一禮讚》。在此於各位分享由佛母昆桑德欽唸誦的藏文原文，以及由Emily Yoshiko Crow唸誦的英文版新譯經文。

《度母二十一禮讚》[https://read.84000.co/translation/toh438.html] 是藏傳佛教最受歡迎的度母禮讚文，經常出現於出家眾與在家眾的日常修持中。

在全球疫情持續蔓延的不安時期，84000特選了一些常於病疾災害降臨時被人們廣泛讀誦的「消災祈福」系列經典與大家分享，望能藉此為世界祈福。

Ep. 5 | Tibetan | "Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage" recited by Mayum Kunsang Dechen

Today we share with you a recording of Mayum Kunsang Dechen reciting the recently published, "Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage," as well as one of Emily Avery Yoshiko Crow reading the text in English.  

For Tibetan Buddhists, "Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage," [https://read.84000.co/translation/toh438.html] is undoubtedly the most popular prayer to the deity Tārā. It is recited on a daily basis by many monks, nuns, and lay practitioners.

As the pandemic continues, and environmental and social uncertainty rage around the world, we continue on with our Sūtras for Well-Being series to bring to you the texts traditionally recited for resilience and well-being in times of adversity, and the stories behind them.

Visit our Sūtras for Well-Being page for more on this series: https://84000.co/wellbeing

第六集｜《度母二十一禮讚》｜英文版唸誦者：Emily Yoshiko Crow
84000近期出版了新英文版《度母二十一禮讚》。在此於各位分享由佛母昆桑德欽唸誦的藏文原文，以及由Emily Yoshiko Crow唸誦的英文版新譯經文。

《度母二十一禮讚》[https://read.84000.co/translation/toh438.html] 是藏傳佛教最受歡迎的度母禮讚文，經常出現於出家眾與在家眾的日常修持中。

在全球疫情持續蔓延的不安時期，84000特選了一些常於病疾災害降臨時被人們廣泛讀誦的「消災祈福」系列經典與大家分享，望能藉此為世界祈福。

Ep. 5 | "Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage" recited by Emily Avery Yoshiko Crow

A Darshan in Vimalakirti Sutra, 28-29 April 2015 - Bir, India
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