Arahant Maha Maudgalyāyana

Today, December 1st, Sunday,2024 according to the Buddhist calendar, marks the day Arahant Maha Maudgalyāyana

attained pari nirvana. 

Maha Maudgalyāyana had mastered a range of super normal psychic powers, which he utilized for the benefit of the Buddha's dispensation and the welfare of his disciples and pupils. Consequently, the Buddha formally declared him to be the foremost in psychic powers among all the Buddha's disciples.

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COMPASSIONATE ACTION Chatral Rinpoche

According to Tibetan Buddhist astrology, we are in “the age of residues” where only traces of the virtue of the “golden age” remain. These troubled times are marked by war, disease, natural disasters, rampant drug use and disrespect towards spirituality. Guru Padmasambhava saw all of this coming and that is why he came up with his terma system of concealing teachings to be discovered by the reincarnations of his twenty-five disciples — called tertons or treasure-revealers — at the appropriate time for these teachings to help the beings of that generation. Tulku Thondup explains, “[Guru Rinpoche] gave the Mind-mandate Transmission of the teachings [to his core group of disciples] and recognized them as his own regents and blessed them to tame the beings of the end-age.”

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COMPASSIONATE ACTION Chatral Rinpoche

Edited, Introduced, and Annotated by Zach Larson Snow Lion Publications Ithaca, New York Boulder, Colorado

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His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

When the visualization of Chenrezi becomes clear and stable, visualize light rays radiating out from his body in each of the ten directions,making offerings to all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the innumerable Buddhafields. These rays of light return, carrying the blessings of all the enlightened ones, and dissolve back into Chenrezi, who becomes even more brilliant and resplendent. Once again, he emanates rays of light, which this time reach out to all beings, dispelling their suffering, establishing them in the wisdom of great bliss, and transforming them into male and female Bodhisattvas and the whole universe into a perfect Buddha-field.

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THE HEART TREASURE OF THE ENLIGHTENED ONES

The Practice of View, Meditation, and Action A Discourse Virtuous in the Beginning, Middle, and End by Patrul Rinpoche With commentary by Dilgo Khyentse

Translated from the Tibetan by The Padmakara Translation Group

SHAMBHALA Boston & London 2012

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Monju Bosatsu,

In Buddhist iconography, Monju Bosatsu,

also referred to as Manjushri, embodies wisdom. Characteristic representations of Monju show him mounted on a lion, holding a sacred text in the form of a book or scroll.

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Enkö Kannon

Enkö Kannon

is commonly illustrated as a Bodhisattva radiating light, or seated on a rainbow, characterized by joined hands.  #paintingartwork #japan #artwork #buddhism

Iwato Kannon

Iwato Kannon, translated as 'Kannon of the Rocky Gateway', is likely a Buddhist interpretation of the Shinto Kami Amaterasu Omikami, residing at the threshold of a cave.

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Shühü Kannon

Shühü Kannon

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Kannon, the benevolent feminine deity of abundance, sits serenely royal posture. A revered and esoteric manifestation of Kannon in Japanese art.  #paintingartwork #buddhism #artwork

His Holiness Penor Rinpoche

Life is more difficult if you worry.  It’s better to deal with things as they come up.

Penor Rinpoche, via Turning the Mind Into An Ally (Page 101)

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White tara

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White tara

His holiness karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje

Compassion itself is noble.

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His holiness karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje

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