Maha guru padmasambhava

Lady Tsogyal asked the master: 

Should we depend upon conditioned roots of virtue? 

The master replied: Fabricated dharmas are all conceptual mind, So all conditioned dharmas perish. Dharmata, however, is self-present timelessly. Be free from effort in conditioned, material virtues.  You can firmly resolve on that.

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Treasures from Juniper Ridge

THE PROFOUND TREASURE INSTRUCTIONS OF PADMASAMBHAVA TO THE DAKINI YESHE TSOGYAL

Recorded and concealed by Yeshe Tsogyal

From the revelations of Nyang Ral Nyima Özer, Rigdzin Gödem, Sangye Lingpa, Rinchen Lingpa, Dorje Lingpa, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, and Chokgyur Lingpa

Translated and edited by ERIK PEMA KUNSANG & MARCIA BINDER SCHMIDT

Rangjung Yeshe Publications

Boudhanath, Hong Kong & Esby 2008

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Khenchen Pema Sherab Rinpoche

Khenchen Pema Sherab Rinpoch

e (Tib. པདྨ་ཤེས་རབ་, Wyl. pad+ma shes rab) is one of the seniormost khenpos in the Nyingma tradition and one of the three Khenchen or 'great khenpos' of Namdroling Monastery.

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H.H Paltrul Jampal Lodoe Rinpoche

H.H Paltrul Jampal Lodoe Rinpoche

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Nalagiri elephant Lord Buddha

According to the Buddhist calendar, today's Full Moon day commemorates the occasion when Lord Buddha subdued the Nalagiri elephant. In Buddhist teachings, Nalagiri is characterized as a fierce elephant utilized to harm the Buddha. The story of Nalagiri and the Buddha is a pivotal element in Buddhist traditions, highlighting the capacity of loving-kindness to transcend hostility.

Venerable Tulku choedharr

Venerable Tulku choedharr

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Great Yogi Milarepa

Happy is the path of both Wisdom and Means! 

Happy the Yoga of Arising and Perfecting; the meditation of the Two-in-One.

Happy the Prajñā; the awareness of no- coming-and-going!

Happy the absence of talk; no friends and no chatting!

These are the pleasures of words.

Happy is the understanding of Non-grasping; 

Happy the meditation without interruption; Happy the accomplishment without hope or fear; 

Happy the action done without defilement. These are the pleasures of Mind.

Happy is the illumination with no thought and no mutation!

Happy the great bliss in the purity of Dharmadhatu!" 

Happy the Non-ceasing Realm of Form!

This little song of great happiness That flows freely from my heart, Is inspired by meditation, By the merging of act and knowledge. Those who aim at the fruit of Bodhi May follow this way of yogic practice.

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The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa: The Life-Story and Teaching of the Greatest Poet-Saint Ever to Appear in the History of Buddhism

PublisherShambhala Pubns (1 June 1999)

Hardcover730 pages

ISBN-101570624763

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Subramanya Swamy

Today December 07 skanda shasthi day of lord Murugan 

In Buddhism, "Subramanya Swamy," also known as "Skanda" or "Kartikeya" in Hinduism, is often considered a protective deity, sometimes referred to as a Bodhisattva, particularly in the Sri Lankan Buddhist tradition where he is worshipped as "Kataragama Deviyo" at the Kataragama temple; essentially, Buddhists view him as a powerful guardian figure with a connection to the Hindu pantheon, not as a central Buddha or Bodhisattva within their own theology.

Khenchen Pema Sherab Rinpoche

Khenchen Pema Sherab Rinpoche (Tib. པདྨ་ཤེས་རབ་, Wyl. pad+ma shes rab) is one of the seniormost khenpos in the Nyingma tradition and one of the three Khenchen or 'great khenpos' of Namdroling Monastery.

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Maha guru padmasambhava

Lady Tsogyal asked the Lotus-Born master: What is the dividing line between dullness and wakefulness?

The master replied: Dullness is failing to comprehend anything, because of a dense mental veil. Wakefulness is to vividly see the original, natural state as it is. When applying this experientially in your stream-of-being, look into this unknowing, uncomprehending mind itself—without questioning whether mind understands or not—and thereby see that it does not consist of any identity whatsoever but is lucid and unobscured. This is the vital point of naturally dissolving dullness. Tsogyal, this advice of utmost importance, I give to you.

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Treasures from Juniper Ridge

THE PROFOUND TREASURE INSTRUCTIONS OF PADMASAMBHAVA TO THE DAKINI YESHE TSOGYAL

Recorded and concealed by Yeshe Tsogyal

From the revelations of Nyang Ral Nyima Özer, Rigdzin Gödem, Sangye Lingpa, Rinchen Lingpa, Dorje Lingpa, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, and Chokgyur Lingpa

Translated and edited by ERIK PEMA KUNSANG & MARCIA BINDER SCHMIDT

Rangjung Yeshe Publications

Boudhanath, Hong Kong & Esby 2008

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LAMA ZOPA RINPOCHE

DECEMBER 3RD BIRTHDAY OF LAMA ZOPA RINPOCHE 

A Prayer for the Swift Return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche By His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama,  Tenzin Gyatso 

༄༅། །ཟླ་མེད་སྟོན་པ་རྒྱལ་སྲས་ཉན་རང་ཚོགས། ། བྟོ་བཟང་རྒྱལ་བ་ཡབ་སྲས་བརྒྱུད་པར་བཅས། །  རབ་འབྱམས་ཞིང་གི་སྐྱབས་ཡུལ་མ་ལུས་པས། ། དེང་འདིར་སྟོན་པ་འགྲུབ་པའི་དགེ་ལེགས་སྟོལ། ། 

Da me tön pa gyäl sä nyän rang tshog lo zang gyäl wa yab sä gyü par chä rab jam zhing gi kyab yül ma lü pä Deng Dir mön pa Drub päi ge leg tsöl 

Peerless Teacher and assembly of the children of the victorious ones, śrāvakas, and pratyekabuddhas; Victorious Lozang, father and sons, along with the lineage masters; All the objects of refuge of infinite lands— Please bestow the virtue and goodness of accomplishing  this prayer here and now.

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

Old artwork 

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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