This meditation bead mala is made with 108, 4mm white sandalwood beads. Sandalwood is known for positive energy and alertness. This meditation necklace was handmade and directly purchased by our team while in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Sangwa Yeshe is a feminine buddha who is the combined embodiment of the nirmanakaya Yeshe Tsogyal and sambhogakaya Vajravarahi. She is the primary buddha in the Namchak Chöd practice.
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Guru Rinpoche, Padmasambhava, came to Tibet in the eighth century and helped to establish Buddhism and extensively spread the Vajrayana teachings. By many, he is considered âthe second buddhaâ and is revered both as an important historical figure and an enduring embodiment of enlightenment. In his biographies, he is described as having appeared in eight different forms which are depicted here in order to tame the minds of various beings.
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This image is a depiction of Guru Rinpoche, in his form known as âDorje Tötreng,â in union with his consort Mandarava. When practicing the Namchak Preliminary Practices (Ngondro), we visualize our teacher in this form and imagine that he or she is the complete embodiment of all buddhas, bodhisattvas, dakas, and dakinis. The guru and consort in union represents appearance and emptiness, method and wisdom, basic space and pure awareness, and the union of masculine and feminine energies.
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Tara is often referred to as âthe mother of all buddhas.â She is depicted here as having twenty-one forms in which she enacts various kinds of enlightened activities to help all living beings. There are various prayers and praises which enumerate them and describe their appearances and their particular ways of helping beings.
This meditation bead mala is made with 108, 6mm black onyx colored beads. The black onyx stone is is known for self-mastery and spirituality. This meditation necklace was handmade and directly purchased by our team while in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Whenever they get together, Lama Tsomo and the Reverend Dr. Matthew Fox bring to the conversation their lively passion for their individual spiritual traditions, and a shared personal history as colleagues and long-time friends.
The Lotus & The Rose presents these traditions, these individuals, this friendship in a unique set of conversations that spans a decade and a range of venues and audiences. This volume includes videos of their full presentations to audiences at Stanford University, The Jung Center in Houston, and the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe. Also included is a private, more casual conversation between just Tsomo and Matthew, as well as two new individual interviews.
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Tara is the embodiment of the wisdom and compassion of all the buddhas and is often referred to as âthe mother of all buddhas.â She is often depicted as having twenty-one forms in which she enacts various kinds of enlightened activities to help all living beings. In her form as White Tara, she bestows the gifts of longevity and freedom from illness.
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Shakyamuni is the name of the Buddha who was born as the prince Siddhartha in Lumbini, Nepal around 2600 years ago. He later renounced his kingdom and went off in search of enlightenment which he attained after six years of austere practice.
This book contains the Pema Traktung ritual for applying the enlightened activity of vanquishing disease as well as the short sadhana of Pema Traktung. It can be used as a supplementary phase of application practice for the primary Pema Traktung sadhana contained in Book 1, or as a stand-alone practice. This is the text which is used in Namchak Khen Rinpocheâs annual Pema Traktung teachings.
This book contains the main Pema Traktung sadhanaâThe Blazing Vajra Inferno, which contains the stages of approach and accomplishment. Also contained in this volume is the Pema Traktung tsok offering, confession and lineage prayers, and averting ritual.
This text contains both the extensive and concise forms of the Yangpur (a combination of Yangdak Heruka and Dorje Purba) practice together with offerings to the guardians of the termas, a lineage supplication, and an additional feast offering to Dorje Purba (Vajrakilaya).
In his introduction, Tulku Sangak Rinpoche says, âChöd is the superb means for [those who have not yet realized the view of the Great Perfection approach] to enhance their practice of the view and cut forcefully through their mental entanglements.â
This is the concise practice of Dakini Sangwa Yeshe together with a feast offering practice which combines the feast with the practice of Chöd.
