The Direct And Unmistaken Method Commentaries On The Practice And Benefits Of The Eight Mahayana Precepts Ebook

Author : Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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The Direct and Unmistaken Method: Commentaries on the Practice and Benefits of the Eight Mahayana Precepts eBook by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Pdf

The eight Mahayana precepts are special one-day vows based on the Mahayana motivation of bodhichitta. "Taking the eight Mahayana precepts is another way to make life meaningful, to take its essence all day and night, by taking vows," says Lama Zopa Rinpoche. "It is so simple. It is just for one day. Just for one day. It makes it so easy. It’s not for a lifetime." Lama Zopa Rinpoche further quotes this passage from the King of Concentration Sutra: “For ten billion eons equaling the number of sand grains in the Pacific Ocean, if one offers umbrellas, flags, garlands of light offerings, food and drink with a calm mind, or offers service to one hundred billion times ten million buddhas, when the holy Dharma has become extremely perished and the teachings of the Gone to Bliss One have stopped, if somebody who is enjoying (living in) one vow for one day or night, this merit is particularly exalted than having made all those offerings.” Previously published by Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, this ebook contains the precepts ceremony with commentary by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Trijang Rinpoche, and Gen Lamrimpa. 36 pages, 2009 edition.

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Author : Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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Ritual for Taking the Eight Mahayana Precepts eBook by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Pdf

The eight Mahayana precepts are best taken for the first time from someone qualified to pass on the lineage of the practice. For example, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has given certain FPMT teachers permission to grant the eight Mahayana precepts. However, since this person becomes one’s guru, if you are not ready (or confident) to make that commitment, it is permissible to take the precepts in front of an image or statue of Guru Shakyamuni Buddha. This is also the case when a qualified person is not available to pass on the lineage. However, when the opportunity arises, it would be best to receive the actual lineage. The eight Mahayana precepts can also be taken before you have officially taken refuge. Compiled by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. The eight Mahayana precepts are special one-day vows based on the Mahayana motivation of bodhichitta. “Taking the eight Mahayana precepts is another way to make life meaningful, to take its essence all day and night, by taking vows,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches. “It is so simple. It is just for one day. Just for one day. It makes it so easy. It’s not for a lifetime.” The eight Mahayana precepts can be taken on any day of the year, but their karmic effects are particularly powerful on merit-multiplying days, such as the four annual Buddhist festivals (the first fifteen days of the first Tibetan lunar month—the Fifteen Miracle Days of Chotrul Duchen; the fifteenth day of the fourth month—Saka Dawa Duchen; the fourth day of the sixth month—Chokhor Duchen, the First Turning of the Wheel of Dharma; and the twenty-second day of the ninth month—Lhabab Duchen, Buddha’s Descent from the God Realm of the Thirty-Three), full moons, new moons, and solar and lunar eclipses. 24 pages, 2020 edition.

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King of Prayers eBook by FPMT Pdf

This King of Prayers, the extraordinary aspiration of the prayer of Samantabhadra, is commonly recited to bring benefit to those who are sick or have just passed away, and for the success of a virtuous project. It is a beautifully written aspiration containing the immaculate wishes of holy beings and in itself is a complete practice. It was extracted from the Gandhavyuha chapter of the Avatamsaka Sutra. Translated by Jesse Fenton. 13 Pages, 2008 Edition

Author : Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Publisher : FPMT
Page : 128 pages
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The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment) with Additional Practices eBook by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Pdf

Lama Zopa Rinpoche has specifically compiled this essential daily practice for his students and anyone else wishing to start their day, and all their activities, with a perfect Dharma intention and bodhichitta motivation. It includes the following practices and mantras to make one’s life highly beneficial for oneself and others. "The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment)" is a compilation of an inspiring lamrim prayer by Dorje Chang Lozang Jinpa, two key thought transformation verses, and special verses from Shantideva’s Engaging in a Bodhisattva’s Deeds about how to live your life for others. "Blessing the Speech According to the Instructions of Great Yogi Khyungpo" involves the recitation of several mantras to make the power of your speech perfect, multiply the power of your mantra recitation by ten million, prevent the power of your speech from being taken away by eating wrong foods, and transform even your gossiping into the recitation of mantra. "Daily Mantras" include mantras to bless your rosary; to multiply whatever virtuous activity you do by a hundred thousand; to purify anyone who talks to you, hears your voice, and touches your body; to purify heavy negative karmas and consecrate holy objects and rocks, trees, and so forth; and to bring about the fulfillment of all wishes. "Mantras for Specific Occasions" includes a mantra that multiplies whatever Dharma texts you read millions of times and a mantra to bless your feet, as well as car wheels, so that any sentient beings who die under them are reborn in a deva realm. 28 pages, 2018 edition.

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Nyung Na eBook by FPMT Pdf

The Nyung Na retreat is a two-day intensive practice that includes taking the 24-hour Mahayana precepts with the addition of complete fasting and silence on the second day. Doing even one Nyung Na is said to be as effective as three months of other purification practices and is extremely powerful for healing illness, purifying negative karma, and opening the heart to compassion. The 2015 revised version has many updates advised by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, including the addition of more prayers to Chenrezig and the stories of the Nyung Na lineage lamas. Contents include: -Calling the Guru from Afar -The Preparatory Ceremony -Taking the Restoring and Purifying Ordination -Requesting the Lineage Gurus -Invocation of the Merit Field -The Practice of Prostrations to the Thirty-Five Confession Buddhas -Meditation on the Self Generation -Meditation on the Front Generation -The Principal Practice of Praise -Offering the Tormas -Praises to the Dharma Protectors -Offering an Ablution -Verses of Auspiciousness Appendices: 1. Arranging the Essential Bases 2. Notes about the Mahayana Ordination 3. Alternate Prayers for the Beginning of the Session 4: Mudras for the Nyung Na Practice 5. Modes of Meditation 6. Notes on Mantra Recitation 7. How to Perform the Offering Bath 8. Instructions 9. Avalokiteshvara 10. Stories on the Nyung Na Lineage Lamas 11. Notes on the Long Dharani 12. Dedication and Long Life Prayers 13. Chantable Prayers 231 pages, 2015 edition.

Author : Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Publisher : FPMT
Page : 88 pages
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Release : 2019-07-17
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Six-Session Guru Yoga Commentary eBook by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Pdf

This practice is restricted to only those with the appropriate tantric initiation. If you are unsure whether you are qualified or not, please email us at [email protected]. By purchasing this text, you confirm you have received the appropriate initiation. You need to have received an initiation (wang) of the yoga tantra or highest yoga tantra class in order to read these commentaries of the six-session guru yoga. Within the Gelug tradition, practicing the six-session guru yoga is a daily commitment for anyone who has received a highest yoga tantra initiation. This text provides the commentary from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on the benefits of the practice, how to meditate on each verse of the sadhana, and the samayas of the five buddha families. The commentary uses the extension version of Phabongkha Dechen Nyingpo’s Six-Session Guru Yoga as its basis. Contents Include: - The Benefits of Six-Session Guru Yoga - How to Practice Six-Session Guru Yoga - The Samayas of the Five Buddha Families “Phabongkha Dechen Nyingpo said Six-Session Guru Yoga is much more precious than three galaxies filled with gold,” Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches in Six-Session Guru Yoga Commentary. “Why? Because the practice of Six-Session Guru Yoga has unbelievable benefits. It gives incredible protection. This practice eliminates so much heavy negative karma and purifies all ten nonvirtuous actions. It purifies broken pratimoksha vows, bodhisattva vows, and tantric vows. It allows us to practice the general tantric vows, the samayas of the five buddha families, and the particular tantric root vows. By doing Six-Session Guru Yoga, we practice all the samayas and are reminded of the fourteen root downfalls and eight bompos of mother tantra samaya. We accumulate unbelievable merit by keeping the samayas and vows of tantra. According to the root tantra of Manjughosha, without practicing the pure morality of these vows, we have no basis for tantric realization and no way to achieve enlightenment. Even if we don’t do many other practices, living purely in the samaya vows is enough. Therefore, this practice gives incredible protection.” 76 pages, 2020 edition.

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The Heart Sutra, The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra eBook by FPMT Pdf

The Heart Sutra is a popular sutra in Mahayana Buddhism. Its Sanskrit title, Prajñaparamitahdaya, can be translated as "The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom". The Heart Sutra is often cited as the best-known and most popular Buddhist scripture. This sutra has been translated from the Tibetan, consulting the Indian and Tibetan commentaries and previous good translations, by Gelong Thubten Tsultrim (George Churinoff), the first day of Saka Dawa, 1999, at Tushita Meditation Centre, Dharamsala, India. Amended March 8, 2001, in the New Mexico desert. Also contained in Essential Buddhist Prayers Vol 1 and Mahayana Prayers for teaching occasions. 8 pages, 2008 edition.

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The Array of Sukhavati Pure Land: A Concise Mahayana Sutra eBook by FPMT Pdf

From the root text: If you write in gold The Array of Sukhavati Pure Land you will be reborn in Sukhavati for 100,000 eons. If you write it in gold and silver, you will be reborn in Sukhavati for 10,000 eons. If you write it in silver, you will be reborn in Sukhavati for 1,000 eons. If you write it in vermillion, you will be reborn in Sukhavati for 100 eons. If you write it in black ink, you will be reborn in Sukhavati for 10 eons. You will be reborn in the pure realm of Dharmakaya Boundless Light. This is the essence of the ultimate. It is the pith of the dharmata. It is the king of all confessions of misdeeds. If you write and recite this, you will definitely be purified even if you kill insects and creatures, such as 100 people, 100 horses, 100 snakes, 100 dogs, 100 women, 100 cattle, 100 fish, 100 pigs, 100 monkeys, and 100 sheep; curse others; poison others; engage in miserliness and deceit; are the owner of a dog that kills deer; have degenerated your promises and commitments and then engage in sexual misconduct; kill your guru, abbot, or teacher; or do any of the ten nonvirtues. When someone dies, the best is to have a lama do this ritual for the corpse on the morning of the cremation; the middling is for a geshe to do it; and the last is for a monk to do it. If that isn’t possible, at least someone who knows how to read should do it. If it is recited three times and then tapped on the corpse’s head three times, without doubt that person will become a buddha. In this eon, all Dharma practices that are sealed with this prayer of dedication are greatly meritorious. If those who write, recite, keep, or disseminate it, read or recite it three times, they will not experience sickness or (untimely) death. May all of their wishes be fulfilled, and may they meet with those who are propitious and endowed with the fortunate karma to be reborn in Sukhavati Pure Land. 2020 edition.

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Mahāyāna Buddhist Meditation by Elvin W. Jones Pdf

precise introduction to Advaita Vedanta, on the basis of something more

Author : Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Publisher : FPMT
Page : 238 pages
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Release : 2020-07-14
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The Wish-Fulfilling Golden Sun of the Mahayana Thought Training: Directing in the Short Cut Path to Enlightenment eBook by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Pdf

The Wish-Fulfilling Golden Sun of the Mahayana Thought Training was used as textbook for the third (October 1972) through seventh (November 1974) Kopan meditation courses and contains Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s summaries of and meditations on many important topics from the lam-rim. The textbook is currently recommended as part of FPMT Education Services’ Discovering Buddhism course. From the original preface, written by Lama Zopa Rinpoche: "This book has not been written because there is some new Dharma that was not shown by Guru Shakyamuni. And because of my limited-experience realizations, in no way I have deserved to write such a book, and there is scant hope that it can benefit others. "But in view of the remarkable fact that in this time, already beyond the period of the five degenerations and an age in which there is the great danger of atomic explosion, an increasing number of Westerners are finding the Buddhadharma as they seek like blind men opening their eye, and as it is extremely important to make meaningful this once-received Wisdom Eye, which analyses all dharmas, clearly discriminating between what to avoid and what to practise, my depthlessly kind venerable Guru, Thubten Yeshe, has given the Vajra instruction that it is necessary to write a book such as this in English." 2016 edition, 292 pages.

Author : Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment) with Additional Practices eBook by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Pdf

Lama Zopa Rinpoche has specifically compiled this essential daily practice for his students and anyone else wishing to start their day, and all their activities, with a perfect Dharma intention and bodhichitta motivation. It includes the following practices and mantras to make one’s life highly beneficial for oneself and others. The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment) is a compilation of an inspiring lamrim prayer by Dorje Chang Lozang Jinpa, two key thought transformation verses, and special verses from Shantideva’s Engaging in a Bodhisattva’s Deeds about how to live your life for others. Blessing the Speech According to the Instructions of Great Yogi Khyungpo involves the recitation of several mantras to make the power of your speech perfect, multiply the power of your mantra recitation by ten million, prevent the power of your speech from being taken away by eating wrong foods, and transform even your gossiping into the recitation of mantra. Daily Mantras include mantras to bless your rosary; to multiply whatever virtuous activity you do by a hundred thousand; to purify anyone who talks to you, hears your voice, and touches your body; to purify heavy negative karmas and consecrate holy objects and rocks, trees, and so forth; and to bring about the fulfillment of all wishes. Mantras for Specific Occasions includes a mantra that multiplies whatever Dharma texts you read millions of times and a mantra to bless your feet, as well as car wheels, so that any sentient beings who die under them are reborn in a deva realm. 28 pages, 2020 edition.

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Sutra for Entering the City of Vaishali eBook by FPMT Pdf

Sutra for Entering the City of Vaishali can be simple: The Noble Sutra on Entering the Great City of Vaishali is an incredibly powerful sutra that one can listen to, read when one is in intense pain or very sick, suffering from spirit harm or other ailments. 10 pages, 2008 edition.

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The One Hundred and Eight Names of Arya Kshitigarbha and the Dharani Mantra eBook by FPMT Pdf

The recitation of the 108 names of Kshitigarbha and the associated dharani bestows good qualities, removes obstacles and ultimately acts as a cause for the attainment of liberation. Lama Zopa Rinpoche recommended reciting this text in order to help pacify the wildfires in California in 2018. 24 pages, 2018.

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Ritual for Taking the Eight Mahayana Precepts EBook by FPMT (author) Pdf