buddhism – Thongdrol

May

Illuminating Wisdom: Exploring the Thongdrol Podcast

Thongdrol Podcast Overview The Thongdrol Podcast is a treasure trove of spiritual teachings, featuring His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other revered spiritual lamas. The word “Thongdrol” itself holds profound meaning: it signifies liberation through seeing. On a fundamental level, it represents anything that inspires individuals to embark on a spiritual path, leading them toward freedom from…

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September

The Thirty-Seven Practices of All the Bodhisattvas. 31 to 37 Stanzas

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31 The practice of all the bodhisattvas is to scrutinize oneself Continually and to rid oneself of faults whenever they appear. For unless one checks carefully to find one’s own confusion, One might appear to be practising Dharma, but act against it. 32 The practice of all the bodhisattvas is never to speak ill Of others who have embarked…

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September

The Thirty-Seven Practices of All the Bodhisattvas. 21 to 30 Stanzas

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The practice of all the bodhisattvas is to turn away immediately From those things which bring desire and attachment. For the pleasures of the senses are just like salty water: The more we taste of them, the more our thirst increases. The practice of all the bodhisattvas is never to entertain concepts, Which revolve around…

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August

The Thirty-Seven Practices of All the Bodhisattvas. 11 to 20 Stanzas

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The practice of all the bodhisattvas is to make a genuine exchange Of one’s own happiness and wellbeing for all the sufferings of others. Since all misery comes from seeking happiness for oneself alone, Whilst perfect buddhahood is born from the wish for others’ good. Even if others, in the grips of great desire, should…

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August

The Thirty-Seven Practices of All the Bodhisattvas. 1 to 10 Stanzas

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༄༅། །རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ་བཞུགས་སོ། ། ན་མོ་ལོ་ཀེ་ཤྭ་ར་ཡེ། གང་གིས་ཆོས་ཀུན་འགྲོ་འོང་མེད་གཟིགས་ཀྱང༌། ། འགྲོ་བའི་དོན་ལ་གཅིག་ཏུ་བརྩོན་མཛད་པའི། ། བླ་མ་མཆོག་དང་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་མགོན་ལ། ། རྟག་ཏུ་སྒོ་གསུམ་གུས་པས་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། ། ཕན་བདེའི་འབྱུང་གནས་རྫོགས་པའི་སངས་རྒྱས་རྣམས། ། དམ་ཆོས་སྒྲུབ་ལས་བྱུང་སྟེ་དེ་ཡང་ནི། ། དེ་ཡི་ལག་ལེན་ཤེས་ལ་རགས་ལས་པས། ། རྒྱལ་སྲས་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ལག་ལེན་བཤད་པར་བྱ། ། The Thirty-Seven Practices of All the Bodhisattvas by Gyalse Tokme Zangpo Namo Lokeśvaraye! You see that all things are beyond coming and going, Yet still you strive solely for the sake of living beings— To…

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September

His Holiness the Dalai Lama Honours 33 Retired CTA Officials

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“In a time when our country and people were facing what was the darkest period in history, you had come to serve the greater cause. This is the most meaningful service to the Tibetan people and Buddha dharma. In that regard, all of you have lived a very meaningful life,” His Holiness said……

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July

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The Heart Sutra | ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོ། ། | Sherab Nyingpo

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The Heart Sūtra or Sherap Nyingpo (ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོ་) is one of the most popular Buddhist sūtra and certainly among the most widely used and chanted sutra-s in Tibet. Its full title in Sanskrit is Bhagavatīprajñāpāramitāhṛdaya and in Tibetan བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ which translates as The Heart of the Blessed Perfection of Wisdom.

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July

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Sangcho Monlam | བཟང་སྤྱོད་སྨོན་ལམ། | The King of Aspiration Prayers | Zangcho Monlam

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༄༅། །འཕགས་པ་བཟང་པོ་སྤྱོད་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་བཞུགས།The King of Aspiration Prayers: Samantabhadra’s “Aspiration to Good Actions” (Zangchö Mönlam) from the Gaṇḍavyūha chapter of the Avataṃsaka sutra.

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July

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Dechen Mönlam | བདེ་ཅན་སྨོན་ལམ། | Dewachen Monlam | བདེ་སྨོན།

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Dechen Mönlam (བདེ་ཅན་སྨོན་ལམ་) is one of the most commonly recited aspirational prayers in Tibet and Himalaya. Originally composed by Karma Chakmé in eastern Tibet in the 17th century.

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