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The Story of Zawo Bhumo, one of the Buddha’s previous incarnations
This is a short narration of a story taken from one of the Buddha’s previous lifetimes, referenced in the sutras. It is said that before being born as a human and later becoming the Buddha,
Happy Losar 2025!
དོན་དང་ལྡན་པའི་ལོ་གསར་ཇི་ལྟར་བྱེད་དགོས་མིན། What Makes a Meaningful New Year ༅༅།། ཕན་བདེའི་དགེ་ལེགས་འོད་སྟོང་རབ་འབར་བའི།། འགྲོ་བའི་མི་ཤེས་རབ་རིབ་འཇོམས་མཛད་པ།། སྨྲ་བའི་སེངྒེ་རྗེ་བཙུན་འཇམ་དཔལ་དབྱངས།། འགྲོ་རྣམས་ལོ་ཟླ་སྐྱིད་ཀྱིས་འཚོ་བར་ཤོག། You who blaze with light of well-being and goodness, Clearing cataracts of confusion from the eyes of beings, O Lion of Teachers, Venerable
The Third Paramita: Patience
In general, there are many categories of objects of patience. In brief, it can be explained by condensing them into five main points: 1. Showing the need to cultivate patience 2. The patience of remaining
2 of 2 beautiful and practical teachings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9cZgC9CyHA
1 of 2 beautiful and practical teachings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJD6CsJJ9ks
Prayer to Ārya Avalokiteśvara
During Monday night chanted prayers on 2/17/25, Rinpoche shared this text with the sangha: See original text on the Lotsawa House website, translations in English and Tibetan. ༄༅། །འཕགས་པའི་གསོལ་འདེབས་ཞལ་མཐོང་མ་བཞུགས། ། The Vision A Prayer to Ārya Avalokiteśvara
Meditate like a Mountain, like the Ocean, like the Sky
Regarding being able to separate pure awareness from afflicted awareness, one of Milarepa's disciples asked him: "How do I meditate?" Milarepa told the disciple: "Go meditate like a mountain. " The student went and meditated