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Redefining Tibetan Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism can look strange from the outside — monks in red robes, deities with many arms, drums and bells and long horns. But underneath the cultural wrapping is something startling: of all the living Buddhist traditions today, Tibetan Buddhism is the one that most faithfully preserves the Buddhism of classical India.

Why what looks Tibetan is actually Indian

Redefining Tibetan Buddhism

Arya Mūlasarvāstivādin Sramanera Karika

A concise guide to the daily conduct, precepts, and training of a Buddhist novice monk, covering everything from morning recitations to the four pārājikas, food-timing rules, and the practice of wakefulness...

Verses for the Novice Monks of the Mūlasarvāstivāda

Arya Mūlasarvāstivādin Sramanera Karika

Attached To This Life | ཚེ་འདིར་ཞེན་པའི་ཚོར་སྣང།

Written during the teaching of Nyingtik Yabshi in May 2024, this poem explores attachment to the concerns of this life and how they distract from genuine spiritual practice. It examines how even when practicing Dharma...

Reflections on the Eight Worldly Dharmas

Attached To This Life | ཚེ་འདིར་ཞེན་པའི་ཚོར་སྣང།

Reflections on Going Forth | རབ་བྱུང་ཞིག་གི་བསམ་གཞིགས།

This poem was written during my second Traditional Rain Retreat. It is a reflection to generate the mind of "renunciation", although the correct word would be emergence or going forth. It explores...

Reflections to generate the mind of "renunciation"

Reflections on Going Forth | རབ་བྱུང་ཞིག་གི་བསམ་གཞིགས།

The 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva's Outline

Given this text has been translated by enough people, I didn't want to make yet another translation. However, while studying a Tibetan commentary from Jigme Tsultrim Palzang I came accross an interesting outline...

There are enough translations, but not enough outlines

The 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva's Outline
All compounded things are subject to falling apart, apparently.