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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

Posadha and Confession Rituals of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya

The rituals of confession for fully ordained monks and novices of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya, together with the concluding prayers, the individual posadha blessing, the Sakya-Ngor Prātimokṣa lineage prayer and the bodhicitta aspiration prayer. Tibetan with English translation.

The rituals of confession for bhikshus and novices, with concluding and lineage prayers

Posadha and Confession Rituals of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya

Rituales de Posadha y Confesión del Vinaya Mūlasarvāstivāda

Los rituales de confesión para monjes completamente ordenados y novicios del Vinaya Mūlasarvāstivāda, junto con las recitaciones para concluir, la consagración individual de posadha, la oración Sakya-Ngor del linaje Prātimokṣa y la oración de aspiración de bodhicitta. Tibetano con traducción al español.

Los rituales de confesión para bhikshus y novicios, con las oraciones para concluir y del linaje

Rituales de Posadha y Confesión del Vinaya Mūlasarvāstivāda

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

Ārya Mūlasarvāstivādin Śrāmaṇera Kārikā (Getsul 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

Ārya Mūlasarvāstivādin Śrāmaṇera Kārikā (Getsul 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.