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Publishing from Draft through FinalResources for Manjushri Nama Samgiti / Chanting the Names of Manjushri
Our Text: Chanting the Names of Manjushri Our text is a Tantra, which comes from the cycle known as The Net of Magical Emancipation. Within this cycle, only two Tantras have extensive commentarial traditions in both India and Tibet: The Secret Nucleus (Guhyagarbha...
Shi-tro Symbolism: The 100 Peaceful and Wrathful Deities
This website will contain information about Buddhist subjects as Yeshe Sanglam wants to share them. As the first post on a new website, this page is being shared while it's being built. Connect to Yeshe Sanglam: yeshesanglam@gmail.com Last updated: March 11,...
Ransom Center Magazine: Charles Dodgson/Lewis Carroll’s Commonplace Book
The Ransom Center’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland exhibition includes a commonplace book kept by Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) with information about ciphers, anagrams, stenography, and labyrinths. As Kelsey McKinney, a former public affairs intern, writes, these “personal anthologies” functioned as “literary scrapbooks”.
Basic Theory of Indian Music
The above is a screenshot from the video below, the third video in a series by Anuja Kamat called "Basic Theory of Indian Music".
All Lamas As Padmasambhava
If you can unite all of the lamas of the past, present, and future, together, as Padmasambhava, then the blessing will be swift. In these degenerate times, this is the method to remove all obstacles; there is no other method superior to this.
Mantrayana
Etymologically, the term “Mantrayana” may be explained as follows. In Sanskrit, “mantra” is a conflation of the elements “manas,” which means “mind,” and “traya,” which means “to protect.”
Like A Log You Should Remain
48. When the urge arises in your mind To feelings of desire or angry hate, Do not act! Be silent, do not speak! And like a log of wood be sure to stay. 49. And when your mind is wild or filled with mockery, Or filled with pride and haughty arrogance, Or when...
Compassion is a Sore Spot
That sore spot on our body is an analogy for compassion. Why? Because even in the midst of immense aggression, insensitivity in our life, or laziness, we always have a soft spot, some point we can cultivate…
Karmic Law: Traleg Kyabgon
Western Buddhists sometimes talk about a karmic cosmic law as if it meant that we were somehow preprogrammed. That is not the Buddhist view, for even though Buddhism teaches that our past karma affects our present state…