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David McGavock

The Berzin Archives - The Buddhist Archives of Dr. Alexander Berzin - Home Page - 0 views

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  • David McGavock on 07 Dec 10
     
    "The Berzin Archives is a collection of translations and teachings by Dr. Alexander Berzin primarily on the Mahayana and Vajrayana traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Covering the areas of sutra, tantra, Kalachakra, dzogchen, and mahamudra meditation, the Archives presents material from all five Tibetan traditions: Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu, Gelug, and Bon, as well as comparisons with Theravada Buddhism and Islam. Also featured are Tibetan astrology and medicine, Shambhala, and Buddhist history."
patrickzeis

Spiritual Gurus: Palden Gyatso | Balanced Achievement - 0 views

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  • patrickzeis on 16 Nov 16
     
    Tibetan Buddhist monk Palden Gyatso was wrongly imprisoned and tortured for 33-years by the Chinese military. Today he offers his oppressors compassion.
David McGavock

How Buddhism Came to Tibet -- The History of Buddhism in Tibet - 0 views

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  • David McGavock on 21 Feb 14
     
    "The history of Buddhism in Tibet begins with Bon. The Bon religion of Tibet was animistic and shamanistic, and elements of it live on today, to one degree or another, in Tibetan Buddhism. Although Buddhist scriptures may have made their way into Tibet centuries earlier, the history of Buddhism in Tibet effectively begins in 641 CE. In that year, King Songtsen Gampo (d. ca. 650) unified Tibet through military conquest and took two Buddhist wives, Princess Bhrikuti of Nepal and Princess Wen Cheng of China. The princesses are credited with introducing their husband to Buddhism. "
David McGavock

Karmapa 900 Official Website Home Page - 0 views

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  • David McGavock on 07 Dec 10
     
    "Nine hundred years ago, amidst the snow-capped peaks of eastern Tibet, there was born a spiritual master whose compassion for beings would shape the future of Buddhism in Tibet. This great being was the First Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa, who instituted the practice of intentionally reincarnating in a way that disciples could recognize-a practice that forms the backbone of Tibetan Buddhism as we know it today. His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, will lead the international Karma Kagyu community in Karmapa 900-a grand yearlong celebration to commemorate the 900th anniversary of the First Karmapa's birth"
David McGavock

The Meaning and Use of a Mandala - 0 views

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    "The Meaning and Use of a Mandala\nAlexander Berzin, December 2003\nThe Meaning of a Mandala\n\nThe Tibetan word for "mandala," dkyil-'khor , literally means "that which encircles a center." A "center," here is a meaning, and "that which encircles it" - a mandala - is a round symbol that represents the meaning. Not all mandalas, however, are round.\n\nThere are many types of mandalas, used for various purposes in both the sutra and tantra practices of Buddhism. Let us survey some of them."
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Tibetan Bön || Bonpo's Tradition - 2 views

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    Bön
  • dhruvthukral on 11 Jun 14
     
    I visited a seminar.. it was about how to make tibet free from china? how is it going on there? http://lifeofnichiren.com
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    Morsels from authentic books of Tibetan Buddhism
tom o'brien

Amazon.com: The Fifth Gospel: New Evidence from the Tibetan, Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian ... - 0 views

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      the fifth gospel
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David McGavock

Buddhism in a Nutshell: The Four Seals of Dharma - 0 views

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  • So what is the particular view that Buddhists try to get used to? Buddhism is distinguished by four characteristics, or “seals.” Actually, if all these four seals are found in a path or a philosophy, it doesn’t matter whether you call it Buddhist or not.
  • Therefore, these four characteristics are called “the Four Seals of Dharma.” They are: All compounded things are impermanent. All emotions are painful. This is something that only Buddhists would talk about. Many religions worship things like love with celebration and songs. Buddhists think, “This is all suffering.” All phenomena are empty; they are without inherent existence. This is actually the ultimate view of Buddhism; the other three are grounded on this third seal. The fourth seal is that nirvana is beyond extremes.
  • The First Seal: All Compounded Things are Impermanent
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  • Delusion arises when we don’t acknowledge that all compounded things are impermanent.
  • realize this truth, deep down and not just intellectually
  • The Second Seal: All Emotions are Painful The Tibetan word for emotion in this context is zagche, which means “contaminated” or “stained,” in the sense of being permeated by confusion or duality.
  • how are we to understand duality?
  • It is subject and object: ourselves on the one hand and our experience on the other.
  • The dualistic mind creates a lot of expectations—a lot of hope, a lot of fear.
  • Another Buddhist way of explaining this is to say that when a big pain becomes smaller, we call it pleasure.
  • This is why Buddhists conclude that all emotions are painful. It is because they are impermanent and dualistic that they are uncertain and always accompanied by hopes and fears.
  • Buddhists define a phenomenon as something with characteristics, and as an object that is conceived by a subject.
  • To hold that an object is something external is ignorance
  • Put very simply, when we talk about emptiness, we mean that the way things appear is not the way they actually are.
  • The Three Turnings of the Wheel
  • can be summed up in a single phrase: “Mind; there is no mind; mind is luminosity.”
  • A correct understanding of emptiness leads us to see how things are related, and how we are responsible for our world.
  • When I’m talking about emptiness, everything that I’m saying has to do with this “image” emptiness. I can’t show you real emptiness but I can tell you why things don’t exist inherently.
  • The Fourth Seal: Nirvana is Beyond Extremes
  • In many philosophies or religions, the final goal is something that you can hold on to and keep. The final goal is the only thing that truly exists. But nirvana is not fabricated, so it is not something to be held on to. It is referred to as “beyond extremes.”
  • If, when you try to abandon or transform attachment to your own experiences, you don’t understand these four seals, you end up regarding the contents of your mind as the manifestations of something evil, diabolical and bad.
  • When you have a clear understanding of these four seals as the ground of your practice, you will feel comfortable no matter what happens to you. As long as you have these four as your view, nothing can go wrong. Whoever holds these four, in their heart, or in their head, and contemplates them, is a Buddhist. There is no need for such a person even to be called a Buddhist. He or she is by definition a follower of the Buddha.
  • David McGavock on 04 Mar 16
     
    ""Buddhism is distinguished by four characteristics, or 'seals.' If all these four seals are found in a path or a philosophy, it can be considered the path of the Buddha.""
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