Tibetan Buddhism and Culture

Praises to the Twenty-One Taras is a traditional prayer in Tibetan Buddhism to the female Bodhisattva Tara (also known as Arya Tara, or Jets...

Lamp Aspiration Prayer (from the Tsok Offering - A Rain of Blessings)  By The Fourteenth Karmapa, Tekchok Dorje. Recite the hundred-syllable...

Offering butter lamps are deeply ingrained in the Tibetan tradition and sometimes as many as 10,000 are offered. Butter lamps may be offered...

The syllables OM AH HUNG / OM AH HUM has outer, inner, and "secret" meanings. At each of these levels, however, OM stands for the ...

White Tara long life Mantra Om Tare Tuttare Ture Mama Ayuh Punya Jnana Pustim Kuru Svaha. Om - Representing the union of mind, body, and sp...

“He who has gone for refuge to the Buddha, the Teaching and his Order, penetrates with transcendental wisdom the Four Noble Truths — sufferi...