Tibetan Buddhism and Culture

All Buddhist mantras were taught by the historical Buddhas, or his emanations. Introduction on how mantras and malas are used in Tibetan Bu...

Recitation of the mantra. The sound of recitation shouldn’t be too fast or too slow, neither too strong nor too weak. The requirement for st...

  Deity yoga engages creative visualization as a skillful means of personal transformation through which the practitioner (sadhaka) visualiz...

Those who have advanced to the Bodhisattva grounds are able to accomplish myriad activities, such as practicing the six paramitas, deliverin...

The Three Samadhis According to the tantras of Nyingmapa, the generation stage consists of three types of samadhi: the samadhi of thusness, ...

The treatise Establishing Phenomena as Divine by Rongzom Pandita explicates the view of the generation stage. First of all, we should know t...

The generation stage (utpatti-krama)  In the generation stage, one dissolves one's reality into emptiness and meditates on the deity-man...