Tibetan Buddhism and Culture

Avalokitesvara is a Buddha who embodies the compassion of all Buddhas. He is variably depicted, described, and portrayed in different cultur...

The three disciplines of meditation, contemplation, and careful listening.  Have you ever read or heard something that, the next day, you fo...

The Buddhist tradition recognizes three different levels of wisdom:  1)  Listening 2) Contemplating.  3) Meditating.  What are the three wis...

Prajna is the mother of all the Buddhas of the past, present, and future. It points directly to the original mind by piercing through all t...

Dhyana in Vajrayana Buddhism   Dhyana (in Tibetan: bsam gtan) (lit. “mental absorption”) One of a series of increasingly concentrated states...

D hyana, in Indian philosophy, is a stage in the process of meditation leading to Nirvana. In the oldest texts of Buddhism, Dhyana (Sanskrit...

Synopsis Mount Kailash—the Stairway to Heaven—is the most intriguing mountain range is the whole of Himalayas, so we thought of divulging so...