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This text has been called a "prayer" and "aspiration", and a "chant". This text is a prayer in that we pray to Dorje Chang to help us in our practice but it is a Buddhist prayer which means we do not believe that there is some higher power up there who if pleased gives us what we want and if displeased gives us nothing. Thrangu Rinpoche has said we should realize that what we are trying to do is open ourselves up to receive the ...
During the fifth century before our era, a tremendous explosion of philosophical thought appeared on the earth. During this time, the Buddha began delivering a remarkable set of teachings. He taught that instead of relying on a God or on materialistic pursuits, one can attain true, permanent happiness by simply examining one’s own mind. When Tibet became a Buddhist nation beginning in the eighth century A.D., the great practitioners and learned scholars who ...