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- 14:16, 7 June 2024 Milinda Pogram (hist | edit) [2,173 bytes] Hankop (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Milinda Program'''. Conceived as a 10-Year contemporary shedra for Westerners, the Milinda Program was created to ensure that the dharma that is taught in the future is authentic and powerful. This program aims to create a core training curriculum for dharma teachers, and to set a common standard for teaching outside of Buddhist institutions. Western instructors from different sanghas have committed to gathering for 3 months every year for online and in-person trainin...")
- 15:36, 5 June 2024 The Acceptance That Tames Beings with the Sky-Coloured Method of Perfect Conduct (hist | edit) [1,688 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In '''The Acceptance That Tames Beings with the Sky-Coloured Method of Perfect Conduct''', (Skt. ''Samyagācāravṛttagaganavarṇavinayakṣānti''; Tib. ཡང་དག་པར་སྤྱོད་པའི་ཚུལ་ནམ་མཁའི་མདོག་གིས་འདུལ་བའི་བཟོད་པ།, Wyl. ''yang dag par spyod pa’i tshul nam mkha’i mdog gis ’dul ba’i bzod pa'') the Buddha Shakyamuni and several bodhisattvas deli...")
- 09:15, 5 June 2024 The Questions of the Naga King Anavatapta (hist | edit) [1,739 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''The Questions of the Naga King Anavatapta''' (Skt. ''Anavataptanāgarājaparipṛcchā''; Tib. ཀླུའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་མ་དྲོས་པས་ཞུས་པ།, Wyl. ''klu’i rgyal po ma dros pas zhus pa'') is a discourse that provides guidance on core features of the bodhisattva path, including the perfections, mindfulness, and meditation, with a strong orientation toward emptiness as the inexpressible ultim...")
- 08:52, 5 June 2024 Prajñavarman (hist | edit) [592 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Prajñavarman''' (Skt. ''prajñāvarman''; Tib. པྲཛྙ་བརྨ།, Wyl. ''pradz+nya barma'') was an Indian Bengali pandita resident in Tibet during the late eighth and early ninth centuries. Arriving in Tibet on an invitation from the Tibetan king, he assisted in the translation of numerous canonical scriptures. He is also the author of a few philosophical commentaries contained in the Tibetan Tengyur collection. <ref>84000 Translating the Words of t...")
- 09:28, 31 May 2024 The Four Boys’ Absorption (hist | edit) [2,092 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''The Four Boys’ Absorption''' (Skt. ''Caturdārakasamādhi''; Tib. ཁྱེའུ་བཞིའི་ཏིང་ངེ་འཛིན།, Wyl. ''khye’u bzhi’i ting nge ’dzin'') narrates the Buddha Shakyamuni’s passing away (or parinirvana) in the Yamakashala Grove near Kushinagara. Ananda has a portentous dream that is confirmed by the Buddha to be an indication that he will soon die. Widespread panic spreads through the various realms...")
- 18:30, 25 May 2024 The Benefits of the Five Precepts (hist | edit) [1,520 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In the first of the two parts of the sutra, (Skt. ''Pañcaśikṣānuśaṃsa''; Tib. བསླབ་པ་ལྔའི་ཕན་ཡོན།, [[Wyl. ''bslab pa lnga’i phan yon'') '''The Benefits of the Five Precepts''', a man and woman who have been married since they were very young and have never been unfaithful to each other ask the Buddha how they can remain together in future lives. The Buddha replies that this is possible for couples...")
- 09:10, 18 May 2024 The Questions of Gangottara (hist | edit) [1,581 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In '''The Questions of Gangottara''' (Skt. ''Gaṅgottaraparipṛcchā''; Tib. གང་གཱའི་མཆོག་གིས་ཞུས་པ།, Wyl. ''gang gA’i mchog gis zhus pa'') a laywoman named Gangottara leaves her home in the city of Shravasti and visits the Buddha Shakyamuni in Anathapindada's Park. The Buddha asks her from where she has come, sparking a dialogue on the true nature of things. Among other things, they discuss the fact that, fro...")
- 08:46, 18 May 2024 The Prophecy for Bhadra the Illusionist (hist | edit) [1,569 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In this sutra, '''The Prophecy for Bhadra the Illusionist''' (Skt. ''Bhadramāyākāravyākaraṇa''; Tib. ་མ་མཁན་བཟང་པོ་ལུང་བསྟན་པ།, Wyl. ''sgyu ma mkhan bzang po lung bstan pa'') while the Buddha Shakyamuni is residing at Vulture's Peak Mountain, in the nearby city of Rajagṛiha the accomplished illusionist Bhadra hatches a scheme to humiliate the Buddha and disprove his omniscience in order to win...")
- 12:12, 10 May 2024 King Udayana of Vatsa’s Questions (hist | edit) [1,788 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "King Udayana of Vatsa’s Questions (Skt. ''Udayanavatsarājaparipṛcchā''; Tib. བད་སའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་འཆར་བྱེད་ཀྱིས་ཞུས་པ།, Wyl. ''bad sa'i rgyal po 'char byed kyis zhus pa'') is a cautionary discourse on the dangers of sense desires and the consequences of acting on them. In this work, King Udayana is driven into a murderous rage by the jealous Queen Anupama, King Udayana launches a barrage of arrows...")
- 10:02, 5 May 2024 The Prediction for Brahmashri (hist | edit) [1,244 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''The Prediction for Brahmashri''' (Skt. ''Brahmaśrīvyākaraṇa''; Tib. ཚངས་པའི་དཔལ་ལུང་བསྟན་པ།, Wyl. ''tshangs pa’i dpal lung bstan pa'') is a short dialogue that features an encounter between the Buddha, out on his daily alms round, and a group of children playing on the outskirts of Shravasti. One precocious boy named Brahmashri offers the Buddha the pavilion he has made of sand or dirt....")
- 14:03, 19 April 2024 Vitarka mudra (hist | edit) [404 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Vitarka mudra''' is a symbolic, ritualistic hand gesture used in Buddhism, Hinduism, and yoga. The term comes from the Sanskrit, vitarka, meaning “reasoning,” “consideration” or “deliberation”; and mudra, meaning “closure,” “mark” or “seal.” Vitarka mudra is also known as the “gesture of debate” or the “discussion mudra.” Category: Key Terms Category: Mudras")
- 11:36, 19 April 2024 Vishvabhu (hist | edit) [263 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Vishvabu''' (Skt. ''Viśvabhū''; Tib. ཐམས་ཅད་སྐྱོབ།, Wyl. ''thams cad skyob''), is the third of the six buddhas who preceded Buddha Shakyamuni. ==Internal Links== *Seven heroic buddhas Category: Buddhas and Deities")
- 11:31, 19 April 2024 Vipashyin (hist | edit) [260 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Vipshyin''' (Skt. ''vipaśyin''; Tib. རྣམ་པར་གཟིགས།, Wyl. ''rnam par gzigs'') is the first of the six buddhas who preceded Buddha Shakyamuni. ==Internal Links== *Seven heroic buddhas Category: Buddhas and Deities")
- 10:41, 19 April 2024 The Questions of Shrimati the Brahmin Woman (hist | edit) [1,735 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This sutra, '''The Questions of Shrimati the Brahmin Woman''' (Skt. ''Śrīmatībrāhmaṇīparipṛcchā''; Tib. བྲམ་ཟེ་མོ་དཔལ་ལྡན་མས་ཞུས་པ།, Wyl. ''bram ze mo dpal ldan mas zhus pa'') presents a dialogue between the Buddha Shakyamuni and a brahmin woman called Shrimati whom he encounters while collecting alms in the city of Varanasi. Inspired by the Buddha’s majestic and graceful presence, Shrimati inq...")
- 07:46, 14 April 2024 Like Gold Dust (hist | edit) [1,540 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This sutra, '''Like Gold Dust''' (Skt. ''Suvarṇavālukopamā''; Tib. གསེར་གྱི་བྱེ་མ་ལྟ་བུ།, Wyl. ''gser gyi bye ma lta bu'') presents a short dialogue between Ananda and the Buddha on the theme of limitlessness. In response to Ananda’s persistent inquiries, the Buddha uses analogies to illustrate both the limitlessness of the miraculous abilities acquired by realized beings, and the limitle...")
- 10:51, 23 March 2024 The Accomplishment of the Sets of Four Qualities: The Bodhisattvas’ Prātimoksha (hist | edit) [1,721 bytes] Tsondru (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In '''The Accomplishment of the Sets of Four Qualities: The Bodhisattvas’ Prātimoksha''' (Skt. ''Bodhisattvaprātimokṣacatuṣkanirhāra''; Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སོ་སོར་ཐར་པ་ཆོས་བཞི་སྒྲུབ་པ།, Wyl. ''byang chub sems dpa’i so sor thar pa chos bzhi sgrub pa''), Venerable Shariputra requests the Buddha Shakyamuni to explain the conduct of bodhisattvas. The Budd...")