Tibetan Buddhist Ritual
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Tukdrup Barché Kunsel Shrine Diagram
Many students ask questions about how to set up a proper Tukdrup Barché Kunsel shrine for group practice or at home. Phakchok Rinpoche has kindly...
9 minutes
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Accumulating Causes for Enlightenment
In this video teaching, Phakchok Rinpoche reminds us that the essence of our mind is already enlightened. Yet, even though our nature is pure, that...
9 minutes
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What is Ritual?
Hilary Herdman shows how ritual practice tames our minds as we perform particular physical and verbal actions....
26 minutes
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Bell and Dorje: Understanding Ritual Objects
In the Vajrayana context, practitioners utilize the bell and dorje as important symbolic ritual items. At the outer level, these two implements represent the indivisibility...
26 minutes
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Fear of Death: Practice for Long-Life
Fear of death often arises sneakily in the middle of the night. So, if we wake with this fear, we can learn to practice a...
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Maṇi Wheels Spreading the Dharma
When we spin maṇi wheels in a clockwise direction, rolls of paper (or film) printed with mantras spin. In this way, we are turning the...
Making Peace and Purifying Our World
For today's message, Phakchok Rinpoche offers insight into Kyepar Pakpey, the seventh manifestation of Guru Rinpoche. At the heart of this practice is making peace...
Offering Water Bowls as Material Offerings
Offering water bowls is an easy and pleasurable meritorious activity widely practiced in Tibetan Buddhism. Water's purity gives it great power....
Sharing our Practice with Family and Friends
How do we skillfully share our understanding and our practice? Phakchok Rinpoche here shares some suggestions after years of working with students from many cultures....
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Sang Pūjā – A Cleansing Smoke Offering Practice
Sang pūjā aids practitioners as a purification practice. As we perform this ritual, we focus on removing the impurities in the mindstream of the practitioners...
7 minutes
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The Benefits of Sadhana Practice
In this audio clip from February 2015 in Nepal, a student asks Phakchok Rinpoche about the benefits of practicing according to this type of ritual...
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Sampa Lhundrup Feast Offering and The Swift Accumulation of Merit
When we recite this text while making feast offerings it brings great benefit for ourselves and for others. This condensed text helps achieve good fortune....