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Welcome to the World of Tibetan Buddhism

Title: Welcome to the World of Tibetan BuddhismInstructor: Tom Llewellyn, Soulremember AcademyLanguage: English (with auto subtitles) What You’ll Learn By taking this course, you will: Course Format & Features About the Instructor: Tom Llewellyn Tom Llewellyn brings over 20 years of experience in spirituality, meditation, and Buddhist practice. With more than a decade devoted specifically …

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The Laughing Buddha: A Symbol of Prosperity, Happiness, and Joy

The “Fat Buddha”: A Symbol of Prosperity, Happiness, and Joy

The mala beads necklaces are called by many names like Buddha beads, yoga beads, prayer necklaces and many more. The bead necklace is made from materials like sandalwood, jade and lava stone, mala necklaces can be found in many varieties. It is believed that the natural material promotes the spiritual healing and calms the soul of the person using it. Certain stones are also said to bring out the hidden qualities from within the people. Religious people use specific stones for their personality.

The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa

The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa

By Jetsun Milarepa རྗེ་བཙུན་མི་ལ་རས་པ།, Christopher Stagg (Translator), Tsangnyön Heruka (Preface) Shambhala Publications, Boulder, Colorado, 2016 Powerful and deeply inspiring, there is no book more beloved by Tibetans than The Hundred Thousand Songs, and no figure more revered than Milarepa, the great eleventh-century poet and saint. An ordinary man who, through sheer force of effort, faith, and …

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Old Path White Clouds

Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha

By Thich Nhat Hanh Parallax Press, Berkeley, California, 1991 Old Path White Clouds presents the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha སངས་རྒྱས་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ།. Drawn directly from 24 Pali, Sanskrit, and Chinese sources, and retold by Thich Nhat Hanh in his inimitably beautiful style, this book traces the Buddha’s life slowly and gently over the course of 80 …

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Buddhist Thangkas from Boudhanath, Nepal