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by Tenma
Thu Jan 25, 2024 8:16 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: La Santa Muerte and Buddhism
Replies: 15
Views: 1006

Re: La Santa Muerte and Buddhism

There is an old thread about this on the forum, but that's all I remember. A site search would probably find it. :coffee: Kim Honestly, I’m not sure what my middle school brain was thinking or on at the time :| :lol: Though I highly doubt there are any such practitioners here in the forum. I certai...
by Tenma
Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:26 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: La Santa Muerte and Buddhism
Replies: 15
Views: 1006

Re: La Santa Muerte and Buddhism

Well, it's impossible to determine who this being is but we can comment other issues,e.g. why someone turns to LSM instead of bodhisattvas etc because getting an answer from bodhisattvas is extremely difficult, years of practice, predisposition to more effective practices,(if you don't have it - yo...
by Tenma
Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:20 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: La Santa Muerte and Buddhism
Replies: 15
Views: 1006

Re: La Santa Muerte and Buddhism

There is an old thread about this on the forum, but that's all I remember. A site search would probably find it. :coffee: Kim Honestly, I’m not sure what my middle school brain was thinking or on at the time :| :lol: Though I highly doubt there are any such practitioners here in the forum. I certai...
by Tenma
Wed Aug 23, 2023 4:18 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: I have tattooed Vajrayoginis mandala on my chest
Replies: 33
Views: 3489

Re: I have tattooed Vajrayoginis mandala on my chest

pemachophel wrote: Wed Aug 23, 2023 3:50 pm I also would not encourage Deity and mantra tattoos. Most Lamas I have discussed this with recommend against this.
^^ I would highly emphasize this point that Lama Pema just brought up...
by Tenma
Sat Aug 12, 2023 5:38 am
Forum: Shingon
Topic: Usnisa Vijaya Heart Mantra (Part 2)
Replies: 11
Views: 1636

Re: Usnisa Vijaya Heart Mantra

The dharani kicks ass, especially in combination with Nampar Jompoa dharani and mantra. Very useful for overcoming obstacles associated with brain problems: strokes, migraines, etc... What is the "Nampar Jompoa dharani and mantra." Also does Usnisa Vijaya Dharani help with heart issues, b...
by Tenma
Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:57 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Machig Labdron's teaching about karma
Replies: 2
Views: 605

Re: Machig Labdron's teaching about karma

Self-clinging is what generate karma, giving raise for the dependent origination and nonself is karma purification: “This kind of coemergent god or demon is not generally known by worldly people. People become obscured by their personal superficial defilements of ignorance and accumulate negative k...
by Tenma
Wed Mar 15, 2023 3:12 pm
Forum: Lounge
Topic: The ancient name of Sri Lanka (that was known in Europe)
Replies: 2
Views: 423

Re: The ancient name of Sri Lanka (that was known in Europe)

Tamraparni (Sanskrit for "with copper leaves" or "red-leaved" "Sri Lanka, as the Buddhist chronicles of Sri Lanka mention that a port city called Tammapanni was established there during the reign of the legendary king Vijaya. The city was called "Tammena" during t...
by Tenma
Fri Dec 30, 2022 9:55 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Asa HershoffS Vajrayana "Inside Scoop"
Replies: 76
Views: 7478

Re: Asa HershoffS Vajrayana "Inside Scoop"

some of his push hands videos are staged/exaggerated, or at the very least blatant self promotion via “teacher Chi” and very compliant students….not exactly unusual in the Taichi world but it is what it is and it’s a pet peeve. It's the norm rather than the exception. That video is a particularly l...
by Tenma
Mon Dec 26, 2022 10:27 pm
Forum: Sakya
Topic: How do we accumulate millions of mantras?
Replies: 21
Views: 7830

Re: How do we accumulate millions of mantras?

Prayer wheel. If you have the money, you can buy then with millions of mantras. i consider the same. Prayer wheels do not count for practice accumulations in Sakya circles. I'm unsure about the other circles but do the Sakya circles also not count multiplying mantras (Om Ruchira...etc.)?
by Tenma
Thu Dec 15, 2022 4:38 am
Forum: Lounge
Topic: World Cup 2022
Replies: 333
Views: 13370

Re: World Cup 2022

During a coffee reading, one of my Turkish friends predicted that France would win the World Cup based on what she saw in one of my friend's cups! (we're waiting to see if she was right! Meanwhile, my Argentinian friends are praying for Argentina to beat France!)
by Tenma
Mon Nov 28, 2022 12:52 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Aquamation - Any Views on This?
Replies: 5
Views: 396

Re: Aquamation - Any Views on This?

There are traditional burials representing the body going back to different elements according to some sources I’ve read. I imagine this is not unknown. If a lama were to take up aquamation, would the request be to preserve both the bones and the used fluids (rather than disposing of the liquid lat...
by Tenma
Sun Nov 27, 2022 9:18 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Aquamation - Any Views on This?
Replies: 5
Views: 396

Aquamation - Any Views on This?



Out of curiosity, what would be a Tibetan Buddhist perspective regarding aquamation? Would it be just as acceptable as cremation?
by Tenma
Thu Nov 17, 2022 9:44 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Where to get tsa-tsa clay?
Replies: 8
Views: 631

Where to get tsa-tsa clay?

When constructing something like little tsa-tsas or a mini stupa, what sort of clay/mould would be used specifically? To anyone that has had experience with these constructions, where do you get your materials and how much does it cost to construct these sorts of little objects?
by Tenma
Thu Nov 10, 2022 11:56 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: 100 Pujas Meaning
Replies: 3
Views: 290

Re: 100 Pujas Meaning

As an example, I was once told to say or have said 400 of Naten Chagchod, a prostration and offering puja to the Buddha and 16 Sthviras/Elders/"Arhats." In this case, I did not repeat the refuge and generation of Bodhicitta each time, just the invocation and offering sections. Nor did I s...
by Tenma
Thu Nov 10, 2022 7:39 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: 100 Pujas Meaning
Replies: 3
Views: 290

100 Pujas Meaning

Just to check, when one commissions a lama to conduct 100 Medicine Buddha pujas, does this mean that a lama has to conduct a ritual 100 times, he’s offering 100 little torma offerings, or what does it mean to conduct 100 pujas?
by Tenma
Fri Oct 28, 2022 3:52 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: "Secular" Phowa/Bardo Instruction?
Replies: 10
Views: 775

Re: "Secular" Phowa/Bardo Instruction?

Not sure if this is the quote you're searching for, I think a similar point has been made by several teachers, here's one example from Chagdud Rinpoche's book "Life in Relation to Death" It was something like that but the one I remember specifically had a visualization for atheists/agnost...
by Tenma
Mon Oct 24, 2022 4:25 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: "Secular" Phowa/Bardo Instruction?
Replies: 10
Views: 775

Re: "Secular" Phowa/Bardo Instruction?

Not sure if this is the quote you're searching for, I think a similar point has been made by several teachers, here's one example from Chagdud Rinpoche's book "Life in Relation to Death" For example, even if one has not been trained in p’howa, it is certainly beneficial at the time of one...
by Tenma
Mon Oct 24, 2022 12:55 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: "Secular" Phowa/Bardo Instruction?
Replies: 10
Views: 775

"Secular" Phowa/Bardo Instruction?

Years ago, I remember encountering a Bardo Thodol or Phowa instruction at the moment of death that was applicable to all sorts of people in replacing the "Lord of Compassion" with an equivalent from the dying person's faith such as Jesus, Vishnu, or for atheists, golden light (if I remembe...
by Tenma
Thu Oct 20, 2022 8:26 pm
Forum: Media
Topic: “Reincarnated and I can prove it”
Replies: 4
Views: 687

Re: “Reincarnated and I can prove it”

From the NY POST https://nypost.com/2022/10/19/i-was-killed-and-now-im-reincarnated-and-i-can-prove-it A 5-year-old boy claims that he was an African American woman killed in a fire and reincarnated. The young boy’s mother, Erika, told Ohio’s Fox 2 that her son began speaking of a woman named Pam f...
by Tenma
Mon Oct 10, 2022 5:10 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Pallas Cats in Tibetan Literature?
Replies: 7
Views: 779

Re: Pallas Cats in Tibetan Literature?

No wilcats proper in Central Tibet, possibly But Gireaudeau & Gore (1954), p. 262 - chat sauvage: le rgod (= wildcat) - p. 55 - chat sauvage: brag le i.e. "rock-cat" possibly = Felis bieti Milne-Edwards 1892, found in Qinghai (except desertic areas), North of Kham (Sichuan), South of ...

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