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Article | The Lost Buddhist Kingdom of Khotan

2 Apr 2022

History has largely forgotten how important this jewel of a country and cradle of the dharma once was.   The Sources of Buddhist Traditions is a monthly column in Tricycle magazine from three of the major digital resources for Buddhist …
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New Publication: Auspicious Night

24 Mar 2022

In Auspicious Night, the deity Candana appears before a monk in Rājagṛha and asks if he knows of the Buddha’s teaching called Auspicious Night. Since the monk has never heard of it, the deity encourages the monk to ask the Buddha himself, who is staying nearby. At the monk’s request, the Buddha teaches him how to continuously remain in a contemplative state by following guidelines…
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New Publication: Infinite Jewels

10 Mar 2022

While residing at Vulture Peak Mountain with a large community of monks, the Buddha is visited by the bodhisattva Mañjuśrī. The sūtra unfolds as a series of exchanges between the Buddha, Mañjuśrī, and the monk Śāriputra, elucidating a profound vision of reality as undifferentiated, nondual, and all-pervasive.

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New Publication: The Good Eon

3 Mar 2022

The Good Eon recounts the names and circumstances pertaining to all the one thousand and four buddhas who will appear in our world during this current eon, which is commonly known among Mahāyāna Buddhists as the Good Eon. Listed as the first scripture in the General Sūtra section of most Kangyur collections, it is among the longest of the Mahāyāna sūtras translated into Tibetan.
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New Publication: The Dhāraṇī of the Six Gates

10 Feb 2022

The Dhāraṇī of the Six Gates is a short text that consists mainly of a dhāraṇī taught by the Buddha to an assembly of bodhisattvas. It appears to have enjoyed a certain level of popularity, since we find many copies of it among the Dunhuang documents in Tibetan and Chinese, as well as several Indian, Tibetan, and Chinese commentaries and recitation texts based on it.
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Teachings on Sūtra | Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

9 Feb 2022

On Losar, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche speaks on 84000’s new publication of the sūtra The Good Eon,  a seminal text from the Kangyur in which the Buddha delivers an elaborate discourse on the six perfections to an audience of bodhisattvas who will be known as buddhas in the future.
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New Publication: Vajra Conqueror

27 Jan 2022

In this concise text, Vajrapāṇi, through the power and blessings of the Buddha and all bodhisattvas, proclaims a series of powerful dhāraṇī-mantras. The text concludes with verses on the benefits of the dhāraṇī and a simple ablution ritual.

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