Prayers and Practices

Buddhist prayers and ritual practices to steer our thoughts and actions in a beneficial direction.

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Prayers and Practices

The King of Prayers: Verses 1-28

Buddhist prayer illuminating the practices and views of bodhisattvas as they seek to alleviate the…

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Making Offerings

Generating wealth

The antidote to feeling poor is generosity, might it be in material or in immaterial…

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Chants from the Chinese Tradition

Refuge and Dedication practice

Explanation of each of the chants for taking refuge in the Triple Gem. This is…

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Chants from the Chinese Tradition

More on the Amitabha Buddha practice

How prayers to Amitabha can brighten the mind and how to visualize Amitabha's pure land,…

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Making Offerings

Taking down offerings

The third of three talks about how to set up an altar at home covers…

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Making Offerings

Water bowl offering

The second of three talks about how to set up an altar at home covers…

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Making Offerings

How to set up an altar

The first of three talks about how to set up an altar at home explains…

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A row of novice nuns kneels to receive a stick to enter the annual monastic retreat.
Prayers and Practices

Monastic mind motivation prayer

Verses recited daily at Sravasti Abbey by both monastics and guests in order to cultivate…

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