Dharma Wheel

Translation text only: May every living being, Our minds as one and radiant with light, Share the fruits of peace, With hearts of goodness, luminous and bright. If people hear and see, How hands and hearts can find in giving, unity, May their minds awake, To Great Compassion, wisdom and to joy. May ...

From the Chinese tradition, translated by a couple of American Bhikshus, with music in a video format. Simply lovely!

https://www.drbu.edu/blog/dedication-merit

His Life is very inspiring, a truly non-sectarian bodhisattva. His lamrim-like work of 23 Q & A in prose and verse is coming out in a few months from Shambhala: https://www.banyen.com/products/emanated-scripture-manjushri In Appendix 5 of Ricard's translation of his Life are summaries of his princip...

Regarding this [topic], what is a bodhisattva’s knowledge of the world? Here a bodhisattva gains, in relation to the world that consists of sentient beings, the following type of true realization. “Alas, this world is in a state of calamity! That is to say, although they take birth, age, die, fall ...

Online and still in print is Takasaki's good study & translation of the root text and Asanga's commentary. He compared the Chinese, Tibetan & Sanskrit versions.

http://lirs.ru/lib/uttara/A_Study_of_Ra ... i,1966.pdf

Children also being euthanized:

http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/201 ... -9-11.html

Is there a good book out there that I can read on the Lotus Sutra that is a commentary on each chapter or portion? Master Hsuan Hua commented on the entire sutra. The English translation by BTTS is in 16 volumes, a mix of 10 paperback older versions & newer revised hardback volumes. This BTTS site ...

Deeply sensible of the Titanic struggle that is now in progress between materialism and the spiritual aspirations of mankind, our constant endeavor has been to gather into our several chapters, like weapons into armories, every fact and argument that can be used to aid the latter in defeating the f...

In 1887 Blavatsky was interviewed by her friend Charles Johnston, a Sanskrit scholar:

http://www.philaletheians.co.uk/study-n ... hnston.pdf

David Reigle begins a valuable comparison of Kalacakra Tantra Tibetan versions with the original Sanskrit:

http://prajnaquest.fr/blog/studies-in-t ... a-1-1-1-3/

http://www.sundayobserver.lk/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/news/2017/02/24/z_jun-p13-Borobudur-01.jpg?itok=9OzIP77F Anyone seen a detailed Buddhist explanation of the symbolism of this mandala in stone? No archeologists please. I know, in general, that the life of Buddha is portrayed in c...

Just bumping up this valuable list:

http://mbingenheimer.net/tools/bibls/transbibl.html

Listen, my son, learned and venerable Delek Pal! Obscured before by the darkness of ignorance, thoughts to practice Dharma were mixed with the eight worldly concerns. To achieve the aims of future lives, trust in these thoughts of practice. Completely drop the aims of this life! Serenely release at...

Then the great adept went to Amdar Shong and was given fine offerings and honors. He gave the entrustment of pure awareness for Avalokiteshvara in the market. He told the parents of three mute children in the rows of the initiation, “Bring your three sons here!” When they arrived before him, he poi...

This noble Mahasiddha faced much hostility, although most regretted it later. He arrived in Dartsedo. Ten men of the same clan in that region had joined together and were killing one man. The great adept said, “If an equal number of men fight, the difference in their courage can be known. It doesn’t...

Reading it again now - from pp. 310-11: Homage to you, Mahākarunika, who compassionately loves countless living beings, who has assumed the role of a mighty spiritual son of the conquerors on the tenth spiritual level, and who shows the path of liberation to all embodied beings. If absolutely all th...

All good & powerful suggestions, thanks to all!

One of Lama Zopa's is the short Kshitigarbha mantra. But what means "Thaleng"?

OM AH KSHITI GARBHA THALENG HUM

All over the West USA fire danger is growing. When people are in mortal danger is there any practice that can turn aside or stop a big fire?

City of 10 Thousand Buddhas, in Talmage California is in such peril right now.

Two fearsome fires are not that far from CTTB now. Any practice suggestions for fires suppression or stopping their movement in a particular direction? Just was reminded that Master Hua said: "The City of Ten Thousand Buddhas is Guanyin’s Bodhimanda, with Guanyin Bodhisattva in the primary position ...

Wow, touching for sure. But, I'm glad they're becoming novice monks, as I imagine they have a lot of living to do before making such a serious commitment. It is a temporary, yet traditional passage for most Thai men. Not sure, but the article seemed to suggest they will all (save the Xtian boy) spe...