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The pointing-out instruction (Tibetan: ངོ་སྤྲོད་, Wylie: ngo sprod, THL: ngo trö) is an introduction to the nature of mind in the Tibetan Buddhist lineages of Mahāmudrā and Dzogchen. In these traditions, a lama gives the pointing-out instruction in such a way that the disciple successfully recognizes the nature of mind.
The legacy of the wishes of Tibetan Buddhist religious leaders and their adherents, after being forced to leave their homelands, is visibly apparent in the second half of the 20th century and in the dawn of the 21st, through the collective presentations and publications of the quality translations of these most important sacred texts, [73 ...
It is a pleasurable read, thoughtfully written, and deploys well supported arguments that draw upon a wealth of Buddhist literature." [5] In 2019, Barstow was the editor of The Faults of Meat: Tibetan Buddhist Writings on Vegetarianism. [8] Barstow has given online courses on Buddhism and animal welfare. [9]
The Five Mental Hindrances and Their Conquest (PDF). Wheel Publication No. 26. Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society. Thrangu Rinpoche, Khenchen (1993). The Practice of Tranquility and Insight: A Guide to Tibetan Buddhist Meditation. Shambhala Publications. Ye-shes rgyal-mtshan (1975).
Mādhyamaka ("middle way" or "centrism"; Chinese: 中觀見; pinyin: Zhōngguān Jìan; Vietnamese: Trung quán tông; Tibetan: དབུ་མ་པ་ ; dbu ma pa), otherwise known as Śūnyavāda ("the emptiness doctrine") and Niḥsvabhāvavāda ("the no svabhāva doctrine"), refers to a tradition of Buddhist philosophy and practice founded by the Indian Buddhist monk and philosopher ...
The Ten Stages Sutra (Sanskrit: Daśabhūmika Sūtra; simplified Chinese: 十地经; traditional Chinese: 十地經; pinyin: shí dì jīng; Tibetan: འཕགས་པ་ས་བཅུ་པའི་མདོ། Wylie: phags pa sa bcu pa'i mdo) also known as the Daśabhūmika Sūtra, is an early, influential Mahayana Buddhist scripture.
The Five Pure Lights (Wylie: 'od lnga) is an essential teaching in the Dzogchen tradition of Bon and Tibetan Buddhism. For the deluded, matter seems to appear. This is due to non-recognition of the five lights. Matter includes the mahābhūta or classical elements, namely: space, air, water, fire, earth.
In 1999 with friends including Tibetan translator Michele Martin and Harvard professor and fellow Tibetologist Leonard van der Kuijp, he founded the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Smith's texts from India that were digitized at TBRC became the foundation for Tibetan studies in the United States.