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Maraṇasati (mindfulness of death, death awareness) is a Buddhist meditation practice of remembering (frequently keeping in mind) that death can strike at any time (AN 6.20), and that we should practice assiduously and with urgency in every moment, even in the time it takes to draw one breath. Not being diligent every moment is called ...
A Tibetan Buddhist Monk meditating using chanting and drumming. The 14th Dalai Lama defines meditation (bsgom pa) as "familiarization of the mind with an object of meditation." [142] Traditionally, Tibetan Buddhism follows the two main approaches to meditation or mental cultivation taught in all forms of Buddhism, śamatha (Tib.
The earliest Bön literature only exists in Tibetan manuscripts, the earliest of which can be dated to the 11th century. [25] There are three main Bon Dzogchen traditions: [13] [73] Dzogchen. This is based on a terma associated with the Buddhist monk Vairocana named Lho-brag-ma, discovered by the terton gZhod-ston dNgos-grub grags-pa in 1088 ...
It is found on the walls of Tibetan Buddhist temples and monasteries in the Indo-Tibetan region, to help both Buddhists and non Buddhists understand the core Buddhist teachings. The image consists of four concentric circles, held by Yama , the lord of Death, with an image of the Buddha pointing to the moon metaphorically representing the ...
Other Buddhist traditions such as Tibetan Buddhism posit an interim existence (bardo) between death and rebirth, which may last as long as 49 days. This belief drives Tibetan funerary rituals. [4] [19] A now defunct Buddhist tradition called Pudgalavada asserted there was an inexpressible personal entity (pudgala) which migrates from one life ...
In the Vajrayana tradition [1] of Tibetan Buddhism, tukdam (Standard Tibetan: ཐུགས་དམ, Wylie: thugs dam) is a meditative state said to occur after clinical death in which the body reportedly shows minimal signs of decomposition, retaining a lifelike appearance for days or even weeks.
Machig Labdrön (Tibetan: མ་གཅིག་ལབ་སྒྲོན་, Wylie: ma gcig lab sgron, sometimes referred to as Ahdrön Chödron, Tibetan: ཨ་སྒྲོན་ཆོས་སྒྲོན་, Wylie: A sgron Chos sgron), [1] or "Singular Mother Torch from Lab" (1055–1149), [2] was a Tibetan Buddhist nun believed to be a reincarnation of Yeshe Tsogyal, and the renowned 11th ...
Since then Tibetan Buddhism has played a very important role among the Mongols. Tibetan Buddhism was the most important religion among the Mongols under Qing rule (1635–1912), as well as the state religion of the Kalmyk Khanate (1630–1771), the Dzungar Khanate (1634–1758) and the Khoshut Khanate (1642–1717).