This text originated from Poier’s academic examination of the influence of Buddhism in German-speaking culture at the beginning of modernism around 1900. It was first published about twenty years ago, and this current English version is amended in a few places and supplemented with results from the latest research.
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The following text is an English translation of the first two parts of Lama Ole Nydahl, Die vier Grundübungen des Diamantweges: Vorbereitungen auf das Große Siegel (Zeitlose Werte Verlagsgesellschaft, 2018), or The Four Foundational Practices in Diamond Way: Preparations for the Great Seal. The entire book will appear in English in the near future.
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Following a Mahakala initiation by His Holiness (H.H.) the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Thaye Dorje in Karma Guen in August 2017, Nedo Rinpoche, the main Vajra Master of H.H. the 17th Karmapa, was asked to speak on the subject of protectors, powerfully protective wisdom aspects that express active compassion. Excerpts from this talk have been summarized here. Buddhism Today thanks Maggie Lehnert for working with Nedo Rinpoche and Bruce Underhill in preparing this text.
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The Bodhisattvacharyavatara, or Bodhicaryavatara for short, is often translated as The Way of the Bodhisattvas and is one of the most well-known Mahayana texts. It was composed around 700 CE by Shantideva (also called Bhusuku1), one of the Eighty-Four Mahasiddhas,
Unlike most of the previous Karmapas, the 15th Karmapa Khakyab Dorje (1871-1922) married and fathered three sons. His root guru was the great Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye (1813-1899), one of the most prominent Tibetan Buddhists of the nineteenth century. He
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