ACT 4 TIBET – Om Ah Hung

Tag: bodhicitta

  • Bodhicitta

    Bodhicitta is a spontaneous wish to attain enlightenment motivated by great compassion for all sentient beings, accompanied by a falling away of the attachment to the illusion of an inherently existing self. Bodhicitta  “Bodhicitta” or “awakened mind”, “mind of enlightenment” is the central notion of the Mahâyâna (“bodhi” means enlightenment or awakening and “citta” means…

  • Prostrations

    Why do we do Prostrations? 1. The Purification of Pride First of all, we should know why we do prostrations. We do not do them to endear ourselves to somebody else. We do not do them for the Buddha. Such concepts are completely wrong. The Buddha is not a god of this world. We bow…

  • Khenchen Thrangu Tulku 1933-

    The Ninth Khenchen Thrangu Tulku,  Karma Lodrö Lungrik Maway Senge The Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche was born in Kham, Tibet, in 1933. At the age of five, he was formally recognized by His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa and Tai Situpa as the ninth incarnation of the great Thrangu tulku. He entered Thrangu monastery, where, from the…