Wheel of Great Compassion: The Practice of the Prayer Wheel in Tibetan BuddhismLorne Ladner The Wheel of Great Compassion is the first book to provide Western readers with a complete understanding of the prayer wheel--an ancient and mystical practice that has long been popular with Buddhists throughout Tibet and Mongolia for its ability to bless the environment, promote healing, increase compassion, and assist practitioners on their journeys to enlightenment. This book offers a clear description of prayer wheel practice, its meaning and benefits, and its role as an essential ritual and symbol of Tibetan Buddhism. It contains a general introduction to the prayer wheel, photographs and illustrations, six commentaries by Tibetan lamas (including Lama Zopa Rinpoche), and instructions for both prayer wheel construction and proper use. |
Contents
Tibetan Commentaries | 33 |
Diagrams Pictures and Instructions | 85 |
with the Prayer Wheel | 109 |
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attain Avalokiteshvara become blessings bodhichitta bodhisattva body Buddha of Compassion buddhahood Buddhist clockwise Compassion Buddha Compassionate Dalai Lama deity Dharma wheel disturbing thoughts earth wheel fully enlightened Geshe Holiness the Dalai India karma Lama Zopa Rinpoche liberated life-tree lineage Losang lotus wheel lower realms lower rebirths Mahayana Buddhism mantra meditation merit mind monastery Nagarjuna negative karmas Nepal obscurations one's padme hum Panchen Lama path to enlightenment Photo courtesy prayer wheel prayer wheel practice pure land purified realizations reciting the mantra samsara sentient six perfections six syllables six-syllable sky wheel stupas sufferings Sutra svaha symbolism teachings thousand Thubten Zopa Rinpoche Tibet Tibetan Buddhism Tibetan commentaries touched tradition trans Transcendent Compassionate-Eyed translated turning the Dharma turning the prayer turning the wheel turns the lotus Venerable Roger Venerable Roger Kunsang visualizations wheel of Dharma wheel once wind Wisdom Publications Yeshe yogis ན་མཿས་མནྟ་བུདྡྷ་ནན ཨོཾ་དྷརྨཱ་དྷ་ཏུ་གཎྷེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ ཨོཾ་སརྦ་བི་དྱཱ་སྭཱ་ཧ ཨོཾ་སུ་པྲ་ཏི་ཥྛ་བཛྲ་ཡེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ ཨོཾམཎིཔདྨེཧཱི ཨོཾམཎིཔདྨེཧཱི ཨོཾམཎིཔདྨེཧཱི