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Mahayana Buddhism - Ringu Tulku |
 Explaining the practice of Mahayana Buddhism and answering your questions will be the aim of this teaching; and the questions do not have to be about what I am specifically teaching. This will be good for yourself and others.
We can also have some understanding and not practice at all, like me. In Tibet, we saw a great lama with more than 10,000 monks and nuns. He tried to teach us, “On my nose you will see a white AH, can you see it? Look here! I am so sad that you cannot see it! Look, here is the Chenrezig!” - and we could not see it. “Look in my fotos!” Then he gave a high and deep teaching. Of me, he said, “He has studied a lot but no practice, no experience!”
I have studied and received lots of teaching, but he said that if you do not practice it is of no use.
So we can understand, but not practice. We can that we don’t practice - that’s up to us - but the first step is to understand how to practice. Then if we practice maybe there is something happening. If we don’t practice, of course nothing much will happen (Laughs). The understanding of the practice is rather easy. I don’t know if you can say Buddhism is complicated. You can say complicated, if you like, because it’s a very vast subject. It can be a very vast subject. You can spend many years or many lives to study every part of it and still you cannot finish it.
But it’s not necessary to have all that information to practice on your own. If someone has to become a lineage holder, then yes; but if you just need to practice on your own, you don’t need to know everything about everything.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 28 March 2007 )
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Welcome to Dharmadata Text-Library |
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Dharmadata is a non-secterian "buddhist text library", aiming to become a library for buddhist text of all traditions and linage. The main aim is to make buddhist teachings and text easily accessible for both new and old students of buddhism. Also it's a wish to make it easy for schools and students of religion/ spiritual studies to be able to find interesting information about the wast amount of teachings starting from the teachings from Siddhartha Gautama Buddha up trough all the buddhist masters of all traditions to this age. The idea is not to promote any traditions, but to present as much as possible of teachings and text of Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana, Mahamudra and Dzogchen teachings available.  Khempo Ringu Tulku Rinpoche and Sherab Dorje
Dharmadata will as fare as possible give information about the origin and authors of the text with links for further studies and copyrights . Dharmadata Buddhist Text Library also wish to serve as a "gateway" to the wast possibilities of studies and practice of buddhism and wish in the future to be able to present these teachings in all languages that is technically possible. As a start we try to do this in English and Norwegian, but with the kind help of centers, students and masters from all over the world, we hope that people all over the world will help us to reach this goal. By registering you will get the full benefits of the library.
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Ven. Khempo Ringu Tulku Rinpoche says:
Dharmadata is an honest effort to create a treasure house of teachings of all the schools of both Tibetan Buddhist masters of all lineages and teachers from all traditons on the cyber space. To make this project a success we all need to help and put our efforts behind the lonely dedicated efforts of Norwegian Dharma brother Lama Sherab. His Holiness the Dalai Lama has often encouraged us to study and receive teachings from all schools of Buddhism. This broadens our vision and deepens our understanding. Let us work together on this project. I whole heartedly support this project. Please send any authentic teachings, translations and informations and suggestions to the following addresses so that they can be made accessible to all.
Ringu Tulku
MVH / With kind Regards
Sherab Dorje Andreassen |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 26 October 2007 )
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STAGES ON THE PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT |
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In Mahayana Buddhism, we talk of three different categories of persons according to their different mentalities. Depending on what we call their "aspiration", how big, how deep it is, we differentiate between:
- small individuals,
- medium individuals,
- great individuals.
Small individuals follow the Dharma in order to get peace in this life or to be born in a higher realm and get pleasure and comfort in the next. For them, the Buddha has given simple teachings, a simple code of conduct, which is called the ten virtues. They detail how to live a good life, how to become a good human being. Their basic principle is not to harm anybody.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 26 October 2007 )
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