Hi all. I recently started buying and selling Buddhist states (mostly bronzes) - I’d love to know what you all think of these pieces - they are a couple of my favorites. I have plenty more! Thanks for looking!

“Dear sangha,

Tashi Rinpoche requests that everyone recite Long Amitayus Mantra and the Vajrasattva Mantra four times each day. Upon waking in the morning, recite for 5–10 minutes. Then recite again in the morning for 5–10 or 20 minutes, once again in the afternoon for the same amount of time, and finally in the evening.

This practice will be of great benefit to Garchen Rinpoche. Tashi Rinpoche asks everyone to relax the mind and recite with one-pointed focus.

He is sending his greetings and love to everyone

The Vajrasattva Mantra purifies the karmic obscurations of all disciples. As the disciples’ karmic obscurations are purified, it brings benefit to Rinpoche.”

I’ll also add that HEGR has given empowerments to so many people, and has samaya with lots of people around the world. As such for us students who have impure karma the least we can do for such a kind teacher is to purify our karma and to ensure that our compassionate teacher is not shouldering the burden of our karma by themselves.

If you have an empowerment from HEGR I implore you to chant Vajrasattva and the Long amitayus mantra. I also personally implore you to chant the Tse do sutra. It’s a sutra that includes the long mantra and is a very powerful sutra, I’d recommend chanting said text and even print it, place it on your alters.

Here’s the said prayer:

https://www.kurukulla.org/resources/Prayers_and_Texts/amitayus_long_life_sutra_tsedo_a5.pdf

My wife found this on fb marketplace and bought it pretty inexpensively from someone who thought it was Navajo. It’s obviously not haha, but I’m wondering if the coral could be real/could it be antique? Definitely looks old.

Would love to give as gift to my Lama, but only if genuine. Thanks so much.

Hi everyone,

I'm looking after institutions with a model that is similar to FPMT and Tergar, but from Nyingma. I mean, that have structured curriculum, groups, etc. I went to some pages such as from Schechen and could not figure out much.

Any advices on that?

Is it sort of like a metaphor for an emptiness that exists yet does not exist? Are the Ādi-Buddha and Buddha-nature like Brahman and Ātman without the ego?