The Buddha Book: Buddhas, blessings, prayers, and rituals to grant you love, wisdom, and healing

The Buddha Book: Buddhas, blessings, prayers, and rituals to grant you love, wisdom, and healing
Lillian Too

Inspired by the teachings of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, The Buddha Book introduces the reader to the most important and well-known Buddhist deities. In this beautifully illustrated volume each Buddha is presented with their major characteristics, along with the prayers, meditations, visualizations, and special rituals and blessings associated with each.Included in this edition are the Historical Buddha, Shakyamuni; the Five Dhyani Buddhas; the Purification Buddha; the Healing Buddhas; the Compassionate Buddhas; the Longevity Buddhas; the Mother Goddess; the Wealth Buddhas; and the Buddha of the Future.

Lillian Too

The Buddha Book

Buddhas, blessings, prayers and rituals to grant you love, wisdom, and healing

Inspired by the teachings of Lama Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche

I dedicate whatever merit arises from this book to the long life of most precious guru, Lama Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche, to whom I prostrate, make offerings and go for refuge. May all his holy wishes be fulfilled immediately. May His Dharma inspired projects in India, Mongolia, Australia, United States, Asia and Europe to benefit sentient beings actualize and meet with success, including the building of the world’s largest Buddha statue of Maitreya Buddha in India.

Epigraph (#ulink_27191745-4574-5aa1-bb85-523227c13cf5)

Spiritual means the mind, and spiritual people are those who seek its nature. Through this they come to understand the effects of their behavior, the actions of their body, speech, and mind. Morality is the wisdom that understands the nature of the mind.

When you know the nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled. Whatever pain, pleasure, or other feeling you experience, it is all an expression of your mind. When you discover that true satisfaction comes only from the mind, you realize you can extend this experience without limit, and then it is possible to discover everlasting happiness … so it is actually very simple.

LAMA YESHE

Table of Contents

Title Page (#uec7e18b6-c0e3-5e7e-8012-c40f2837c0fa)

Dedication (#u62a9f7ce-f006-542c-8b68-883592d18c59)

Epigraph (#ucdd6b6e6-c612-5deb-aa79-06a620940a09)

On Life (#u7e666c3d-d88a-56d1-930d-a63591456a80)

Introduction: Meeting a Living Buddha (#u5bf237ab-c187-59bc-811d-a8199fdb2f94)

Chapter 1: Meeting the Founder-Buddha, Shakyamuni (#u8569188e-de2f-5391-aa29-4b9edd1d7495)

Chapter 2: Five Tantric Buddhas for Spiritual Transformation (#u6a6be78b-06ad-5c78-ad7e-07609ba23ab8)

Chapter 3: Purifying Negativity: Vajrasattva and the thirty-five Confession Buddhas (#ue144ab37-1b04-5149-9b70-9ef9387e5d41)

Chapter 4: Meeting the Medicine Buddha (#u081a0031-2f15-563e-a80b-fbb82cf86ede)

Chapter 5: Meeting the Compassion Buddha, Avalokiteshvara (#uc4fc79ef-d228-57ca-ac63-b538e9276955)

Chapter 6: The Trinity of Longevity Buddhas: White Tara, Amitayus, and Namgyalma (#u026d478a-5917-5032-96af-1839d12319ee)

Chapter 7: Meeting Green Tara, Mother Goddess (#u806a15eb-ad22-5061-b4f7-7b29bd7ad5db)

Chapter 8: Meeting the Wealth Buddhas (#u860013b9-c0e2-5a40-afdf-b58494199770)

Chapter 9: Meeting Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future (#ub7b8585f-6d20-5d66-9d23-360b62508dbf)

Appendices (#u08216415-b4d1-501a-bb57-03ec0794c619)

Glossary (#u82e66387-184e-5d33-8340-ab6bc83c45db)

Index (#ue80b1b9a-52f3-5f06-8301-5a506e632fb4)

Acknowledgements (#u242189fc-9606-562a-9979-e994fc0257b1)

About the Author (#u5aa0c278-4b21-5cb0-8d0a-9a887d340a04)

Copyright (#uef37f938-9323-56be-ade6-5e10f0dacf27)

About the publisher (#u7c9ed282-a475-5ef2-be26-07a4769c1588)

On Life (#ulink_b01daaac-3c8e-5bae-93d9-2a319eccb7c1)

Life is …

like a flickering flame:

a phenomenon that

cannot last long.

Like an illusion:

appearing real

but not there—

being empty.

Phenomena are

like dewdrops

or water bubbles

that can perish any time.

Being transitory in nature

like a dream

they appear real

from their own side,

yet they are empty from

their own side.

Like a dream—

exactly like that.

Total hallucination

Like lightning,

transitory in nature.

When there is lightning

a flash of light appears

and then it is gone.