Prayers & Practices for Free Download

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Various Prayers & Practices

FPMT Education Services has made available a variety of Essential Buddhist Prayer Books, Buddhist practices, and Tibetan texts available for purchase as hard copy materials and/or eBooks and downloads (many of which are available for free download). Below, please find a selection of commonly used practices which you can download or reference online.

Amoghapasha Card

Animal Liberation Practice

Black Garuda Practice

Bodhisattva Vows

Buddha Multiplying Days, practice on

Calling the Guru From Afar

• Calling the Guru from Afar Plus the Nine Attitudes
• Audio of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, long version chant
  
• Audio of Ven. Dechen, long version chant
  

Consecration Ritual: Extremely Abbreviated Rab Nä

Contagious Diseases, practices for

Cultivating Mindfulness of Bodhichitta

• Italian

Death and Dying: Heart Advice and Practices

The Direct and Unmistaken Method (Eight Mahayana Precepts)

Fire, Practices to Dispel

Food Offering Practices

FPMT Prayers for Teaching Occasions (PDF, .epub, .mobi)

His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan People, Remembering the Kindness of

How to Make Life Most Beneficial for Sentient Beings, Even with Your Speech

• In Khmer

King of Prayers

Kshitigarbha Mantra and Practice

• PDF
• eBook (.epub)
• eBook (.mobi)
• Lama Zopa Rinpoche Chanting the Long Kshitigarbha Mantra (MP3)
• Lama Zopa Rinpoche giving a short explanation of the mantra, and conferring the lung in Australia, 2014 (video)
• Spanish A4 version
• Spanish letter version
• Vietnamese

Lama Chöpa: Lama Zopa Rinpoche Chanting Tunes (video)

Lama Tsongkhapa Day, practices for

Long Life Prayers

• for His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• for Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Long Life Pujas

• • Long Life Lama Chopa with Request to the Dakinis
  • Abbreviated Long Life Puja to Lama Zopa Rinpoche (Lama Chopa with Sixteen Arhats)
  • How to Offer an Abbreviated Long Life Puja to Lama Zopa Rinpoche (Lama Chopa with Sixteen Arhats)
    

Maitreya, a the statue of

Medicine, Blessing 

The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment) with Additional Practices

• English
• French
• Italian
• Khmer
• Polish
• Vietnamese
• The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment) with Additional Practices: A Commentary by Lama Zopa Rinpoche 
• Essential motivation for this practice by Lama Zopa Rinpoche which Rinpoche is recommending students do daily “How to Make Your Life Most Meaningful for Sentient Beings”
• In module “The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness” from the Living in the Path program students can find commentary from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on this practice. 

Migtsema (Five Line Prayer to Lama Tsongkhapa)

Medicine Buddha

• Medicine Buddha Puja (standard)
• Medicine Buddha Sadhana (short)
• Medicine Buddha Puja (extensive) 
• Medicine Buddha Mantras
• Benefits of Medicine Buddha Mantra and Practice by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Mitrugpa, the Immovable Buddha

• A Short Practice of Mitrugpa
• A Short Practice of Mitrugpa (French)
• A Short Practice of Mitrugpa (Spanish)
• Mitrugpa Mantra by Ven. Drimay (MP3)

Most Secret Hayagriva Mantra with Supplication

• English
• Chinese
• Portugese

Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) Prayers

• Requesting Prayer to Padmasambhava
• Prayer to Clear Obstacles on the Path
• Illuminating the Obstacles and Accomplishing the Wishes

Pilgrimage Manuals

• Guide to Sekhar Guthog, Tsuglag Khang, Drowolung, Zang Phug, Tagnya
• Guide to Yerpa
• Guide to Tsarita

Practices for the Benefit of a Whole Country

Prayer of Auspiciousness from the Mani Kabum, by Dharma King Songtsen Gampo, translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Prayer to Chenrezig, Compassionate-Eye-Looking One, by Dharma King Songtsen Gampo, translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Prostration Instructions, Mantras, and Meditation (Advice for Prostrations from Lama Zopa Rinpoche)

Protection from Tsunamis, Earthquakes and the Four Elements, practices for

Rain, How to Stop

Reciting the Names of Buddhas for Great Benefit

Requesting Prayer to Maratika

Seven-Point Thought Transformation

Shakyamuni Buddha Puja

Sixteen Arhats Puja

Song of the Four Mindfulnesses by the Seventh Dalai Lama

Spirit Harm, Methods to Counteract

Sur Offering (Aroma Charity for Spirits)

• German

Tara Prayers

• Praises to the Twenty-one Taras
• Tara Puja (Four-Mandala Ritual to Chittamani Tara)
• Prayer to Mother Tara: The Crying Child’s Tormented Calling of the Perfect Destroyer Qualified Gone Beyond Exalted Mother Tara

Tsog, How to Offer 1,000 Offerings

• Spanish

Vajra Armor Meditation

Verses for the Eight Auspicious Noble Ones

White Umbrella Deity/Sitatapatra

• White Umbrella Deity Sadhana
• Practices of Arya Sitatapatra (White Umbrella Deity) is a collection of two practices, “The Supreme Accomplishment of Sitatapatra,” and “Praises and Repelling Practices of Sitatapatra.

Wish-fulfilling Golden Sun
Published in 1975, this text has been preserved in its original form and should be used with the understanding that many standard styles, pronunciations, and prayers have been revised and updated since the time of publication.  

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