torma shalse Dorjé Sempa Paperback: 231 pages

Paperback: 231 pages

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche's experience begins the night he has chosen to embark on a four-year wandering retreat

they also make a great inspiring gift

one symbolically offers to the Buddhas and one’s Teacher everything imaginable thereby increasing one’s generosity and generating the two kinds of merit: the merit of wisdom and the merit of accumulations

are first a devout salutation followed by Arya Tara’s powerful liberating mantra: oṃ tāre tuttāre ture svāhā which roughly means in Sanskrit: “OM

torma shalse Dorjé Sempa Paperback: 231 pagesWhen we invite house guests, we often welcome them with a delicious delicacy. Similarly, when we invite the blessings of the deities in our practice, we honor them with a sacrificial cake, or torma. Carved in lightweight yet resilient wood, tormas are brightly painted with enamel. The shape, ingredients, and color of a torma varies depending upon to whom it will be offered. The wooden shal z torma, painted red and adorned with circular white buttons,