TIBETAN SADHANA VOCABULARY: Translated Words of Seven Buddhist Sadhanas, compiled by Dr. Cathy Kielsmeier

TIBETAN SADHANA VOCABULARY: Translated Words of Seven Buddhist Sadhanas

compiled by Dr. Cathy Kielsmeier

Would you like to understand the Tibetan words in your Buddhist Sadhana? This book is a guide for beginning to develop a sadhana vocabulary, an easier task than you might think. Based on a count of all the words in seven well-known peaceful sadhanas, you will find that only 150 words are found in many of them--that's a manageable number to learn! If you want to learn the words in all seven sadhanas, there are only about 600 more. Or, you can quickly select out words from your favorite sadhana, even just the words in its visualization section. Remembering these words will be easy, as you will use them every time you practice. To facilitate efficient learning, words from the Chenrezik, Medicine Buddha, Green Tara, and Ngondro's Refuge, Vajrasattva, Mandala, or Guru Yoga sadhanas were counted as either frequently used, less used, or rarely used. Also included is a very useful Tibetan-English index, English-Tibetan index, and appendices (the Tibetan alphabet, finding the root letter, prefixes etc, organization of the Tibetan dictionary, and a list of verbs and tenses from the sadhanas).

Using this book you can quickly and easily:

Improve your sadhana visualizations by learning the descriptive words recited
Have full control over designing a basic vocabulary list to meet your own individual goals
Focus on learning words from any of the seven sadhanas that you select
Develop a basic canonical vocabulary efficiently prior to, or during, a long retreat
Select out those words most frequently used, less used, or rarely used in these sadhanas
Look forward to an improved practice due to better comprehension of the vocabulary used.