An Ocean of Merit: Liturgy for the Seven-Limb Practice

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An Ocean of Merit: Liturgy for the Seven-Limb Practice

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Liturgy for the Seven-Limb Practice compiled by the late Most Venerable Khenchen Appey Rinpoche. Of all the various means of accumulating merit, the Seven-Limb Practice is considered supreme. While there are many forms of this practice, this liturgy is a comprehensive ritual ideal for every practitioner. It can be one's main daily practice, and is particularly suited for recitation on holy days. The main part of this liturgy is the Aspiration of the Noble Samantabhadra from the Avataṃsaka sūtra. This is supplemented by stanzas from Śāntideva's The Way of the Bodhisattva, as well as verses composed by Sakya Pandita, Dezhung Ajam Rinpoche, Khenchen Appey Rinpoche himself and others.

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Khenchen Appey Rinpoche, comp. An Ocean of Merit: Liturgy for the Seven-Limb Practice. Translated by the Chödung Karmo Translation Group. Kathmandu: International Buddhist Academy, 2012.

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Puṇya - The positive energy or potential created through performing good deeds, such as generosity or kindness. In Buddhism, accumulating this positive force is seen as essential for finding happiness in future lives, and crucial as a foundation for following the spiritual path. Skt पुण्य  Tib བསོད་ནམས་  Ch 福;功德  

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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Sakya - The Sakya tradition developed in the eleventh century in the Khön family of Tsang, which maintained an imperial-era lineage of Vajrakīla and which adopted a new teaching from India known as Lamdre. Tib ས་སྐྱ་  

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