Everlasting Rain of Nectar

Everlasting Rain of Nectar

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In Purification in Tibetan Buddhism, Geshe Jampa Gyatso explains The Bodhisattva’s Confession of Downfalls, a daily practice for purifying negativities. This essential practice helps us to clear negative thoughts and actions from our body, speech, and mind.

In his delightfully conversational manner, Geshe Jampa teaches us the details of the law of cause and effect, the powerful use of the four opponent powers, and the proper manner and movements of prostrating, and provides clear descriptions of each of the thirty-five confession buddhas. (Source: Wisdom Publications)

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Gyatso, Geshe Jampa. Everlasting Rain of Nectar: Purification Practice in Tibetan Buddhism. Translated by Joan Nicell and George Churinoff. Edited by Joan Nicell. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1996.

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https://wisdomexperience.org/product/purification-tibetan-buddhism/

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1. ārya-triskandhaka-nāma-mahāyāna-sūtra, ('phags pa phung po gsum pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po'i mdo). In bka' 'gyur (sde dge par phud), Vol. 68: 111-153. Delhi: delhi karmapae chodhey gyalwae sungrab partun khang, 1976-1979. Columbia AIBS

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Triskandhakasūtraའཕགས་པ་ཕུང་པོ་གསུམ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ

The Three Heap Sūtra (Skt. Trīskhandhadharmasūtra; Wyl. phung po gsum pa'i mdo) is a Mahāyāna confession sutra with homage to the thirty-five buddhas of confession, confession, and dedication. The sūtra is used in the purification of transgressions and downfalls of the bodhisattva vows. The General Confession prayer is used in the purification of transgressions of the prātimokṣa, bodhisattva vows, and the commitments of the Vajrayāna. The Three Heap Sūtra and General Confession can be recited on their own or combined. (Source Accessed Feb 26, 2026)

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• ForewordVII
• Editor's AcknowledgmentsXI
• Publisher's AcknowledgmentsXII
• PrefaceXIII
• Technical NoteXV
• A Short Biography of Sanggye YesheXIX
• XXIII Introduction by Geshe Jampa Gyatso
• The Text1
• Introduction by Sanggye Yeshe3
• Part One: Purifying Negativities And Downfalls7
  • 1. The Four Opponent Forces9
  • 2. The Force of the Basis13
  • 3. The Force of Applying All Antidotes31
  • 4. The Force of Total Repudiation47
  • 5. The Force of Turning Away from Faults in the Future63
• Part Two: Accumulating Merit69
  • 6. Dedicating Virtues71
  • 7. The Seven Limbs81
• Part Three: Conclusion85
  • 8. Overcoming the Afflictions87
  • 9. Final Dedications95
• Appendices97
  • 1. The Bodhisattva's Confession of Downfalls99
  • 2. Woodblock Prints of the Thirty-five Tathagatas103
  • 3. Phonetics of The Bodhisattva's Confession of Downfalls109
  • 4. Sanskrit Names of the Thirty-five Tathagatas113
  • 5. Tibetan Text: The Bodhisattva's Confession of Downfalls115
  • 6. Outline: A Significant Sight125
  • 7. How to Perform Full-length Prostrations127
• Notes135
• Glossary139
• Bibliography147
• About the Author155

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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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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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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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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Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt महायान  Tib ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།  Ch 大乘  

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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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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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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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Vajrayāna - The esoteric Buddhist tradition which developed as a syncretic system involving deity worship, use of mantras, physical energy, and mystical practices. It is also known as the mantra tradition and the tantric school as a result of being based on texts known as tantras. Skt वज्रयान  Tib རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ།  Ch 金剛乘  

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