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Donor Club sharing philosophy, meditation, Leadership, Dance, Yoga

Donor Club sharing philosophy, meditation, Leadership, Dance, Yoga Donor Club sharing philosophy, meditation, Leadership, Dance, Yoga Donor Club sharing philosophy, meditation, Leadership, Dance, Yoga Donor Club sharing philosophy, meditation, Leadership, Dance, Yoga
Class 2 Thursday March 31, 6AM AZ 2022

The Dharani Series with Dr. Miroj Shakya

Help save wisdom texts in Nepal! This series of special fundraising talks are open to the public and members. Dr. Miroj will speak on the importance of different Dharani's being preserved by A.L.L. at our Nepal input center.

Donate to Nepal

The Dharani Series with Dr. Miroj Shakya

What to expect

About the Class

This is a 1 hour class covering and fundraising on behalf of timeless asian philosophy being preserved by A.L.L.. It is open to  all levels and accessible to the public for later viewing if you are a member,  in the private FB group "Guides" section. Dr. Miroj Shakya, Director of Sanskrit preservation at Asian Legacy Library, will teach every two months on the significance of different Dharani texts being preserved by A.L.L..

Access recordings by becoming a member and find the archive in the guides section of the private Facebook Group

PAST CLASS: 

CLASS 2: Spreading love & Compassion: The Tara Dharani 

Thursday March 31, 2022 6AM LA, 6AM AZ, 9AM NYC, 9PM Taiwan

1. Introduction - The Origin of Tara 

2. Incantations of Tara-  108 names of Tara and a few short Dharanis  

3. Benefits of Chanting - Removal of Eight great fears/protection of family/ relationship/ all kinds of issues/diseases   

4. Dr. Shakya's Personal experiences of chanting the dharani in daily life and its effectiveness. 


PAST CLASS (become a member to view in FB guides)

CLASS 1: The Vasudhārā Dhāraṇī and its Significance  February 7, 2022

Vasudhārā means the bearer of wealth or steam of treasure. She is one of the most popular female  deities in Mahayana Buddhism. She is yellow in complexion. Seated in Lalitāsana posture, she is  depicted in a form having one face and six arms displaying a rosary, jewel, and varada mudrā in  her right hands and a scripture, bundle of rice, and vase of plenty in her left hands. She is the  embodiment of compassion and loving-kindness. She blesses with wealth and prosperity anyone  who sincerely chants her mantra, Dhāraṇī, and performs the rituals invoking her. There are many  Sanskrit Buddhist texts attributed to the worship of Vasudhārā. Among them, Vasudhārā Vrata  Kathā, Vasudhārānāmāṣṭottaraśatam (Vasudhārā's 108 names), Vasudhārā Dhāraṇi, Suchandra  Avadāna and Vasudharoddeśa are the most prominent ones. The origin of Vasudhārā appears in the Vasudhārā Dhāraṇī. This Dhāraṇī claims that Sākyamuni Buddha gave this teaching on  Vasudhārā to the householder Sucandra, a resident of Kosāmbī for overcoming poverty at the  Ghoṣitārāma monastery in the great forest called Kaṇṭaka near Kosāmbī. In this talk, I will  introduce Vasundhara and offer an analysis of the content of Vasudhārā Dhāraṇī and discuss the  benefits of recitation of this Dhāraṇī in daily life.  



What are we fundraising for?
Lightning Club is paying special attention to Asian Legacy Library's activities in Nepal. Did you know that for the past three years we've been working on building a new input center in Kathmandu, Nepal, in collaboration with NIBS (Nagarjuna Institute of Buddhist studies)!? We need to raise money to finish the ALL input center in Kathmandu, so that we can save these texts from being lost and so we can share them for free in the A.L.L. digital library to be translated. The NIBS input center goal is $65,000 and Lightning Club like to cover the cost of at least two computers for the center at only $2,200. Can you help us?


NIBS was started by the late Min Bahadur Shakya and his two sons Miroj Shakya and Milan Shakya. They specialize in Nepalese, Sanskrit manuscripts. A.L.L. has trained 11 nepalese men & women to scan and input texts and the project is managed by Vimala Sperber of A.L.L.
Check out the special Dharani project  being launched at the new center in Kathmandu. Something that  Dr. Miroj Shakya feels will benefit the whole world! Dharani means mantra and the goal is to find 108 dharanis in Nepal from different manuscripts, then preserve, scan, input and share for free to the world!! Donate here to raise money for Sanskrit manuscript preservation in Nepal.


Financial Transparency

-Any donations for this class  will support the A.L.L. NIBS project in Nepal. 


How to prepare for the class?

Open to the public

1. Donate to save Dharani texts in Nepal: https://asianlegacylibrary.kindful.com/?campaign=1144309 



Donate to preserve Dharanis in Nepal

Any funds donated below, go directly to the NIBS project in Nepal . *Note this does not grant you access to the club membership. See button at bottom of event page for membership.

DONATE TO SAVE SANSKRIT TEXTS IN NEPAL

ABOUT OUR TEACHER

Dr. Miroj Shakya

Dr. Miroj Shakya is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Religious Studies at

University of the West, Rosemead, California, USA and the Director of Sanskrit for the Asian

Legacy Library in Nepal. He earned his M.A (2006) and Ph.D. (2011) in Religious Studies

specializing in Buddhist Studies from the University of the West, Rosemead, California. His

research interests include Sanskrit language, Literature, Pali language, Buddhist canon, Indian

Mahayana Buddhism, Newar Buddhism, and Hinduism. He is currently serving as Project

Coordinator of Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Project (www.dsbcproject.org) and Rare

Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscript Preservation Project at the University of the West. He was

Convener of the Sanskrit Language Working Group, Union Catalog of Buddhist Texts sponsored

by the International Association of Buddhist Universities (IABU), Bangkok, Thailand. He was

editor of “Catalog of Digitized Rare Sanskrit Buddhist Manuscript Vol. 1 (2010) and Vol.2

(2019)” and co-editor of a book titled “Sacred Art of Nepal” (2013). He was awarded the

Straniak Foundation Grant through the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, the

University of California for Spring semester 2008. He spent a semester as a Visiting scholar at

ECAI, International Area Studies, The University of California, Berkeley in 2008. He is currently

serving as Director of Nagarjuna Institute of Buddhist Studies, Lalitpur, Nepal. He has been

serving as a founder member of the Maitri Project, Los Angeles which provides funds for health

care, housing, food, and financial support for nuns and monks of Nepal (themaitriproject.com).

about Lightning Club

About Us

Lightning Club is the English speaking donor club of Asian Legacy Library 501 c3.  Your financial support of Lightning club gets directly directly placed in the account of A.L.L.. The Lightning Club strives to help you have realizations on your support of timeless wisdom.  

How to become a member

 If you donate $10 or more dollars recurring each month, you can gain access to our exclusive members only Lightning Club. Content is found in our private Facebook Group.  All proceeds support the Asian Legacy Library. 

ALL is the 501 c3  digital library which shares, for free, texts that are safeguarded, preserved and digitized by input projects in India, Nepal, Mongolia and more.  We provide monthly thank you content sourced from wisdom texts.

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Support wisdom preservation and create causes for realizations. When you donate $10 recurring monthly, you get to become a member of the club & access this class and the archive of all past classes.

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