Manchester Buddhist Centre

In the first of a Great Bodhisattvas series, Ratnaguna intro­duces Avalokiteshvara

Avalokiteshvara is the Bodhisattva of com­pas­sion, whose man­tra Om Mani Padme Hum is found painted and carved all over Tibet. Ratnaguna says he read some­where recently that this man­tra could be the most often repeated sequence of syl­lables in the his­tory of mankind!

About the series

An aspect of ordin­a­tion into the Western Buddhist Order is the receiv­ing of a Sadhana – a visu­al­isa­tion med­it­a­tion prac­tice. Order mem­bers choose one of the great archetypal Buddhas and Bodhisattvas from the Mahayana tra­di­tion to med­it­ate on and are ‘given’ the prac­tice in the ordin­a­tion cere­mony. They prac­tice their sadhana reg­u­larly over a num­ber of years, thus get­ting to know intim­ately their chosen Buddha or Bodhisattva.

Each of the speak­ers in this series will be speak­ing about the Bodhisattva they med­it­ate on, so you can be sure they will be speak­ing from famili­ar­ity and love.