Guide Pages

If you want to find out more about how Prajna is structured and how to best use it, please watch the video below. Alternatively, you can scroll down to explore our guide pages. They are landing pages designed to guide you in a particular topic showing you how to get started, deepen your understanding and where to find relevant courses or live events.

Prajna Tour

Watch this video for a short tour of the different sections on Prajna or for more information consult our Q&A section here.
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Discovery & Foundation

  • Discovering Buddhism
    Welcome to Prajna’s landing page on discovering Buddhism. The main purpose of this page is to explore some of the key philosophical principles and practices of Buddhism that encapsulate Buddha’s insights into our mind and the world. No matter whether you want to get to know the Buddhist path in detail, to find some better means to face the challenges and big questions of life, or you are simply looking for some basic meditation instructions, this page should help you find what you need.

Vajrayana Preliminaries

  • Vajrayana Buddhism in the Modern World: Is Vajrayana for Me?
    The teaching and practice of the Vajrayana or ‘Secret Mantra Vehicle’ lies at the heart of the Mahayana Buddhist tradition of Tibet. Based on the motivation of bodhichitta, the Vajrayana is a path centred on cultivating purity of perception. Vajrayana practices emphasise the close guidance of a qualified teacher and employ many special methods such as visualisation, mantra recitation and profound meditation, in order to arrive swiftly at a direct realisation of one’s true nature and the nature of reality itself.

Vajrayana

  • Vajrayana and sadhana practice —’the means of accomplishment’
    Designed for committed Vajrayana students*—this page shares guidance, teachings and further information on the vajrayana path, in particular sadhana practice. This also includes sections covering the main sadhanas practised in Rigpa and, more broadly, in the Nyingma tradition.