Taking Refuge: Buddhism's Most Important Practice — With Pali, Sanskrit & English Chants
🙏The Gateway of Merit: Why Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels Matters Most🙏Why Light Offerings & Taking Refuge Are Buddhism's Most Powerful Practice
🙏Renew Your Refuge & Precepts on Buddha Days — 10 Million times Merit (Full Chant)
Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels is considered the most important — and most powerful — practice in all of Buddhism. In this 20-minute video, we explore why Refuge is the "Gateway of Merit," why light offerings appear in nearly every Buddhist ritual, and what practice to do on special merit Buddha Days. Then we recite the full Refuge and Precepts ceremony together in Pali, Sanskrit, and English.
In this video:
Why Taking Refuge is the foundation of every Buddhist tradition — Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana
The three mechanisms of merit: intention (Bodhichitta), karma (activity), and devotion
Why offerings of light are the most symbolic Refuge offering
How merit multiplies 10 million times (up to 100 million) on major Buddha Days and extra merit days (full moon, first quarter, new moon)
The story of Angulimala: purifying even the heaviest karma through Refuge
A simple step-by-step guide to renewing Refuge at home: confession, prostration, chanting, and dedication
Full chants in Pali, Sanskrit, and English — chant along with subtitles!
Whether you're new to Buddhism or renewing a daily practice, this video is a complete Refuge ceremony you can follow at home. As Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche said, "Devotion is the essence of the path."
⏱️ Timecodes:
00:00 Why Refuge is Buddhism's most important practice
06:48 Making an Offering
07:48 Special Merit on Major Buddha Days
08:24 Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche “Devotion is essence…”
09:18 Refuge Purifies even the Heaviest Negative Karma (Story of Angulimala)
10:14 Step-by-step: how to renew Refuge at home
11:07 How to do Prostrations
12:52 Pali recitation
14:14 Sanskrit recitation
15:38 English recitation
17:03 Dedication of merit
DHARMA CALENDAR on BUDDHA WEEKLY (Multi Tradition): https://buddhaweekly.com/dharma-calendar/
FULL GUIDE TO TAKING REFUGE (Comprehensive) on Buddha Weekly: https://buddhaweekly.com/taking-refuge/
BUDDHA DAYS PLAYLIST on BUDDHA WEEKLY YOUTUBE (Special Buddha Days Practices): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d71VyWOwkF5pp05T3PkCQWE1xYHdX0k
BEAUTIFULLY CHANTED BUDDHA DAYS PRACTICES IN PALI and SANSKRIT on @3GemsBand : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXseTAxtdIkdJSIp4jhJEodKuXuVjYXrI
DHARMA CALENDAR on BUDDHA WEEKLY (Multi Tradition): https://buddhaweekly.com/dharma-calendar/
FULL GUIDE TO TAKING REFUGE (Comprehensive) on Buddha Weekly: https://buddhaweekly.com/taking-refuge/
BUDDHA DAYS PLAYLIST on BUDDHA WEEKLY YOUTUBE (Special Buddha Days Practices): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d71VyWOwkF5pp05T3PkCQWE1xYHdX0k
BEAUTIFULLY CHANTED BUDDHA DAYS PRACTICES IN PALI and SANSKRIT on @3GemsBand : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXseTAxtdIkdJSIp4jhJEodKuXuVjYXrI
🙏 May whatever merit we have accumulated through taking Refuge and celebrating the Buddha Dharma be dedicated to the long life of all compassionate teachers, the complete elimination of illness, war, and suffering across the world, and the swift enlightenment of every single sentient being.
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