What are the ten refuge vows, why take refuge and what commitments are there?..

The root of all attainments is to keep your vows and commitments intact. If you break your vows, you don’t get attainments or siddhis. With this in mind, Lord Buddha laid down a set of vows and rules to protect the practitioners’ mind from negative thoughts and actions…

I take refuge until I am enlightened in the Buddhas, the Dharma and the Sangha. By the positive potential I create by practising generosity and the other far-reaching attitudes, may I attain Buddhahood in order to benefit all sentient beings…

This ground, anointed with perfume, flowers strewn, Mount Meru, four lands, sun and moon, imagined as Buddha-land and offered to you. May all beings enjoy this pure land…

A compiliation of preliminary merit-generating prayers and mantras including offering prayers and the heart sutra amongst others…