In Tibetan Buddhism especially they talk a lot about Bodhichitta which is the same thing as "Enlightenments nectar". Though initiations into Tibetan Buddhist practices are helpful, 3 years before I was first initiated by a Tibetan Lama in Ashland, Oregon in 1980 I was doing the Sanskrit versions of the Tara Mantra and the Padmasambhava Mantra and OM Mani Padma Hung which is the Sanskrit version of the primary Dalai Lama Mantra or Avalokiteshvara who is the Buddha of Compassion incarnate on earth.
Of course when you are initiated you will learn the Tibetan Version of these Sanskrit Mantras which are slightly different.
But, by giving these Sanskrit mantras this invoked Tibetan Lamas to initiate me 3 years later. So, in 1977 in San Francisco I was taught to do the Sanskrit Version and in 1980 I started learning the Tibetan versions you do when you are initiated and empowered to do them and the practices along with the initiations the rest of your lives.
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