Death Penalty

Death Penalty

Date Posted:
November 2009

A man had murdered someone and had received the death penalty for his crime. He had become Buddhist while in jail and wrote to Rinpoche asking for advice as to what he could do. He was prostrating to the Thirty-five Buddhas three times a day and had taken the five lay precepts.

You should recite the Twenty-one Tara prayers 60,000 times. Your motivation should not only be to be released from prison but to reach enlightenment quickly. That should be your motivation.