Prostrations

Prostrations

In Buddhism, prostration is a way of showing veneration for the Three Jewels (including the Buddha, his teachings (the Dharma), and the spiritual community (the Sangha)) and sometimes also other objects of veneration.

For Buddhist practitioners, prostration has multiple, overlapping benefits including :
  • an experience of giving or veneration
  • an act to purify oneself from filth, especially vanity.
  • a preparatory act for meditation
  • an act that accumulates merits 
In some practices, such as the Ngöndro, each prostration is performed simultaneously with the recitation of a prayer and a visualisation (e.g. the tree of refuge of his practice lineage).
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