Sadhana – enhance your daily Buddhist practice

Sadhana is a cross-platform desktop application for supporting Buddhist practice. It provides a structured environment for working with liturgies, mantras, deity images, practice texts, audio, and personal practice records.

The application is designed with Tibetan Buddhist practice in mind, but its custom module system lets users create practice sequences for other contemplative traditions.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Includes traditional deity practice modules for Chenrezig, Green Tara, Guru Rinpoche, and Mañjuśrī.
• Creates custom practice modules with unlimited stages.
• Supports liturgy text, mantra display, deity or practice images, audio files, PDFs, and counters.
• Tracks lifetime mantra counts and session repetitions.
• Automatically logs practice sessions in an integrated journal.
• Displays Tibetan lunar dates alongside the Gregorian calendar.
• Highlights special observance days and karmic multipliers.
• Provides a built-in audio player for chants, guided meditations, and mantra playback.
• Includes a reader and editor for text files and PDFs.
• Offers fullscreen image viewing with zooming and panning.
• Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Website: github.com/alamahant/Sadhana
Support:
Developer: Alamahant
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

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