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All the work I create for **Dakini Translations** is offered voluntarily, produced in my own time and largely at my own expense, without formal employment, institutional funding, or organisational support (often due to being a female and survivor/whistleblower). Despite this, the website is read by thousands of people around the world, and I regularly receive…
ON SUICIDE AND BETRAYAL: THE COLLAPSE OF SPIRITUAL REFUGE AND TRUST IN “BUDDHIST” COMMUNITIES. An autobiographical reflection on spiritual betrayal, institutional responsibility, and the Buddhist path from despair to inner refuge and the attempted suicide attempts of Buddhist teacher, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, and use of threats of suicide by a teacher to manipulate and conceal truth about misconduct
“I can forgive but I will not forget. My body still shakes when I walk, I have scars.” —Dilgo Khyentse Yangsi Rinpoche (July 2026) “If someone is drowning, it is not enough to explain that the water, the drowning and the self are empty of inherent existence. Wisdom reaches out a loving and compassionate hand…
TEN POWERFUL SEEDS: KALACHAKRA MANTRA
This new Kālacakra mantra composition and vocals is the creation of Adele Tomlin, a Buddhist scholar-translator of Kālacakra texts and books, and of an important philosophical commentary on the Empty-of-Other Heart Sutra commentary by Tibetan Buddhist master of Kālacakra, Jonang and Shangpa Kagyu lineages, Je Tāranatha. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBcQa3sF1_8 I have received the Kālacakra empowerment a few…
THE QUESTION ON WHETHER BUDDHA PERMITTED EATING SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS “FOR HEALTH”: PAST AND PRESENT CONSIDERATIONS. The “absurd” meat-for-health diet of 14th Dalai Lama, the Shakyamuni Buddha’s Vinaya rules, three-fold purity rule, modern science and factory farming methods, and examples of great Buddhist masters who refused meat even when severely sick
Introduction Recently, I interviewed Maneka Gandhi about her work on animal welfare and protection in India. She spontaneously told me of her telling the 14th Dalai Lama to stop “boasting” to everyone about eating meat for health reasons, and that at her request he stopped eating meat but then later he reverted back to eating…
**A SPACIOUS EMBRACE THAT LETS TRUTH BREATHE**
Silence can be wisdom, a shelter from the storm, a space where anger softens and wounded hearts transform. But silence is not always peace; often it is a shackled cage. Others twist it into guilt, and write lies on the empty page. Sometimes truth must find a voice, a soul prepared to stand— to lose…
DAKINI THREADS: New clothing and accessories store for fundraising and raising awareness. Wearing Fearless Elegance. Inspired Style. Witty Wisdom. Bold Values.
Wear compassion. Inspire thought. Be Bodhi. Be Bold. Introducing Dakini Threads “Dakini Threads, empowers you to express your authentic voice through fearless elegance and original style—while raising funds and awareness for beneficial causes. With every purchase, you give back. ” Dakini Threads is a new eco-conscious, animal-friendly and vegan online clothing and accessories store, personally…
NEW SONG: “NoBody is a Product” – a powerful eco-female-animal conscious anthem with a contemporary edgy pop-rock vibe
“Don’t preach love to me with cruelty on your plate….. You cannot love animals and eat animals Cannot love the planet that way You cannot love the planet and eat animals There’s a price we all will pay. No, no, no I’m a woman with a passion I turn my grief into art Until all…
“YOU WILL GIVE BIRTH TO A BLACK CROW”: Chakrasamvara Empowerment and Unions under the Bodhi Tree, Visionary Dreams of Black Crows, “Too Young and Too Beautiful” and a Lifetime Vegetarian vow with 17th Karmapa under the Bodhi Tree (Autobiographical Excerpts)
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin “Within Tibetan Buddhism, the black crow carries deep symbolic meaning connected to the Karmapa lineage itself. The crow is associated with Mahakala, the protector deity traditionally linked to the Karmapas,…
A SURVIVOR’S TESTIMONY: New website section
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” “Truthfully reporting teacher misconduct and dishonesty to protect women and the Dharma from…
WHITE TĀRĀ, THE KAGYU AND THE KARMAPAS: A summary of 17th Karmapa’s research and recent online teaching on 13th June 2026
དཔལ་ལྡན་འཇིག་རྟེན་གསུམ་གྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག་གི །ཐུགས་རྗེའི་སྤྱན་གྱི་ཆབ་རྒྱུན་ལས་བྱུང་ཞིང༌། །འགྲོ་ཀུན་བུ་ལྟར་བརྩེ་བའི་མ་གཅིག་པུ།།གྲུ་འཛིན་རི་ཡི་མཛེས་མ་ཁྱོད་ལ་འདུད།།She who emerged from the compassionate gazeof the Lord of the Three Worlds (Avalokiteśvara),Like a lone mother who loves all beings,Beautiful lady of Potala Mountain, to you I bow. —17th Gyalwang Karmapa, excerpts from Utpala Flower Garland: Praise to White Tārā (tr. A. Tomlin) “Additionally, from Paṇḍita Vāgīśvarakīrti, it passed to Atisha, and…
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