ཁྱེད་བཞུགས་ཡོད་ བོད་གངས་ཅན་དུ་བཞུགས་པའི་སྤུན་ཟླ་དང། ཕྱི་འཛམ་་གླིང་ནང་གྱར་བའི་རྗེས་འཇུག་རྣམས། ཁྱེད་བཞུགས་ཡོད་བསམ་པའི་ཚོར་བ་དེས། བཤད་མི་ཤེས་པའི་ཡིད་ལ་བདེ་བ་སྦྱིན། "YOUR ABIDING PRESENCE Tibetan kinsfolk abiding in Snowy Tibetan lands, andFollowers scattered around the world,That feeling while musing on your abiding presence,Kindles indescribable mental bliss." On sharing my translation of his poem with Jamyang Dorjee himself, he wrote publicly on his FB page: "There cannot be a better translation… Continue reading ‘BLISSFUL FEELING OF YOUR ABIDING PRESENCE’: New translation of poem and calligraphy art by Jamyang Dorjee
Month: Nov 2022
ARTISTIC PROTESTS OF ACROSTIC POETRY (KA-TSOM): LONGCHENPA’S ‘DAZED BY CONDITIONS’ POEM AND ‘LIES THAT SELL’ NEW POEM. Overview of acrostic poetry, Tibetan Buddhist examples, translating Tibetan poetry and new acrostic poem and Instagram page
“KA-yey! Listen, precious lama! KHA-zhey (Only mouthing words) and not remembering the sacred Dharma. GA-ley (Drip by drip) my life has been drained. NGA ni (Myself) when dying, going to hell is certain!” --Khandro Tsering Chodron’s acrostic question to her husband, Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro (tr. Tomlin) "Anyone, wherever they're from, Be it Beijing, Calcutta,… Continue reading ARTISTIC PROTESTS OF ACROSTIC POETRY (KA-TSOM): LONGCHENPA’S ‘DAZED BY CONDITIONS’ POEM AND ‘LIES THAT SELL’ NEW POEM. Overview of acrostic poetry, Tibetan Buddhist examples, translating Tibetan poetry and new acrostic poem and Instagram page
POETRY THE ‘FIRE-SPARK’ OF A BURNING HEART. Tibetan poetry and translation in Tibet and exile, remembering Tibetan poet, Chen Metak and new tribute poem “Stoked with Love”
“Some have arranged two masks,When sporting the black one, they walk in great humilityWhile wearing the white one, they walk dragging their whips behind." --Excerpt from “Strange World” poem by Chen Metak “An artist, if s/he’s unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against… Continue reading POETRY THE ‘FIRE-SPARK’ OF A BURNING HEART. Tibetan poetry and translation in Tibet and exile, remembering Tibetan poet, Chen Metak and new tribute poem “Stoked with Love”
SHARE THE LOVE, MERIT AND JOY WITH A DAKINI DAY VIDEO OFFERING AND COFFEE
"I would hope and expect that if a Dakini were running a translations website, that it would be very playful as well..." --Adele Tomlin (2022) New video on Youtube Channel Today for Dakini Day, I offer a new 5-minute video clip from a recent interview, discussing the challenging and playful nature of a dakini, here: … Continue reading SHARE THE LOVE, MERIT AND JOY WITH A DAKINI DAY VIDEO OFFERING AND COFFEE
DANCE AND DRUMS OF THE DAKINIS: Review of the Lhabab Duchen event at DGL nunnery, a fitting celebration empowering women
"Unless you have enough merit, you're not going to get any dakinis interested in your case. You must have merit in the beginning to want to practice and to be in a situation where you are practicing. So, they just help the show along. They're part of your merit that you have dakinis helping." --Jetsunma… Continue reading DANCE AND DRUMS OF THE DAKINIS: Review of the Lhabab Duchen event at DGL nunnery, a fitting celebration empowering women
BUDDHIST MOTHER’S DAY: RE-TELLING (AND RE-NAMING) ‘LHABAB DUCHEN’: When milk streamed from a mother’s breasts to Buddha’s mouth and Buddha’s great act of repaying mother’s kindness
“From women…buddhas come into this world…." "But when Queen Māyā saw the immense might Of her son, like that of a seer divine, She could not bear the delight it caused her; So she departed to dwell in the divine realms." ---excerpt from Buddhacarita on Queen Māyā's death "I tell you, monks, there are two… Continue reading BUDDHIST MOTHER’S DAY: RE-TELLING (AND RE-NAMING) ‘LHABAB DUCHEN’: When milk streamed from a mother’s breasts to Buddha’s mouth and Buddha’s great act of repaying mother’s kindness
NEW VIDEO INTERVIEW: Dakini Translations Founder, Adele Tomlin speaks to Guru Viking founder, Steve James: Youtube Premiere today
"From that moment on, when I went back to London I just decided that this was going to be my life from now on. I was going to return to India, I was going to study Tibetan, and I was going to go and see him teach. So, from that very short moment in time,… Continue reading NEW VIDEO INTERVIEW: Dakini Translations Founder, Adele Tomlin speaks to Guru Viking founder, Steve James: Youtube Premiere today
PRICELESS MAGIC IN THE BONES: DIAMONDS IN THE DIRT TO THE CROWN JEWELS OF INDIA, BUDDHA’S RELICS. Background and review of the Buddha’s relics exhibited in the National Museum, New Delhi
“Mahākāśyapa let out a long sigh, said a few verses, and circumambulated the pyre seven times. After Mahākāśyapa had seen the Buddha’s remains the pyre self-ignited. They had tried to ignite the remains several times but had been unable to do so. Now, the remains naturally ignited themselves.” “This third nirvana is called the “final… Continue reading PRICELESS MAGIC IN THE BONES: DIAMONDS IN THE DIRT TO THE CROWN JEWELS OF INDIA, BUDDHA’S RELICS. Background and review of the Buddha’s relics exhibited in the National Museum, New Delhi
ENTERING THE 16TH KARMAPA’S MANDALA: AS TOLD BY HIS TRANSLATOR, ACHI TSEPEL: The 16th Karmapa’s magnetic qualities, Hugh Richardson’s weeping, meeting foreign leaders, gifts of Bumthang valley land and diplomatic passport by the Bhutanese and severe sickness before Rumtek monastery founding ceremony. (41st Parinirvana Anniversary of 16th Karmapa)
“When I first met him, HH reached out to me when I went to get the blessings, he touched me and when he made eye contact, I felt like I just melted and there was like a very sublime experience of light. Just something very wonderful where I felt an intense kind of a sense… Continue reading ENTERING THE 16TH KARMAPA’S MANDALA: AS TOLD BY HIS TRANSLATOR, ACHI TSEPEL: The 16th Karmapa’s magnetic qualities, Hugh Richardson’s weeping, meeting foreign leaders, gifts of Bumthang valley land and diplomatic passport by the Bhutanese and severe sickness before Rumtek monastery founding ceremony. (41st Parinirvana Anniversary of 16th Karmapa)
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