After attending the Discovering the Buddha Within I: Inner Peace course with HE 9th Chungpo Gyalton Rinpoche in Hanoi, Vietnam (see report here), as well as other teachings and empowerments Rinpoche then gave in Taiwan and Berlin this year, I decided to attend the second Buddha Within (a course devised by the 12th Tai Situpa)… Continue reading HEARING THE “INNER VOICE” OF WISDOM WITH 9TH GYALTON RINPOCHE: Report on four day course with HE 9th Gyalton Rinpoche in Prague and some sights, sounds and observations
Month: August 2025
MISUSING A GURU’S PROPERTY, WEALTH OR OBJECTS WITHOUT THEIR ADVICE OR WISHES: 17th Karmapa’s online teachings August -September 2025, and new video clip on not using a guru’s property or objects without express advice and permission (2025)
Today, on Dakini Day, we are all fortunate to have the opportunity to watch and listen to HH 17th Gyalwang Karmapa (supreme lineage head and root of the Karma Kagyu lineage) beginning a month long online online live teaching programme from 18th August to 17th September (GMT 10-11.30am, IST 3-5.30pm) . See detailed schedule here:… Continue reading MISUSING A GURU’S PROPERTY, WEALTH OR OBJECTS WITHOUT THEIR ADVICE OR WISHES: 17th Karmapa’s online teachings August -September 2025, and new video clip on not using a guru’s property or objects without express advice and permission (2025)
The Importance of the Accumulation of Wisdom/Primordial Awareness (Prajñā/Jñāna)
"Consciousness (namshé) is impermanent. Wisdom (yeshé) is permanent. རྣམ་ཤེས་ནི་མི་རྟག་པའོ། ། ཡེ་ཤེས་ནི་རྟག་པའོ། །" –Buddha Shakyamuni, Questions of Sāgaramati Sutra (Sāgaramatiparipṛcchā Sūtra) In Buddhism it is considered essential for a Buddhist practitioner to generate two accumulations (sambhāradvaya; ཚོགས་གཉིས་, tsoknyi) merit (བསོད་ནམས་, sönam) and wisdom in order to be able to progress on the path, meet qualified teachers,… Continue reading The Importance of the Accumulation of Wisdom/Primordial Awareness (Prajñā/Jñāna)
AROUSING BLISSFUL BODHICITTA AND “JEWEL-IN THE LOTUS” RICHES IN BERLIN: HE 9th Khyungpo Gyaton Rinpoche’s teachings on 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva, sightseeing walk in Berlin, and Dzambhala empowerment, Bodhicarya Berlin centre (5-6th August 2025)
"4. The practice of all the bodhisattvas is to renounce this life’s concerns, For friends and relatives, long acquainted, must all go their separate ways; Wealth and prized possessions, painstakingly acquired, must all be left behind; And consciousness, the guest who lodges in the body, must in time depart... 14. Even if others should declare… Continue reading AROUSING BLISSFUL BODHICITTA AND “JEWEL-IN THE LOTUS” RICHES IN BERLIN: HE 9th Khyungpo Gyaton Rinpoche’s teachings on 37 Practices of a Bodhisattva, sightseeing walk in Berlin, and Dzambhala empowerment, Bodhicarya Berlin centre (5-6th August 2025)
“ECSTATIC MUSIC OF THE BLISS DAKINI”, REPELLING “UNTIMELY DEATH SUMMONS” RITUAL BY 17TH KARMAPA: The remarkable life-story of wisdom dakini, Drowa Zangmo (Teacher and consort, of Gyalwa Gotsangpa and Ogyenpa) and first female tulku in Tibet, from new translated Introduction of “Ecstatic Music of the Bliss Dakini”An easy to perform way of offering to repel “untimely summons” of dakinis ” by the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje (English Translation)
“It is said that when the mantra yogis pass away, the heros and heroines lead them to the realm of the dakinis/space-movers. It is also very common in the biographies of the Sarma siddhas that this happens. The reason why it is possible to avert/repel such “untimely summons” is this ritual of Drowa Zangmo that… Continue reading “ECSTATIC MUSIC OF THE BLISS DAKINI”, REPELLING “UNTIMELY DEATH SUMMONS” RITUAL BY 17TH KARMAPA: The remarkable life-story of wisdom dakini, Drowa Zangmo (Teacher and consort, of Gyalwa Gotsangpa and Ogyenpa) and first female tulku in Tibet, from new translated Introduction of “Ecstatic Music of the Bliss Dakini”An easy to perform way of offering to repel “untimely summons” of dakinis ” by the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje (English Translation)