"Life is a journey, not the destination." --Ralph Waldo Emerson Introduction/Summary Looking back on the year 2025, as New Year 2026 quickly approaches, it has been a "jam-packed" 365 days full of Dharma creativity, research, translations, solo female travel pilgrimage, musical and video reels, political and historical observations, attending international Buddhist events in Vietnam and… Continue reading LIVING A DHARMA DREAM! YEAR IN REVIEW 2025: Translations, research, transcripts, travel, videos, music, talks and more
Month: December 2025
New E-Book: Noble Tārā available for free download
Happy to announce new e-book available for free download: Noble Tara E-book . It is a compilation of all the research and translations done on Noble Tārā (as listed in this section of the website) so far in one .pdf file. With sections on General Tārā, White Tārā, Green Tārā, Red Tārā and new translations… Continue reading New E-Book: Noble Tārā available for free download
SEASON’S GOOD WILL TO ANIMALS: Update and action request to email the Bodhi Temple management committee
To all those who signed this petition, a big thank you and Season's Greetings today! Christmas is a time of year when people show love, kindness and generosity to each other and spend time with their families. However, not for animals bred and cooped up for long hours without movement to slaughter with no love… Continue reading SEASON’S GOOD WILL TO ANIMALS: Update and action request to email the Bodhi Temple management committee
ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORDINARY SEX AND THE UNION KARMAMUDRA PRACTICE AND NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS: 1st Kalu Rinpoche (1988) teaching on the necessity of prior practice and qualifications and the root downfall of mistaking ordinary sexual union and orgasm for tantric practice
“So, the preparation for karma mudra practice, for this so-called sexual yoga or sexual technique involves mastery over the ability to consciously lower and consciously raise the energy without losing it in the ordinary process of sexual orgasm….Then, once the energy has been raised, it is consciously directed throughout all of the various subtle channels of the body… Continue reading ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORDINARY SEX AND THE UNION KARMAMUDRA PRACTICE AND NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS: 1st Kalu Rinpoche (1988) teaching on the necessity of prior practice and qualifications and the root downfall of mistaking ordinary sexual union and orgasm for tantric practice
Vajravārāhi (Dorje Phagmo) and the First Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa
“Bright red in colour: Magnetiser of the three realms[i]. Legs stand stretched and bent: non-abiding in the two extremes. The right, sow’s face: non-conceptual, ultimate reality. Devoid of robes: unpolluted by faults. Blazing like an aeon-ending fire: the light of primordial awareness. The left, wrathful face: demonstrating relative reality.” "In the place of Uddiyana in… Continue reading Vajravārāhi (Dorje Phagmo) and the First Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF THE KARMAPAS: New website resource of Collected Works of Karmapas (Part 1): First Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa
For the New Moon today, am happy to share and announce the creation and launch of another Dharma translations and research website dedicated solely to the Collected Works of the Karmapas. As I have already done a significant amount of translation, research and transcripts on the 1st-17th Karmapas, I decided it would be beneficial to… Continue reading THE COLLECTED WORKS OF THE KARMAPAS: New website resource of Collected Works of Karmapas (Part 1): First Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa
EXTRACTING THE ORE OF GOLDEN COLLIDING STARS FROM “THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN: ONTOLOGY OF BLUE” ART EXHIBIT REVIEW
“Gold originated from the collision of neutron stars and supernova explosions that forge heavy elements. These particles later merged into cosmic dust, settled into forming stars, and eventually became concentrated in the Earth’s crust through geological processes. They either rose as mountains or settled as strata. Mountains, therefore, are repositories of ancient celestial events, preserving… Continue reading EXTRACTING THE ORE OF GOLDEN COLLIDING STARS FROM “THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN: ONTOLOGY OF BLUE” ART EXHIBIT REVIEW
PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE PETITION: Ban animal cruelty, slaughter and sale of meat near Buddhist temples and sacred sites
Please sign and share new petition to ban animal cruelty, slaughter and sale of meat near Buddhist temples and sacred sites: https://www.change.org/p/ban-animal-slaughter-and-sale-of-meat-near-buddhist-temples-and-sacred-sites For practising Buddhists, animal lovers and environmentalists it is deeply disturbing to witness the increasing prevalence of slaughterhouses and the commercial selling of meat, near sacred Buddhist sites in India, Nepal and South-East… Continue reading PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE PETITION: Ban animal cruelty, slaughter and sale of meat near Buddhist temples and sacred sites
“UNCHANGING BLISS-EMPTINESS”: New website section on H.E. 9th Gyalton Rinpoche
Happy to announce another new website section (created a few weeks ago) for articles and translations connected to HE 9th Khyungpo Gyalton Rinpoche (whom I first personally met in May 2025 in Hanoi, Vietnam) and whose teachings I then also attended in Taiwan and Europe: https://dakinitranslations.com/khyungpo-gyalton-rinpoche/ According to the Palpung Sherab Ling biography: "The previous… Continue reading “UNCHANGING BLISS-EMPTINESS”: New website section on H.E. 9th Gyalton Rinpoche
NEW WEBSITE SECTION: BHUTAN
Inspired by the Kālacakra empowerment 2025 in Bhutan, and other activities of HH 70th Je Khenpo on the full ordination of the nuns, I have created a new section of the Dakini Translations website dedicated to articles about or connected to the sacred Buddhist country of Bhutan, see here. A downloadable pdf file of Je… Continue reading NEW WEBSITE SECTION: BHUTAN