Goshir Gyaltsab

This page is dedicated to original translations, research and article about the Goshir Gyaltsab lineage.

Treasury of Lives biography, 2nd Goshri Gyaltsab Rinpoche (by Adele Tomlin)

Articles and Research

KAGYU PROTECTOR RITUAL AND 71st BIRTHDAY COMMEMORATION WITH HE 12TH GYALTSAB RINPOCHE: Birthday commemoration protector puja, and 1st Karmapa’s five-deity Tārā empowerment with HE 12th Gyaltsab Rinpoche (5-6 July, Taipei Taiwan 2025)

17TH GYALWANG KARMAPA’S BIRTHDAY EVENTS AND HIS SPEECHES, TAIWAN AND RUMTEK MONASTERY, INDIA: Report on the 2025 Birthday events and speeches of the 17th Karmapa and special long-life ritual event led by HE 12th Gyaltsab Rinpoche in Taipei, Taiwan (2025)

E-book download: Pointing Out Three Kayas by 3rd Karmapa and teaching transcript (Day 1 and 2) by 12th Gyaltsab Rinpoche

“A SPONTANEOUS RAINFALL OF DEEP-RED ROSES IN THE OUTER, INNER AND SECRET “VAJRA SEAT”/BODH GAYA: Actual explanation of the three kāyas, their connection to the three kham (realms),  visualisation and practice (12th Gyaltsab Rinpoche, Day 2 Kagyu Monlam 2025)

PURIFYING THE WINDS WITH THE “FIERY, FURIOUS AND FAST PASSIONATE WOMAN” (TUM-MO): The origin, lineage and instructions “Pointing Out the Three Kāyas”; by 3rd Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje (teaching by 12th Gyaltsab Rinpoche, Day 1, Kagyu Monlam 2025)

The five-deity Red Avalokiteshvara/Jinasagara (Gyalwa Gyamtso), from the female siddha, Machig Drupe Gyalmo lineage to Rechungpa (12th Gyaltsab Rinpoche empowerment Kagyu Monlam 2025)

Eye on Southeast Asia: The 12th Gyaltsab Rinpoche’s activities in Indonesia 2024 – New Center, Chosgar Ling, and Amitabha empowerment (Teahouse BDG, May 2024)

VISITING A “WONDER OF THE WORLD”: BOROBUDUR BLESSINGS. The Ancient Borobodur temple, Kagyu Monlam, the 16 Arhats empowerment by 12th Gyaltsab Rinpoche and the ‘brilliant white’ temple for the Marme Monlam (Indonesian Pilgrimage III)

A RESOUNDING HRI: ENTERING AND ABIDING IN THE VAJRA BLISS EXPANSE (DEWACHEN): Buddha Amitabha empowerment by 12th Goshri Gyaltsab Rinpoche at Batam Island (Indonesia pilgrimage II)

THE ‘DELICATE’ METHOD OF GOSHRI GYALTSAB, ‘BODY, SPEECH AND MIND’ OF THE KARMAPA: New Dharma centre opening, Chosgar Ling, Batam Island (Indonesia pilgrimage I)

A BIRTHDAY PRAISE AND A BLESSED REUNION OF TWO RED-HAT ‘HEART SONS’. 71st Birthday poem to Kenting Tai Situpa by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, and historic meeting after many years of Tai Situpa and Gyeltsab Rinpoche and visit to Sikkim

Happy 70th Birthday Praises to 12th Goshri Gyaltsab Rinpoche!

A KAGYU NEW YEAR FESTIVE FEAST OF DHARMA DELIGHTS! Full transmission of Gampopa’s Collected works by 12th Gyeltsab Rinpoche and 17th Karmapa’s teaching on the Thirty Verses by Vasubandhu

KNOWING ONE LIBERATES ALL: Compilation of deities by 9th Karmapa and Kālacakra in Karma Kagyu: Transmissions and empowerments by 12th Gyeltsab Rinpoche

Karma Kagyu Kālacakra Masters and the Bokar Rinpoche Kālacakra Stupa

Part Two: Kagyu masters of the Jamgon Kongtrul lineage of Dro/Jonang Kālacakra

Tāranātha Text used for the Five Tantric Deities of Shangpa Kagyu Empowerment at Bokar Monastery today

Tāranātha’s Lion-Faced Dakini text now available in English

Translations: Praises, Long-Life Aspirations and Collected Works transmissions

NEW ‘MELTING’ MOON LONG-LIFE ASPIRATION FOR ‘ACCOMPLISHING WORDS OF TRUTH’: New Translation of long-life aspiration for 12th Goshri Gyaltsab Rinpoche composed by 17th Karmapa (February 2024)

BIRTHDAY PRAISE AND OFFERINGS TO THE GOSHRI GYELTSAB: Translation of ‘Praises to 12th Gyeltsab Rinpoche’ by 17th Karmapa and new biography of 2nd Gyeltsab Rinpoche, Tashi Namgyel

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF JE GAMPOPA: ‘RAW’ INSTRUCTIONS (MAR TRI)’, DHARMA GATHERINGS (TSHOG CHO), MAHAMHUDRA, VAJRAYOGINI, JEWEL ORNAMENTS AND PEARL GARLANDS. Compilation of extant editions and translated English outline of Gampopa’s Collected Works

THE INSEPARABILITY OF THE DAKINI LINEAGE’S RED AVALOKITESHVARA (GYALWA GYAMTSO) AND 2ND KARMAPA, KARMA PAKSHI: Five-Deity Mandala of Red Avalokiteshvara and Karma Pakshi’s Guru Yoga mandala; female siddha lineage of Machig Drupe Gyalmo to Rechungpa; PLUS NEW TRANSLATION of Supplication and Short Daily Practice of five-deity Red Avalokiteshvara by Third Karmapa

Biographical Accounts

Treasury of Lives biography, 2nd Goshri Gyaltsab Rinpoche (by Adele Tomlin)

EATING ONLY THE ESSENCE: Birthplace of 8th Karmapa and his first gurus, 2nd Goshri Gyaltsab Rinpoche and 1st Sangye Nyenpa, Siddha from Denma (‘Good Deeds’ teaching by 17th Karmapa)

THE WHITE CONCH’S RESOUNDING HORN: ASTONISHING CHILD PRODIGY, MIKYO DORJE AND THE DISPUTE BETWEEN THE ‘WESTERN’ AND ‘EASTERN’ CANDIDATES: ‘Good Deeds’ Teaching by 17th Karmapa (Day 3)

GURUS OF THE 8th KARMAPA (PART I): 2nd GOSHRI GYELTSAB, THE MAN WHO CHOSE THE 8th KARMAPA DESPITE BRIBES AND BITTER DIVISION IN THE KAGYU GREAT ENCAMPMENT

WOLVES IN MONK’S CLOTHING: 8TH KARMAPA’S ACCOUNT OF ABANDONING NEGATIVE FRIENDS AND THE CHALLENGES OF BEING A KARMAPA: ‘Good Deeds’ teaching by 17th Karmapa (Day 5)