“Fresh Utpala Flower Garland: Praises to White Tārā” by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje

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 gaze of the Lord of the Three Worlds (Avalokiteśvara), Like a lone mother who loves all beings, Beautiful lady of Potala Mountain, to you I bow. "On the auspicious 9th day of the 2nd month of the Fire Horse Year (March 27, 2026),… Continue reading “Fresh Utpala Flower Garland: Praises to White Tārā” by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje

NEW TRANSLATION: “GARLAND OF UTPALA FLOWERS”. Daily Practice of Five-Deity Tārā (སྒྲོལ་མ་ལྷ་ལྔའི་རྒྱུན་ཁྱེར་ཨུཏྤལ་ཕྲེང་བ་)composed by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa (Three Roots Unified II)

"In the Sengdeng palace, the supreme place of awe, from the ocean of unborn compassion, emerald in color, is a precious and beautiful woman, adorned with ornaments. Victorious mother Tārā, to you I bow and praise." སེང་ལྡེང་ཕོ་བྲང་འཇིགས་པའི་གནས་མཆོག་ཏུ། །     སྐྱེ་མེད་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་མཚོ་ལས་མརྒད་མདོག ། བུད་མེད་རིན་ཆེན་ཡིད་འོང་རྒྱན་ལྡན་མ། །    རྒྱལ་ཡུམ་སྒྲོལ་མ་ཁྱོད་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་བསྟོད། །" --Garland of Utpala Flowers by 17th Karmapa (July 2025) Introduction Today,… Continue reading NEW TRANSLATION: “GARLAND OF UTPALA FLOWERS”. Daily Practice of Five-Deity Tārā (སྒྲོལ་མ་ལྷ་ལྔའི་རྒྱུན་ཁྱེར་ཨུཏྤལ་ཕྲེང་བ་)composed by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa (Three Roots Unified II)

THE FEMALE VOICE OF ‘TRUTH’: The Dakinis and Noble Tara scolding Je Atisha for his pride about his expertise in Tantra (17th Karmapa, Life of Atisha, 2023)

“Do you know these sadhanas?” Tara asked. Atisha said that he had never seen or heard the name of the texts. She then said:  “If that is so, then why do you think you are so well-versed in the Dharma and secret mantra practices? The tantras that you know are like no more than a… Continue reading THE FEMALE VOICE OF ‘TRUTH’: The Dakinis and Noble Tara scolding Je Atisha for his pride about his expertise in Tantra (17th Karmapa, Life of Atisha, 2023)