In Day Three of the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje's teachings on Fifty Verses on the Guru (March 2025), the 17th Karmapa first emphasises again the importance of the Guru being qualified and having the essential characteristics and qualifications. The advice given in the Fifty Verses on the Guru only applies once one has carefully… Continue reading AN INSTANTANEOUS PILE-ON OF BLESSINGS FROM A QUALIFIED GURU AS PRECIOUS AS ONE’S “OWN EYEBALLS”: The three or five main characteristics a qualified Vajrayana guru must have and the instant downpour of blessings when a qualified guru meets a qualified receptive vessel student (17th Karmapa, Fifty Verses on the Guru, Day 3 2025)
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THE KAGYU ‘RED CROWN THAT LIBERATES ON SEEING’: The black and red crowns of Karma Kagyu by 1st Jamgon Kongtrul and 12th Tai Situ Rinpoche’s historic ‘red crown’ ceremony in Bodh Gaya, January 2024 (with transcript of teaching by Mingyur and Gyalton Rinpoches)
"In India and Tibet, wherever the Karmapas were born, the incarnations of his heart-disciples also appeared and served the Karmapas through the three ways of pleasing the guru until their minds became inseparable from the guru's enlightened mind. To symbolise this inseparability, various Karmapas bestowed red crowns that liberate on seeing, upon past incarnations of… Continue reading THE KAGYU ‘RED CROWN THAT LIBERATES ON SEEING’: The black and red crowns of Karma Kagyu by 1st Jamgon Kongtrul and 12th Tai Situ Rinpoche’s historic ‘red crown’ ceremony in Bodh Gaya, January 2024 (with transcript of teaching by Mingyur and Gyalton Rinpoches)
REMEMBERING JAMGON KONGTRUL THE GREAT: Parinirvana anniversary of the 1st Jamgon Kongtrul the Great
Today, January 8, 2024, is the 27th of the 11th month in the Tibetan Buddhist calendar, which is the anniversary of Jamgon Lodro Thaye the Great or Kongtrul Yonten Gyatso (1813-1899)'s parinirvana. As it says in this biography: "Jamgon Kongtrul the Great, Lodrö Thaye, was born in the village of Rong-gyap in Derge, in east… Continue reading REMEMBERING JAMGON KONGTRUL THE GREAT: Parinirvana anniversary of the 1st Jamgon Kongtrul the Great