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
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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)
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)
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)
“SWEEP THE SNOW OFF YOUR OWN HEAD/ROOF”: 17th Gyalwang Karmapa’s new thangka artwork of 1st Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa and his oral instructions on the important qualities of a student and guru (English translation)
“The dull-witted[1] follow faith [without wisdom].” If you don't have wisdom, you also do not want to understand/explain the Dharma. It is difficult to believe that this is the right thing to do. Also, being deceived by a false spiritual teacher is effortless, it is said.” “A guru must have renounced attachment to this life;… Continue reading “SWEEP THE SNOW OFF YOUR OWN HEAD/ROOF”: 17th Gyalwang Karmapa’s new thangka artwork of 1st Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa and his oral instructions on the important qualities of a student and guru (English translation)
REMEMBERING THE ‘GREY-HAIRED ONE FROM KHAM’: 1st Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa commemorative praise and opening speech for the Kagyu annual winter debate and teaching (Guncho) by the 17th Karmapa
"Victors of the three times declared your praise-worthy name/characteristics,Primordial awareness dakinis offered the lineage crown,The victory banner of accomplishment penetrates all-areas,Today, remembering the 'grey-haired Khampa." --Commemorative Praise to 1st Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa by 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje Today is the commemorative anniversary for the 1st Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa, otherwise known as the 'grey-haired' one… Continue reading REMEMBERING THE ‘GREY-HAIRED ONE FROM KHAM’: 1st Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa commemorative praise and opening speech for the Kagyu annual winter debate and teaching (Guncho) by the 17th Karmapa