"After Mu Wang, the greatest patron of Tibetan Buddhism in that [Lijiang] region was King Mu Zeng (1598-1646), known in Tibetan accounts as Karma Mipham Tsewang Sonam Rabten. Mu Zeng constructed the greatest number of temples of any of his predecessors or successors. He also expanded Lijiang's territory the most with military campaigns. However, at… Continue reading SACRED ‘NATURALLY-ARISEN’ LETTERS CAVE, ROCK HANDPRINT OF 2ND KARMAPA, AND INCREDIBLE ARTWORKS AND STATUES AT KARMA TASHI NAMGYEL LING (Zhiyun Si 指云寺): Visiting Karma Kagyu monastery, Karma Tashi Namgyel Ling (Zhiyun Si), the role of the Mu Kings and 10th Karmapa in the founding of Tibetan Buddhist temples in the Lijiang/Yunnan area, and personal observations and photos of the monastery (China/Tibet Pilgrimage Part 7)
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‘SEEING’ THE WHITE PEAK OF KHAWA KARPO (ཁ་བ་དཀར་པོ་) MOUNTAIN: Visiting Khawa Karpo the highest mountain range in Dechen, Tibetan region, overview of the ‘opening’ of the Tibetan pilgrimage site by the Karmapas, the 3rd Karmapa’s Praises to it as a Chakrasamvara mandala and personal experience (Shangri-La pilgrimage, Part 5)
“This Khawa Karpo, the tsen of the Rong [country], is the palace of both, mundane and transcendental deities. There is even a pilgrimage guide (lam yig) of [Mount] Khawa Karpo, the tsen of the Rong [country]. རོང་བཙན་ཁ་བ་དཀར་པོ་གངས་རི་དེ།་ཡེ་ཤེས་པ་དནས་འཇིག་རྟེན་པ་རྣམས་ཡི་ཞལ་ཡས་ཁང་དང་ཕོ་བྲང་ཡིན་བར་འདུས།་རོང་བཙན་ཁ་བ་དཀར་པོའི་ལམ་ཡིག་གཅིག་ཀྱང་ཡོད།”“When you don’t know everything is in mind. Places – outside and in – aren’t much use.” ཐམས་ཅད་སེམས་སུ་མ་ཤེས་ན། ཕྱི་སྣང་བའི་ཡུལ་གིས་དགོས་པ་ཆུང།--excerpts… Continue reading ‘SEEING’ THE WHITE PEAK OF KHAWA KARPO (ཁ་བ་དཀར་པོ་) MOUNTAIN: Visiting Khawa Karpo the highest mountain range in Dechen, Tibetan region, overview of the ‘opening’ of the Tibetan pilgrimage site by the Karmapas, the 3rd Karmapa’s Praises to it as a Chakrasamvara mandala and personal experience (Shangri-La pilgrimage, Part 5)
THE HAUNTING, MYSTERIOUS FEMALE TONES OF COMPASSION: THE ḌĀKINĪ’S MANI MANTRA MELODY OF SECOND KARMAPA. Review and excerpts from new book on the life, legacy and works of the 2nd Karmapa, Karma Pakshi
“Although Dzogchen and Mahāmudrā are a pair of different names, they are in essence one. “---Karma Pakshi He asked, “How should one recite it?” whereupon four ḍākinīs sang the tune in unison. The wisdom ḍākinī then said, “If subsequently one uses this tune for the mantra, then all who hear it will be greatly blessed,… Continue reading THE HAUNTING, MYSTERIOUS FEMALE TONES OF COMPASSION: THE ḌĀKINĪ’S MANI MANTRA MELODY OF SECOND KARMAPA. Review and excerpts from new book on the life, legacy and works of the 2nd Karmapa, Karma Pakshi
UNSURPASSED, SECRET DAGGER (PHURBA YANG SANG LAMEY) TREASURE OF RATNA LINGPA: The historical background, lineage, textual sources and its practice in the Karma Kagyu
Introduction The Bokar Monastery community, led by Khenpo Donyo Rinpoche are now currently performing the Ratna Lingpa Vajrakīlaya (Dorje Phurpa) Great Torma offering ritual (from 15th to 24th December) during the Winter Solstice (on the new moon on the 23rd December) in the run up to the Kagyu Winter (Guncho) Debate gathering and oral… Continue reading UNSURPASSED, SECRET DAGGER (PHURBA YANG SANG LAMEY) TREASURE OF RATNA LINGPA: The historical background, lineage, textual sources and its practice in the Karma Kagyu
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
"In the centre, on an unchanging vajra seat is Bhagavan, Great Compassionate One Gyalwa Gyamtso, surrounded by retinue I supplicate with devotion and longing, Bestow the blessings of appearances and peace!“ དབུས་མི་འགྱུར་རྡོ་རྗེའི་གདན་སྟེང་ན། ། བཅོམ་ལྡན་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོ་ལ། ། རྒྱལ་བ་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་བསྐོར། ། བདག་མོས་གུས་གདུང་བས་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས། ། སྣང་སྲིད་བྱིན་གྱིས་བརླབ་ཏུ་གསོལ། ། ---Excerpt of 'Supplication to Gyalwa Gyamtso' by Jamgon Kongtrul “One could think there is… Continue reading 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
‘WAKING UP FROM THE SLUMBER OF IGNORANCE’: THE ‘KA-NYING’ CONNECTION. Reasons why the 8th Karmapa did not write Nyingma refutations and why people assumed he did, and the profound connection of the Karmapas and Nyingma Dharma, 3rd Karmapa as main disseminator of Dzogchen in Tibet, (17th Karmapa Spring teachings, Day 6)
"There are also many famous tertons who were disciples of the Karmapas. In fact, it is traditionally said that the person who had to determine whether a terton was authentic or not was the Karmapa. During the time of the Tai Situ Chokyi Junge, the terma practice spread widely in the Kamtsang, and many of… Continue reading ‘WAKING UP FROM THE SLUMBER OF IGNORANCE’: THE ‘KA-NYING’ CONNECTION. Reasons why the 8th Karmapa did not write Nyingma refutations and why people assumed he did, and the profound connection of the Karmapas and Nyingma Dharma, 3rd Karmapa as main disseminator of Dzogchen in Tibet, (17th Karmapa Spring teachings, Day 6)
INDESTRUCTIBLE MIND MANDALA OF THE KARMAPAS, TSURPHU MONASTERY: Origin, history, rebuilding and ‘Praises to Tsurphu’ by 3rd and 16th Karmapas
Introduction "When you listen to the sound of our river, you hear the mantra of Chakrasmavara. It's power is secret and the river holds it forever." --Drupon Dechen Rinpoche about Tsurphu Monastery's river "In the centre of that, the Monastery of Tsurphu,Where the meadows are like Metog Drampa [AvakIr Nakusuma name of a future Buddha]A… Continue reading INDESTRUCTIBLE MIND MANDALA OF THE KARMAPAS, TSURPHU MONASTERY: Origin, history, rebuilding and ‘Praises to Tsurphu’ by 3rd and 16th Karmapas
NEW TRANSLATION: ‘Seeing the Face of Karma Pakshi: 2nd Karmapa Guru Yoga’ by Yongey Mingyur Dorje and 15th Karmapa
"Great bliss, dharmadhātu, great binduUnstoppable, creative display of natural-appearanceVajrasattva, KarmapaWith unbroken confidence from my heart, I approach you.Primordial awareness kāya of all the BuddhasArising as a chakra of the illusory magical netMandala of the great-bliss guru.I will reveal here the instructions for approaching." "The final birth of divine son, Mutri, the terton, mahasiddha and vidyadhara,… Continue reading NEW TRANSLATION: ‘Seeing the Face of Karma Pakshi: 2nd Karmapa Guru Yoga’ by Yongey Mingyur Dorje and 15th Karmapa
NEW TRANSLATION: Guru Yoga on Second Karmapa: ‘Naturally-Present Heart Drop’, by Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro
For the full moon today, and the birthday of one of the Karmapa's main heart-sons, HE 12th Gyaltsab Rinpoche, I offer this first translation of Naturally-Present Heart Drop[1] a guru yoga on the 2nd Karmapa, Karma Pakshi (1204-1286) by the 2nd Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro (1893-1959). He also composed one for the 3rd Karmapa, Rangjung… Continue reading NEW TRANSLATION: Guru Yoga on Second Karmapa: ‘Naturally-Present Heart Drop’, by Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro