“When we think about all the qualities, what are the most important and indispensable ones that a teacher must have? Again, if we take our compassionate teacher, the perfect Buddha as an example, we can see that the Buddha himself had many different and great special qualities that enabled him to bring benefit to beings… Continue reading ‘THE GURU RESIDES IN THE HEART’: GURU YOGA TEACHING BY 17th GYALWANG KARMAPA: The importance qualities of an authentic teacher and student and checking motivation and purpose
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SAMANTHABHADRI’S CHILD OF THE ROOT OF BLISS: TAKING THE RESULT AS THE PATH IN SECRET MANTRA VAJARYANA. The three aspects of yidam deity practice, the three roots of Vajrayana practice, and the first two of the three inner tantras, Maha and Anu Yoga, and the three-fold mandala of Samanthabhadra
“The three inner tantras assert that both the essence and the nature are the deity. The first of these is the mahāyoga, which focuses on the creation stage." “This Anuyoga asserts that one must restrain the aspect of ordinary confused perception into the expanse by focusing on the points of the channels, winds and drops… Continue reading SAMANTHABHADRI’S CHILD OF THE ROOT OF BLISS: TAKING THE RESULT AS THE PATH IN SECRET MANTRA VAJARYANA. The three aspects of yidam deity practice, the three roots of Vajrayana practice, and the first two of the three inner tantras, Maha and Anu Yoga, and the three-fold mandala of Samanthabhadra
BUDDHA NATURE IS NOT LIKE A ‘CHILDLESS WOMAN’S CHILD’: THE CLARITY ASPECT OF BUDDHA NATURE AND MIND: The importance of bodhicitta, devotion and recognising the nature of mind as a union of clarity-emptiness (Magic Key, Day 8, Thrangu Rinpoche)
“It is not completely non-existent emptiness, mere nothingness like space, or the child of a barren woman.” --Khenpo Gangshar in the Magic Key to the Philosophical Tenets commentary "When we think about that emptiness of space what is it like? It is inanimate, there is no clarity to it in any way. But when we… Continue reading BUDDHA NATURE IS NOT LIKE A ‘CHILDLESS WOMAN’S CHILD’: THE CLARITY ASPECT OF BUDDHA NATURE AND MIND: The importance of bodhicitta, devotion and recognising the nature of mind as a union of clarity-emptiness (Magic Key, Day 8, Thrangu Rinpoche)
MAGIC KEY FOR ENTERING KNOWLEDGE (PART IV): SUGATAS GONE TO BLISS, THE EMPTY-OF-OTHER (ZHEN-TONG) VIEW. Buddha Nature bliss beyond suffering and clarity awareness-emptiness indivisible union ultimate nature (Thrangu Rinpoche teaching, Day 7)
རྫོགས་སངས་སྐུ་ནི་འཕྲོ་ཕྱིར་དང༌། ། དེ་བཞིན་ཉིད་དབྱེར་མེད་ཕྱིར་དང༌། །རིགས་ཡོད་ཕྱིར་ན་ལུས་ཅན་ཀུན། ། རྟག་ཏུ་སངས་རྒྱས་སྙིང་པོ་ཅན། །Because the perfect buddhas’s kaya is all-pervading,Because reality is undifferentiated,And because they possess the potential,Beings always have the buddha nature. --Maitreya, Sublime Continuum, I, 27 “These explanations are taught in the third turning the wheel of dharma and contain irrefutable statements of the definitive meaning, which explain that Buddha nature… Continue reading MAGIC KEY FOR ENTERING KNOWLEDGE (PART IV): SUGATAS GONE TO BLISS, THE EMPTY-OF-OTHER (ZHEN-TONG) VIEW. Buddha Nature bliss beyond suffering and clarity awareness-emptiness indivisible union ultimate nature (Thrangu Rinpoche teaching, Day 7)
SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW AT THRANGU RINPOCHE’S MONASTERY: Remarkable and auspicious rainbow signs at Thrangu Rinpoche’s Nepal monastery during 49-day parinirvana ritual
These stunning and moving photos (see below) of a rare spherical rainbow surrounding the sun and human-like clouds, were posted on July 6th by the Thrangu Tashi Monastery in Namo Buddha, Nepal. Such a rare rainbow and clouds phenomenon are seen as highly significant and auspicious signs of realisation in a Vajrayana Buddhist master of… Continue reading SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW AT THRANGU RINPOCHE’S MONASTERY: Remarkable and auspicious rainbow signs at Thrangu Rinpoche’s Nepal monastery during 49-day parinirvana ritual
THE MAGIC KEY FOR “ENTERING THE GATEWAY OF KNOWLEDGE” (KHE-JUG) PART I: THE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS/TENETS (DRUB-THA): The non-Buddhist schools and two ‘externalist’ Buddhist schools of the Hinayana and Mind-Only (9th Thrangu Rinpoche’s teachings on Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche’s Gateway to Knowledge (Part I))
"Great emptiness free from the elaborations of the eight limits,From the authentic logical path of the wise scholars,That totally connects all beings to the ground of bliss and benefit,I prostrate to those kind and sacred gurus." --Khenpo Gangshar in The Magic Key commentary (tr. Tomlin, 2023) "In Tibetan, drub means to prove, and tha means… Continue reading THE MAGIC KEY FOR “ENTERING THE GATEWAY OF KNOWLEDGE” (KHE-JUG) PART I: THE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS/TENETS (DRUB-THA): The non-Buddhist schools and two ‘externalist’ Buddhist schools of the Hinayana and Mind-Only (9th Thrangu Rinpoche’s teachings on Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche’s Gateway to Knowledge (Part I))
‘SONG OF THE DZOGCHEN VIEW: MUSIC OF SWEET SOUNDS’ by Ju Mipham Gyatso. Based on teaching by 9th Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
“However, those with little habituation to the abiding reality,Might not realize the secret point of the profound.I am not being disrespectful to you;So, if this strikes a nerve, please be patient." --Ju Mipham Rinpoche in Music of Sweet Sounds “I feel that it is fair to say that I have a strong lineage of blessings… Continue reading ‘SONG OF THE DZOGCHEN VIEW: MUSIC OF SWEET SOUNDS’ by Ju Mipham Gyatso. Based on teaching by 9th Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
‘Swift Dawn of the Lion’s Speech Sun’: Re-birth Supplication for 9th Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa
As an offering for 9th Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, vajra brothers and sisters, and his community of followers, I have created a short video with my original translation of the Swift Re-birth Supplication composed by HH 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje. I have entitled it 'Swift Dawn of the Lion's Speech Sun'. The video here,… Continue reading ‘Swift Dawn of the Lion’s Speech Sun’: Re-birth Supplication for 9th Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa
A Memorial Tribute to Kagyu Mahamudra and Dzogchen master and Geshe Lharampa, 9th Kenchen Thrangu Rinpoche (1933-2023)
"There is a sutra that says, “He has built the boat of dharma, beaten the drum of dharma, blown the conch of dharma, raised the banner of dharma, blocked the seeds of samsara, taught the nature of nirvana, cut off the wrong paths, taught the correct path, reversed bad karmas, and correctly taught the fields… Continue reading A Memorial Tribute to Kagyu Mahamudra and Dzogchen master and Geshe Lharampa, 9th Kenchen Thrangu Rinpoche (1933-2023)
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