On the second day of the Taiwan Kagyu Monlam (the weekend prior to the 12th Goshir Gyaltsab Rinpoche birthday events), the young 3rd Bokar Rinpoche tulku, gave a short teaching and stunning empowerment on the deity of compassion Chenrezig, at another venue in Taipei that was organised for the Monlam there. As I wrote in… Continue reading BLISSFUL “INNOCENT” LOVING SOUNDS OF THE MANI MANTRA CIRCLING HEART CHAKRA: A report of the 3rd Bokar Rinpoche’s teaching and empowerment in Taipei, Taiwan at the Kagyu Monlam and NEW musical composition and song of the Mani Mantra (June 2025)
Tag: Avalokiteshvara
A RED-ROSE EMBRACE FROM AVALOKITESHVARA: Brief Instructions on “Benefiting Beings that Pervade Space” by Thantong Gyalpo, based on “Continual Rainfall for Beings” commentary by 15th Karmapa (3rd Bokar Rinpoche, February 2025)
"Even if the whole world is full of thorns, a lover's heart will still be a bed of roses."--Rumi "In this way, the six-syllable mantra, king of all secret mantras, is the quintessence of the force and might of the immeasurable enlightened activity that extricates the beings of the six families from the very depths… Continue reading A RED-ROSE EMBRACE FROM AVALOKITESHVARA: Brief Instructions on “Benefiting Beings that Pervade Space” by Thantong Gyalpo, based on “Continual Rainfall for Beings” commentary by 15th Karmapa (3rd Bokar Rinpoche, February 2025)
LADY BUDDHA OF COMPASSION AND THE MARBLE MOUNTAINS: The Tallest Lady Avalokiteshvara statue in Indo-China and the nearby Marble Mountains, pagodas and caves (Vietnam Pilgrimage I)
For a full moon offering today, am happy to first share this new post about a recent pilgrimage trip in SE Asia, this time to Danang, central Vietnam to see the Lady Buddha of Compassion statue there which looks out over the East Vietnam Sea. The tallest Buddhist statue in SE Asia (Indo-China). While in… Continue reading LADY BUDDHA OF COMPASSION AND THE MARBLE MOUNTAINS: The Tallest Lady Avalokiteshvara statue in Indo-China and the nearby Marble Mountains, pagodas and caves (Vietnam Pilgrimage I)