"Ka-gyu (བཀའ་རྒྱུད།) means anyone who upholds the words of the teachings and treatises of the 'three baskets' and 'four tantras' of Buddha." “The Nirmanakāya, Dagpo Gampopa prophesised by the dakinis will shine on all beings like the sun.” "Milarepa said: “I am a yogi, but all my followers will be mainly monastics. So I have… Continue reading MASSES OF GOLDEN GEESE ON A MOUNTAIN: JE GAMPOPA AND THE ORIGIN OF ‘DAGPO KAGYU’ IN TIBET. The meaning of ‘Ka-gyu’, the reason ‘Dagpo Kagyu’ became widespread in Tibet, Milarepa’s dream of golden geese and the dakini’s prophecy, and the lineage and view of the ‘Innate’ Mahamudra teachings of Gampopa (17th Karmapa, August 2024)
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Offering for the ‘crown jewel’ of Kagyu, the erection of the Sambhogakāya, the unequalled, great Gampopa: New praise to Dagpo Gampopa by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa (16th August 2024)
Today, for the forthcoming commemoration on the 19th August 2024 of the parinirvāṇa of Karma Kagyu founding forefather, Dagpo Gampopa, the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa published a new Offering Praise in Tibetan. As there is no English translation of the praise, I have provided one here (see below). Apologies for any errors in meaning or intent!… Continue reading Offering for the ‘crown jewel’ of Kagyu, the erection of the Sambhogakāya, the unequalled, great Gampopa: New praise to Dagpo Gampopa by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa (16th August 2024)
‘SIMULTANEOUSLY-ARISEN’, LIKE SUN AND SUNLIGHT: Dagpo Gampopa on the meaning of ‘simultaneously-arisen’, ‘white panacea’ and Dzogchen in the context of Mahāmudrā
Simultaneously-arisen ‘mind-itself’[1] is dharmakāya.Simultaneously-arisen appearances are the light of dharmakāya.Simultaneously-arisen ‘mind-itself’ is the nature or essence.Simultaneously-arisen appearances are thoughts that arise from [that].Like the sun and rays of the sun, or sandalwood and scent of sandalwood[2]. སེམས་ཉིད་ལྷན་ཅིག་སྐྱེས་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ༎ སྣང་བ་ལྷན་ཅིག་སྐྱེས་པ་ཆོས་སྐུའི་འོད༎ སེམས་ཉིད་ལྷན་ཅིག་སྐྱེས་པ་ནི༎ སེམས་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་ནམ་ངོ་བོ་དེ་ཡིན༎ སྣང་བ་ལྷན་ཅིག་སྐྱེས་པ་ནི༎ དེ་ལས་བྱུང་བའི་རྣམ་པར་རྟོག་པ་དེ་ཡིན༎ དེ་ཡང་ཉི་མ་དང་ཉི་མའི་འོད་བཞིན་ནམ༎ ཙན་དན་དང་ཙན་དན་གྱི་དྲི་ལྟ་བུ་ཡིན༎ “Once, when Milarepa was in the company of many people, I… Continue reading ‘SIMULTANEOUSLY-ARISEN’, LIKE SUN AND SUNLIGHT: Dagpo Gampopa on the meaning of ‘simultaneously-arisen’, ‘white panacea’ and Dzogchen in the context of Mahāmudrā