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)
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REMEMBERING THE ‘CROWN JEWEL OF ALL KAGYU’, JE GAMPOPA : An overview of research and translations on Je Gampopa and online commemoration with 17th Gyalwang Karmapa
མཆོག་བྱིན་རླབས་དངོས་གྲུབ་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་ནས༎ རྗེ་སྒམ་པོ་པ་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས༎From the mandala of supreme blessings and siddhi, Lord Gampopa, I supplicate!--Excerpt from 15th Karmapa's Praise to the Dagpo Kagyu lineage Today, the full moon day, is also the parinirvana of one of the most important lineage forefathers of the Kagyu lineages, Je Gampopa, the ‘Crown Jewel of all Kagyu’. As an offering for… Continue reading REMEMBERING THE ‘CROWN JEWEL OF ALL KAGYU’, JE GAMPOPA : An overview of research and translations on Je Gampopa and online commemoration with 17th Gyalwang Karmapa
‘YOUR LIPS ARE WHAT WILL SEND YOU TO HELL AND NEED TO BE SHUT AND LOCKED’: 8th Karmapa on the difference between ‘dry’ and ‘juicy’ words, Je Gampopa on signs of the Dharma disappearing, and the importance of having pure perception of all people’s faults and mistakes, and keeping your lips shut (17th Karmapa’s Spring teachings 2023 (Day 5)
"From the outside, it might seem like they have the conduct of a bodhisattva that seems to benefit others. However, because they are thinking about this life only, then it is only of pseudo-benefit for others. The Bodhisattva actions they do are pseudo-actions." “Sometimes you do see faults, you see it and think that really… Continue reading ‘YOUR LIPS ARE WHAT WILL SEND YOU TO HELL AND NEED TO BE SHUT AND LOCKED’: 8th Karmapa on the difference between ‘dry’ and ‘juicy’ words, Je Gampopa on signs of the Dharma disappearing, and the importance of having pure perception of all people’s faults and mistakes, and keeping your lips shut (17th Karmapa’s Spring teachings 2023 (Day 5)
‘GOLDEN TEACHINGS’ OF KAGYU TANTRA: Marpa the Translator and student Ngog, the Seven Ngog Mandalas, Thirteen Tantras of Marpa, Kongtrul’s ‘Treasury of Kagyu Mantras’, 17th Karmapa’s birthday teaching and Drikung Kagyu ‘Mar-Ngog’ activities
བཅས་པའི་སྐོར་འདི་༣་གནང་གསུང་༔སྤོང་ཐག་ལན་༣་བྱས་པས་ཆོས་སྐོར་༣་ལས་མ་གནང་༔བླ་མ་ལ་ཆོས་ཡོད་པ་ལ་ཡིན་ཏེ་༔ང་རང་ནོར་གྱིས་དེ་ལས་མ་འདངས་གསུང༔ “I made three great surrenders, but did not receive more than three cycles of teachings–not because the master did not have teachings but because my wealth was not enough."--Ngog Choku Dorje on Marpa (Ducher, 2017:388) མར་པ་ལོ་ཙྰའི་བ་བརྒྱུད་ལ།In this lineage of Marpa Lotsawa,གཏམ་སྙན་མང་པོའི་འོང་སྒོ་ཡོད།Many good tidings will arrive at the door.མི་ལ་རས་པའི་སྙིང་རུས་ལ།In the hard-core determination of Milarepaསངས་རྒྱས་བསྟན་པའི་སྲོག་ཤིང་ཡོད། །Is the… Continue reading ‘GOLDEN TEACHINGS’ OF KAGYU TANTRA: Marpa the Translator and student Ngog, the Seven Ngog Mandalas, Thirteen Tantras of Marpa, Kongtrul’s ‘Treasury of Kagyu Mantras’, 17th Karmapa’s birthday teaching and Drikung Kagyu ‘Mar-Ngog’ activities