"The yidam of the Lineage lamas. A continuously arising sign of accomplishment. An exceptionally outstanding instruction. It is praised as having one hundred and eight complete methods from the practice methods of the ocean of various activities." --2nd Karmapa, Karma Pakshi "Most of the Jowo [Atisha] tradition of White Tārā that became a great chariot… Continue reading “JOYFUL NECTAR OF IMMORTALITY”: NEW WHITE TĀRĀ LIFE-STABILITY PRACTICE IN THE KARMA KAGYU TRADITION. Translation of Introduction to 17th Gyalwang Karmapa’s new White Tārā life-stability practice
Tag: Gampopa
AN INSTANTANEOUS PILE-ON OF BLESSINGS FROM A QUALIFIED GURU AS PRECIOUS AS ONE’S “OWN EYEBALLS”: The three or five main characteristics a qualified Vajrayana guru must have and the instant downpour of blessings when a qualified guru meets a qualified receptive vessel student (17th Karmapa, Fifty Verses on the Guru, Day 3 2025)
In Day Three of the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje's teachings on Fifty Verses on the Guru (March 2025), the 17th Karmapa first emphasises again the importance of the Guru being qualified and having the essential characteristics and qualifications. The advice given in the Fifty Verses on the Guru only applies once one has carefully… Continue reading AN INSTANTANEOUS PILE-ON OF BLESSINGS FROM A QUALIFIED GURU AS PRECIOUS AS ONE’S “OWN EYEBALLS”: The three or five main characteristics a qualified Vajrayana guru must have and the instant downpour of blessings when a qualified guru meets a qualified receptive vessel student (17th Karmapa, Fifty Verses on the Guru, Day 3 2025)
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)
"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)
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)
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
A KAGYU NEW YEAR FESTIVE FEAST OF DHARMA DELIGHTS! Full transmission of Gampopa’s Collected works by 12th Gyeltsab Rinpoche and 17th Karmapa’s teaching on the Thirty Verses by Vasubandhu
“Read well the ‘Collected Works of Gampopa‘, the crown jewel of all the Kagyu. These teachings on the union of Kadampa and Māhamudrā are more wondrous and greater in blessings than other works and termas. The Kagyu masters of the past all received siddhi through these profound teachings. Meeting the Buddha’s teachings through the compassion… Continue reading A KAGYU NEW YEAR FESTIVE FEAST OF DHARMA DELIGHTS! Full transmission of Gampopa’s Collected works by 12th Gyeltsab Rinpoche and 17th Karmapa’s teaching on the Thirty Verses by Vasubandhu
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF JE GAMPOPA: ‘RAW’ INSTRUCTIONS (MAR TRI)’, DHARMA GATHERINGS (TSHOG CHO), MAHAMHUDRA, VAJRAYOGINI, JEWEL ORNAMENTS AND PEARL GARLANDS. Compilation of extant editions and translated English outline of Gampopa’s Collected Works
“Read well the ‘Collected Works of Gampopa‘, the crown jewel of all the Kagyu. These teachings on the union of Kadampa and Mahamudra are more wondrous and greater in blessings than other works and termas. The Kagyu masters of the past all received siddhi through these profound teachings. Meeting the Buddha’s teachings through the compassion… Continue reading THE COLLECTED WORKS OF JE GAMPOPA: ‘RAW’ INSTRUCTIONS (MAR TRI)’, DHARMA GATHERINGS (TSHOG CHO), MAHAMHUDRA, VAJRAYOGINI, JEWEL ORNAMENTS AND PEARL GARLANDS. Compilation of extant editions and translated English outline of Gampopa’s Collected Works
‘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
‘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
‘CONFUSION DAWNING AS PRIMORDIAL AWARENESS’: the fourth Dharma, Chinese Zen and the debate on gradual vs instant awakening. ‘Four Dharmas of Gampopa’ by 17th Karmapa (Day 8: Part II)
"Next, is ‘confusion dawning as primordial awareness’, ultimately, when through the power of meditating on all phenomena as free from arising and ceasing, and whatever appears, or is thought, is severed into the essence, that is confusion dawning as primordial awareness." - Je Gampopa in 'Four Dharmas: An Excellent Summary' For Dakini day today, am… Continue reading ‘CONFUSION DAWNING AS PRIMORDIAL AWARENESS’: the fourth Dharma, Chinese Zen and the debate on gradual vs instant awakening. ‘Four Dharmas of Gampopa’ by 17th Karmapa (Day 8: Part II)