“This child will be most supreme among practitioners of the Secret Mantra, and, because he has all the marks of the Lotus Family, he will always carry Amitābha’s blessing. Therefore, combining Padma (lotus) and Avabhāsi (shining), his name shall be Padmāvabhāsa.” “More than that, Padmasambhava did great acts for the beings of Tibet. In this… Continue reading THE HUMAN LIFE OF GURU PADMASAMBHAVA’S AMAZING DEEDS AND JEALOUS PLOTS TO DESTROY HIM: New Translation of Je Tāranātha’s “Endowed with the Three Confidences” with new images and book adaptions for younger/general readers
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TIBETANS TREATING GURU PADMASAMBHAVA BADLY AND SEVEN-LINE SUPPLICATION OUTER, INNER AND SECRET MEANING. New video of 17th Karmapa teaching and chanting of seven-line supplication with audio and visuals
"Surrounded by circles of many dakinis." "It is said that though he was kind to Tibet, his kindness went unnoticed by many. Unlike other Indian scholars and translators, there were many in Tibet who objected to and denigrated Guru Padmasambhava." --17th Karmapa (2021) Today is Dakini Day, and I am sharing two video clips of… Continue reading TIBETANS TREATING GURU PADMASAMBHAVA BADLY AND SEVEN-LINE SUPPLICATION OUTER, INNER AND SECRET MEANING. New video of 17th Karmapa teaching and chanting of seven-line supplication with audio and visuals
The 15th Karmapa and his Great Dakini Consort of Tsurphu, Ogyen Tsomo: Anniversary offering for 15th Karmapa
"In the vast, all-pervasive realm of Samantabhadra In the palace of the coiled bliss-emptiness bindu I supplicate Machig Tshogyel [Yeshe Tshogyel] May we attain the long-life empowerment of the immortal vajra!'' ---Excerpt from Billowing Clouds of Siddhis: Supplication to the Immortal Life-Essence Bindu lineage, by 15th Karmapa "In this telling, while the 15th Karmapa was… Continue reading The 15th Karmapa and his Great Dakini Consort of Tsurphu, Ogyen Tsomo: Anniversary offering for 15th Karmapa
NOT SACRIFICING CONDUCT FOR THE VIEW: Guru Padmasambhava on ethical conduct as an essential Buddhist foundation of Vajrayana, unconventional yogic conduct (tul-zhug), the questionable mis-use of mass empowerments and months of speed-read oral transmissions
"Maintain the view as spacious as the sky. Yet, in conduct, regard cause and effect as fine as grains of flour." --Guru Padmasambhava Guru Padmasambhava famously stated one should not sacrifice conduct for the view, and vice versa. In this article and short video reel, I explain what this statement means and why it is… Continue reading NOT SACRIFICING CONDUCT FOR THE VIEW: Guru Padmasambhava on ethical conduct as an essential Buddhist foundation of Vajrayana, unconventional yogic conduct (tul-zhug), the questionable mis-use of mass empowerments and months of speed-read oral transmissions
A WOMAN’S LONGING FOR MEANING: Yeshe Tsogyel Song (1/4) བུད་མེད་གི་དོན་གཉེར་གྱི་འདུན་པ། ཡེ་ཤེས་མཚོ་རྒྱལ་གྱི་མགུར། (༡/༤)
After a couple of requests by readers to render my recent translations of the Yeshe Tsogyel songs into musical format, and inspired by the personal visit and blessing of Guru Padmasambhava in the late hours while finishing them, today I spent a few hours putting a melody and background music track to the original Tibetan… Continue reading A WOMAN’S LONGING FOR MEANING: Yeshe Tsogyel Song (1/4) བུད་མེད་གི་དོན་གཉེར་གྱི་འདུན་པ། ཡེ་ཤེས་མཚོ་རྒྱལ་གྱི་མགུར། (༡/༤)
NEW MOON VAJRAKĪLAYA BLESSINGS: Goshri 12th Gyaltsab Rinpoche performs the Red Vajra Crown ceremony, and Chogyur Lingpa’s Vajrakīlaya empowerment in Sikkim
"It is said that there is no more effective practice than Vajrakilaya for overcoming obstacles and protecting ourselves from hindrances to practice." Over the last couple of days, including yesterday, the Dharma Protector day, the monastic sangha at Palchen Chosling monastery have been performing the Mahakala Cham (Dance) at HE 12th Gyaltsab Rinpoche's Palchen Choling… Continue reading NEW MOON VAJRAKĪLAYA BLESSINGS: Goshri 12th Gyaltsab Rinpoche performs the Red Vajra Crown ceremony, and Chogyur Lingpa’s Vajrakīlaya empowerment in Sikkim
“SEEING THE FACE OF GURU PADMA”: SONGS OF DETERMINATION AND DEVOTION BY YESHE TSOGYEL: New translation (with Tibetan and phonetics) of songs by Yeshe Tsogyel
“The method for attaining Buddhahood in one lifetime is to definitely generate great bliss. In a place of mindfulness, recite: Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Pema Siddhi Hum. It is said to be liberation upon sight and touch.” --Guru Padmasambhava to Yeshe Tsogyel ཚེ་གཅིག་ཏུ་སངས་རྒྱས་པའི་ཐབས༔ བདེ་ཆེན་ངེས་པར་སྐྱེ་བ་གཅིག་ཡིན་ནས༔ དྲན་པའི་གནས་སུ༔ ཨཱོྃ་ཨཱཿཧཱུྃབཛྲ་གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྃ༔ ཞེས་བཟླས་ནས༔ མཐོང་གྲོལ་རེག་གྲོལ་ཡིན་གསུངས༔ “Other women merely speak of longing… Continue reading “SEEING THE FACE OF GURU PADMA”: SONGS OF DETERMINATION AND DEVOTION BY YESHE TSOGYEL: New translation (with Tibetan and phonetics) of songs by Yeshe Tsogyel
‘MIND UNION WITH TAI SITUPA’ : Guru Padmasambhava’s Prophecy about the 15th-21st Karmapas, as revealed by famed treasure-revealer, Chogyur Lingpa
''During a visit to Karma Monastery, Guru Rinpoche appeared to Chogyur Lingpa in a vision. In the vision, Guru Rinpoche was surrounded by twenty-one manifestations of the Karmapa. In addition to the traditional appearance of each of the fourteen incarnations who had taken birth through the period up to the time of Chogyur Lingpa, seven… Continue reading ‘MIND UNION WITH TAI SITUPA’ : Guru Padmasambhava’s Prophecy about the 15th-21st Karmapas, as revealed by famed treasure-revealer, Chogyur Lingpa
THE LIFE AND ‘SOUL’ OF YESHE TSOGYEL. As woman, disciple, consort and dákini; and contemporary female empowerment in Tibet. Interview with Dr. Jue Liang (Dakini Conversations, Ep.5)
“A disciple like me, who is a woman with little wisdom and a dull mind; I have limited understanding and am narrow-minded. May I request an oral instruction on enlightenment in this lifetime with a female body, a teaching that is easy to know, to grasp, to understand, and to realize!”--Yeshe Tsogyel's request to Guru… Continue reading THE LIFE AND ‘SOUL’ OF YESHE TSOGYEL. As woman, disciple, consort and dákini; and contemporary female empowerment in Tibet. Interview with Dr. Jue Liang (Dakini Conversations, Ep.5)
The Karmapas, Vajrakīlaya and Chogyur Lingpa’s ‘Dagger of the Seven Profound Cycle’ (Zabdun Phurba)
Introduction Today, on Guru Padmasambhava day, the Palchen Choling Monastery in Ralang, Sikkim, the monks are performing the Vajrakīlaya cham(dance) The Seven Profound Daggers (Zab bdun phur ba) in the tradition of treasure-revealer, Chogyur Lingpa. See live video here and photos on their Facebook page, here. For this reason, I am republishing a research article, first… Continue reading The Karmapas, Vajrakīlaya and Chogyur Lingpa’s ‘Dagger of the Seven Profound Cycle’ (Zabdun Phurba)