"Blazing with bravery, like a great lion soaring through space,Turquoise mane of thousands of oral instructions on the tantras’ meaning,Bellowing laughter that stirs the ‘earth’ of the whispered lineage,Remembering again the supreme translator.སེང་ཆེན་མཁའ་ལ་འཕྱོ་འདྲའི་སྙིང་སྟོབས་འབར༎རྒྱུད་དོན་མན་ངག་འབུམ་གྱིས་གཡུ་རལ་གསིག༎སྙན་བརྒྱུད་ས་གཞི་གཡོ་བའི་གད་རྒྱངས་ཅན༎སྐྱེས་མཆོག་སྒྲ་བསྒྱུར་རྒྱལ་སླར་ཡང་དྲན༎། --17th Karmapa's Praise to Marpa With great courage, you travelled many times to the noble land.With great wisdom, you mentally captured all… Continue reading MARPA GURU YOGA AND PRAISES
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THE ART OF WARRIORS: REMEMBERING MIPHAM GYATSO AND KING GESAR ‘THE GREAT LION JEWEL WHO SUBDUES FOES’: The Epic of King Gesar, Mipham Gyatso ‘s ‘pure vision’ Lingdro dance and texts, and the Karmapa connection
"Embodiment of the three buddha families,Through the compassionate light rays of Pema Totreng, you arose as the splendour of the world—Supreme being, Great Lion, Norbu Dradul, to you we pray!Grant us supreme and ordinary siddhis!" --Mipham Gyatso Rinpoche “In short, there is no doubt that Gesar is a wisdom emanation of the venerable hero Mañjuśrī—of… Continue reading THE ART OF WARRIORS: REMEMBERING MIPHAM GYATSO AND KING GESAR ‘THE GREAT LION JEWEL WHO SUBDUES FOES’: The Epic of King Gesar, Mipham Gyatso ‘s ‘pure vision’ Lingdro dance and texts, and the Karmapa connection
MOTHER OF ALL THE BUDDHAS: PRAJNAPARAMITA AND THE ULTIMATE HEART ESSENCE
"Empty does not mean completely empty but primordial awareness empty of dualistic appearances." "[The Heart Sutra] teaches that the ultimate perfectly established [nature] is empty of apparent samsara and nirvana. The primordial awareness of the perfectly established ultimate nature pervades all of samsara and nirvana but is not contaminated by either samsara or nirvana. Since… Continue reading MOTHER OF ALL THE BUDDHAS: PRAJNAPARAMITA AND THE ULTIMATE HEART ESSENCE
NEW TRANSLATION: Vajrayogini’s ‘Extremely Concise Practice of the Great Compassionate One’ by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
Introduction Today on the full moon, I offer this first translation and publication of a practice text on Avalokiteśvara, Path of Blissful Union: Great Compassionate One. Extremely Concise Practice from Tsembu Tradition, by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo ('jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse'i dbang po, (1820-1892). It can be freely downloaded on request here. Vajrayogini who gave the… Continue reading NEW TRANSLATION: Vajrayogini’s ‘Extremely Concise Practice of the Great Compassionate One’ by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
Tibetan script of Guru Padmasambhava’s prophecy on 15th to 21st Karmapas, as revealed by Chogyur Lingpa
Recently, I wrote about the 15th Karmapa and how his incarnation was predicted by Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) as revealed to terton Chogyur Lingpa (1829-1870). Although there are a few online accounts of this revelation and what Guru Rinpoche prophesised, I had not see the original 19th Century Tibetan script of it. So, here today, am… Continue reading Tibetan script of Guru Padmasambhava’s prophecy on 15th to 21st Karmapas, as revealed by Chogyur Lingpa
NEW TRANSLATION: ‘Supplication to Padmavajra’ (Guru Rinpoche) by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
Padmasambhava statue at Tsho Pema lake, India. For the tenth day of the lunar month, celebrating Guru Rinpoche, Padmasambhava, I offer this new Supplication to Padmavajra (Tshokye Dorje: Lake-Born (or Lotus) Vajra) by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, spontaneously translated today. The text can be found in his Collected Works. Padmavajra is one of the names of… Continue reading NEW TRANSLATION: ‘Supplication to Padmavajra’ (Guru Rinpoche) by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
NEW TRANSLATION: ‘Gushing Flood of Melodious, Laughing Praise: Explanation of the Root Mantra of Lion of Speech, Mañjuśrī’ by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
"Seeing ultimate nature itself, and invincible, infinite knowledge, the way of profound understanding.From dharma clouds of courage and strength, a shower of peaceful, calm nectar descends.Chief of billions of victors and siblings, whom seeing, hearing, recalling and touching establishes enlightenment.May all beings continually enter into the liberating oceans of primordial-awareness beings!" ---Excerpt from Gushing Flood… Continue reading NEW TRANSLATION: ‘Gushing Flood of Melodious, Laughing Praise: Explanation of the Root Mantra of Lion of Speech, Mañjuśrī’ by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
NEW TRANSLATIONS: Nāropa’s Vajrayoginī by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
"In the centre of a bright red mandala endowed with the three aspects,An utterly stunning lotus, and BAM on top of sun and corpse.Yogini, with incredibly beautiful face of two truths,Mother of infinite Victors, I praise.From the extremely pure, [sphere] ‘endowed with all aspects’Arises a display of the illusory net of union,Perfectly appearing with… Continue reading NEW TRANSLATIONS: Nāropa’s Vajrayoginī by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
NEW TRANSLATION: ‘Praises to Mandāravā’ by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
Mandāravā Here is the first English translation of Praises to Mandāravā composed by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo. The idea to translate this text came a couple of days ago, from a female Dharma friend who felt there was not so much available in English about Mandāravā. So, having recently received the entire transmission of Jamyang Khyentse… Continue reading NEW TRANSLATION: ‘Praises to Mandāravā’ by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
NEW TRANSLATION: “Condensed Essence of Empty-of-Other” by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
Here is the first English translation (and publication) of a short text, Condensed Essence of the Presentation of Empty-of-Other, by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (‘jam dbyangs mkhyen brtse’ dbang po, 1820 – 1892), one of the most eminent and accomplished nineteenth century Tibetan Buddhist masters. For more information about him, see his Treasury of Lives biography… Continue reading NEW TRANSLATION: “Condensed Essence of Empty-of-Other” by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
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