The warmth of spring, the drum of summer thunder, Snow melts into spring rain, and marmots awaken from their slumber. Tibetan New Year, a joyous celebration, Fills all mountains and valleys with the fragrant aroma of incense. དཔྱིད་ཀྱི་དྲོད་ལྡང་དབྱར་རྔའི་སྒྲ་སྒྲོག་ཅིང་།། ཁ་བ་ཆར་འགྱུར་འཕྱི་བ་མལ་ལས་ལྡང༌།། བོད་ལུཊ་གནམ་ལོ་གསར་བཞད་དགའ་སྟོན་གྱི།། རི་ཀླུང་ཀུན་ཏུ་སྤོས་ཀྱིས་དྲི་བཟང་སྤུད།། Introduction Recently, I was fortunate and happy to be given this brand new edition… Continue reading NEW PALPUNG KĀLACAKRA (CYCLE OF TIME) TANTRA “FIRE-HORSE” YEAR DIARY 2026-2027
Tag: Karma Kagyu and Kalacakra
New E-Book: “Kālacakra Lineages, History and Philosophy: Contemporary Research and Translations”
"This is a bombshell book. Intense, covering esoteric aspects, philosophy, politics and with seamless flow. Many congratulations. This is going to be a must-read book in the Buddhist world and among strategists." --Niraj Kumar For the full moon today, I am happy to offer a new e-book Kālacakra Lineages, History and Philosophy: Contemporary Research and… Continue reading New E-Book: “Kālacakra Lineages, History and Philosophy: Contemporary Research and Translations”
KARMA KAGYU KĀLACAKRA LINEAGE AND BOKAR RINPOCHE: 17th birthday offering for the yangsi Bokar Rinpoche
Today, on the occasion of the Bokar Rinpoche yangsi's 17th birthday, and for the forthcoming grand ritual of Kalacakra at Bokar Monastery from 27th April to May 5th, I offer this short article of an overview as well as links to research and translations I have written about the former 2nd Bokar Rinpoche and his… Continue reading KARMA KAGYU KĀLACAKRA LINEAGE AND BOKAR RINPOCHE: 17th birthday offering for the yangsi Bokar Rinpoche
‘MEETING THE ULTIMATE GURU’S FACE’: 30TH PARANIRVANA ANNIVERSARY 3RD JAMGON KONGTRUL RINPOCHE
The guru is the luminosity of one's mind.In knowing this to be so,The guru's mind and mineAre undivided and never separate, This is meeting the ultimate guru's face. --excerpt from the Billowing Clouds of Blessings: Guru Yoga (tr. Adele Tomlin) For the 30th Paranirvana Anniversary of the 3rd Jamgon Kongtrul today, am re-posting an article I… Continue reading ‘MEETING THE ULTIMATE GURU’S FACE’: 30TH PARANIRVANA ANNIVERSARY 3RD JAMGON KONGTRUL RINPOCHE
The Karmapas and Kālacakra
I have written previously here about the Kagyu and Kālacakra and the lineage masters that currently hold the lineage with the Kagyu tradition, as well as the two 'lost' Kagyu Kālacakra lineages of Tsami and Rechungpa. In this brief new post, I write about the 3rd Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje's connection to Kālacakra, the 16th Karmapa's… Continue reading The Karmapas and Kālacakra
Remembering Tenga Rinpoche, a Kagyu Kālacakra master
I am currently on a practice, study and translation retreat at the stunning Benchen monastery, Pharping, Nepal. The two Benchen Monasteries, in Kathmandu and Pharping, Nepal, are the seats of the 10th Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche and also Tenga Rinpoche (1932-2012). Tenga Rinpoche is one of the foremost teachers of the Karma Kagyu tradition, and was… Continue reading Remembering Tenga Rinpoche, a Kagyu Kālacakra master