“The great master of yoga, Je Milarepa, said: “When asked who is my Yidam? “My Yidam is Chakrasamvara.”” "The crown, throat, heart, and navel, Transforms into vajra body, speech, mind, and primordial awareness, From the root guru, male-female (yab-yum), inseparable in meditative union, luminosity radiates, and again, Heruka male-female consort, dissolves into one's four places,… Continue reading 8th Karmapa’s Innate Cakrasaṃvara practice
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First English language translation and compilation of the contents/outline (kar-chag) of 8th KhentingTai Situpa’s Collected Works (now available as pdf file download)
Today, for Guru Padmasabhava day, am happy to share that the first original compiled and translated contents outline (kar-chag) (in the original Tibetan and English) of 8th Tai Situpa's Collected Works, completed recently during a one month long stay at Sherab Ling monastery, India (14 February to 15 March 2026), has now been uploaded as… Continue reading First English language translation and compilation of the contents/outline (kar-chag) of 8th KhentingTai Situpa’s Collected Works (now available as pdf file download)
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF THE KARMAPAS: New website resource of Collected Works of Karmapas (Part 1): First Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa
For the New Moon today, am happy to share and announce the creation and launch of another Dharma translations and research website dedicated solely to the Collected Works of the Karmapas. As I have already done a significant amount of translation, research and transcripts on the 1st-17th Karmapas, I decided it would be beneficial to… Continue reading THE COLLECTED WORKS OF THE KARMAPAS: New website resource of Collected Works of Karmapas (Part 1): First Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa
“UNCHANGING BLISS-EMPTINESS”: New website section on H.E. 9th Gyalton Rinpoche
Happy to announce another new website section (created a few weeks ago) for articles and translations connected to HE 9th Khyungpo Gyalton Rinpoche (whom I first personally met in May 2025 in Hanoi, Vietnam) and whose teachings I then also attended in Taiwan and Europe: https://dakinitranslations.com/khyungpo-gyalton-rinpoche/ According to the Palpung Sherab Ling biography: "The previous… Continue reading “UNCHANGING BLISS-EMPTINESS”: New website section on H.E. 9th Gyalton Rinpoche
THE FORTHCOMING SELLING OF “PRICELESS” BUDDHIST TREASURES TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER IN HONG KONG: Ancient Indian and Nepalese Buddhist statues, 10th Karmapa rare 17th Century paintings and more (whose lineage into private collectors’ ownership is not clear) being sold at Christie’s Hong Kong auction house on 3 November 2025
“Regarding poetry and painting there is none greater than me in Tibet. I am one who pleases . I am one who has come into this world to paint.”--10th Karmapa, Choying Dorje [1] “Superior to all of these [was] the Lord of the World practicing art, the glorious Karmapa Choying Dorje. This individual studied painting with… Continue reading THE FORTHCOMING SELLING OF “PRICELESS” BUDDHIST TREASURES TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER IN HONG KONG: Ancient Indian and Nepalese Buddhist statues, 10th Karmapa rare 17th Century paintings and more (whose lineage into private collectors’ ownership is not clear) being sold at Christie’s Hong Kong auction house on 3 November 2025
THE CREATION STAGE AND PURE PERCEPTION IN VAJRAYANA: Taking refuge vows and getting a new refuge name, instructions on pure perception and the creation stage, and deliberately harassed/targeted by total strangers revealed as part of a general smear campaign to disrupt my connection with the teacher (Beaumont, Belgium Part II, 9th Gyalton Rinpoche)
"However, in the Vajrayana, the Buddha taught that you are Amitabha, or Avalokiteshvara, or Tara right here and now. Due to the obscurations though, we have not recognised it. So recognising that everything right now is the pure land of the Buddha, and is perfect, that is bringing the fruition as the path." "That Buddha… Continue reading THE CREATION STAGE AND PURE PERCEPTION IN VAJRAYANA: Taking refuge vows and getting a new refuge name, instructions on pure perception and the creation stage, and deliberately harassed/targeted by total strangers revealed as part of a general smear campaign to disrupt my connection with the teacher (Beaumont, Belgium Part II, 9th Gyalton Rinpoche)
WHERE ARE THE WOMEN AND NO MUTUAL NON-SECTARIAN RESPECT: Noble Tārā statues but no actual “wisdom” women and no prostrations offered to 12th Tai Situpa by Gelugpa monks
It was saddening (but not surprising) to see video and photos released yesterday, spread widely among the Tibetan media outlets, of the great 12th Khentin Tai Situpa (who is also elderly and suffering from various physical ailments) offering three "unnaturally" long prostrations on his knees for an all-male long-life offering ceremony to the 14th Dalai… Continue reading WHERE ARE THE WOMEN AND NO MUTUAL NON-SECTARIAN RESPECT: Noble Tārā statues but no actual “wisdom” women and no prostrations offered to 12th Tai Situpa by Gelugpa monks
QUESTION OF THE ORIGIN AND USE LONG-LIFE RITUALS IN BUDDHISM?: New translation of Introduction to “Castle of Indestructible Life-Force: Method for Offering Ten-Zhug (Long-Life Stability) in a Sacred Place” by 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje
Āyurjñānasiddhirastu. Guru Amitayus [Tse-phagme] I bow my head at your feet in reverence. For the sacred protectors of the teachings and beings. I write the ritual for stabilising life. ཨཱཡུརྫྙཱ་ན་སིདྡྷི་རསྟུ། བླ་མ་ཚེ་དཔག་མེད་པ་ཡི། ། ཞབས་ལ་སྤྱི་བོས་ཉེར་བཏུད་དེ། ། བསྟན་འགྲོའི་དཔལ་མགོན་དམ་པ་རྣམས། ། སྐུ་ཚེ་བརྟན་པའི་ཆོ་ག་འབྲི། ། Translator’s Introduction For Dakini Day today, here is the second translation of an Introduction from the second… Continue reading QUESTION OF THE ORIGIN AND USE LONG-LIFE RITUALS IN BUDDHISM?: New translation of Introduction to “Castle of Indestructible Life-Force: Method for Offering Ten-Zhug (Long-Life Stability) in a Sacred Place” by 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje
EXPERIENCING THE BLISS-EMPTY NATURE WITH H.E. GYALTON RINPOCHE: A participant’s report of first year of the “Discovering the Buddha Within” (Inner Peace) teachings by Karma Kagyu vajra master,7th Gyalton Rinpoche at the ancient Sui Pagoda, near Hanoi (18-21st May 2025) (Vietnam IV 2025)
"It is important to be flexible but maintain principles/discipline." "Imagine two highly educated and skilled doctors. One is mainly motivated by money and personal success. The other has a genuine wish to help others, with little concern for material gain. Although both have the same medical knowledge, the doctor with sincere compassion often brings better… Continue reading EXPERIENCING THE BLISS-EMPTY NATURE WITH H.E. GYALTON RINPOCHE: A participant’s report of first year of the “Discovering the Buddha Within” (Inner Peace) teachings by Karma Kagyu vajra master,7th Gyalton Rinpoche at the ancient Sui Pagoda, near Hanoi (18-21st May 2025) (Vietnam IV 2025)
PURIFYING THE WINDS WITH THE “FIERY, FURIOUS AND FAST PASSIONATE WOMAN” (TUM-MO): The origin, lineage and instructions on “Pointing Out the Three Kāyas” by 3rd Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje (teaching by 12th Gyaltsab Rinpoche, Day 1, Kagyu Monlam 2025)
"All these mahasiddhas who appeared in India are also not separate from the primordial Buddha. The teacher and retinue are inseparable. This is actually taught in the Tantras which says: “I am the teacher, I am the Dharma, I am the students/ listeners.” Here, where it says ‘I” it means the ultimate Dharmakāya. It is… Continue reading PURIFYING THE WINDS WITH THE “FIERY, FURIOUS AND FAST PASSIONATE WOMAN” (TUM-MO): The origin, lineage and instructions on “Pointing Out the Three Kāyas” by 3rd Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje (teaching by 12th Gyaltsab Rinpoche, Day 1, Kagyu Monlam 2025)