“ཕྱོགས་བཅུ་དག་གི་ཞིང་ཁམས་སུ། ། Throughout the pure realms of the ten directions, སངས་རྒྱས་མཆོད་པ་གང་བྱུང་བ། ། Whatever offerings are made to the awakened ones/Buddhas, སངས་རྒྱས་མཁྱེན་པས་ཡི་རང་བ། ། The buddhas know and rejoice. དེ་ལ་བདག་ནི་ཡི་རང་ངོ༌། ། In that, I also rejoice.”  --Verse from Noble Maitreya’s Aspiration “Buddhas do not vilify sentient beings who are suffering, who have afflictions. They do not despise… Continue reading NOBLE MAITREYA’S “HEAVY BLESSINGS” AND HIS KING OF ASPIRATIONS: 12th Khenting Tai Situpa’s empowerment in Borobudur, Indonesia, new translation of “Maitreya’s Aspiration” and full oral commentary transcript of 12th Tai Situpa’s commentary on the Aspiration Prayer at the Kagyu Monlam, Bodh Gaya (2024)