“Homage to the Great Lotsawa, Dharmamatye Master of all reality, union of emptiness and compassion Great Bliss Vajra Joy [Hevajra] of the three secrets, who Manifested directly as a great translator Inseparable from the all-pervading sign of Padma , I bow down! ན་མོ་གུ་རུ་མ་ཧཱ་ལོཙཱ་དྷ་རྨ་མ་ཏྱཻ། སྟོང་ཉིད་སྙིང་རྗེ་ཟུང་འཇུག་དངོས་ཀུན་བདག། བདེ་ཆེན་དགྱེས་པ་རྡོ་རྗེའི་གསང་བ་གསུམ། དངོས་སུ་སྣང་བ་ལོཙཱ་ཆེན་པོ་དང་། དཡེར་མེད་ཁྱབ་བདག་པདྨའི་མཚན་ལ་འདུད།” –Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Marpa Guru Yoga (tr. A.… Continue reading THE MEANING OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS (SIDDHIS) IN BUDDHISM: Full moon double anniversaries of Fifteen Miraculous Displays of Power (siddhis) of Shakyamuni Buddha (Cho-trul Duchen) and commemoration of the great Tibetan Marpa the Translator, explanation of the difference between ordinary siddhis/powers and the supreme one of full awakening
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HEARING ‘HER-STORY'(II): DAGMEMA. Marpa’s Wife and Milarepa’s confidante, friend and teacher, her life, textual sources, visual depictions and new translation of Praise to Marpa by 17th Karmapa
"I have decided that you are a bad person for [forcing Milarepa to do] the meaningless work [of building] a fort. Please hold the great magician with compassion and [teach] the Dharma." --Dagmema to Marpa "Marpa said, ”Great Magician, show me your back.” When he had finished examining it carefully, he said, ”My Master Naropa… Continue reading HEARING ‘HER-STORY'(II): DAGMEMA. Marpa’s Wife and Milarepa’s confidante, friend and teacher, her life, textual sources, visual depictions and new translation of Praise to Marpa by 17th Karmapa
Anniversary of Marpa Lotsāwa: Jamgon Kongtrul’s Praise in ‘Marpa’s Guru Yoga’
Fifteen Days of Miracles Today is Chotrul Duchen (Great Day of Miraculous Manifestations), the 15th full moon day of the 1st lunar month. It is celebrated, in particular, by Tibetan Buddhists as the final day of the fifteen days of miracles, that commence on the 1st day of the new lunar year. These days celebrate… Continue reading Anniversary of Marpa Lotsāwa: Jamgon Kongtrul’s Praise in ‘Marpa’s Guru Yoga’