"The yidam of the Lineage lamas. A continuously arising sign of accomplishment. An exceptionally outstanding instruction. It is praised as having one hundred and eight complete methods from the practice methods of the ocean of various activities." --2nd Karmapa, Karma Pakshi "Most of the Jowo [Atisha] tradition of White Tārā that became a great chariot… Continue reading “JOYFUL NECTAR OF IMMORTALITY”: NEW WHITE TĀRĀ LIFE-STABILITY PRACTICE IN THE KARMA KAGYU TRADITION. Translation of Introduction to 17th Gyalwang Karmapa’s new White Tārā life-stability practice
Tag: Ogyen Trinley Dorje
THE ‘SECRET’ LUMINOUS-AWARENESS ‘JUICE’ AND VAST QUALITIES OF FULL AWAKENING: The connection between secret mantra and Early Buddhism, the importance of reasoning, wisdom and luminous-awareness, and the permitted and forbidden ‘rigpa’ arts/mantras and their uses (17th Karmapa Summer Teachings 2024, Day Four)
"At that time the Bhagavan spoke to the group of five monks: "when there's proper consideration of the truth of suffering, of this Dharma never heard before, vision/sight arises awareness (jñāna:yeshe) arises, Wisdom (prajñā/sherab) arises, rigpa arises, and illumination (nang-wa) arises. When there is proper consideration of the noble truths of the origin the sensation… Continue reading THE ‘SECRET’ LUMINOUS-AWARENESS ‘JUICE’ AND VAST QUALITIES OF FULL AWAKENING: The connection between secret mantra and Early Buddhism, the importance of reasoning, wisdom and luminous-awareness, and the permitted and forbidden ‘rigpa’ arts/mantras and their uses (17th Karmapa Summer Teachings 2024, Day Four)
FULL ‘STRAWBERRY’ MOON BIRTHDAY WISHES TO 12TH GYALTSAB RINPOCHE: New 71st Birthday message from the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa and offering of new website section dedicated to the Goshri Gyaltsab lineage and activities
"Life-force of the practice lineage teachings, Master of secrets, Vajra holder; representative (Gyaltsab) of the Victors.....Despite being given medical treatment for your health, the physical fatigue and weariness struck you again. For the sake of the general and glorious teachings with profound power you recovered your life-energy; like a cloud-free moon, gradually revealing its brilliant-bright… Continue reading FULL ‘STRAWBERRY’ MOON BIRTHDAY WISHES TO 12TH GYALTSAB RINPOCHE: New 71st Birthday message from the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa and offering of new website section dedicated to the Goshri Gyaltsab lineage and activities
A 21st CENTURY TIBETAN ‘POLYMATH RENAISSANCE GENIUS’, 17th KARMAPA BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE. An overview of the 17th Karmapa’s outstanding activities and teachings on Buddha Dharma, female empowerment, vegetarianism, environmentalism, art, theatre and poetry
Today, the first day of the fifth Tibetan month (19 June 2023) is the 39th birthday of HH 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje. Normally, it has been celebrated on the 26th June, his birthday according to the non-lunar, western calendar), but it is now being celebrated on the Tibetan lunar month and day of… Continue reading A 21st CENTURY TIBETAN ‘POLYMATH RENAISSANCE GENIUS’, 17th KARMAPA BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE. An overview of the 17th Karmapa’s outstanding activities and teachings on Buddha Dharma, female empowerment, vegetarianism, environmentalism, art, theatre and poetry
THE BRUSH THAT CREATES AUSPICIOUS FORTUNE: Tibetan Losar Greetings from Gyalwang 17th Karmapa
སྔོན་ཚེ་ཐུབ་པས་བྱང་ཆུབ་སྤྱད་པའི་ཚུལ༎ལྷ་དབང་པིར་གྱིས་བཀོད་པའི་གཟུགས་བརྙན་ཡང༎འཇིག་རྟེན་ཤིས་པ་སྒྲུབ་པའི་དཔལ་གྱུར་པའི༎བཀྲ་ཤིས་དེས་ཀྱང་དེང་འདིར་བདེ་ལེགས་ཤོག༎ཀརྨ་པ་ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཕྲིན་ལས་རྡོ་རྗེས༎Previously, the Muni [Buddha]’s way of practising Bodhicitta, andThe reflection created by the powerful deity [Indra]’s brush, thataccomplishes the flourishing of worldly fortune.May that auspicious fortune also bring blissful excellence here and now! --Losar Verse by 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje Today, on Tibetan Losar the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa released a picture and short verse… Continue reading THE BRUSH THAT CREATES AUSPICIOUS FORTUNE: Tibetan Losar Greetings from Gyalwang 17th Karmapa
‘LIKE STARS IN THE DAY’, THE DESCENT OF FEMALE ARHATIS: FULLY ORDAINED TIBETAN BUDDHIST NUNS IN TIBET, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE (17th Karmapa Spring Teachings (Day 13)
“We can conclude that during the Early spread of the teachings in Tibet, there were both male and female fully ordained sangha members and that the ordination was given by the male sangha.” "In the 'Chronicles of Ba', it says the Khenpo who first fully ordained Tibetan women is Bareyna. Yet, in the text from… Continue reading ‘LIKE STARS IN THE DAY’, THE DESCENT OF FEMALE ARHATIS: FULLY ORDAINED TIBETAN BUDDHIST NUNS IN TIBET, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE (17th Karmapa Spring Teachings (Day 13)
ORIGINS OF SECRET MANTRA (DAY 2): ARRIVAL OF THE ARYANS, MOTHER OF INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES. Ancient Indus Valley civilisation, Aryan migration and language, the indigenous Dravidians and cultural mixing (by 17th Karmapa)
"Secret Mantra is like a treasury of ancient Indian culture. Normally, when we say Secret Mantra, we think about it as a religious thing done out of faith and devotion, yet we don’t think about in terms of its value relating to Indian sub-continental culture, history and knowledge. This is also a quality of… Continue reading ORIGINS OF SECRET MANTRA (DAY 2): ARRIVAL OF THE ARYANS, MOTHER OF INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES. Ancient Indus Valley civilisation, Aryan migration and language, the indigenous Dravidians and cultural mixing (by 17th Karmapa)
INDESTRUCTIBLE MIND MANDALA OF THE KARMAPAS, TSURPHU MONASTERY: Origin, history, rebuilding and ‘Praises to Tsurphu’ by 3rd and 16th Karmapas
Introduction "When you listen to the sound of our river, you hear the mantra of Chakrasmavara. It's power is secret and the river holds it forever." --Drupon Dechen Rinpoche about Tsurphu Monastery's river "In the centre of that, the Monastery of Tsurphu,Where the meadows are like Metog Drampa [AvakIr Nakusuma name of a future Buddha]A… Continue reading INDESTRUCTIBLE MIND MANDALA OF THE KARMAPAS, TSURPHU MONASTERY: Origin, history, rebuilding and ‘Praises to Tsurphu’ by 3rd and 16th Karmapas
MEAT IS MURDER: ‘Tibetan Buddhist Vegetarianism: Ancient and Modern’ compiled teachings by 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje
"How devastatingly hateful this murdering beings ‘custom’!How hugely regrettable this self-deception ‘custom’!How heavy a weight this killing parents ‘custom’!How much wrong action for this stacks of meat ‘custom’!What to be done for this masses of blood ‘custom’!However hungry, this eating meat ‘custom ’!What are these mental appearances of this delusional ‘ custom ’?!Such major evil… Continue reading MEAT IS MURDER: ‘Tibetan Buddhist Vegetarianism: Ancient and Modern’ compiled teachings by 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje