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

TREE OF IMMORTAL NECTAR: The “Three Roots Unified/Abandoning Lies” Long-Life Karma Kagyu practice. Translated introduction of the first in the trilogy of commentary and sadhanas by the 17th Karmapa (Three Roots I)

"In short, the three, Nag [Mahakala]-Gyal [Gyalwa Gyatso], Phag [Vajravarahi], and Guru, are inseparable, and are practiced as one essence of Amitayus.” “Here, the essence of the three roots of the Karma Kagyu lineage is practiced. Furthermore, the practice of the unequalled Vajra Saraswati Amitayus, a ritual text for the activity of dispelling falsehoods/lies, is… Continue reading TREE OF IMMORTAL NECTAR: The “Three Roots Unified/Abandoning Lies” Long-Life Karma Kagyu practice. Translated introduction of the first in the trilogy of commentary and sadhanas by the 17th Karmapa (Three Roots I)

"Be the light you wish to see in the world. Be a light unto yourself and others." --Shakyamuni Buddha “The Tibetan Mahasiddha Karma Pakshi [2nd Karmapa] said: “Whoever sees the crown and the wearer together, will not fall into the lower realms.” “The benefit of seeing the precious crown that brings liberation upon seeing, is… Continue reading THE SMILING “GOLDEN HEART” OF A CHILD: Red crown ceremony of 12th Gyaltsab Rinpoche, Three Roots Combined empowerment, the ongoing absence of the 17th Karmapa, and Marme (Light Offering) Monlam, with 1000-armed Avalokiteshvara vision of light