"Vajrayoginī is inarguably the supreme deity of the Tantric pantheon. No male Buddha, including her divine consort, Heruka Cakrasaṃvara, approaches her in metaphysical or practical import." --Miranda Shaw "Once an old lady appeared before Nāropa and asked if he had truly mastered all the words of Buddha's teachings. Nāropa confidently answered, "yes." But she laughed… Continue reading “A SYMPHONY FOR THE BLISS QUEEN”: PRAISING AND REVERING VAJRAVĀRĀHĪ: Exploring the female and yogic layperson roots and one-to-one transmission of Vajrayogini as well as a new contemporary musical rendition of the “Eight Verses of Praise To Vajravarahi”
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SCARLET SIREN WITH THE SQUEALING SOW’S HEAD: Who is Vajravārāhi? Name, symbols and meaning of the Highest Yoga Tantra’s “ferociously blissful” red female deity with sow’s head
"Mother of all the Victors, endowed with all supreme aspects, The 'face' of Vajravārāhi, symbolising the signs and meaning With the certain knowing from seeing self-awareness itself May the primordial wisdom vajra descend here now!"--tr. Adele Tomlin (2020) རྒྱལ་ཀུན་སྐྱེད་ཡུམ་རྣམ་ཀུན་མཆོག་ལྡན་པའི། བརྡ་དོན་རྟགས་ཀྱི་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕག་མོའི་ཞལ། རང་རིག་ཉིད་དུ་མཐོང་བའི་ངེས་ཤེས་ཀྱིས། རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྟེན་འདིར་དབབ་དུ་གསོལ། A Vajravārāhi/Dorje Phagmo artwork gift from a living incarnation of Dorje Phagmo in… Continue reading SCARLET SIREN WITH THE SQUEALING SOW’S HEAD: Who is Vajravārāhi? Name, symbols and meaning of the Highest Yoga Tantra’s “ferociously blissful” red female deity with sow’s head
SEEING VAJRAVĀRĀHI IN KĀLACAKRA (BHUTAN KĀLACAKRA 2025: PART I): The first mass Kālacakra empowerment in Bhutan by HH Je Khenpo, the Vajravārāhi/Abhayākaragupta tradition of the Vajrāvalī (Dorje Threngwa, Vajra Garland) Kālacakra, and spontaneous meeting, blessings and “priceless” auspicious gifts from Dorje Phagmo Khandro tulku in Bhutan 2025
"Mother of all the Victors, endowed with all supreme aspects,The 'face' of Vajravārāhi, symbolising the signs and meaningWith the certain knowing from seeing self-awareness itselfMay the primordial wisdom vajra descend here now!" (Tr. Adele Tomlin (2020)) རྒྱལ་ཀུན་སྐྱེད་ཡུམ་རྣམ་ཀུན་མཆོག་ལྡན་པའི། བརྡ་དོན་རྟགས་ཀྱི་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕག་མོའི་ཞལ།རང་རིག་ཉིད་དུ་མཐོང་བའི་ངེས་ཤེས་ཀྱིས། རྡོ་རྗེའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྟེན་འདིར་དབབ་དུ་གསོལ། "Because he had recited the mantra of Vajrayogini in his former life, in this life Vajrayogini… Continue reading SEEING VAJRAVĀRĀHI IN KĀLACAKRA (BHUTAN KĀLACAKRA 2025: PART I): The first mass Kālacakra empowerment in Bhutan by HH Je Khenpo, the Vajravārāhi/Abhayākaragupta tradition of the Vajrāvalī (Dorje Threngwa, Vajra Garland) Kālacakra, and spontaneous meeting, blessings and “priceless” auspicious gifts from Dorje Phagmo Khandro tulku in Bhutan 2025
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
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)
NEW E-BOOK: “Making Her-Story: Female Lineages” (Ḍākinī Day/Christmas Day Festive Offering,free download)
"The companion who plunges your neck into the yoke, At first, a smiling, divine man, In the middle, a black-faced demon, At the end, a bull ready to beat you. Thinking thus, melancholy arises. So, this girl shall practice divine Dharma, and Be a companion of vajra-sibling friends!" --Saley O's Song “Other women merely speak… Continue reading NEW E-BOOK: “Making Her-Story: Female Lineages” (Ḍākinī Day/Christmas Day Festive Offering,free download)
New Audio-Video: ‘Magnetising All’ (Wangdu) aspiration chanted by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa
Here is a new video (with audio) of HH 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje chanting the well-known Wangdu Prayer by Ju Mipham Rinpoche: 'Great Clouds of Blessings: Supplication that Magnetises All That Appearance-Existence (in Tibetan: Nangsi Wangdu Dupai Sol Deb Jinlab Trin Chen (སྣང་སྲིད་དབང་དུ་སྡུད་པའི་གསོལ་འདེབས་བྱིན་རླབས་སྤྲིན་ཆེན་བཞུགས་སོ། ། ) or Wangdu for short. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcHu-Q-WR-I In September 2022, the… Continue reading New Audio-Video: ‘Magnetising All’ (Wangdu) aspiration chanted by 17th Gyalwang Karmapa
TREASURE TRADITION OF PHOWA: PRACTICE GIVEN BY BUDDHA AMITABHA TO GURU PADMASAMBHAVA FOR TIBETAN KING TRISONG DETSEN. Introduction to the Treasure Phowa Tradition, its history, practice and transcript of teaching by 8th Garchen Rinpoche
"The King desiring to end the suffering of his minister went to Ch'im-phu cave to request the help of Padmasambhava. The King Trisong Detsen offered him a golden disk (representing the sun) and a silver disk (representing the moon) as a mandala offering, requesting him to give special instruction to the Minister so that he… Continue reading TREASURE TRADITION OF PHOWA: PRACTICE GIVEN BY BUDDHA AMITABHA TO GURU PADMASAMBHAVA FOR TIBETAN KING TRISONG DETSEN. Introduction to the Treasure Phowa Tradition, its history, practice and transcript of teaching by 8th Garchen Rinpoche
‘MAGNETISING ALL (WANGDU)’ GREAT CLOUDS OF BLESSINGS SUPPLICATION BY JU MIPHAM RINPOCHE (NEW TRANSLATION) AND ORAL TRANSMISSION BY 17TH KARMAPA
"If due to having no control over your mind, you are unable to give rise to bodhicitta, emptiness and other non-worldly accomplishments, reciting Wang Du with diligence will allow you to gain these qualities with ease."-- Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche Introduction Yesterday, on Day 13 of the Summer Teachings, HH 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley… Continue reading ‘MAGNETISING ALL (WANGDU)’ GREAT CLOUDS OF BLESSINGS SUPPLICATION BY JU MIPHAM RINPOCHE (NEW TRANSLATION) AND ORAL TRANSMISSION BY 17TH KARMAPA
NĀROPA’S ‘VAJRAYOGINI FOR BEGINNERS’ (TRANSLATED BY MARPA) AND DRIGUNG KAGYU VAJRAYOGINI CATALOGUE OF TEXTS: New translation of Nāropā’s ‘Innate Vajrayogini for Beginners’, ‘Eight Praises to Vajravārāhī’, catalogue of Drigung Kagyu Vajrayogini texts and lineage, and new sadhana text by Drupon Rinchen Dorje Rinpoche (June 2022)
Om to Bhagavan Vajravārāhī, prostrate! Noble lady, mother of the three worlds whom others, cannot subdue, Terrifyingly descending on all spirits, great Vajra Goddess herself! Invincible Vajra-seat [Dorje Den] lady, whom others cannot beat; powerful, flashing eyes Evaporating even poison; the lady with petrifying, wrathful clenched fangs Shocking slaying and totally slaughtering; Queen who reigns… Continue reading NĀROPA’S ‘VAJRAYOGINI FOR BEGINNERS’ (TRANSLATED BY MARPA) AND DRIGUNG KAGYU VAJRAYOGINI CATALOGUE OF TEXTS: New translation of Nāropā’s ‘Innate Vajrayogini for Beginners’, ‘Eight Praises to Vajravārāhī’, catalogue of Drigung Kagyu Vajrayogini texts and lineage, and new sadhana text by Drupon Rinchen Dorje Rinpoche (June 2022)