"Every man came from a woman's ovaries, womb, blood, and v**ina. So, for any man to loathe, deliberately harm, non-consensually violate, and censor a woman's body is an act against mother nature and their own life-source." -- Adele Tomlin -- Adele Tomlin “She is darker, stronger, looser, tougher, sexier. The maturing of a woman who… Continue reading REVERING AND RESPECTING WOMEN’S BODIES, SPEECH AND MINDS International Women’s Day, March 8 2026
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NEW WEBSITE SECTION: BHUTAN
Inspired by the Kālacakra empowerment 2025 in Bhutan, and other activities of HH 70th Je Khenpo on the full ordination of the nuns, I have created a new section of the Dakini Translations website dedicated to articles about or connected to the sacred Buddhist country of Bhutan, see here. A downloadable pdf file of Je… Continue reading NEW WEBSITE SECTION: BHUTAN
WOMEN’S STORIES AND VOICES: YESHE TSOGYEL, SALEY-O and RECHUNGMA. International Women’s Day, March 8 2025
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” “Other women merely speak of longing for Dharma She has faith from the core of the heart! Other women have faith in ornaments and decoration, She has longing for the essence of the three times, absent of good and bad. My reasoning is inferior but determination is huge!” —Yeshe Tsogyel’s… Continue reading WOMEN’S STORIES AND VOICES: YESHE TSOGYEL, SALEY-O and RECHUNGMA. International Women’s Day, March 8 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)
“SEEING THE FACE OF GURU PADMA”: SONGS OF DETERMINATION AND DEVOTION BY YESHE TSOGYEL: New translation (with Tibetan and phonetics) of songs by Yeshe Tsogyel
“The method for attaining Buddhahood in one lifetime is to definitely generate great bliss. In a place of mindfulness, recite: Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Pema Siddhi Hum. It is said to be liberation upon sight and touch.” --Guru Padmasambhava to Yeshe Tsogyel ཚེ་གཅིག་ཏུ་སངས་རྒྱས་པའི་ཐབས༔ བདེ་ཆེན་ངེས་པར་སྐྱེ་བ་གཅིག་ཡིན་ནས༔ དྲན་པའི་གནས་སུ༔ ཨཱོྃ་ཨཱཿཧཱུྃབཛྲ་གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྃ༔ ཞེས་བཟླས་ནས༔ མཐོང་གྲོལ་རེག་གྲོལ་ཡིན་གསུངས༔ “Other women merely speak of longing… Continue reading “SEEING THE FACE OF GURU PADMA”: SONGS OF DETERMINATION AND DEVOTION BY YESHE TSOGYEL: New translation (with Tibetan and phonetics) of songs by Yeshe Tsogyel
THE LIFE AND ‘SOUL’ OF YESHE TSOGYEL. As woman, disciple, consort and dákini; and contemporary female empowerment in Tibet. Interview with Dr. Jue Liang (Dakini Conversations, Ep.5)
“A disciple like me, who is a woman with little wisdom and a dull mind; I have limited understanding and am narrow-minded. May I request an oral instruction on enlightenment in this lifetime with a female body, a teaching that is easy to know, to grasp, to understand, and to realize!”--Yeshe Tsogyel's request to Guru… Continue reading THE LIFE AND ‘SOUL’ OF YESHE TSOGYEL. As woman, disciple, consort and dákini; and contemporary female empowerment in Tibet. Interview with Dr. Jue Liang (Dakini Conversations, Ep.5)
THE DAKINI SCRIPT HIDDEN TREASURE OF PEMA VAJRA: Vajra-Lotus treasure hidden by Yeshe Tsogyel as revealed by 1st Yongey Mingyur
"This treasure text (ter-sho) of Pema Vajra meditation is from the first Mingyur Rinpoche who revealed this text from a rock in Tibet. That is what we call a treasure sadhana. More than one thousand years before, Guru Rinpoche came to Tibet and taught this sadhana, the Pema Vajra practice in Tibet but during those… Continue reading THE DAKINI SCRIPT HIDDEN TREASURE OF PEMA VAJRA: Vajra-Lotus treasure hidden by Yeshe Tsogyel as revealed by 1st Yongey Mingyur
NOT A MOUNTED TIGRESS BUT A POWERFUL COUGAR? YESHE TSOGYEL AT TIGER’S NEST (PARO TAGTSANG) WITH HER YOUNG MALE CONSORTS. Yeshe Tsogyel’s connection to Tiger’s Nest in Bhutan, her young male consorts, contemporary research on her life-stories and a 21st Century interpretation of her experiences as a woman (Bhutan 2022))
“Undertaking the profound path of unconventional conduct practice at Paro Taktsang,The three doors (of body, speech and mind) became three vajras of great bliss;Blazing brilliant radiance as a stunning sixteen-year old,I supplicate the Heroine Varahi!” “The evening that these miraculous signs appeared, the Guru himself was transformed into Dorje Trollo (Adamantine Sagging Belly) with myself… Continue reading NOT A MOUNTED TIGRESS BUT A POWERFUL COUGAR? YESHE TSOGYEL AT TIGER’S NEST (PARO TAGTSANG) WITH HER YOUNG MALE CONSORTS. Yeshe Tsogyel’s connection to Tiger’s Nest in Bhutan, her young male consorts, contemporary research on her life-stories and a 21st Century interpretation of her experiences as a woman (Bhutan 2022))
BLISS QUEEN: YESHE TSOGYEL AND VAJRAYOGINĪ.Their connection, supplications and new translation of Yeshe Tsogyel Supplication by Terton-Yogini, Tare Lhamo
རང་ཉིད་སྐད་ཅིག་དྲན་རྫོགས་སུ། །Perfect in the moment of recollection,རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མཚོ་རྒྱལ་སྐུར། །I am Vajrayoginī in the form of Yeshe Tsogyal-From the Concentrated Essence: A Sādhana of Yeshe Tsogyal[1] by Dudjom Rinpoche[2] The mother of all the Buddhas, Vajrayoginī;རྒྱལ་བ་ཀུན་ཡུམ་རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མ།Queen of the ocean of melodies, Sarasvatī;སྒྲ་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོའི་མངའ་བདག་དབྱངས་ཅན་མ།The liberator of all beings with compassion, Arya Tārā;ཐུགས་རྗེ་འགྲོ་ཀུན་སྒྲོལ་མཛད་རྗེ་བཙུན་མ༎The ḍākinī who is kind to Tibet.བོད་ལ་བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་བའི་མཁའ་འགྲོ་མ༎-from Supplication… Continue reading BLISS QUEEN: YESHE TSOGYEL AND VAJRAYOGINĪ.Their connection, supplications and new translation of Yeshe Tsogyel Supplication by Terton-Yogini, Tare Lhamo
GODDESS QUEEN OF SPACE: ACHI CHOKYI DROLMA. Life-Story, Texts, Depictions, ‘Praise to Achi’ by Jigten Sumgon and Teaching by 8th Garchen Rinpoche
"The Chief of the activity ḍākinīs will come to the area of Tidro cave in Drigung. This will be a nirmanakāya manifestation of Vajrayogini." --Cakrasaṃvara root tantra “I, Achi Chokyi Dolma, wrote this sadhana of myself. By this, for 15 generations, this woman (I) will take care of you. If it is important, call me. … Continue reading GODDESS QUEEN OF SPACE: ACHI CHOKYI DROLMA. Life-Story, Texts, Depictions, ‘Praise to Achi’ by Jigten Sumgon and Teaching by 8th Garchen Rinpoche