Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Happy Dakini Day ❤¨¯`❥ Oct 25th 2016
Happy Dakini Day 
❤¨¯`❥ Oct 25th 2016
and celebrate the divine luminous female energy in all of us _/|\_
"Externally the word Dakini - Khandro in Tibetan, literally means sky-dweller, a celestial being who does not need to walk on the ground. There are different types of akinis: wisdom Dakinis, activity Dakinis and the mundane Dakinis. The real wisdom Dakini is the empty quality of luminous wakefulness. Perception is the male aspect, while emptiness within our perception is the female quality. Thus the great mother of Dharmakaya is the basis of all Dakinis... Yeshe Tsogyal was one of five dakini emanations of Vajra Yogini." ~ Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche ... pic Yeshe Tsogyal's statue in Snow Lion Cave, Tiger´s Nest, Bhutan
❤¨¯`❥ Oct 25th 2016 and celebrate the divine luminous female energy in all of us _/|\_
"Externally the word Dakini - Khandro in Tibetan, literally means sky-dweller, a celestial being who does not need to walk on the ground. There are different types of akinis: wisdom Dakinis, activity Dakinis and the mundane Dakinis. The real wisdom Dakini is the empty quality of luminous wakefulness. Perception is the male aspect, while emptiness within our perception is the female quality. Thus the great mother of Dharmakaya is the basis of all Dakinis... Yeshe Tsogyal was one of five dakini emanations of Vajra Yogini." ~ Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche ... pic Yeshe Tsogyal's statue in Snow Lion Cave, Tiger´s Nest, Bhutan
Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, Jikdral Yeshe Dorje, was one of the most outstanding yogins, scholars and meditation masters of recent times
Parinirvana of His Holiness , Dec 31 2012.
1904~ 1987
Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, Jikdral Yeshe Dorje, was one of the most outstanding yogins, scholars and meditation masters of recent times, who inspired not only awe in those who met him, but also devotion and deep affection. After the flight of the Tibetans into exile, it was Dudjom Rinpoche who was the first master to be accorded the title of Supreme Head of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, the ‘oldest’ school introduced into Tibet in the 8th century by Guru Padmasambhava.
Dudjom Rinpoche was born in 1904, into a noble family in the south-eastern Tibetan province of Pemakö, which is one of the four ‘hidden lands’ of Padmasambhava. He was recognized as the incarnation of Dudjom Lingpa (1835-1904), a famous tertön or discoverer of concealed ‘treasures’ (terma), particularly those related to the practice of Vajrakilaya. Dudjom Lingpa had intended to visit southern Tibet to reveal the sacred land of Pemakö, but as he was unable to do so, he predicted that his successor would be born there and reveal it himself.
In his youth, Dudjom Rinpoche studied with some of the most outstanding masters of the time. He began his studies with Khenpo Aten in Pemakö, before attending some of the great monastic universities of Central Tibet—such as Mindroling, Dorje Drak and Tarjé Tingpoling—and East Tibet—such as Kathok and Dzogchen. But it was to Mindroling that he returned to perfect his understanding of the Nyingma tradition. Foremost among his many teachers were Phungong Tulku Gyurme Ngedön Wangpo, Jedrung Trinle Jampa Jungne, Khenchen Jampal Dewe Nyima and Minling Dordzin Namdrol Gyatso.
Dudjom Rinpoche's main area of activity was in Central Tibet, where he maintained the Mindroling tradition, and especially at Pema Chöling and his other seats in the Kongpo and Puwo regions of southern Tibet. He became renowned throughout Tibet for the depth of his realization and spiritual accomplishment, as well as for his unsurpassed scholarship.
Unique in having received the transmission of all the existing teachings of the immensely rich Nyingma tradition, Dudjom Rinpoche was especially renowned as a great tertön, whose termas are now widely taught and practised, and as the leading exponent of Dzogchen, the ultimate teaching within Tibetan Buddhism. Above all else, he was regarded as the living embodiment of Padmasambhava, and his representative for this time. A master of masters, he was acknowledged by the leading Tibetan teachers of his time as possessing the greatest power and blessing in communicating the nature of mind, and it was to him that they sent their students when prepared for this ‘mind-direct’ transmission. In fact, Dudjom Rinpoche was the root teacher of many of today's most prominent masters.
He was no less famous as an author and a meticulous scholar. His writings are celebrated for the encyclopaedic knowledge they display of all the traditional branches of Buddhist learning, including poetics, history, medicine, astrology and philosophy. A writer of inspirational poetry of compelling beauty, he had a special genius for expressing the meaning and realization of Dzogchen with a crystal-like lucidity.
Amongst the most widely read of his works are the The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, Its Fundamentals and History; which he composed soon after his arrival in India as an exile and which is now available in English translation. This monumental history of the Nyingma School is a masterpiece which presents, for the first time, a great deal of new material on the development of Buddhism in Tibet, and will remain the authoritative work on the subject.
At the invitation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Dudjom Rinpoche also wrote a history of Tibet. Another major part of his work was the revision, correction and editing of many ancient and modern texts, including the whole of the Canonical Teachings (kama) of the Nyingma School, a venture he began at the age of 74. His own private library contained the largest collection of precious manuscripts and books outside Tibet.
After leaving Tibet, Rinpoche settled first in Kalimpong, in India, and later in Kathmandu, Nepal. At a time when it seemed threatened with extinction, he played a key role in the renaissance of Tibetan culture amongst the refugee community, both through his teaching and his writing. He established a number of vital communities of practitioners in India and Nepal, such as Zangdok Palri in Kalimpong, Dudal Rapten Ling in Orissa, and the monasteries at Tsopema and Boudhanath. He actively encouraged the study of the Nyingma Tradition at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, and continued to give teachings according to his own terma tradition, as well as giving many other important empowerments and transmissions, including the Nyingma Kama, the Nyingma Tantras (Nyingma Gyübum) and the Treasury of Precious Termas (Rinchen Terdzö).
When Dudjom Rinpoche was eight years old, he began to study Shantideva's Bodhicharyavatara with his teacher Orgyen Chogyur Gyatso, a personal disciple of the great Patrul Rinpoche. When they had completed the first chapter, his teacher presented him with a conch shell and asked him to blow it towards each of the four directions. The sound it made to the East and to the North was quite short, in the South it was long, and in the West longer still. This was to be an indication of where his work in later times would be most effective. Kham, in the east of Tibet, had been the birthplace of Dudjom Lingpa, who had already been very active in that region. In the South, throughout the Himalayan regions of Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal and Ladakh, Dudjom Rinpoche had many thousands of disciples; when, on one occasion, he gave teachings in Kathmandu intended only for a few lamas, between twenty-five and thirty thousand disciples came from all over India and the Himalayas.
Poster advertising teachings by Dudjom Rinpoche in London in 1979
In the final decade of his life, in spite of ill-health and advancing years, he devoted much of his time to teaching in the West, where he successfully established the Nyingma tradition in response to the growing interest amongst Westerners. He founded many major centres including Dorje Nyingpo and Urgyen Samyé Chöling in France, and Yeshe Nyingpo, Urgyen Chö Dzong and others in the United States. During this historic period, he tirelessly gave teachings and empowerments, and under his guidance a number of Western students began to undertake long retreats. Dudjom Rinpoche also travelled in Asia, and in Hong Kong he had a large following, with a thriving centre which he visited on three occasions.
In 1972, 1976 and 1979 he visited London at the invitation of Sogyal Rinpoche, who travelled with him during his tours of the West as his translator and aide. In 1979 he spent the whole month of May at the centre of Dzogchen Orgyen Chöling in north-west London, which was later to become Rigpa. He gave public talks, empowerments and teachings in central London, and special Dzogchen instructions to small groups. It was at this time that a unique 16mm. film was made of him teaching and practising meditation.
Over the years that followed, Dudjom Rinpoche conducted a number of summer retreats at Urgyen Samyé Chöling in France. Eventually, `the wanderer, Dudjom’, as he sometimes used to sign himself, settled with his family in the Dordogne area of France, and there in August 1984 he gave his last large public teaching.
Dudjom Rinpoche was undoubtedly a fully realized master, yet, every day he would rise hours before dawn in order to practise; in the mornings he would pray for all those who had taken refuge in him, and in the evenings for those who had died. Continually he prayed that all those who saw him, heard him, came in contact with him or even thought of him would be freed from suffering. He always made a point of being accessible to people from all walks of life, and anyone who had the good fortune to meet him could not fail to be touched by his warmth, simplicity and vivacious sense of humour, as much as they were awed by his presence, deep wisdom and vast learning.
1904~ 1987
Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, Jikdral Yeshe Dorje, was one of the most outstanding yogins, scholars and meditation masters of recent times, who inspired not only awe in those who met him, but also devotion and deep affection. After the flight of the Tibetans into exile, it was Dudjom Rinpoche who was the first master to be accorded the title of Supreme Head of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, the ‘oldest’ school introduced into Tibet in the 8th century by Guru Padmasambhava.
Dudjom Rinpoche was born in 1904, into a noble family in the south-eastern Tibetan province of Pemakö, which is one of the four ‘hidden lands’ of Padmasambhava. He was recognized as the incarnation of Dudjom Lingpa (1835-1904), a famous tertön or discoverer of concealed ‘treasures’ (terma), particularly those related to the practice of Vajrakilaya. Dudjom Lingpa had intended to visit southern Tibet to reveal the sacred land of Pemakö, but as he was unable to do so, he predicted that his successor would be born there and reveal it himself.
In his youth, Dudjom Rinpoche studied with some of the most outstanding masters of the time. He began his studies with Khenpo Aten in Pemakö, before attending some of the great monastic universities of Central Tibet—such as Mindroling, Dorje Drak and Tarjé Tingpoling—and East Tibet—such as Kathok and Dzogchen. But it was to Mindroling that he returned to perfect his understanding of the Nyingma tradition. Foremost among his many teachers were Phungong Tulku Gyurme Ngedön Wangpo, Jedrung Trinle Jampa Jungne, Khenchen Jampal Dewe Nyima and Minling Dordzin Namdrol Gyatso.
Dudjom Rinpoche's main area of activity was in Central Tibet, where he maintained the Mindroling tradition, and especially at Pema Chöling and his other seats in the Kongpo and Puwo regions of southern Tibet. He became renowned throughout Tibet for the depth of his realization and spiritual accomplishment, as well as for his unsurpassed scholarship.
Unique in having received the transmission of all the existing teachings of the immensely rich Nyingma tradition, Dudjom Rinpoche was especially renowned as a great tertön, whose termas are now widely taught and practised, and as the leading exponent of Dzogchen, the ultimate teaching within Tibetan Buddhism. Above all else, he was regarded as the living embodiment of Padmasambhava, and his representative for this time. A master of masters, he was acknowledged by the leading Tibetan teachers of his time as possessing the greatest power and blessing in communicating the nature of mind, and it was to him that they sent their students when prepared for this ‘mind-direct’ transmission. In fact, Dudjom Rinpoche was the root teacher of many of today's most prominent masters.
He was no less famous as an author and a meticulous scholar. His writings are celebrated for the encyclopaedic knowledge they display of all the traditional branches of Buddhist learning, including poetics, history, medicine, astrology and philosophy. A writer of inspirational poetry of compelling beauty, he had a special genius for expressing the meaning and realization of Dzogchen with a crystal-like lucidity.
Amongst the most widely read of his works are the The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, Its Fundamentals and History; which he composed soon after his arrival in India as an exile and which is now available in English translation. This monumental history of the Nyingma School is a masterpiece which presents, for the first time, a great deal of new material on the development of Buddhism in Tibet, and will remain the authoritative work on the subject.
At the invitation of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Dudjom Rinpoche also wrote a history of Tibet. Another major part of his work was the revision, correction and editing of many ancient and modern texts, including the whole of the Canonical Teachings (kama) of the Nyingma School, a venture he began at the age of 74. His own private library contained the largest collection of precious manuscripts and books outside Tibet.
After leaving Tibet, Rinpoche settled first in Kalimpong, in India, and later in Kathmandu, Nepal. At a time when it seemed threatened with extinction, he played a key role in the renaissance of Tibetan culture amongst the refugee community, both through his teaching and his writing. He established a number of vital communities of practitioners in India and Nepal, such as Zangdok Palri in Kalimpong, Dudal Rapten Ling in Orissa, and the monasteries at Tsopema and Boudhanath. He actively encouraged the study of the Nyingma Tradition at the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies in Sarnath, and continued to give teachings according to his own terma tradition, as well as giving many other important empowerments and transmissions, including the Nyingma Kama, the Nyingma Tantras (Nyingma Gyübum) and the Treasury of Precious Termas (Rinchen Terdzö).
When Dudjom Rinpoche was eight years old, he began to study Shantideva's Bodhicharyavatara with his teacher Orgyen Chogyur Gyatso, a personal disciple of the great Patrul Rinpoche. When they had completed the first chapter, his teacher presented him with a conch shell and asked him to blow it towards each of the four directions. The sound it made to the East and to the North was quite short, in the South it was long, and in the West longer still. This was to be an indication of where his work in later times would be most effective. Kham, in the east of Tibet, had been the birthplace of Dudjom Lingpa, who had already been very active in that region. In the South, throughout the Himalayan regions of Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal and Ladakh, Dudjom Rinpoche had many thousands of disciples; when, on one occasion, he gave teachings in Kathmandu intended only for a few lamas, between twenty-five and thirty thousand disciples came from all over India and the Himalayas.
Poster advertising teachings by Dudjom Rinpoche in London in 1979
In the final decade of his life, in spite of ill-health and advancing years, he devoted much of his time to teaching in the West, where he successfully established the Nyingma tradition in response to the growing interest amongst Westerners. He founded many major centres including Dorje Nyingpo and Urgyen Samyé Chöling in France, and Yeshe Nyingpo, Urgyen Chö Dzong and others in the United States. During this historic period, he tirelessly gave teachings and empowerments, and under his guidance a number of Western students began to undertake long retreats. Dudjom Rinpoche also travelled in Asia, and in Hong Kong he had a large following, with a thriving centre which he visited on three occasions.
In 1972, 1976 and 1979 he visited London at the invitation of Sogyal Rinpoche, who travelled with him during his tours of the West as his translator and aide. In 1979 he spent the whole month of May at the centre of Dzogchen Orgyen Chöling in north-west London, which was later to become Rigpa. He gave public talks, empowerments and teachings in central London, and special Dzogchen instructions to small groups. It was at this time that a unique 16mm. film was made of him teaching and practising meditation.
Over the years that followed, Dudjom Rinpoche conducted a number of summer retreats at Urgyen Samyé Chöling in France. Eventually, `the wanderer, Dudjom’, as he sometimes used to sign himself, settled with his family in the Dordogne area of France, and there in August 1984 he gave his last large public teaching.
Dudjom Rinpoche was undoubtedly a fully realized master, yet, every day he would rise hours before dawn in order to practise; in the mornings he would pray for all those who had taken refuge in him, and in the evenings for those who had died. Continually he prayed that all those who saw him, heard him, came in contact with him or even thought of him would be freed from suffering. He always made a point of being accessible to people from all walks of life, and anyone who had the good fortune to meet him could not fail to be touched by his warmth, simplicity and vivacious sense of humour, as much as they were awed by his presence, deep wisdom and vast learning.
The Medicine Buddha is said to be a healer of Physical and Mental sickness
The Medicine Buddha is said to be a healer of Physical and Mental sickness . It does not matter if you are a Buddhist or not, we believe that his compassion radiates to all living beings without any bias.
From our Buddhist point of view ,Enlightened beings are pervasive throughout this world , in all religions and even in those who reject any form of religion ..
I dedicate this to all who need healing .. ((( via Namgyal Dawa Rinpoche)))
From our Buddhist point of view ,Enlightened beings are pervasive throughout this world , in all religions and even in those who reject any form of religion ..
I dedicate this to all who need healing .. ((( via Namgyal Dawa Rinpoche)))
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Friday, October 21, 2016
Monday, October 17, 2016
Complete Dzogchen Teaching on Karma Lingpa's "Beholding Naked Awareness"
Published on Mar 14, 2016
Enjoy a Complete Dzogchen Teaching on Karma Lingpa's "Beholding Naked Awareness"
On September 26, 2015 in Portland, Oregon, Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche taught on the very famous Dzogchen teaching revealed by Karma Lingpa, "Self-Liberation Through Seeing with Naked Awareness," which is sometimes translated as "Beholding Naked Awareness" (Rigpa Chertong).
Portland, Oregon
Video Producer and Still Photography by Damien Genardi.
For more information about Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Rinpoche and the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center:
www.padmasambhava.org
On September 26, 2015 in Portland, Oregon, Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche taught on the very famous Dzogchen teaching revealed by Karma Lingpa, "Self-Liberation Through Seeing with Naked Awareness," which is sometimes translated as "Beholding Naked Awareness" (Rigpa Chertong).
Portland, Oregon
Video Producer and Still Photography by Damien Genardi.
For more information about Ven. Khenpo Tsewang Rinpoche and the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center:
www.padmasambhava.org
Chögyal Namkhai Norbu's talk at Rubin Museum on his book "Light of Kailash"
Chögyal Namkhai Norbu's talk at Rubin Museum on his book "Light of Kailash"
White Lotus / The Lotus Born Guru Rinpoche aka Padmasambhava
_/|\_ Guru Rinpoche ༺❀༻ The Lotus Born ༺❀༻ Padmamsambhava _/|\_
"If you meditate on compassion and bodhichitta, your mind will be blessed. If you consider the place where you live as Oddiyana, your neighbourhood will be blessed, and your house will be blessed if you visualize it as an immeasurable palace. If you perceive other people as deities, they will be blessed as wisdom deities. Finally by considering all your food and drink as amrita, you will bless them as a substance of offering." ... from the book ´White Lotus ~ An Explanation of the Seven-Line Prayer to Guru Padmasambhava` by Jamgon Mipham ~ picture my own blessed Guru Rinpoche Statue _/|\_ ཨོཾ་ཨྰཿཧྰུྃབཛྲ་གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧྰུྃ༔ _/|\_
"If you meditate on compassion and bodhichitta, your mind will be blessed. If you consider the place where you live as Oddiyana, your neighbourhood will be blessed, and your house will be blessed if you visualize it as an immeasurable palace. If you perceive other people as deities, they will be blessed as wisdom deities. Finally by considering all your food and drink as amrita, you will bless them as a substance of offering." ... from the book ´White Lotus ~ An Explanation of the Seven-Line Prayer to Guru Padmasambhava` by Jamgon Mipham ~ picture my own blessed Guru Rinpoche Statue _/|\_ ཨོཾ་ཨྰཿཧྰུྃབཛྲ་གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧྰུྃ༔ _/|\_
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Saturday, October 15, 2016
HH Kyabje Lhatrul Terchen (Yangthang Rinpoche) passed away at Hyderabad.
”Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze.” Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
What a great lost today to Nyingmapa... HH Kyabje Lhatrul Terchen (Yangthang Rinpoche) passed away at Hyderabad.
Yangthang Rinpoche was completely trained in the Kangyur and Tangyur, and in the works of Longchenpa. He was widely recognized for the quality and depth of his realization, the power of his attainment, and the purity of his transmissions. Rinpoche was known as a compassionate, humble, no-nonsense Dzogchen master of the Nyingma, Old School Tradition.
This is the great lama who was at Shechen Monastery when the earthquake struck in April last year, while giving the last blessings on the final day of a series of empowerments. He remained calm and serene and simply continued the practice and blessing while the entire building heaved and shook, and then continued after he was escorted outside. A wonderful example of inner realisation and wisdom. May we pray with confidence and devotion for his swift rebirth in pure land soon _()_
Yangthang Rinpoche was completely trained in the Kangyur and Tangyur, and in the works of Longchenpa. He was widely recognized for the quality and depth of his realization, the power of his attainment, and the purity of his transmissions. Rinpoche was known as a compassionate, humble, no-nonsense Dzogchen master of the Nyingma, Old School Tradition.
This is the great lama who was at Shechen Monastery when the earthquake struck in April last year, while giving the last blessings on the final day of a series of empowerments. He remained calm and serene and simply continued the practice and blessing while the entire building heaved and shook, and then continued after he was escorted outside. A wonderful example of inner realisation and wisdom. May we pray with confidence and devotion for his swift rebirth in pure land soon _()_
Monday, October 10, 2016
Saturday, October 8, 2016
Guru Rinpoche ༺❀༻ Padmamsambhava "Anyone with faith in me is a fit vessel for my blessings. They are never apart from me _/|\_ I am here. I haven’t gone anywhere."
Guru Rinpoche ༺❀༻ Padmamsambhava
"Anyone with faith in me is a fit vessel for my blessings.
They are never apart from me _/|\_
I am here. I haven’t gone anywhere."
...picture HH The Dalai Lama paying his respects to the statue of Guru Padmasambhava during celebrations of Guru Padmasambhava birth at Orgyen Herukai Nyingma Monastery, Tso Pema, Rewalsar, India July 14, 2016. Photo Tashi Phuntsok
"Anyone with faith in me is a fit vessel for my blessings.
They are never apart from me _/|\_
I am here. I haven’t gone anywhere."
...picture HH The Dalai Lama paying his respects to the statue of Guru Padmasambhava during celebrations of Guru Padmasambhava birth at Orgyen Herukai Nyingma Monastery, Tso Pema, Rewalsar, India July 14, 2016. Photo Tashi Phuntsok
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Sunday, October 2, 2016
Day 3 of Dzongsar J. Khyentse's teachings from Mexico — tune in & enjoy Emisión en directo de siddharthasintent mx
Day 3 of Dzongsar J. Khyentse's teachings from Mexico — tune in & enjoy
Saturday, October 1, 2016
A detail from the murals in the Dalai Lamas’ private meditation chapel, painted circa 1700, depicting Guru Rinpoche or Padmasambhava accepting obeisance after he has subjugated the Lu King, or Naga King . Lhasa TIBET ( behind Potala Palace , Dalai Lama's Secret Temple )
A detail from the murals in the Dalai Lamas’ private meditation chapel, painted circa 1700, depicting Guru Rinpoche or Padmasambhava accepting obeisance after he has subjugated the Lu King, or Naga King . Lhasa TIBET ( behind Potala Palace , Dalai Lama's Secret Temple )
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