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Mantra can be understood as: 1. the deity. Every mantra we recite emanates one deity. These deities then work for the benefit of beings 2. offerings. When the light rays radiate out from the mantra rosary during creation-stage visualization, each ray of light bears an offering goddess. Each of these hundreds of thousands […]
June 22, 2011
Shakyamuni Buddha said in the Do-de Kalpa Zangpo [Bhadrakalpa Sutra], ‘I manifested in a dreamlike way to dreamlike beings and gave a dreamlike dharma, but in reality I never taught and never actually came’. From the viewpoint of Shakyamuni Buddha never having come and the dharma never having been given, all is mere perception, existing […]
May 11, 2011
H.H. the 12th Gyalwang Drukpa has launched the Vajra Wheel Project. “We can often say that our own sufferings and all the catastrophes, unwanted situations, disasters, wars, failures and sicknesses that are happening in our world these days are a combination of different results of a lack of merit and wisdom. Therefore the practice of […]
April 1, 2011
A True Account of An Accomplished Practitioner of the Vajra Guru Mantra in Recent Times Orated by Jamyang Dorje Rinpoche of the Taipei Padmakara Buddhist Society Recorded by Pema Tsering on 22 Aug 2007 with due respect Translated from Chinese into English and editted by Jigme Sherab with due respect Homage to Padmasambhava and Pema […]
February 3, 2011
Gyatrul Rinpoche was born in Eastern Tibet in 1925. He spent many years in retreat with some of Tibet’s greatest lamas and is a fully qualified teacher of Vajrayana Buddhism in the Nyingma tradition. Trained by renowned adepts, he spent much of his life in Tibet in meditative retreat before fleeing in 1959. In 1976 […]
January 26, 2011
This teaching was originally published in Shambhala Sun Magazine in 2003. Just suppose that we have been born in a cinema hall. We don’t know that what is going on in front of us is just a projection. We don’t know that it is just a film, just a movie, and that the events […]
January 7, 2011
Dynamic lecturer, progressive scholar, and one of the most prolific writers and translators of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, B. Alan Wallace, Ph.D., continually seeks innovative ways to integrate Buddhist contemplative practices with Western science to advance the study of the mind. Dr. Wallace, a scholar and practitioner of Buddhism since 1970, has taught Buddhist […]
September 27, 2010
H.H. Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche is the thirty-seventh Drikung Kyabgon, head of the Drikung Kagyu order of Tibetan Buddhism. He has worked tirelessly to renew and spread its scholarly and meditative traditions in many countries including the United States. He lives at the seat of the Drikung Kagyu order in Dehra Dun, India. On his […]
August 28, 2010
OK, I know this post is has little to do with developments in Buddhism here in the UK (pigeons are no match for vultures as a native avian species and our “health and safety gone mad” culture would present some pretty major obstacles). Nonetheless the subject is fascinating – let’s call it a meditation on impermanence… The incredible photographs are […]
August 26, 2010
Having recently posted on Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche’s reflections on Buddhism in the West, I’m devoting some time to the Buddhist concept of “maras” as obstacles to practice. According to Dzigar Kongtrul: “There are many challenges on this path. These challenges, or maras, are not unique to the West; the works of maras are crucial buddhist […]
June 28, 2010
Chögyal Namkhai Norbu is a Dzogchen teacher who was born in 1938 in Derge, Kham (Eastern Tibet). When he was two years old, he was recognized as the ‘mindstream emanation’ of the great Dzogchen teacher, Adzom Drugpa (1842-1924), at five he was also recognized as a mindstream emanation of Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyel (1594–1651). From an […]
June 1, 2010
One of the most effective Buddhist practices for controlling negativities is Guru Tragphur, a wrathful manifestation of Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche). There are many problems today with illnesses such as cancer and AIDS. These illnesses are said to be related with provocations by various classes of negative beings or entities. If this negative energy is left […]
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