Pema-la,
Thank you for including the pic. I'm sold! Looks very nice. I have a statue coming soon and I will definitely try this. Thank you for sharing.
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- Fri Mar 29, 2024 3:11 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Coating the inside of a statue / stupa prior to filling it?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 599
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:28 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Coating the inside of a statue / stupa prior to filling it?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 599
Re: Coating the inside of a statue / stupa prior to filling it?
Pema-la, Good for you. I've filled quite a few statues, but I've not heard of painting the inside of a stupa or statue with a saffron and glue mixture. Usually the instructions are to first clean out any casting residue. Then smoke the inside with myrrh. And then wash the inside with saffron water a...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 3:29 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Does drubcho work as lung or even as wang?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 471
Re: Does drubcho work as lung or even as wang?
IME, typically there is no wang given with a cdrubcho. However, there typically is a wang given with a drubchen, ar least for those attending who have not had that wang.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:12 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Does drubcho work as lung or even as wang?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 471
Re: Does drubcho work as lung or even as wang?
Lung, yes
Wang, no
Wang, no
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:01 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
- Replies: 126
- Views: 6475
Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
"Dharma is not just about getting Enlightened. It's about shaping and taming a place for dharma to endure." Excellent point. I was taught never to neglect promoting the Dharma or benefitting sentient beings. Compared to these two, benefitting oneself comes third. If we do not insure the co...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:48 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: My last will and testament
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1089
Re: My last will and testament
Lingugpa, You might consider writing a separate "Dharma Will." This can be updated any time you need or want to by yourself without the help of a lawyer. Anyen Rinpoche in Denver suggests this in one of His books on death and dying. He has a lot of good advice on what to include. Sorry, I ...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:41 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
- Replies: 126
- Views: 6475
Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
Jet,
Probably not.
I'm not at all sure there will be generations to come.
Probably not.
I'm not at all sure there will be generations to come.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:41 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
- Replies: 126
- Views: 6475
Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
The ego is a slippery thing. IME, it's all too easy to think you're doing the right job when, in fact, you are coasting. But I agree, becoming one's Teacher's zhabji is not the only way to gain accomplishment. There are plenty of stories of students getting a teaching and then going off to practice ...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 3:24 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
- Replies: 126
- Views: 6475
Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
That's because I didn't write the whole story. I got up to the point where I would have to start including things about my Dharma brothers and sisters. Since most of them are still alive, I don't feel comfortable with that. Perhaps more to the point, I have no interest in doing that.
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 5:14 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
- Replies: 126
- Views: 6475
Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
I was often told to do things I didn't want to do or to stop doing things I wanted to do. Sometimes these were little things. Sometimes these were big things, like vefry, very big things. The pain was my own pain of attachment. But there was never a time that I could just "drift." I was ne...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:48 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
- Replies: 126
- Views: 6475
Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
Yagmort, I spent 19 years with the Kazi family. This included Naljor Sonam Kazi (this is how He's referred to in Dudjom Rinpoche's namthar), His wife, Nordzinla (better know as Mrs. Kazi, the daughter of H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche's first Consort, Tsheten Yudron), and Their Daughter, Jetsun Pema Kazi (the...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:22 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
- Replies: 126
- Views: 6475
Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
The role of the Teacher is not just to transmit texts and comment on them. For that, YouTube, Zoom, etc. may be acceptable. However, IME, it's important to be with the Teacher as much as possible (as long as you don't get burnt in the process). As the Teacher really gets to know you, He or She can g...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:27 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
- Replies: 126
- Views: 6475
Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
Often, that's what being rime really boils down to -- being Kagyud or Sakypa but practicing Nyingma.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:34 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
- Replies: 126
- Views: 6475
Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
Tingdzin,
Orgyen Kusum Lingpa revealed a number of terma here in the United States. Tulku Sherdor of Blazing Wisdom has compiled these and published them in a book.
Orgyen Kusum Lingpa revealed a number of terma here in the United States. Tulku Sherdor of Blazing Wisdom has compiled these and published them in a book.
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:51 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
- Replies: 126
- Views: 6475
Re: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
1. "He [Guru Rinpoche] did not place termas anywhere else." That's not true. Terma have been revealed in the U.S . and I feel quite certain that more will come. 2. There are some Western practitioners who have been made lineage holders by their Tibetan Teachers, been made Lamas, and been g...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:28 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Stagnant sanghas, teachers not teaching
- Replies: 126
- Views: 6475
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:38 pm
- Forum: Nyingma
- Topic: Four kinds of glory
- Replies: 2
- Views: 213
Re: Four kinds of glory
Wow! Thank you for that. When asked about the "four glories," I couldn't finmd anything anywhere. This makes more sense.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:53 pm
- Forum: Dzogchen
- Topic: Is it ok to practice Vajrasattva mantra meditation without oral transmission
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1479
Re: Is it ok to practice Vajrasattva mantra meditation without oral transmission
But it also should have lung.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:46 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Vajrayana in the spectrum
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3102
Re: Vajrayana in the spectrum
Like your son, I learn foreign languages very easily. Large vocabularies, good grammar, can read and can hear and understand, but I cannot speak any of the half-dozen languages I "know."
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:16 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Vajrayana in the spectrum
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3102
Re: Vajrayana in the spectrum
Can and do use the phone, but I will usually communicate by any other method first to avoid it, especially if I don't already know the person I'm calling.