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Hi James, when did you live there? My wife and I visited back in 2005! Maybe you were living there at the time. We met two guys at his centre in Toronto...

These questions of adaptation were a matter of intense debate in the 13th century when Sakya Pandita cautioned his fellow Tibetans, “Since there is nobody in the three realms wiser than the Buddha, one should not adulterate the sutras and tantras that he taught. To do so is to abandon the doctrine ...

Hi, Weird.... I just thought I'd do a search for Lama Jampa as he's my teacher and it's interesting to see whether people are talking about him... And so I saw your question. Lama Jampa hasn't done a 3 year retreat... That's not necessary. He was authorised in the 70's to teach by Karma Thinley Rinp...

Perhaps relevant for this thread . . . a video entitled "what is the Vajrayana and how does it differ from the common Mahayana?" https://youtu.be/Ag97J8t8fRM

the risk is that we'll just take the bits of dharma that we like, and that are therefore not challenging, and so don't have the power to transform us like those prescribed by a skillful teacher. See this useful video for a fuller explanation by my teacher...https://youtu.be/BDcUj8nhCqo

Hi . . . I've had a rare teaching on this and I think you need a teacher . . . but I think it's different to initiation - would need to ask a qualified lama. More generally Lama Jampa Thaye lays out the reason we need a teacher in the following video: https://youtu.be/BDcUj8nhCqo

I run the shop at Sakya Thinley Rinchen Ling in Bristol, UK. Our main Lama is Lama Jampa Thaye of Kagyu and Sakya schools. We keep all of his books in stock but there's a number of other decent titles which might not be strictly Sakya but have a connection. Books such as 'Taking the Result of the Pa...