Dharma Wheel

When HHK came to the women's retreat he gave them a list of things to study. One was the Hevajra Tantra, which supposedly Elizabeth Callahan was working on. However I just checked the Tsadra Foundation blurb on Callahan and there's no mention of it being in the works. So maybe it isn't true. I’ll a...

Hello. Many of you have received multiple sadhana and practice empowerments; it seems some of you have received many indeed. I am just curious: if you were to restrict yourself to a single sadhana or practice, which would you choose and why? You have to restrict yourself to a single practice if you...

PemaG wrote: ↑Sat Jan 09, 2021 4:56 pm Western Sadhana written by a forest yogin from Nova Scotia.

https://maharime.wordpress.com/2021/01/ ... n_sadhana/

It is not a sadhana it's just stupidity. Maha-rime, right.

/magnus

thanks for the input Magnus ...On a side note I think that sometimes getting the empowerment is the easy part, finding someone who have practiced and accomplished the practice and is willing to teach you is the difficult part... wholeheartedly agree. that's one of my stumbling blocks. i always find...

is anything known about that cycle? is it practiced/transmitted? Since it is a part of the Chokling Tersar it is transmitted. To me it looks like it is a Guru Drakpo practice. On a side note I think that sometimes getting the empowerment is the easy part, finding someone who have practiced and acco...

Padmist wrote: ↑Mon Jan 04, 2021 4:20 pm Nyingma @ Dharamsala - If there are not a lot there, where are they now?

There are Nyingma lamas in Dharamsala connected with the Nechung monastery.

/magnus

I'm doing WOMPT ngondro by the way. WOMPT is a commentary on the Longchen Nyingtik Ngondro. So if you do that Ngondro then Longchen Nyingtik is the cycle you practice. I hope you got the transmission for the Ngongdro text and then you should also request teachings on it from your teacher. https://w...

I'm doing WOMPT ngondro by the way. WOMPT is a commentary on the Longchen Nyingtik Ngondro. So if you do that Ngondro then Longchen Nyingtik is the cycle you practice. I hope you got the transmission for the Ngongdro text and then you should also request teachings on it from your teacher. https://w...

which Dzogchen cycle's approach is outlined in this teaching by Togden Shakya Shri? Togden Shakya Shi received Dzogchen instructions mostly from Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, so this presentation is probably according to one of Khyentse's cycles/termas.. it is from the biography translated by late Elio ...

It is so sad. I will miss him.

/magnus

Well to me, yes that's too much, if it wasn't I would have also left if I considered my membership to be predicate on hearing the details of Rinpoche's death. I would have liked to hear more of course, but my membership isn't dependent on that. Just as I'm not going to cease my association and cont...

I always find these statements about the DCs lack of transparency a little strange. I certainly agree it could do with being more so, but very few organisations are particularly good at transparency, and Tibetan Buddhist sanghas some of the least of all. I actually find the DC to be more transparen...

Giovanni wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:31 am I don’t understand.

http://melong.com

The purpose of the melong is to inform people about what happens in the community.

/magnus

Giovanni wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 9:13 am Not too much. But perhaps you think that someone feels in charge to tell such things? I think that is not the case here.
I think all senior people look at each other and wait for them to say. That is what I see.

How about the mirror?

/magnus

Point taken. Truth be told, nothing of what I know about the response has been made public by the DC. And it is also fairly possible that the response, or the lack of it, was also due to our failure to communicate properly. It could explain, for instance, why there were (as far as I know ) no offic...

I think you can't be sure of that. A lot of people might have contacted the family without that being communicated to the community. I stopped paying my membership because during the months after Rinpoches death I didn't get any communication how Rinpoche died, who was present, what he said at that...

Malcolm wrote: ↑Mon Dec 07, 2020 4:26 pm

heart wrote: ↑Mon Dec 07, 2020 4:18 pm Why was he embalmed? Who decided that and so on?

According to what I have been told, Rinpoche decided his body was to be embalmed.

I am not against it, I just don't understand why the students don't get informed.

/magnus

Here's a reaction from Karma Gelek Yuthok, on behalf of the the Department of Religion and Culture of the Central Tibetan Administration: https://tibet.net/religion-and-culture-kalon-offers-condolence-over-the-demise-of-honorable-kyabje-choegyal-namkhai-norbu-rinpoche/ Thank you, forgot about this ...

Tsewang dzinpas main sadhana is anuyoga. There is an unelaborate ati version and an maha ati sadhana. The 4th empowerment is a rigpai tsal wang. This is the auspicious verse from the maha ati sadhana: HUM. Guru luminous’empty, self’aware -enlightened accomplished yidams form vital’energy and manta ...

The advert stated these teachings come from the Yangzab the Drikung Kagyu Dzogchen Terma. I can't see anything about Dzogchen. I am pretty sure Yangzab isn't only Dzogchen. /magnus In the image it says “these Dzogchen teachings come from the Yang Zab - Drikung Kagyu Dzogchen Terma” You are right, i...