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oh, that's good! thank you for the clarification heart

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 ...

honestly i don't think any courses are needed. just a decent textbook will suffice for familiarising one self with the language at comfortable pace. people recommend manual of standard tibet by Tournadre or heart if tibetan language by Oertle. there are some others of course which are strictly about...

is anything known about that cycle? is it practiced/transmitted?

[Mod note:] Referring to this old topic: https://www.dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.php?p=340782#p340782 Please make yourself familiar with our new rule in the ToS about "necroing".] ...The Dzogchen part of it does not even involve practicing Troma at all... what about the "heart-blood of the hundred th...

i see.
Java maybe?

so, after all this time is it possible to confirm what exactly happened with Khenpo Acho body? i neither question his realization nor obsessed with rainbow body phenomenon, just would like to hear facts: if his body shrinked, dissolved completely or stayed the same. asking because in the book "Great...

... I have also heard a tiny part of the instructions of the Master that originated in Drāmiḍa, and that was transmitted through Indian scholars. Although I have not actually seen the historical texts that tell the Indian tales, the tales are included in the texts of the history of our lineage of t...

GrapeLover thanks for the input.

thanks. i just looked through his entries on lotsawahouse and i cannot seem to find the Taranatha's biography of Guru Rinpoche. is it there?

thanks tingdzin and mutsuk.

mutsuk, which english translation would you suggest?

Johnny, no offense taken whatsoever, all good man. the teaching is not a practice manual, it is a clear and condensed, easy to understand overview of stages of the path to liberation without typical vajrayana intricacies which are unnecessary and confusing for beginners. i agree it contains pretty i...

thanks Magnus. PeterC, it's page number 24. i dunno why Johnny has removed it, it says nothing about being restricted in the book. anyone who bought the book will inevitably read it. the book has prefaces by both Chogyal Namkha Norbu and Sey Rinpoche who is Togden Shakya Shri's great-grandson and th...

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 G...

anyone knows the birth date of Orgyen Tenzin Rinpoche? or his age?

This thread is referring to this very old topic: https://www.dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.php?p=218907#p218907 what an excellent read! thanks to all the participants. ...Of course there are skeptics, like Taranatha, who found the whole literature of the Padma Khathangs to be worth less than the paper ...

...According to the Terma teachings, Guru Rinpoche received the teaching of Troma Nagmo and the Tantra of Vajravarahi from a large group of wisdom dakinis in the Spontaneous Cemetery of Uddiyana. Vajrayogini also appeared before him and gave him all these teachings as an oral transmission. Guru Rin...

thanks for the response,Ayu.

what about books? if a contemporary tibetan author/lama mentions his auspicious dreams as a result of practice during retreat or other stuff like that? not being judgemental or something, just thought your not suppose to make such things public?

is it ok for high lamas to speak about their retreat experiences, signs of realization, auspicious dreams, amount of mantra recitations they accumulated etc.?

btw even though if necro regarding that: If I remember correctly, I once read somewhere that a serious practitioner of Tröma should practice only Tröma and nothing else. Is that true? Is there such an instruction? i've seen something similar is mentioned in Vajrayoginī by Elizabeth English, where sh...