Dharma Wheel

"Protectors" (Skt. nātha , Tib. mgon-po ) here mean the Buddhas and no-one else -- as the verse itself says, those who have traversed all the stages of the path to the end. Your question regarding the unseen protectors of Dharma, is of course a valid one, it just doesn't have anything to d...

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R

I'll add a few: - Although unpublished, Khenpo Ngawang Jorden's PhD thesis Buddha-nature: Through the Eyes of Go Rams Pa Bsod Nams Seng Ge in Fifteenth-Century Tibet is a great study of the Sakya understanding of the Uttaratantra. It can be ordered from Proquest or perhaps found somewhere on the web...

I'll add a few: - Although unpublished, Khenpo Ngawang Jorden's PhD thesis Buddha-nature: Through the Eyes of Go Rams Pa Bsod Nams Seng Ge in Fifteenth-Century Tibet is a great study of the Sakya understanding of the Uttaratantra. It can be ordered from Proquest or perhaps found somewhere on the web...

kirtu wrote:[

Is there anything by Shakya Chokden available or was he just completely banned?

Kirt

24 volumes of his collected works survive (in Tibetan). In addition to the book Karma Dorje mentioned, there's Visions of Unity.

kirtu wrote:[

Is there anything by Shakya Chokden available or was he just completely banned?

Kirt

24 volumes of his collected works survive (in Tibetan). In addition to the book Karma Dorje mentioned, there's Visions of Unity.

Yudron wrote:
I just tried it. It's a PowerPC application and so does not work on recent Mac OS.

It works for me on Snow Leopard, using Rosetta software for running PowerPC apps. But this is not available for Lion (10.7) or later.

We used the Rangjyung Yeshe dictionary in retreat, using a great little program called TibThob to search it. At that time I was running it on a partitioned Windows drive on my old Mac. Since I got a new Mac I am using Parallels to run Windows and TibThob no longer works. I havent figured out how to...

heart wrote:
That could be, which are the jenangs in the Chokling Tersar?

/magnus

One for three Kunkhyil sisters in the wealth practice of the Zabdün cyle, and two for Avalokiteśvara Yizhin Khorlo.

[Are you a Sakya? Just curious because this difference between jenanh and wangchen is normally considered very important in the Sakya. Not so in the Nyingma,or as my Guru once told me "an empowerment is an empowerment". Among else, IMO this probably has to do with the fact that the common...

Missing practice due to sickness is not breaking samaya, as per Kongtrul's Buddhist Ethics. Especially if one is able to do a minimalistic practice, I don't think there would be any problem. It's said in Dezhung Rinpoche's biography that he did his full Hevajra sadhana even while in coma, but this i...

There are quite a number of wangs in the Nyingma Kama, starting from Kriya deities such as Medicine Buddha up to the grand wangchens of Maha and Anu, and the three series of Dzogchen.

Mantras that are open are those from the Sutras, AFAIK Vajrasattva's mantra requires at least the lung.

The order of both of the arrangements of the two lines is OK because both are attested in the Tantras.

Yes, my quest is to try finding out which version should I use. The version that you received from your Guru. If you didn't receive any, you shouldn't use either one. With my attempt using an online Sanskrit dictionary, this is the best English translation I have come up with by myself so far: Gall...

Purchased. Many thanks for the info!

This is going to be a most interesting series of books.

Gadjang is tomorrow, today is Machik's Khatsom Chenmo.

"Born to lose, live to win." It's not even Tibetan but English using a Tibetan font (with some strange connecting lines).

I don't have a complete list, but Opening the Eye of New Awareness is a very nice book written by HHDL himself. A lot of the other books are transcriptions of his oral teachings. But I don't think these are less "real Dalai Lama stuff".

Historically, Jigme Lingpa practiced at Samye Chimphu. But I have not heard of any who live in these areas currently. Inside the so-called Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), which includes all of central Tibet and part of Kham, the PRC rules are much tighter, and lamas are continually monitored by Ch...

deepbluehum wrote:Vajra brothers and sisters. May you all be happy, well and secure in your life. I hope your practice goes well. May all beings attain the supreme path of Dzogchen.

Thank you, and the same to you!

R