Dzogchen Community of Chogyal Namkhai Norbu

[Hansei]

By any chance does anyone have the image of Garab Dorje that appears in the Thun book in a big size? It's the same as the one used in this cover.

[amanitamusc]

By any chance does anyone have the image of Garab Dorje that appears in the Thun book in a big size? It's the same as the one used in this cover.

You can have it printed and enlarge it .
It should come out fine.
https://timely-api-public.s3.us-west-2. ... edium.jpeg

[treehuggingoctopus]

Just wanted to say that we are receiving steady, unconditional support from Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, his students in general and some of his local sanghas in particular. It is both much needed and deeply moving, to say the least. I honestly cannot imagine a better response.

We have also received lots of warmth and support from other Bon lamas -- and from Khenchen Lama Rinpoche, who has just composed the following prayer:

The Primal Rosary of Precious Stones:
A Long Life Prayer for His Eminence Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoché
༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་ནམ་མཁའི་ནོར་བུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ལ་བརྟན་གསོལ་རིན་ཆེན་དང་པོའི་ཕྲེང་བ།།
(skyabs rje cho rgyal nam mkha’i nor bu rin po che la brtan gsol rin chen dang po’i phreng ba)
by Khenchen Lama Pelgyeypa Dorjé Rinpoché
(mkhan chen bla ma dpal dgyes pa rdo rje rin po che)
Translated from the Tibetan by Erick Tsiknopoulos

ན་མོ་མ་ཧཱ་གུ་རུ་པུནྱེ་ཛྙཱ་ན་ཡེ།།
NAMO MAHĀGURU PUṄYE-JÑĀNAYE!
(HOMAGE TO THE GREAT TEACHER OF GOOD KARMIC POTENTIAL AND DEEP WISDOM!)

ཚེ་དཔག་མེད་མགོན་འཆི་མེད་པདྨ་འབྱུང་།།
TS’É-PAK-MEY GÖN CH’I-MEY PAY-MA-JUNG
The Defender Amitāyus, the Deathless Padmasambhava,

གཙུག་ཏོར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་སྒྲོལ་མ་དཀར་མོ་སོགས།།
TSUK-TOR-NAM-GYEL DRÖL-MA KAR-MO SOK
Uṣṇīṣavijayā, White Tārā and the rest;

རིག་འཛིན་ཚེ་ཡི་ལྷ་ཚོགས་བྱིན་རླབས་ཀྱིས།།
RIK-DZIN TS’É YI LHA-TS’OK JIN-LAP KYIY
Through the blessings of the Vidyādhara Deity Assemblies of Longevity,

དཔལ་ལྡན་བླ་མའི་སྐུ་ཚེ་བསྲིངས་གྱུར་ཅིག།
PEL-DEN LA-MA’Y KU-TS’É S’ING GYUR CHIK
May the lifespan of the Glorious Guru be prolonged.

གངས་རིའི་མགོན་ལ་ཤེས་བྱའི་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་བསྟན།།
GANG-RI’I GÖN LA SHEY-JA’Y GYU-TSEL TEN
Teaching the arts of the fields of knowledge to the Defenders of the Snowy Mountain Land,

སྙིགས་ལྔའི་འགྲོ་ལ་རྫོགས་ཆེན་ཁྱབ་པར་བརྡལ།།
NYIK-NGA’Y DRO LA DZOK-CH’EN KHYAP-PAR DEL
Spreading far and wide the Great Perfection1 to living beings of the Five Degenerations,

འཛམ་གླིང་ཡོངས་ལ་ཕན་བདེའི་ཕྲིན་ལས་ཅན།།
DZAM-LING YONG LA P’EN-DE’I T’RIN-LAY CHEN
One of Awakened Activity which brings benefit and happiness to the whole world:

ཆོས་རྒྱལ་ནམ་མཁའི་ནོར་བུ་ཞབས་བརྟན་གསོལ།།
CH’Ö-GYEL NAM-KHA’Y NOR-BU ZHAP-TEN SÖL
I pray that the honored feet of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu remain firm.

སྔ་འགྱུར་རྫོགས་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད་པར་འཛིན།།
NGA-GYUR DZOK-PA-CH’EN-PO’I GYÜ-PAR DZIN
Upholding the lineage of the Early Translations’ Great Perfection,

ཕྱི་འགྱུར་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོའི་སྲོལ་རྒྱུན་སྐྱོང་།།
CH’I-GYUR CH’AK-GYA-CH’EN-PO’I S’ÖL-GYÜN KYONG
Sustaining the tradition of the Later Translations’ Great Seal2,

ཡང་འགྱུར་ལུས་སྦྱོང་འཕྲུལ་འཁོར་རྩལ་འདོན་སྤེལ།།
YANG-GYUR LÜ-JONG T’RUL-KHOR TSEL-DÖN PEL
Propagating the emphasis on the New Translations’ physical exercises of the Magic Wheel3:

ཟློས་གར་རིག་པའི་དཔའ་བོ་བརྟན་བཞུགས་གསོལ།།
DÖ-GAR RIK-PA’Y PA-WO TEN-ZHUK SÖL
I pray that the Dancing Hero of Intrinsic Awareness may firmly abide.

སློབ་ཚོགས་དམ་ཚིག་དད་པས་རྟེན་ཅིང་འབྲེལ།།
LOP-TS’OK DAM-TS’IK DAY-PAY TEN CHING DREL
Due to the interdependent connection formed by the Sacred Commitment4 and faith of his hosts of disciples,

བདག་གིས་ལྷག་བསམ་དག་པས་སྨོན་ཚིག་མཐུས།།
DAK GIY LHAK-SAM DAK-PAY MÖN-TS’IK T’Ü
By the power of my words of aspiration, made with pure altruistic motivation,

བསྟན་འགྲོའི་དོན་དུ་གསུང་ཚེ་བསྐལ་བརྒྱར་བརྟན།།
TEN-DRO’I DÖN DU SUNG-TS’É KEL GYAR TEN
For the sake of the Teachings and living beings, may the lifespan of the one spoken of here remain firm for a hundred eons;

ཕན་བདེའི་ཕྲིན་ལས་ས་གསུམ་ཁྱབ་གྱུར་ཅིག།
P’EN-DÉ’I T’RIN-LAY SA-SUM KHYAP GYUR CHIK
And may his Awakened Activity of benefit and happiness encompass the three planes of conditioned existence.

ཅེས་རབ་གནས་ས་ཁྱིའི་སྨན་ཆར་དགེ་བའི་དུས་བཟང་སངས་རྒྱས་སྨན་བླའི་དུས་ཆེན་ཉིན་འཛམ་གླིང་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཞི་བདེའི་དེད་དཔོན་ཆེན་པོ་༧ཆོས་རྒྱལ་ནམ་མཁའི་ནོར་བུ་མཆོག་གི་ཞབས་བརྟན་སྨོན་ལམ་དགོས་པར་མཁའ་འགྲོ་དཔལ་ལྡན་ལྷ་མོ་སྒྲོལ་མ་སོགས་༧མགོན་པོ་མཆོག་གི་སློབ་དུ་མས་ངོར་གང་དྲན་དུ་རྩ་གསུམ་རབ་འབྱམས་རྒྱལ་བ་སྲས་བཅས་ལ་གསོལ་སྨོན་དང་མགོན་པོ་གང་ཉིད་བརྟན་གསོལ་དུ་དབྱིན་ཡུལ་གངས་ལྡན་རི་བོའི་མགུལ་ནས་སྙིགས་དུས་ཀྱི་ཆོས་སྨྲ་བ་ཤཱཀྱའི་དགེ་སྦྱོང་བ་མཁན་ཆེན་བླ་མ་དཔལ་དགྱེས་པ་རྡོ་རྗེ་འམ་ཤྲཱིཿཨེ་མ་ཧོས་དེ་ཉིད་དུ་སྨོན་པར་དགེའོ།། །།
And so it was that on the positive auspicious occasion of Medicine Dawn (sman char) in the Earth Dog Year of the sixty-year Tibetan astrological cycle (rab gnas), the day of celebration for Medicine Buddha, in response to numerous disciples of this Supreme Defender, such as Khandro Pelden Lhamo Drölma and others, who stated the necessity of a long life prayer for the great captain of peace and happiness for all the nations of the world, His Eminence Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoché, whatever rose to mind, as a supplicating wish to the infinite array of the Three Roots and the Victorious Ones together with their Bodhisattva Heirs, and as a prayer for the stable longevity of this Defender himself, was written down on the slopes of a mountain in the snow country of England, by the Dharma Expounder of the Degenerate Age, a spiritual mendicant of the Śākyan lineage, Khenchen Lama Pelgyeypa Dorjé, or Śrī Émaho; who formulated aspirations just so: May it be virtuous!
(Translated from the Tibetan by Erick Tsiknopoulos, September 18th 2018, at the request of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoché’s students.)

1 rdzog chen, mahāsaṅdhi (Dzogchen)
2 phyag rgya chen po, mahāmudrā
3 ‘phrul ‘khor (Trulkhor)
4 samaya

[Pema Yolo]

The video has been so bad for the first session on the last couple of days that I can't even tell what practice is being performed (I mean, I know it's Guru Yoga of the White A). But is it the Medium Thun or what? I'd like to know so I can still practice concurrently. Thanks

[meepits]

Just wanted to say that we are receiving steady, unconditional support from Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, his students in general and some of his local sanghas in particular. It is both much needed and deeply moving, to say the least. I honestly cannot imagine a better response.

We have also received lots of warmth and support from other Bon lamas -- and from Khenchen Lama Rinpoche, who has just composed the following prayer:
...

I appreciate you mentioning that.

TBH more lamas should be reaching out at a time like this, and it means a lot that some are.

[Lukeinaz]

The video has been so bad for the first session on the last couple of days that I can't even tell what practice is being performed (I mean, I know it's Guru Yoga of the White A). But is it the Medium Thun or what? I'd like to know so I can still practice concurrently. Thanks

It is the White A of Guru Garab Dorje as found in the Guru Yoga book not thun book. If someone has the Tibetan verses of this I would really appreciate a copy or at least where to find. Does the collective practice book have the Tibetan?

[Johnny Dangerous]

The video has been so bad for the first session on the last couple of days that I can't even tell what practice is being performed (I mean, I know it's Guru Yoga of the White A). But is it the Medium Thun or what? I'd like to know so I can still practice concurrently. Thanks

It is the White A of Guru Garab Dorje as found in the Guru Yoga book not thun book. If someone has the Tibetan verses of this I would really appreciate a copy or at least where to find. Does the collective practice book have the Tibetan?

It's in the Guru Yoga book. You can also buy an mp3 of it if you want to learn the melodies.

[Lukeinaz]

The video has been so bad for the first session on the last couple of days that I can't even tell what practice is being performed (I mean, I know it's Guru Yoga of the White A). But is it the Medium Thun or what? I'd like to know so I can still practice concurrently. Thanks

It is the White A of Guru Garab Dorje as found in the Guru Yoga book not thun book. If someone has the Tibetan verses of this I would really appreciate a copy or at least where to find. Does the collective practice book have the Tibetan?

It's in the Guru Yoga book. You can also buy an mp3 of it if you want to learn the melodies.

Hmm, no Tibetan in my copy just the phonetics.

[Johnny Dangerous]

It is the White A of Guru Garab Dorje as found in the Guru Yoga book not thun book. If someone has the Tibetan verses of this I would really appreciate a copy or at least where to find. Does the collective practice book have the Tibetan?

It's in the Guru Yoga book. You can also buy an mp3 of it if you want to learn the melodies.

Hmm, no Tibetan in my copy just the phonetics.

You mean actual Tibetan, not romanized? Why would you need that to perform the practice, or do you want it for some other reason? I thought it had Tibetan as well but I must have misremembered it.

[Lhasa]

http://tsegyalgar.org/localcenters/tseg ... -rinpoche/

Date: September 19th, 2018.

Time: 7:00 PM
Guru Yoga of the White A with Ganapuja
Daily Practice for Rinpoche

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[Spelare]

It is the White A of Guru Garab Dorje as found in the Guru Yoga book not thun book. If someone has the Tibetan verses of this I would really appreciate a copy or at least where to find. Does the collective practice book have the Tibetan?

There's an out-of-print book that has the Tibetan text written out for the Guru Yoga of Garab Dorje. I don't own it or remember which one it is, but I've seen older Dzogchen Community members with copies. Check the library of your nearest Gar or Ling.

If you can read both Tibetan and Drajyor script, it wouldn't be too hard to write or type out the Tibetan based on the transliteration in the current Guru Yoga book. It's only three verses of four lines each, with the last two lines repeated. The verses share an identical structure, with just a few words that differ among them.

[Hansei]

By any chance does anyone have the image of Garab Dorje that appears in the Thun book in a big size? It's the same as the one used in this cover.

You can have it printed and enlarge it .
It should come out fine.
https://timely-api-public.s3.us-west-2. ... edium.jpeg

Thanks! I will try that and see how it comes out.

[Russell]

Does the collective practice book have the Tibetan?

yes.

[heart]

By any chance does anyone have the image of Garab Dorje that appears in the Thun book in a big size? It's the same as the one used in this cover.

You can have it printed and enlarge it .
It should come out fine.
https://timely-api-public.s3.us-west-2. ... edium.jpeg

Thanks! I will try that and see how it comes out.

Here you go.

buddhist-thangka-great-dzogchen-teacher-garab-dorje-35-x-45-cm.jpg (342.72 KiB) Viewed 3862 times

/magnus

[Hansei]

You can have it printed and enlarge it .
It should come out fine.
https://timely-api-public.s3.us-west-2. ... edium.jpeg

Thanks! I will try that and see how it comes out.

Here you go.

buddhist-thangka-great-dzogchen-teacher-garab-dorje-35-x-45-cm.jpg

/magnus

Wonderful! Thanks!

[Aryjna]

The Primal Rosary of Precious Stones:
A Long Life Prayer for His Eminence Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoché
༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་ནམ་མཁའི་ནོར་བུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ལ་བརྟན་གསོལ་རིན་ཆེན་དང་པོའི་ཕྲེང་

I hadn't noticed that trulkhor means magical wheel. It sounds much cooler now.

[Malcolm]

The Primal Rosary of Precious Stones:
A Long Life Prayer for His Eminence Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoché
༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་ནམ་མཁའི་ནོར་བུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ལ་བརྟན་གསོལ་རིན་ཆེན་དང་པོའི་ཕྲེང་

I hadn't noticed that trulkhor means magical wheel. It sounds much cooler now.

It doesn't.

[Aryjna]

The Primal Rosary of Precious Stones:
A Long Life Prayer for His Eminence Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoché
༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་ནམ་མཁའི་ནོར་བུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ལ་བརྟན་གསོལ་རིན་ཆེན་དང་པོའི་ཕྲེང་

I hadn't noticed that trulkhor means magical wheel. It sounds much cooler now.

It doesn't.

http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/spru ... %27khor_lo Looks like it may mean navel center or something related in this case after all

[Malcolm]

I hadn't noticed that trulkhor means magical wheel. It sounds much cooler now.

It doesn't.

http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/spru ... %27khor_lo Looks like it may mean navel center or something related in this case after all

It means machine, device, posture, etc.

[Aryjna]

It doesn't.

http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/spru ... %27khor_lo Looks like it may mean navel center or something related in this case after all

It means machine, device, posture, etc.

Is there some reasoning in the meaning based on the two parts of the word in such cases, or is it mostly unrelated?