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༄༅། །སྒྲོལ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་གཅིག་གིས་བསྟོད་པ་ཕན་ཡོན་དང་བཅས་པ། The Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage, and the Excellent Benefits of Reciting the Praise Tara  (སྒྲོལ་མ, Dölma), also known as Jetsun Dölma appears as a female  bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism, and as a female Buddha in Vajrayana  Buddhism. She is known as the “mother of liberation”, and represents the...

Sherab Nyingpo Teaching by Geshe Lobsang Dawa The Heart Sūtra or Sherab Nyingpo (ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོ་) is perhaps the most popular Buddhist sūtra and certainly the sūtra most widely used and chanted in Tibet. Its full title in Sanskrit is Bhagavatīprajñāpāramitāhṛdaya and in Tibetan བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ which translates as 'The Heart of the Blessed Perfection of Wisdom.'...

Sherab Nyingpo Teaching by Geshe Lobsang Dawa The Heart Sūtra or Sherab Nyingpo (ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོ་) is perhaps the most popular Buddhist sūtra and certainly the sūtra most widely used and chanted in Tibet. Its full title in Sanskrit is Bhagavatīprajñāpāramitāhṛdaya and in Tibetan བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ which translates as 'The Heart of the Blessed Perfection of Wisdom.'...

Sherab Nyingpo Teaching by Geshe Lobsang Dawa The Heart Sūtra or Sherab Nyingpo (ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོ་) is perhaps the most popular Buddhist sūtra and certainly the sūtra most widely used and chanted in Tibet. Its full title in Sanskrit is Bhagavatīprajñāpāramitāhṛdaya and in Tibetan བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ which translates as 'The Heart of the Blessed Perfection of Wisdom.'...

Sherab Nyingpo Teaching by Geshe Lobsang Dawa The Heart Sūtra or Sherab Nyingpo (ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོ་) is perhaps the most popular Buddhist sūtra and certainly the sūtra most widely used and chanted in Tibet. Its full title in Sanskrit is Bhagavatīprajñāpāramitāhṛdaya and in Tibetan བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ which translates as 'The Heart of the Blessed Perfection of Wisdom.'...

Sherab Nyingpo Teaching by Geshe Lobsang Dawa The Heart Sūtra or Sherab Nyingpo (ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོ་) is perhaps the most popular Buddhist sūtra and certainly the sūtra most widely used and chanted in Tibet. Its full title in Sanskrit is Bhagavatīprajñāpāramitāhṛdaya and in Tibetan བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ which translates as 'The Heart of the Blessed Perfection of Wisdom.'...

Sherab Nyingpo Teaching by Geshe Lobsang Dawa Ep 1 The Heart Sūtra or Sherab Nyingpo (ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོ་) is perhaps the most popular Buddhist sūtra and certainly the sūtra most widely used and chanted in Tibet. Its full title in Sanskrit is Bhagavatīprajñāpāramitāhṛdaya and in Tibetan བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ which translates as 'The Heart of the Blessed Perfection of Wis...

Sherab Nyingpo Teaching by Geshe Lobsang Dawa Ep 1 The Heart Sūtra or Sherab Nyingpo (ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོ་) is perhaps the most  popular Buddhist sūtra and certainly the sūtra most widely used and chanted in Tibet. Its full title in Sanskrit is  Bhagavatīprajñāpāramitāhṛdaya and in Tibetan  བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ which translates as 'The Heart of the Blessed...

རྐྱེན་ཟློག་སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ། བདེ་སྨོན། ཉིན་དྲུག་པ། Aspirations to End Adversity  Day 8 གདུགས་དཀར།་སེང་གདོང་མ།་འོད་ཟེར་ཅན་མའི་གཟུངས།་ས་སྐྱ་ནད་གྲོལ། The Dharani Mantras of Sitatapatra, Simhamukha, and Marichi . The Prayer that Saved Sakya from Disease An aspiration to End Adversity, Online Prayer led by HH the Gyalwang Karmapa. January 20 to 27, 2021, IST 6:30 PM

རྐྱེན་ཟློག་སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ། བདེ་སྨོན། ཉིན་དྲུག་པ། Aspirations to End Adversity  Day 7  འཇམ་དཔལ་མཚན་བརྫོད། Professing the Qualities of Manjushri An aspiration to End Adversity, Online Prayer led by HH the Gyalwang Karmapa. January 20 to 27, 2021, IST 6:30 PM

རྐྱེན་ཟློག་སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ། བདེ་སྨོན། ཉིན་དྲུག་པ། Aspirations to End Adversity  Day 6  བར་བསམ་སྒྲོལ་གསུམ། Supplication to Guru Rinpoche | Praises of Tara An aspiration to End Adversity, Online Prayer led by HH the Gyalwang Karmapa. January 20 to 27, 2021, IST 6:30 PM

རྐྱེན་ཟློག་སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ། བདེ་སྨོན། ཉིན་ལྔ་པ། Aspirations to End Adversity  Day 5  འཆི་་མེད་རྔ་སྒྲའི་གཟུགས་མདོ། བདེ་སྨོན།  The Dharani Sutra of the Sound of Drum of Deathlessness An aspiration to End Adversity, Online Prayer led by HH the Gyalwang Karmapa. January 20 to 27, 2021, IST 6:30 PM

རྐྱེན་ཟློག་སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ། ཉིན་བཞི་པ། Aspirations to End Adversity  Day 4  སྨན་བླའི་མདོ། The Medicine Buddha Sutra An aspiration to End Adversity, Online Prayer led by HH the Gyalwang Karmapa. January 20 to 27, 2021, IST 6:30 PM

རྐྱེན་ཟློག་སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ། ཉིན་ ༣ ། Aspirations to End Adversity  Day 3 མི་འཁྲུགས་པའི་གཟུངས་མདོ།  Sutras of the Dharani of Akshobhya An aspiration to End Adversity, Online Prayer led by HH the Gyalwang Karmapa. January 20 to 27, 2021, IST 6:30 PM

རྐྱེན་ཟློག་སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ། ཉིན་དང་པོ། Aspirations to End Adversity  Day 2 བཟང་སྤྱོད། ལྟུང་བཤགས། The Noble Aspiration for Excellent Conduct | The Sutra in Three Sections An aspiration to End Adversity, Online Prayer led by HH the Gyalwang Karmapa. January 20 to 27, 2021, IST 6:30 PM

རྐྱེན་ཟློག་སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ། ཉིན་དང་པོ། Aspirations to End Adversity  Day 1  རྒྱུན་ཆགས་གསུམ་པ་དང་།  ཤེར་སྙིང་བདུད་ཟློག །   The Three Daily Practices - The Heart Sutra with the Repulsion of Maras An aspiration to End Adversity, Online Prayer led by HH the Gyalwang Karmapa. January 20 to 27, 2021, IST 6:30 PM .

The Heart Sutra(བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་སྙིང་པོ) is the most widely known sutra of the Mahayana tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. It is part of the Prajnaparamita Sutras, which is a collection of about 40 sutras composed between 100 BCE and 500 CE. The Heart Sutra is a presentation of profound wisdom on the nature of emptiness. The Sutra famously states, "Form is emptiness (śūnyat...

The Heart Sutra(བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་སྙིང་པོ) is the most widely known sutra of the Mahayana tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. It is part of the Prajnaparamita Sutras, which is a collection of about 40 sutras composed between 100 BCE and 500 CE. The Heart Sutra is a presentation of profound wisdom on the nature of emptiness. The Sutra famously states, "Form is emptiness (śūnyat...

Rinpoche instructed that to “ rest in naked awareness ” is for  the mind to be natural, unaltered, fresh. All the intellectual dharmas  are created and you will not be able to see the uncreated meaning. So,  for this reason, take all practices and all appearances as the path  without heed. The best practice, whether sitting and looking at the  mind, is to practice without...

Ignorance Is a Problem If that is so, how does samsara come about? In the beginning of Entering the Middle Way, Chandrakirti explains: First you think “I” and cling to a self, Then you think “mine” and cling to things.” (Ch. 1, v3ab) Like a turning water wheel, you circle around in samsara due to  clinging to an “I,” and once you have fixated on this self, there is  “mine,” what belongs...

In the afternoon session on The Ganges Mahāmudrā (Mahāmudrā Upadeśa) ,  HE Kyabje Drubwang Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche continued his teaching by  discussing conduct. In the morning session, he discussed the view and  meditation on non-arising and non-fixation. Conduct is what manifests  naturally from that view and meditation. Rinpoche said that “to manifest  non-arising we nee...

HE Kyabje Drubwang Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche began the second day of teachings on the The Ganges Mahāmudrā (Mahāmudrā Upadeśa) summarizing key aspects of the first afternoon session. Given their  importance, he re-emphasized the four characteristics of the student who  can be taught the profound instructions. These characteristics –  enduring hardship, guru devotion, bearing suffering,...

Throughout the teaching, Rinpoche reminded us that in order to  realize this ultimate view, we begin with going forth and following the  stages of the path. The View must be connected with scripture and logic.  Then, we can practice meditation on egoless-ness. Meditation must be  connected with non-fixation and Conduct becomes manifest with  experience. The verse says, Ala...

Reminding everyone to hold bodhichitta in their hearts, Kyabje  Drubwang Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche began his third and last day of teaching  Tilopa’s Ganges Mahamudra, the upadesha or key instructions for the  practice of mahamudra. At the start of his talk, Nyenpa Rinpoche  reviewed the previous verses and added new commentary. He explained that  highly developed adepts coul...

In the afternoon session on The Ganges Mahāmudrā (Mahāmudrā Upadeśa) ,  HE Kyabje Drubwang Sangye Nyenpa Rinpoche continued his teaching by  discussing conduct. In the morning session, he discussed the view and  meditation on non-arising and non-fixation. Conduct is what manifests  naturally from that view and meditation. Rinpoche said that “to manifest  non-arising we nee...