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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,...

The first line of Tilopa’s teaching: " I prostrate to the glorious Vajra dakini ".  Vajra refers to method. Dakini is prajña. Dakini means sky goers, that  is, emptiness, the base of all phenomena. It doesn’t refer to the  female. Dakini is emptiness, Vajra is the means, unchanging and  indestructible. In these 2 words are included all of ground path and fruition. The Ganges Ma...

I, Tilo, have nothing to show you. Mahāmudrā cannot be shown. Over a thousand years ago on the banks of the river Ganges, the Mahasiddha Tilopa offered the pith instructions on Mahāmudrā to his heart son Naropa. Not only had Naropa been the greatest scholar at Nalanda university but he had endured 12 years of inconceivable hardship following every ‘crazy’ command of his guru. The pith instructions...

The first line of Tilopa’s teaching: " I prostrate to the glorious Vajra dakini ".  Vajra refers to method. Dakini is prajña. Dakini means sky goers, that  is, emptiness, the base of all phenomena. It doesn’t refer to the  female. Dakini is emptiness, Vajra is the means, unchanging and  indestructible. In these 2 words are included all of ground path and fruition. The Ganges Ma...

    I, Tilo, have nothing to show you. Mahāmudrā cannot be shown. Over a thousand years ago on the banks of the river Ganges, the Mahasiddha Tilopa offered the pith instructions on Mahāmudrā to his heart son Naropa. Not only had Naropa been the greatest scholar at Nalanda university but he had endured 12 years of inconceivable hardship following every ‘crazy’ command of his gur...

The teaching is on Shantideva’s ‘A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ (Tibetan: Choejug) by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama The Bodhicharyavatara (The Guide) of the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva is one of the great works of Buddhist literature. It has been translated into Western languages at least a dozen times in this century and is already well-known to many students of Buddhism...

The teaching is on Shantideva’s ‘A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ (Tibetan: Choejug) by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama The Bodhicharyavatara (The Guide) of the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva is one of the great works of Buddhist literature. It has been translated into Western languages at least a dozen times in this century and is already well-known to many students of Buddhism...

The teaching is on Shantideva’s ‘A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ (Tibetan: Choejug) by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama The Bodhicharyavatara (The Guide) of the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva is one of the great works of Buddhist literature. It has been translated into Western languages at least a dozen times in this century and is already well-known to many students of Buddhism...

The teaching is on Shantideva’s ‘A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ (Tibetan: Choejug) by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama The Bodhicharyavatara (The Guide) of the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva is one of the great works of Buddhist literature. It has been translated into Western languages at least a dozen times in this century and is already well-known to many students of Buddhism...

The teaching is on Shantideva’s ‘A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ (Tibetan: Choejug) by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama The Bodhicharyavatara (The Guide) of the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva is one of the great works of Buddhist literature. It has been translated into Western languages at least a dozen times in this century and is already well-known to many students of Buddhism...

The teaching is on Shantideva’s ‘A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ (Tibetan: Choejug) by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama The Bodhicharyavatara (The Guide) of the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva is one of the great works of Buddhist literature. It has been translated into Western languages at least a dozen times in this century and is already well-known to many students of Buddhism...

The teaching is on Shantideva’s ‘A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ (Tibetan: Choejug) by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama The Bodhicharyavatara (The Guide) of the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva is one of the great works of Buddhist literature. It has been translated into Western languages at least a dozen times in this century and is already well-known to many students of Buddhism...

The teaching is on Shantideva’s ‘A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ (Tibetan: Choejug) by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama The Bodhicharyavatara (The Guide) of the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva is one of the great works of Buddhist literature. It has been translated into Western languages at least a dozen times in this century and is already well-known to many students of Buddhism...

The teaching is on Shantideva’s ‘A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ (Tibetan: Choejug) by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama The Bodhicharyavatara (The Guide) of the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva is one of the great works of Buddhist literature. It has been translated into Western languages at least a dozen times in this century and is already well-known to many students of Buddhism...

The teaching is on Shantideva’s ‘A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ (Tibetan: Choejug) by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama The Bodhicharyavatara (The Guide) of the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva is one of the great works of Buddhist literature. It has been translated into Western languages at least a dozen times in this century and is already well-known to many students of Buddhism...

The teaching is on Shantideva’s ‘A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ (Tibetan: Choejug) by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama The Bodhicharyavatara (The Guide) of the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva is one of the great works of Buddhist literature. It has been translated into Western languages at least a dozen times in this century and is already well-known to many students of Buddhism...

The teaching is on Shantideva’s ‘A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ (Tibetan: Choejug) by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama The Bodhicharyavatara (The Guide) of the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva is one of the great works of Buddhist literature. It has been translated into Western languages at least a dozen times in this century and is already well-known to many students of Buddhism...

The teaching is on Shantideva’s ‘A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ (Tibetan: Choejug) by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama The Bodhicharyavatara (The Guide) of the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva is one of the great works of Buddhist literature. It has been translated into Western languages at least a dozen times in this century and is already well-known to many students of Buddhism...

The teaching is on Shantideva’s ‘A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ (Tibetan: Choejug) by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama The Bodhicharyavatara (The Guide) of the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva is one of the great works of Buddhist literature. It has been translated into Western languages at least a dozen times in this century and is already well-known to many students of Buddhism...

The teaching is on Shantideva’s ‘A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ (Tibetan: Choejug) by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama The Bodhicharyavatara (The Guide) of the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva is one of the great works of Buddhist literature. It has been translated into Western languages at least a dozen times in this century and is already well-known to many students of Buddhism...

The teaching is on Shantideva’s ‘A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ (Tibetan: Choejug) by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama The Bodhicharyavatara (The Guide) of the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva is one of the great works of Buddhist literature. It has been translated into Western languages at least a dozen times in this century and is already well-known to many students of Buddhism...

The teaching is on Shantideva’s ‘A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ (Tibetan: Choejug) by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama The Bodhicharyavatara (The Guide) of the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva is one of the great works of Buddhist literature. It has been translated into Western languages at least a dozen times in this century and is already well-known to many students of Buddhism...

The teaching is on Shantideva’s ‘A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ (Tibetan: Choejug) by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama The Bodhicharyavatara (The Guide) of the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva is one of the great works of Buddhist literature. It has been translated into Western languages at least a dozen times in this century and is already well-known to many students of Buddhism...

The teaching is on Shantideva’s ‘A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ (Tibetan: Choejug) by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama The Bodhicharyavatara (The Guide) of the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva is one of the great works of Buddhist literature. It has been translated into Western languages at least a dozen times in this century and is already well-known to many students of Buddhism...

Choejug སྤྱོད་འཇུག་ཆེན་མོ། Ep 1 by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama The teaching is on Shantideva’s ‘A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life’ (Tibetan: Choejug) by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama The Bodhicharyavatara (The Guide) of the eighth-century Indian master Shantideva is one of the great works of Buddhist literature. It has been translated into Western languages at least a dozen times in...