Author:Rebecca NovickISBN:978Genre:ReligionFile Size:25.52 MBFormat:PDF, MobiDownload:773Read:521In Tibetan, the word for Buddhist means “insider”—someone who looks not to the world but to themselves for peace and happiness. The basic premise of Buddhism is that all suffering, however real it may seem, is the product of our own minds.Rebecca Novick’s concise history of Buddhism and her explanations of the Four Noble Truths, Wheel of Life, Karma, the path of the Bodhisattva, and the four schools help us understand Tibetan Buddhism as a religion or philosophy, and more important, as a way of experiencing the world. From the Trade Paperback edition. Author:Rebecca McClen NovickISBN:Genre:PhilosophyFile Size:80.19 MBFormat:PDF, ePubDownload:931Read:250In Tibetan, the word for Buddhist means 'insider'-someone who looks not to the world but to themselves for peace and happiness. The basic premise of Buddhism is that all suffering, however real it may seem, is the product of our own minds.Rebecca Novick's concise history of Buddhism and her explanations of the Four Noble Truths, Wheel of Life, Karma, the path of the Bodhisattva, and the four schools help us understand Tibetan Buddhism as a religion or philosophy, and more important, as a way of experiencing the world.
Author:DudjomISBN:347Genre:ReligionFile Size:87.26 MBFormat:PDF, DocsDownload:883Read:204Written by a great modern Nyingma master, Dudjom Rinpoche's The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism covers in detail and depth both the fundamental teachings and the history of Tibetan Buddhism's oldest school. This, the first English translation of His Holiness' masterwork, constitutes the most complete work of its type in the West. An absolute treasure for students of the tradition, it is also an indispensable reference for anyone with an interest in Buddhism. The book includes chronologies and glossaries that elucidate Buddhist doctrine, and it provides fascinating insights into the Buddhist history of Tibet. Two treatises form the present volume, namely the Fundamentals of the Nyingma School and the History of the Nyingma School. Among the most widely read of all His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche's works, these treatises were composed during the years immediately following his arrival in India as a refugee. His intention in writing them was to preserve the precise structure of the Nyingma philosophical view within its own historical and cultural context.
This is the first time this text has been available in a trade edition. Beautifully presented, this single-volume edition represents a truly wonderful gift, and features illustrations in black and white and in color, plus maps, bibliographic information, and useful annotations. Author:The Dalai LamaISBN:567Genre:ReligionFile Size:26.30 MBFormat:PDF, ePub, MobiDownload:988Read:854The 'Core Teachings of the Dalai Lama' series begins with this small book of teachings by His Holiness, the perfect introduction to traditional Tibetan Buddhist thought and practice. There is no one more suited to introduce beginners—and remind seasoned practitioners— of the fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism than His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Speaking to an audience of Western students, the Dalai Lama shows us how to apply basic Buddhist principles to our day-to-day lives. Starting with the very foundation of Buddhism, the Four Noble Truths, he provides the framework for understanding the Buddha’s first teachings on suffering, happiness, and peace. He follows with commentary on two of Buddhism’s most profound texts: The Eight Verses on Training the Mind and Atisha’s Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, often referring to the former as one of his main sources of inspiration for the practice of compassion. With clear, accessible language and the familiar sense of humor that infuses nearly all of his work, the Dalai Lama invites us all to develop innermost awareness, a proper understanding of the nature of reality, and heartfelt compassion for all beings. This book was previously published under the title Lighting the Way.
Kyabje Dorje Chang Kalu Rinpoche, Lord of Refuge (1905-1989)Kyabje Dorje Chang Kalu Rinpoche, Lord of Refuge (1905-1989)Om. May there be happiness and goodness.The Venerable Lama Kalu Rinpoche is the true meaning of Great Dorje Chang — embodying his outer, inner, and secret qualities and activity in a manner we ordinary beings can perceive according to our capacities. I have felt a great need for his life story to be written, and great hope that it could be done. Rinpoche has now given us, his followers and disciples, his permission to write it. If the biographies of the holy beings in this world are not clearly told, it is our great loss. Thus I pray that you will bear this in mind. Before I now recount something of what I myself have seen and heard, I must beg not only permission of the lamas and the dakinis, but also their forgiveness for any illusions arising in my mind through my impurity.There are both the stories of the former lives and the story of the present life of this venerable lama’s essence. Of the many miracle wisdom emanations of Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche, Gyalses Lodrotaye, he is recognized as the Activity Incarnation to subdue beings.
Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche was previous incarnated as the Buddha’s closest disciple, the Arhat Ananda. He was the great translator Vairocana; he was the learned and accomplished Khyungpo Naljor; he was Sakya Pandita, Jonang Taranata, and Rikdzin Terdak Lingpa.
Their mind stream was all one emanation, prophesized by Lord Buddha in the Samadhiraja Sutra and the Mahaparinirvana Sutra, and prophesized by Urgyen Chenpo Padmasambhava in many treasure books.Jamgon Kongtrul was born in Derge in Do-Khams. From Sechen Pandita Gyurme Thutop Namgyal, from the All-Seeing Jamyang Khentse Khyentse Ongpo Wangpo, and from his root lama the extraordinary Situ Pema Nyinche, and from more than fifty other teachers, he received the great intellectual ocean of Sutra and Mantra teachings, which he fully heard and contemplated.
In his meditation experience, he vividly received the heart sign of accomplishment. His works include The Treasury of All-Pervading Knowledge, The Treasury of Tantric Teachings, The Treasury of Whispered Teachings, The Treasury of Precious Treasures, and the Extraordinary Treasury with its included Treasury of Vast Teachings.
Through his continual ripening and liberating work in compiling these, The Five Great Treasury volumes, he resuscitated doctrines of the Old, New, and Eclectic traditions which were on the point of perishing. He accomplished great benefit to the Doctrine and to sentient beings. At age eighty-seven he passed into the space of peace. There remains a sizeable biography of him.The present incarnation, Kalu Rinpoche, was born into the Ratak family of Beru, in Hor Treshe.
Ratak Tulku, named Pema Norbu, was a disciple of both Jamyang Khentse and of Kongtrul Rinpoche. To this Holder of the Clarity of the Secret Tantras, Rinpoche was born as a holy son, in the Female Wood Snake year. To his venerable father himself came many dream signs that Kalu Rinpoche was an incarnation of Kongtrul Rinpoche. Regents and Kyabje Dorje Chang Kalu RinpocheIn particular, the fifth Dzokchen Dzogchen Rinpoche, Tubten Choskyi Dorje, presented many spiritual offerings, three holy objects, an excellent horse, and other offerings.
He told Ratak Tulku there was no doubt that his son was Jomgon Kongtrul’s incarnation, and that he should be offered to the Dzokchen Monastery. Ratak Tulku did not agree to this, but kept the presents. Rinpoche said that the horse was of great benefit to him, and that he rode him everywhere.From childhood Rinpoche was unlike other children. Everyone found him attractive.
He had devotion and renounced all worldly interests. He had great compassion and intelligence. Bangalore days cast. From his venerable father and others he learned writing, spelling, puja, Dharma activity and other things by memory. By the power of his perfect memory he was able to learn forty pages a day by heart.At about the age of fifteen, he went to the great Kagyu seat, Pepung Palpung Monastery, where he was taken into the compassionate care of Situ Rinpoche, Pema Ongchuk Gyalpo, who proclaimed him as a wisdom emanation of Jamgon Kongtrul. He was instructed in the various branches of learning and in the practice of the Sutra and Mantra teachings by Jomgon Kongtrul’s true disciples, Kes-ong Tashi Chospel and others. From the richly accomplished meditation Master Norbu Dundrub, he received the complete ripening and liberating doctrines of the Karma and Shangpa Kagyu. From Situ Rinpoche, Gyalses Khenste Ozer, Pepung Khenste Rinpoche and many other teachers he continuously and completely received teachings of the Five Great Treasuries.
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After completing the three year, three month retreat in the Pepung Meditation Hall, he went to Bengen Monastery in Hor, his homeland.Beginning at age twenty-five, Rinpoche spent thirteen human years wandering in solitude among many uninhabited meditation spots. Enduring hardships, with great energy he completed preliminary practices of purification, and the main practices of arising and fulfillment meditations. The fame of his accomplishment spread in all directions. At the order of Situ Rinpoche, he was appointed Vajra Master of the Great Meditation hall of Pepung Monastery, where for many years he continually gave ripening empowerments, liberating teachings, and indispensable scriptural authority, and created many accomplished disciples.Rinpoche went on a pilgrimage in the area of U, Central Tibet. At the same time Situ Rinpoche Pema Ongchuk Gyalpo came on pilgrimage. At Situ Rinpoche’s order, Rinpoche taught the entire ripening and liberating Six Doctrines of Niguma of the Shangpa Kagyu to the great incarnate Gelugpa Doctrine-Holder, Kar Dor Rinpoche, and to Lhatsun Rinpoche and many other Gelugpa geshes, from whom he received vast offerings made in great reverence. At the Jokang Temple in Lhasa, Rinpoche made great offerings of gold before the Sakyamuni image, and made a great number of recitations of the “Virtuous Conduct” prayer.While he was on pilgrimage to circumnambulate the holy spots in U, Tsang, and Ru-shi, Rinpoche stayed at the home of a rich patron in the Kyangtsi area.
In a dream a white skinned boy appeared before him and said, with great sadness, that he was Khyungpo Tsultrim Gonpo, but that in this Age of Darkness he could benefit neither the doctrine nor sentient beings. Rinpoche dreamt that in his own robes he had a tigug knife and a skull bowl. These he took out and gave to the boy, and said, “If you will be inseparable from these implements, you will accomplish your purpose. You need not worry.” The next morning he saw a son of the family who was really identical with the boy in the dream. Rinpoche told the parents without doubt that this son was a holy being and that he should be treated with great purity and entered into the door of the Dharma.
The parents were greatly pleased and Rinpoche gave the child empowerments and ordination.While at the seat of Jetsun Taranata, the Gadon Puntso Ling in Tsang Lha Tser, Rinpoche gave a great assembly of monks the complete empowerments, teachings, and scriptural authority for the Six Doctrines of Niguma. They gave him great offerings.When Rinpoche was in Lhasa, Radreng Trichen and many other people seemed to request deep spiritual teachings from him. Esko studio toolkit seral.
But Situ Rinpoche told him it would be better not to stay there. On this advice, Rinpoche departed in company with Situ Rinpoche’s messenger and returned to Kham.Rinpoche has made one hundred million recitations of the Six-Armed Mahakala mantra. And all together, over three hundred thousand recitations of the “Noble Virtuous Conduct” prayer have been made, including those recited by Rinpoche himself and those sponsored by him with offerings. What wonderful deeds these are!Holy beings accomplish benefit to the Doctrine and to sentient beings by three cycles: the cycle of reading, hearing, and thinking; the cycle of total concentration; and the cycle of activity. A small part of Rinpoche’s cycles we have explained here. Consequently we know that the qualities on his stream of being’s experience and knowledge are truly incomprehensible.
But being a great “silent yogi”, he has guarded the secrets of his meditation, and these secrets we have not seen or heard. Yet we know that where there is smoke, there is fire, and where there is moisture, there is water.In a dream Rinpoche met the Lord Buddha and his eight close disciples, and dreamt that he offered the Seven Branches Prayer. Again in a dream, he himself truly transformed into Urgyen Guru Rinpoche, and from twelve tsan-ma goddesses and other dakinis received musical offerings of sweet songs and prayers.In another dream, he met the previous Jamgon Kongtrul, who played his bell and drum, and bestowed four complete empowerments, and finally melted into light and absorbed into Rinpoche. In another dream, he met Holy Tara and heard many words of prophecy from her.
No traditional Buddhist sect, Tibetan or otherwise, considers deities to be fictional. (DW post/Seeker242)2. I support Mingyur R and HHDL in their positions against Lama abuse.3. Student: Lama, I thought I might die but then I realized that the 3 Jewels would protect me.Lama: Even If you had died the 3 Jewels would still have protected you. (DW post/by?)4. Shentong is the completely pure system that,Through mainly teaching the luminous aspect of the mind, holds that the fruitions-kayas and wisdoms-exist on their own accord. (Karmapa XIII).
The reason I responded was because you asked the question.I think I am the guy most 'representing' Shangpa around here, though I did not choose to be that guy, nor am I a mouthpiece for anyone but myself. I have a deep and abiding love and connection with the Shangpa Kagyu transmission and with the lineage. I am no lama, and no lineage holder.Now, the reason I don't say anything about this particular situation is because I am not interested in fomenting rumor, in any direction. I have heard a great deal of rumor, and some indisputable fact, but I am not going to engage in the conversation because it does not benefit me, nor does it benefit anyone else.
If you are interested in the issue, you can do some research, visiting Youtube and Facebook, amongst other places, where you will find plenty of grist for your mill. There are at least two sides to every story, including this one. It's good to examine any prospective teacher, so I'd urge anyone interested in becoming a Student of Yangsi Kalu Rinpoche to exert their due diligence, just as I would with any prospective guru. In the end, though, each individual must make up their own mind, and in any event I'm a tertiary source, if anything, so no one should care what I think. The elephant in the room, unreferenced in the above document, remains the physical and sexual abuse that Yangsi Kalu Rinpoche reportedly endured from a young age at the hands of senior monks of the institution that issued it.
His alleged reckless and destructive behavior could seem inexplicable when presented out of context, as in the document. When read with that background of abuse in mind, it becomes eminently understandable.A yangsi faced with a climate of abuse that he not only personally endured but which others (notably but not exclusively women) experienced under the aegis of his predecessor could be forgiven for lashing out, engaging in rebellious behavior, and not wholeheartedly endorsing the agenda of those who were complicit in perpetuating that state of affairs. His dismissal of certain lamas and staff, purported to have been corrupt, also looks different when viewed in that light.The document suggests that certain figures with authority over the institution's affairs remain unrepentant and unwilling to even engage in self-criticism, at least publicly. Maybe I'm missing something here, but that's how this looks from where I'm sitting. Tue Sep 18, 2018 9:04 pmThe reason I responded was because you asked the question.I think I am the guy most 'representing' Shangpa around here, though I did not choose to be that guy, nor am I a mouthpiece for anyone but myself.
I have a deep and abiding love and connection with the Shangpa Kagyu transmission and with the lineage. I am no lama, and no lineage holder.Now, the reason I don't say anything about this particular situation is because I am not interested in fomenting rumor, in any direction. I have heard a great deal of rumor, and some indisputable fact, but I am not going to engage in the conversation because it does not benefit me, nor does it benefit anyone else. If you are interested in the issue, you can do some research, visiting Youtube and Facebook, amongst other places, where you will find plenty of grist for your mill.
There are at least two sides to every story, including this one. It's good to examine any prospective teacher, so I'd urge anyone interested in becoming a Student of Yangsi Kalu Rinpoche to exert their due diligence, just as I would with any prospective guru. In the end, though, each individual must make up their own mind, and in any event I'm a tertiary source, if anything, so no one should care what I think.This is indeed why I am asking.
Yangsi Kalu is touring the US this fall and giving meditation instructions composed by his predecessor along with some empowerments. I would like to make connection with Shangpa tradition and this seemed like it could potentially be a good opportunity. Now that Lama Norlha has passed it does not seem like there are many lamas in the United States who actively propagate the Shangpa lineage. Wed Sep 19, 2018 12:50 amThis is indeed why I am asking. Yangsi Kalu is touring the US this fall and giving meditation instructions composed by his predecessor along with some empowerments.
I would like to make connection with Shangpa tradition and this seemed like it could potentially be a good opportunity. Now that Lama Norlha has passed it does not seem like there are many lamas in the United States who actively propagate the Shangpa lineage.How about one of Norlha's students, like Willa Miller or Rod Owens? Or you could see whether Sarah Harding is giving teachings. I don't think Richard Barron or Ken McLeod do at the moment, at least not publicly.Mind you, there are two distributary streams of scandal there around Norlha and McLeod. I can tell you what I know from my own experience and what Yangsi Kalu Rinpoche spoke in my presence. I had the honor of meeting him and spending some time with him around the time of his 21st birthday. I was also fortunate to receive teachings.Rinpoche has been totally open about the abuse he suffered as a child.
(Video he made about it is on Youtube.) He has also been quite open about the crazy stuff he did when he was a teenager. He has made these accounts into what I think is an exceptionally vivid and profound teaching about samsara.He has also been quite open about the difficulties he has faced in wanting to reform the lineage, its monasteries, and its lay and monastic centers worldwide. He wishes to modernize, many do not want to do so. There has been a lot of internal politics and political conflict.I have found him to be very open and completely transparent about his life and work. Others may have an entirely different opinion.I also admire him immensely and consider him to be one of the most accessible teachers today especially as his English is flawless and he is more than able to communicate to American audiences.One of the western students of the previous incarnation as well as the current one, Lama Palden of the Sukhasiddhi Foundation in California, is clear in that she regards both incarnations to be the same in essence and in many practices.So if anyone would like to go hear him at one of the events I have nothing but positive recommendations.
Wed Sep 19, 2018 7:29 amBut has he studied sufficiently and accomplished practices in retreat? If yes, how did he do that if he is still 28 years old and all this drama with the monastery has been happening since years ago? I am just wondering as the information in this thread is a bit confusing.It is actually written in the link, he did some years of study and a three-year retreat according to the angry monks./magnusAh yes, I read the pdf but this part didn't register. The thing that seems weird is that, if he has renounced the whole thing and gone against his lineage for whatever reasons justified or not, why would he want to give teachings anyway? And if he is giving teachings, does he teach Vajrayana, or personal stuff unrelated to lineage? Wed Sep 19, 2018 7:29 amBut has he studied sufficiently and accomplished practices in retreat?
If yes, how did he do that if he is still 28 years old and all this drama with the monastery has been happening since years ago? I am just wondering as the information in this thread is a bit confusing.It is actually written in the link, he did some years of study and a three-year retreat according to the angry monks./magnusAh yes, I read the pdf but this part didn't register. The thing that seems weird is that, if he has renounced the whole thing and gone against his lineage for whatever reasons justified or not, why would he want to give teachings anyway? And if he is giving teachings, does he teach Vajrayana, or personal stuff unrelated to lineage?I don't think he go against the lineage, the monks saay he is acting against his predecessors monastery. When he left the monastery as a teenager he accused the monks at the monastery for sexually abusing him. I think that might be a part of the story./magnus. Wed Sep 19, 2018 9:20 amIt is actually written in the link, he did some years of study and a three-year retreat according to the angry monks./magnusAh yes, I read the pdf but this part didn't register.
The thing that seems weird is that, if he has renounced the whole thing and gone against his lineage for whatever reasons justified or not, why would he want to give teachings anyway? And if he is giving teachings, does he teach Vajrayana, or personal stuff unrelated to lineage?I don't think he go against the lineage, the monks saay he is acting against his predecessors monastery. When he left the monastery as a teenager he accused the monks at the monastery for sexually abusing him. I think that might be a part of the story./magnusI suppose it's impossible to know without some first hand information.