Guru Rinpoche Day Teachings

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Phakchok Rinpoche sends out short teachings to all students via email on every Guru Rinpoche day. These messages are composed with the aspiration to inspire students. Rinpoche often uses these teachings to answer frequently asked questions. Also, he suggests topics that remind us to bring our minds home in the midst of our busy lives. Samye Institute maintains an archive of these teachings spanning the last 10 years.

Key points of Advice from Kunkhyen Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche

On the auspicious Guru Rinpoche Day of the auspicious month of Saga Dawa, Phakchok Rinpoche shares some important verses from Kunkhyen Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche's Advice...

The Four Dharmas of Gampopa

Phakchok Rinpoche shares the Four Dharmas of Gampopa and the meaning of these profound words of advice, so we can apply them in our daily...

Supreme Mind Training

Phakchok Rinpoche shares with us some of Atisha's Root Verses on Training the mind. This supreme mindtraining offers clear, simple and straightforward advice to anyone...

Kunkhyen Jamgön Mipham Rinpoché’s Advice for Beginners

In the first month of the Tibetan year of the Iron Ox, Phakchok Rinpoche shares with us on Guru Rinpoche Day some short advice for...
Guru Rinpoche with two of his heart disciples.

Prayer for Rebirth in the Copper-Colored Mountain of Glory

Phakchok Rinpoche shares with us a precious aspiration from Khandro Yeshe Tsogyal to be reborn in the Copper-Colored Mountain. It is a very practical and...
Guru Rinpoche with two of his heart disciples.

Khandro Yeshé Tsogyel’s Prayer to Guru Rinpoche

For this Guru Rinpoche day, I would like to share with you Khandro Yeshé Tsogyel’s supplication to the Great Guru, or Mahā Guru, Padmasambhava. Yeshé...
Guru Rinpoche with two of his heart disciples.

Princess Mandarava’s Prayer to Guru Rinpoche

Phakchok Rinpoche shares a supplication from Princess Mandarava to Guru Rinpoche in order to inspire us in our devotional practice....
Vulture Peak

Sustain the Treasure of Samadhi

Phakchok Rinpoche shares a little bit of his new book, "In the Footsteps of Bodhisattvas", in which he teaches how the essence of meditation naturally...
Maha Guru

Practice Advice from the Third Phakchok Rinpoche, Chöying Lhündrup, Part Two

Today we continue with the “Ten Key Instructions on Following the Sublime Way” by my previous incarnation, the 17th throne-holder of Kham Riwoché, the Third...
Maha Guru

Practice Advice from the Third Phakchok Rinpoche, Chöying Lhündrup, Part One

For today’s Guru Rinpoche day, I would like to share with you the first part of a poem by one of my previous incarnations, the...
Maha Guru

The Importance of Dignity

On the auspicious day of the birthday of Maha Guru Padmasambhava, Phakchok Rinpoche reminds his students about the importance of developing dignity....
Maha Guru

How to Be Pure

Phakchok Rinpoche talks about the quality of having a calm, relaxed mind state and being content. In order to have contentment, one needs to meditate...