A Big Heart and a Strong Mind
Mar 4, 2020
My aspiration for you in this start of a new year is that you grasp the key points of practice—in particular, keeping a big heart and a strong mind which in Tibetan is called “khokpa chenpo”. First of all, to...
Read MoreChokgyur Lingpa’s Zangdok Palri Aspirations
Feb 3, 2020
To conclude our Copper-Colored Mountain series on this last Guru Rinpoche day of the year of the pig, I would like to share with you a very special prayer for rebirth in Zangdok Palri, written by the great tertön Chokgyur...
Read MoreKhandro Yeshé Tsogyel’s Departure to the Copper-Colored Mountain
Jan 5, 2020
On this Guru Rinpoché day, I would like to share with you the account of Khandro Yeshé Tsogyel’s departure to the Copper-Colored Mountain at the end of her life. On Khandro Yeshé Tsogyel’s two-hundred and eleventh birthday, her time of...
Read MoreSamten Gyatso in Zangdok Palri
Dec 6, 2019
For this Guru Rinpoché day, I would like to share the account of a visionary journey to Zangdok Palri undertaken by one of our own lineage masters, Tsikey Chokling Rinpoché, reincarnation of Chokgyur Lingpa...
Read MoreDodrupchen Rinpoché Tupten Trinlé Pelzang’s Vision of Zangdok Palri
Nov 6, 2019
For this month’s Guru Rinpoché day, I would like to share with you the short story of the current Dodrupchen Rinpoché’s account of the Copper-Colored...
Read MoreThe Visionary Journey of Shuksep Jetsün Rikdzin Wangmo
Oct 8, 2019
Today, I would like to share with you the account of the visionary journey to Zangdok Palri of one of the great female practitioners of the twentieth century, Shuksep Jetsün Rikdzin...
Read MorePema Lingpa’s Visionary Journey to the Copper-Colored Mountain
Jun 12, 2019
This month, I would like to share with you a brief account of Pema Lingpa’s (1450-1521) visionary journey to Zangdok Palri. Pema Lingpa was an important Bhutanese treasure revealer within the Nyingma tradition and the reincarnation of Künkhyen Longchen Rabjam...
Read MoreRatna Lingpa’s Visionary Journey to the Copper-Colored Mountain
May 14, 2019
Today we will continue our accounts of great masters’ visionary journeys to Zangdok Palri with Ratna Lingpa (1403-1478), one of the great early treasure...
Read MoreJamgön Kongtrul’s Visionary Journey to the Glorious Copper-Colored Mountain
Apr 14, 2019
This month I would like to continue with the accounts of great masters’ visionary journeys to Zangdok Palri with the last to cover among the Khyen-Kong-Chok (Khyentsé, Kongtrül and Chokling) great trio of masters: Jamgön Kongtrül Rinpoché (’jam mgon kong...
Read MoreUnlocking the Door of Blessings of the Great Perfection
Jan 16, 2019
Devotion and pure perception are the two keys needed to unlock the door of blessings of the Great Perfection. The more we develop them, the closer we get to the true nature of things, and to the fruit of our...
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