Supreme Mind Training
Mar 23, 2021
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 who wishes to practice or just improve their lives by changing their way of thinking...
Read MoreKunkhyen Jamgön Mipham Rinpoché’s Advice for Beginners
Feb 22, 2021
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 practitioners from Kunkhyen Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche and correlates them with the Four Dharmas of...
Read MorePrayer for Rebirth in the Copper-Colored Mountain of Glory
Jan 23, 2021
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 realisitc prayer which covers every step of the way to rebirth in the pure...
Read MoreAn Offering of the Dharma and Introduction of Student Pathways from Phakchok Rinpoche and Samye Institute
Jan 1, 2021
Phakchok Rinpoche will offer a series of Dharma teachings over the course of the next month. As the teachers regularly remind us, the gift of the precious Dharma is the supreme offering as it alone unfolds the path to...
Read MoreKhandro Yeshé Tsogyel’s Prayer to Guru Rinpoche
Dec 24, 2020
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 Tsogyel made this prayer of aspiration, her heart filled with devotion, as the Mahā Guru...
Read MorePrincess Mandarava’s Prayer to Guru Rinpoche
Nov 24, 2020
Phakchok Rinpoche shares a supplication from Princess Mandarava to Guru Rinpoche in order to inspire us in our devotional...
Read MoreSustain the Treasure of Samadhi
Oct 26, 2020
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 arises when we properly line-up the right conditions within our...
Read MorePractice Advice from the Third Phakchok Rinpoche, Chöying Lhündrup, Part Two
Sep 25, 2020
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 Phakchok Rinpoche, Chöying...
Read MorePractice Advice from the Third Phakchok Rinpoche, Chöying Lhündrup, Part One
Aug 28, 2020
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 17th throne-holder of Kham Riwoché, the Third Phakchok Rinpoche, Chöying Lhündrup. This poem contains ten...
Read MoreBirth of Guru Rinpoche
Jul 29, 2020
On the 10th day of the fifth and sixth months of the Tibetan Buddhist calendar, we celebrate the birth of Guru Rinpoche, the “Precious Master” and Buddha of our time. In Sanskrit...
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