Dharma Wheel

To think that instructions on using a phurba could be so easy lololol Clearly few posting here (save Malcolm) has any teaching / experience of the medlei. It's just a game for you guys. Let's dress up as wizards and play with magic knives, without understanding what is done or what it means. Kali yu...

It's Naropa's Dakini. Timings depend on how long you accumulate mantras / practice completion . Short sadhana is easily done within 5-10 mins if you're quick. Long sadhana can be done in less than 20. First you have to do the 2 or 3 month retreat and accumulate 444,000 mantras using long sadhana. Af...

I'm sure, given his being an actual Translator of many years' standing, thus fluent in the language, there must be a reason (or maybe none).

He's 100% legit.

Did a 3 year retreat on Vajrabhairava, and was given permission to give wangs by HHDL. He wrote the best commentary on Yamantaka that I've ever read.

There is also rakta powder, which should be given by your lama and nobody else. This should be dissolved in tea (or red liquid) but not alcohol.

I travelled through Europe and Asia to find my teachers, having to work in factories and other places to save up for airfares and teachings. I sacrificed relationships and social life just to save up. Just because there are no teachers near you doesn't mean you have to rely on the internet or try sh...

It's impossible to have a wooden kangling. A trumpet made of wood is a shingling, surely?

In traditional Indian culture, so my brahmin friend tells me, people kind of like fatness in their guru or spiritual teacher. This might explain the description of Naropa in Pullahari, Nepal, being borne on a palanquin, corpulent, with hair coloured by henna - a far cry from the emaciated charnel gr...

Many people make exceptions to this rule for modern daily life. Shenpen Rinpoche said one may cut their hair if they later do confession and Dorje Sempa and dispose of it properly, while Garab Dorje Rinpoche said asking permission in front of an image of a Buddha prior is acceptable. I was given th...

Let's be clear - the title Rinpoche does not mean someone is a tulku, which is why we have titles like Khen Rinpoche. Actually, Rinpoche is a title given to your teacher, particularly one who has imparted liberating instructions. One doesn't have to be a tulku to be a teacher; some tulkus, even real...

He is Tsogdag Mahakala. The wang lineage comes originally from Vairotsana, but there is also a terma lineage.

He is staying in the guesthouse at Thrangu Rinpoche's retreat centre in Bhaktapur. You can send letters or messages there.

A friend sent me the link to this interesting article which helps provide some insight into why beheadings are such a big deal for ISIL. Several images are graphic, so if you are faint-hearted don't proceed: http://www.thecommentator.com/article/5247/islamic_state_beheads_mutilates_as_the_koran_ins...

A lama once told me it's expected that one completes ngondro and Three Roots retreats (though people have different abilities) before learning divination, so that one has developed some clarity and stability. Otherwise, as he said, one is "just playing with dice".

Very unfortunate state of affairs. Completely unnecessary. The official line seems to be that the refusal was made because Shamarpa had a Bhutanese diplomatic passport. The Bhutanese have earned the ire of the Nepalese by expelling ethnic Nepalis in what some regard as ethnic cleansing - but I doub...

Very unfortunate state of affairs. Completely unnecessary. The official line seems to be that the refusal was made because Shamarpa had a Bhutanese diplomatic passport. The Bhutanese have earned the ire of the Nepalese by expelling ethnic Nepalis in what some regard as ethnic cleansing - but I doub...

Lhug-Pa wrote:Millions and millions of gays have not been systematically rounded up, enslaved, persecuted, and killed like Black & Brown people have been (and still are) by Caucasians.

... or by fellow Black and Brown people. Let's not be racist.

As I said, things have gotten easier; besides, DJKR, despite being a Sakya lineage holder, is also a Rime master

I think the problem is that they are not really making it relevant to people's lives, they are just perpetuating some kind of groupthink. I have looked at a number of Asian Buddhist groups who sport grand masters claiming to be modern, progressive and scientific (as if those are necessarily virtues)...