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- Sun Apr 30, 2017 4:42 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Bronze vs Iron Phurba
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6722
Re: Bronze vs Iron Phurba
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...
- Mon Mar 13, 2017 11:35 am
- Forum: Sakya
- Topic: Time taken for short sadhana for Vajra Nairatmya & Vajrayogini
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4753
Re: Time taken for short sadhana for Vajra Nairatmya & Vajrayogini
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...
- Wed Feb 22, 2017 2:03 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Jhampa Shaneman
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3151
Re: Jhampa Shaneman
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).
- Tue Feb 21, 2017 2:06 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Jhampa Shaneman
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3151
Re: Jhampa Shaneman
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.
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.
- Tue Dec 13, 2016 9:00 am
- Forum: Nyingma
- Topic: Brass kapala
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2387
Re: Brass kapala
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.
- Sun Nov 29, 2015 5:11 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Can you practice Tibetan Buddhism without ever had a Guru?
- Replies: 93
- Views: 12205
Re: Can you practice Tibetan Buddhism without ever had a Gur
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...
Re: KANGLING
It's impossible to have a wooden kangling. A trumpet made of wood is a shingling, surely? 

- Wed Jul 15, 2015 12:07 pm
- Forum: Dharma in Everyday Life
- Topic: Enlightened yet fat
- Replies: 93
- Views: 9744
Re: Enlightened yet fat
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...
- Sat Jun 27, 2015 10:45 am
- Forum: Nyingma
- Topic: Hair empowerment
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3857
Re: Hair empowerment
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...
- Thu Jun 04, 2015 1:32 am
- Forum: Chod
- Topic: Chödpa Lama Rinpoche
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8318
Re: Chödpa Lama Rinpoche
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...
- Sun Feb 22, 2015 5:24 pm
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Wrathful "Mahakala" with Phurba and Kapala?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3722
Re: Wrathful "Mahakala" with Phurba and Kapala?
He is Tsogdag Mahakala. The wang lineage comes originally from Vairotsana, but there is also a terma lineage.
- Fri Nov 28, 2014 3:51 pm
- Forum: Kagyu
- Topic: Desperately seeking in Nepal
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1284
Re: Desperately seeking in Nepal
He is staying in the guesthouse at Thrangu Rinpoche's retreat centre in Bhaktapur. You can send letters or messages there.
- Thu Oct 02, 2014 10:45 am
- Forum: News & Current Events
- Topic: Understanding why ISIL beheads
- Replies: 205
- Views: 28464
Re: Understanding why ISIL beheads
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...
- Wed Jul 23, 2014 1:31 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: Tarot as divination tool
- Replies: 57
- Views: 7444
Re: Tarot as divination tool
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".
- Tue Jul 15, 2014 4:14 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Nepal rescinds permission for Buddhist leader's cremation
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1757
Re: Shamar Rinpoche passed away
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...
- Mon Jul 14, 2014 4:33 pm
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Nepal rescinds permission for Buddhist leader's cremation
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1757
Re: Shamar Rinpoche passed away
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...
- Mon Jul 14, 2014 5:05 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Nepal rescinds permission for Buddhist leader's cremation
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1757
- Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:06 pm
- Forum: News & Current Events
- Topic: The Dalai Lama Says Gay Marriage Is OK
- Replies: 356
- Views: 24049
Re: The Dalai Lama Says Gay Marriage Is OK
... or by fellow Black and Brown people. Let's not be racist.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.
- Fri Feb 21, 2014 3:15 am
- Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
- Topic: What tibetan buddhist traditions these people belong?
- Replies: 83
- Views: 7570
Re: What tibetan buddhist traditions these people belong?
As I said, things have gotten easier; besides, DJKR, despite being a Sakya lineage holder, is also a Rime master 

- Thu Feb 20, 2014 5:53 pm
- Forum: East Asian Buddhism
- Topic: Mass Buddhist wedding in Taiwan
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2779
Re: Mass Buddhist wedding in Taiwan
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)...