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by Caz
Tue Mar 12, 2013 12:03 pm
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Buddhism is peaceful?
Replies: 170
Views: 39642

Re: Buddhism is peaceful?

If it was a private letter it would be odd for his students ton include it in his Sungbum/collected works. Caz there are many books for learning Tibetan available. The first step is to learn the alphabet. Learntibetan.net has good resources for this. Then you have to decide if you are interested in...
by Caz
Tue Mar 12, 2013 8:21 am
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Buddhism is peaceful?
Replies: 170
Views: 39642

Re: Buddhism is peaceful?

Hey Caz, how can you reconcile your quote form LPYH with the letter MichaelB posted? these days the views of all Sakyas, Kagyus, Nyingmas and so on are erroneous. They are not even Svatantra or Cittamatra, let alone the view of Prasanga Madhyamaka – meditating only the nihilist view like tirthikas ...
by Caz
Tue Mar 12, 2013 8:18 am
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Buddhism is peaceful?
Replies: 170
Views: 39642

Re: Buddhism is peaceful?

Hey Caz, how can you reconcile your quote form LPYH with the letter MichaelB posted? Reading through Phabongka's text, I've come across something about giving up Nyingma yidams when one practices Geluk yidams....he uses the example of Khyungpo Naljor, who first practiced Bon, then Nyingma, etc........
by Caz
Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:54 pm
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Buddhism is peaceful?
Replies: 170
Views: 39642

Re: Buddhism is peaceful?

Let me balance my above comments with: while philosophical disputes and wild assertions are to be expected, the destruction of monasteries in the name of Pabongkha, which did happen, is totally unacceptable and absolutely tragic. Its one thing to destroy a monastery in someone's name ...There are m...
by Caz
Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:47 pm
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Buddhism is peaceful?
Replies: 170
Views: 39642

Re: Buddhism is peaceful?

But that reflects badly on them not on whoever's speech they justify their delusions with. Really? So if I said: "Buddha told me for you to kill that guy over there" and you, due to your delusion (ie believeing I am correct), went over there and killed the guy then I bear no responsibilit...
by Caz
Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:43 pm
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Buddhism is peaceful?
Replies: 170
Views: 39642

Re: Buddhism is peaceful?

"Abandoning Dharma is, in the final analysis, [...] favoring one of the Tibetan schools—the Sakya, Gelug, Kagyu, or Nyingma—and disparaging the rest; and so on. In other words, we abandon Dharma any time we favor our own tenets and disparage the rest." Pabongkha abandons the Dharma. Bulls...
by Caz
Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:32 pm
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Buddhism is peaceful?
Replies: 170
Views: 39642

Re: Buddhism is peaceful?

This is one of several. In volume cha there is also mention of Dzogchen leading to hell and other statements about those who corrupt the doctrine. As I mentioned in another thread, my laptop fried and I am working from a tablet, so I do not have the tools to pursue this until I can get a new one, r...
by Caz
Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:29 pm
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Buddhism is peaceful?
Replies: 170
Views: 39642

Re: Buddhism is peaceful?

Let me balance my above comments with: while philosophical disputes and wild assertions are to be expected, the destruction of monasteries in the name of Pabongkha, which did happen, is totally unacceptable and absolutely tragic. Its one thing to destroy a monastery in someone's name ...There are m...
by Caz
Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:21 pm
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Buddhism is peaceful?
Replies: 170
Views: 39642

Re: Buddhism is peaceful?

Pabongkhka's letter to the Chinese General Lui CHungtang "Although in the land of Tibet there are many different tenets like that of Nyingma, Kugyu, Sakya, Gelugpa and so forth it is only the Gelug School which establishes the unmistaken view of emptiness and the Prasangika Madhyamika system w...
by Caz
Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:45 am
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Buddhism is peaceful?
Replies: 170
Views: 39642

Re: Buddhism is peaceful?

Im with Lama Zopa on this I don't believe even for a second that he would have performed such actions, As with other cases there are always the fanatical amongst Buddhists students who would harm one and other or destroy religious artefacts based on their own deluded misinterpretations of what is sa...
by Caz
Sat Feb 23, 2013 11:44 am
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Questions on visualizations
Replies: 25
Views: 6392

Re: Questions on visualizations

I was always told that the most important part of the visualisation is to believe and the rest will just come in time. :thumbsup:
by Caz
Fri Feb 01, 2013 2:48 pm
Forum: Mahāyāna Buddhism
Topic: Have you read portions of the Pali canon?
Replies: 38
Views: 9615

Re: Have you read portions of the Pali canon?

I am just interested in how many members of our Mahayana forum have read the Pali Theravada scriptures. For myself, at the moment I don't have so much time but during vacation periods from translating I often find I turn to Bhikkhu Bodhi's translation of the Majjima Nikaya for spiritual nourishment...
by Caz
Wed Jan 23, 2013 12:22 pm
Forum: Jonang
Topic: new jonangs?
Replies: 10
Views: 9036

Re: new jonangs?

Why don't you ask him ? http://greatmiddleway.wordpress.com/about/ The New Jonang Community is a western branch of Great Middle Way Buddhism. It arose, as with all Buddhist communities, from the teachings, example, and blessings of Buddha Shakyamuni. These were then transmitted through a lineage of ...
by Caz
Tue Jan 15, 2013 11:13 am
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Protector asscociated with Gaden / FPMT
Replies: 16
Views: 5492

Re: Protector asscociated with Gaden / FPMT

Because he manifests through oracles and manifests as a gyalpo- as has been stated time and time again in other threads. This is what my one friend from Ganden Shartse has told me. I will wait to follow this up more with the other Geshe at our centre (from Ganden)but it will have to wait until Marc...
by Caz
Tue Jan 15, 2013 11:01 am
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Protector asscociated with Gaden / FPMT
Replies: 16
Views: 5492

Re: Protector asscociated with Gaden / FPMT

This topic has been debated over and over on the forum so I am not sure why people keep pushing this thread. It is to the benefit of all of us not to allow DW to be dominated by this controversy. The civil atmosphere here is partly why DW has far more people paticipating that the other forums where...
by Caz
Tue Jan 15, 2013 10:28 am
Forum: Gelug
Topic: Protector asscociated with Gaden / FPMT
Replies: 16
Views: 5492

Re: Protector asscociated with Gaden / FPMT

Good timing! I caught Geshe la just as he was boiling some water for tea. He told me that this deity, Gyalchen Karma Trinley is a worldly protector associated with the retinue of Glorious Hayagriva. I asked that since Hayagriva is enlightened if Gyalchen Karma Trinley might be as well. His answer? ...
by Caz
Sun Jan 13, 2013 5:12 pm
Forum: Games & Humour
Topic: Yes or No ...
Replies: 1039
Views: 245443

Re: Yes or No ...

catmoon wrote:Yes, several times. Sometimes on a high mountain peak. Sometimes on the first afternoon of summer holidays.

Ever feel imprisoned?
Only by my mind.

How free is your mind ?
by Caz
Sat Jan 12, 2013 1:17 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: Banning of Tulkus in History
Replies: 24
Views: 5713

Re: Banning of Tulkus in History

Read that letter..one thing is clear..this dude does NOT like shugden!! Holy crap!! Anyone know if HHDL ever responded to this or not? The "Reting Lama" repeatedly bashes the Gelug tradition in this letter as defunct because of so called "Spirit worship" obviously not to push th...
by Caz
Thu Jan 03, 2013 6:50 pm
Forum: Dzogchen
Topic: Is the CNN Dzogchen Comunity - a sect ?
Replies: 27
Views: 8534

Re: Is the CNN Dzogchen Comunity - a sect ?

Dawn Dharma organisations have to pay for alot of things in order to give Dharma to people, Books have a cost, Centres have a running cost etc In order to run Dharma centres efficiently they need to be organised in an appropriate way, Dharma is always given freely to those who ask, But Dharma commun...
by Caz
Sat Dec 29, 2012 12:20 pm
Forum: Tibetan Buddhism
Topic: 6 Armed Mahakala
Replies: 8
Views: 3094

Re: 6 Armed Mahakala

http://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=85 I think it was more like this. http://www.baronet4tibet.com/descript_tangka_generic/mahakala%206-armed.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://www.baronet4tibet.com/descript_tangka_generic/mahakala%206-armed.html The s...

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