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Transcript: How Tantric Deities Bless Us

Feb 23, 2024
Transcript: How Tantric Deities Bless Us

(By Tsem Rinpoche) The following is a video of a teaching I gave awhile ago during a tsog ceremony in Kechara House 1 (Now converted to Kechara Media and Publication's office). In this teaching you will learn what is a tsog ritual, it's benefits and how tantric deities can bless us.

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The Jolenpa (Bodhisattva) Gen Nyima

Dec 4, 2023
The Jolenpa (Bodhisattva) Gen Nyima

I had the great fortune to hear about a modern-day yogi-ascetic master from my friend Gen Phuntsok. This master's name was simply Gen Nyima...

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Dalai Lama’s Controversial Thoughts About Four-Faced Mahakala and Setrap

Jul 31, 2023
Dalai Lama’s Controversial Thoughts About Four-Faced Mahakala and Setrap

During the 2015 Gelug Conference, the Dalai Lama claimed that Dharma Protector Setrap had given mistaken prophecies to Dagyab Rinpoche as well as monks from Minyak Khangtsen of Drepung Loseling Monastery...

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Tagpu Pemavajra and Visions from Gaden Heaven

May 16, 2022
Tagpu Pemavajra and Visions from Gaden Heaven

Dear students and friends, I have always admired great Dharma masters from a young age. I remember seeing a picture of Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche when I was about 16-17 years old. I felt such a strong attraction to that picture of Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche and I still remember it clearly. Although I did not...

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Posted in Dorje Shugden, Great Lamas & Masters, H.H. Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche | 49 Comments »

Deity Practice in Buddhism

Jun 1, 2021
Deity Practice in Buddhism

At the dawn of time, mankind lived in fear amidst primitive conditions. The world seemed to be controlled or influenced by powerful higher beings or gods...

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Ra Lotsawa Dorje Drakpa: Master of the Vajrabhairava Tantra

Mar 12, 2020
Ra Lotsawa Dorje Drakpa: Master of the Vajrabhairava Tantra

One of the most controversial lamas in the history of Tibetan Buddhism, Ra Lotsawa is widely accepted as the father of the Vajrabhairava Tantra...

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Kechara’s Vajrayogini Prayer Wheels

Nov 28, 2018
Kechara’s Vajrayogini Prayer Wheels

When we think of Tibetan Buddhism, we imagine ancient temples on the bleak slopes of the Himalayas, a refuge from the sufferings of the world, where the low, melodious chanting of scriptures can be heard...

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Posted in Buddhas, Dharma & Practice, Vajra Yogini | 18 Comments »

Ucheyma: The Severed Head Goddess Vajra Yogini

Nov 25, 2018
Ucheyma: The Severed Head Goddess Vajra Yogini

Ucheyma's awe-inspiring depiction as a self-decapitating goddess has inspired generations of practitioners since the introduction of tantric practice in ancient India. Her practice had migrated north to Tibet...

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The Sacred Vajrayogini of Ratsag Monastery

Jul 27, 2018
The Sacred Vajrayogini of Ratsag Monastery

(by Tsem Rinpoche and Pastor David Lai)   The Founding of Ratsag Monastery According to an inscription, Ra Bende Yonten Gyalpo founded Ratsag Monastery in the Yab Valley of Tolung, near Lhasa in the early half of the 11th century. It was built through the generous patronage of the noble Sego family. However, Go...

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H.H. Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche’s Sacred Vajra Yogini

Jul 24, 2018
The current form of Naro Kacho Vajra Yogini appeared to the Indian Mahasiddha Naropa after he meditated intensely on her practice inside a cave. He beheld her glorious form in a vision. This unique form became known as Naropa’s Vajra Yogini or Naro Kacho, as it had never existed before. Later, in Tibet, His Holiness Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche also had visions of Vajra Yogini. His vision differed slightly from the vision of her that Naropa beheld. In the original Naro Kacho form, Vajra Yogini looks towards her pure land named Kechara. However in Kyabje Pabongka Rinpoche’s vision, she looked straight at him, symbolic of the deity empowering him to bestow her practice to many people in order to benefit them. The practice of Vajra Yogini belongs to the Highest Yoga Tantra classification that leads to tremendous inner transformation and can even grant enlightenment within just one lifetime. Click on image to enlarge.

The current form of Naro Kachö Vajra Yogini appeared to the Mahasiddha Naropa after he meditated in a cave and focused on her sadhana, her rituals and her special generation and completion stage practices. After Naropa had accomplished Vajra Yogini’s path, which means that he had gained the attainments of her practice, she appeared...

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Four Sacred Sites of Vajra Yogini in Nepal

Jul 12, 2018
Four Sacred Sites of Vajra Yogini in Nepal

The connection between Vajra Yogini and the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal began with Mahasiddha Naropa and the Pamthingpa brothers. Her practice eventually became immensely popular across the country...

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The Sixty-Four Yogini Temple of Hirapur, India

Jun 27, 2018
The Sixty-Four Yogini Temple of Hirapur, India

The sixty-four yogini temple in Hirapur sits on an ancient piece of land once ruled by the old Kalinga kingdom. Buddhism and Tantric practice flourished here, and the cult of the yogini evolved as Tantra took hold in these lands...

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Posted in Asia, Buddhas, Dharma & Practice, Travel, Vajra Yogini | 33 Comments »

དགའ་ལྡན་ཁྲི་ཐོག་བརྒྱ་དང་གཅིག་རྗེ་བཙུན་ལུང་རིག་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་མཆོག་གི་རྗེ་བཙུན་རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མའི་བཀའ་ཁྲིད་དང་ཕྱག་དཔེ།

Jun 13, 2018
དགའ་ལྡན་ཁྲི་ཐོག་བརྒྱ་དང་གཅིག་རྗེ་བཙུན་ལུང་རིག་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་མཆོག་གི་རྗེ་བཙུན་རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མའི་བཀའ་ཁྲིད་དང་ཕྱག་དཔེ།

(H.H. the 101st Gaden Trisur Rinpoche's Vajra Yogini Teachings and Text) སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༨ ཕྱི་ཟླ་ ༦ ཚེས་ ༧ ཉིན། ༧འཇམ་མགོན་རྒྱལ་བའི་གདུང་ཚབ་ཁྲི་ཟུར་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་རྗེ་བཙུན་ལུང་རིག་རྣལ་རྒྱལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ཕེ་རིན་སི་ལ་ཡོད་པའི་ཁོང་གི་ཆོས་ཚོགས་ཐར་འདོད་གླིང་

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H.H. the 101st Gaden Trisur Rinpoche’s Vajrayogini Teachings and Text

Jun 7, 2018
H.H. the 101st Gaden Trisur Rinpoche’s Vajrayogini Teachings and Text

From 31st May to 2nd June 2018, H.H.the 101st Gaden Trisur Rinpoche gave a three-day teaching on the practice of Vajrayogini to a group of approximately 50 Sangha members...

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The First Drukchen, Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje

Apr 23, 2018
The First Drukchen, Tsangpa Gyare Yeshe Dorje

The epithet Tsangpa Gyare signifies first that he was native to Tsang Province, and secondly, that he was a repa or ‘cotton-clad one’ belonging to the Gya clan...

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Panchen Sonam Drakpa

Apr 23, 2018
Panchen Sonam Drakpa

The 15th Ganden Tripa, Paṇchen Sonam Drakpa was born into the family of Nangpa Ralampa that was based near the Tsetang Monastery in Lhoka in 1478...

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Machik Labdron

Apr 22, 2018
Machik Labdron

The life story of Machik Labdron has been recounted in several different Tibetan hagiographies, with considerable differences among them. According to these sources, Machik was born in 1055...

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Padampa Sanggye

Apr 22, 2018
Padampa Sanggye

Padampa Sanggye was probably born during the eleventh century in an area identified as the district of Kupadvipa, the province of Carasimha, the land of Bebala...

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Drapa Ngonshe

Apr 22, 2018
Drapa Ngonshe

Drapa Ngonshe was born in 1012. For five years he worked as a shepherd, and then took ordination at Samye Monastery from Yamshud Gyelwa O...

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Sherab Sengge

Apr 12, 2018
Sherab Sengge

Sherab Sengge was born in 1383 in a place called Gurme in Tsang. It is said that he did not like people coming to his home but that he showed signs of interest in religion...

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