The wrathful goddess Drashi Lhamo is considered one of the minor forms of Palden Lhamo. She is worshipped mainly at Drashi Gon Temple in Lhasa, Tibet...
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The wrathful goddess Drashi Lhamo is considered one of the minor forms of Palden Lhamo. She is worshipped mainly at Drashi Gon Temple in Lhasa, Tibet...
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ལྕང་སྐྱ ༠༢ ངག་དབང་བློ་བཟང་ཆོས་ལྡན། b.1642 – d.1714 Incarnations: Changkya ལྕང་སྐྱ། Tradition: Gelug དགེ་ལུགས། Geography: China ཨ་མདོ། Historical Period: 17th and 18th Century ༡༨ དུས་རབས། Institution: Drepung Monastery འབྲས་སྤུངས་།; Tashilhunpo བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ།; Kumbum Jampa Ling སྐུ་འབུམ་བྱམས་པ་གླིང།; Labrang Tashikhyil བླ་བྲང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ།; Gonlung Jampa Ling དགོན་ལུང།; Tangring Monastery ཐང་རིང་དགོན་པ།; Drepung Gomang Dratsang སྒོ་མང་གྲྭ་ཚང།; Tashilhunpo Shartse Dratsang ཤར་རྩེ་གྲྭ་ཚང།; Zungchu Zi ཟུང་ཅུ་ཟི། Offices Held: Throne Holder...
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b.early 11th cent. – d.late 11th cent. Tradition: Nyingma རྙིང་མ། Geography: Purang County སྤུ་ཧྲེང་རྫོང། Historical Period: 11th Century ༡༡ དུས་རབས། Name variants: Jangchub Dorje བྱང་ཆུབ་རྡོ་རྗེ། ; Langlab ལང་ལབ། Langlab Jangchub Dorje’s (lang lab byang chub rdo rje) life is heavily shrouded in legend, closely wrapped in the lineage history of the Vajrakīla tradition. He is said to have suffered greatly at the hands of his paternal relatives. To help him through his difficulties, Dre Atsara Sale (‘bre a tsara sa le), an accom...
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The Sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso was born in the territory of Mon Tawang in March 1683. The search for the reincarnation of the Fifth Dalai Lama was conducted by the Regent Sanggye Gyatso...
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The 8th Tatsak Jedrung, Yeshe Lobzang Tenpai Gonpo, was born in 1760 in the Powo region of Kham. At the age of five he was identified as the reincarnation of the 7th Tatsak Jedrung...
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This special message from Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje was played during the 35th Kagyu Monlam festivities held in Bodhgaya, India. While this is not unusual, the meaning behind his message was. The Karmapa is the highest incarnate lama and the head of the Karma Kagyu sub-sect of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism; and...
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A few months ago on my blog chat, I was online and chatting with two of my students. On the chat, I gave a personal instruction for them to read a book called "Compassion In Tibetan Buddhism". Within the book, there are two titles, "The Way of Compassion" by Lama Tsongkhapa and "Meditation of...
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Earlier yesterday, I received a pleasant surprise from one of my student, Jill Yam. She presented me a basket filled with healthy organic offerings along with a sincere hand written card to inform me she has completed 100,000 water bowl offering.
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