Teaching on Milarepas’ Songs by His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche Oral translation by Tashi Jamyangling May 11-15, 2004, Vancouver, Canada Introduction The Eight Ornaments of Profound Meaning The Song of Mahamudra Turning Daily Activities into Practices Introduction All the Dharma friends who have come here to receive the teaching is indeed a wonderful thing to happen. […]
Yamantaka Empowerment Introduction Teachings – H.E. Garchen Rinpoche What is the main reason we practice Yamantaka? This is contained in the phrase, “Let the destructiveness of sorcerers, their gods and protectors descend upon themselves,” which we find in the retreat text. What this means is that when you have loving kindness, compassion and Bodhicitta, any […]
For the sake of all the sentient beings, one must see the truth, and eliminate this clinging to the self of the person and the self of the phenomena. Most of the time, our inspiration and devotion are very emotionally oriented. To do that, one has to have tsültrim, discipline, and then one must hear […]
Interview with H.E. Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche Q: Rinpoche, you have a lot of insight into the development of Buddhism in the West due to your extensive teaching tours around the world over the last few decades. Access to Dharma teachings seems to be growing exponentially, especially online. Is this very easy access to the […]
The Thirty-Five (35) Statements of Heartfelt Advice By Drikung Dharmakirti (1595-1659) གང་སྔོན་ཚོགས་གཉིས་གོམས་པ་མཐར་ཕྱིན་ཞིང༌། །མཐའ་ཡས་འགྲོ་ལ་བརྩེ་བའི་ཁུར་ བསྣམས་ནས། །རྒྱལ་ཀུན་ཕྲིན་ལས་དབང་པོར་མངའ་གསོལ་བ། །རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་དབང་རྩ་ བའི་བླ་མར་འདུད། You who have perfected the cultivation of the two accumulations, and is now carrying the burden of loving-kindness for infinite beings, and have been appointed as chief of the exaltedactivities of all victors, to you root-guru, powerful […]
Instructions on the Union of Mahāmudrā and Dzogchen – as Imparted to the Gelong Karma Rinchen by the Learned and Accomplished Rāga Asya At the request of H.E. Garchen Rinpoche, this text was translated by Ina Bieler from Tibetan to English and edited by Dan Clarke and Amber Moore in 2020
Question: Could Rinpoche please explain the “mahamudra of devotion” in relation to Guru Yoga practice? How does one approach this? Garchen Rinpoche: When you realize that your own mind and the mind of the guru are one, then you have uncontrived devotion. First, we give rise to devotion by thinking of the guru’s qualities, even […]
