All teachings by Khandro Déchen
Riding the Tiger
gö kar chang lo ordination
Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Almost everyone who attends a gö kar chang lo ordination retreat thinks about the possibility of taking ordination themselves at …
‘Self’-immolation
gö kar chang lo ordination
Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Vajrayana vows throw a can of gasoline into the splicing room. In terms of practice—within the tradition of Vajrayana—vows encourage …
sNying mDo
The heart essence of unconventional wisdom
Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen The Heart Sutra is a condensed statement of the whole of the Buddhist view of the nature of reality. Its …
Spontaneity and Discipline in the Sangha
Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen ...to merge mirth and meaningfulness, frivolity and fierce commitment, revelry and rigpa.Dorje gendün—indestructible association—means the community of practitioners who are …
Strength
tob – sTobs – power
Khandro Déchen This is how an apprentice described the nature of momentary feelings – and in so doing delightfully defined absence of …
Sweet & sour orthodoxy
Part 2 of an interview with the lineage holders by Lama Shardröl, 31 December 1997.
Ngak’chang Rinpoche, Khandro Déchen & Shardröl Du-nyam Wangmo This is the second half of an interview originally published in Vision magazine in 1998 (issue 11). The first half …
The ‘either’
a reminiscence of Chhi'mèd Rig'dzin Rinpoche
Khandro Déchen It was always slightly fraught visiting Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche. I never quite knew what he was going to ask me …
The Five Certainties
Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Five factors are of crucial importance if transmission is to function: time, place, teacher, teaching, and audience. For authentic, lucid, …
The Lama-Student Relationship within Dzogchen
Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen We have long realised that we cannot work with those who need their Lamas to sit on shoulder height thrones …
The Meaning of Transmission
Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen The essential meaning of transmission lies in continually experiencing oneself in relation to the Lama.The function of the Lamas – …
The Vajra Simpleton
Khandro Déchen Advice from Khandro DéchenNgak’chang Rinpoche and I always recommend that people keep their lives simple – but what might …
The Vehicles
Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen As you get to understand Buddhism better, you will come to understand what a beautiful geometry it makes. The ways …
The year of the Dog
A teaching on ‘time in transit’
Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen There are many ways in which we could examine the meaning of the Fire Dog year. We could look at …
Tralam-mé
Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Authentic relationship to the dimension of sexuality—in terms of Aro gTér practice—is linked with the Dzogchen teachings of the Khandro …
Tralam-mé Q&A (1)
Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Q Rinpoche, do you have awareness of people’s tralam-mé?R Yes – but it is not necessary. You can know the …
Tralam-mé Q&A (2)
Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Q Is it possible to see tralam-mé?R Yes, in a manner of speaking – but it is more that you …
Vajrayana Buddhism in the West
Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen This is not ‘just for us’; not even the Aro gTér is ‘just for us’.People often speak of preserving the …
