All teachings by Ngak’chang Rinpoche
Q&A - Dzogchen long-dé
psycho-physical sKu-mNyé exercises
Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Dzogchen means ‘utter totality’, and refers to the natural liberated condition of the individual. This state of innate enlightenment is …
Q&A - Enthusiasm
Ngak’chang Rinpoche Q Rinpoche, in ‘Spectrum of Ecstasy’ you talk about mirroring each other’s kyil’khors, or mandalas. Could you talk a bit …
Q&A - Non-conceptuality
Ngak’chang Rinpoche Q Within the non-dual state, what happens with memories of things? Do you experience them?R Why would you not experience …
Q&A - Nyams in Dzogchen
Ngak’chang Rinpoche Dzogchen regards certain nyams as opportunities to recognise rigpa. This transcript (excerpted from Vision issue 11, Autumn 1998) discusses several …
Q&A - On becoming transparent
Ngak’chang Rinpoche Q The hell I often visit is anxiety – what actually is that Rinpoche?R It is what keeps you safe. …
Q&A - Promise & process
The nature of vow-holding
Ngak’chang Rinpoche Question: Is it correct that the vows and the practice of keeping the vows are process as well as promise …
Q&A - The Bristol Talks
Vajrayana and yidam practice
Ngak’chang Rinpoche Questioner Rinpoche, Vajrayana Buddhism is highly complex and intellectual – is there an approach for people who don’t have academic …
Q&A - The certain time and place
Ngak’chang Rinpoche Rinpoche We have looked—so far—at the certain teacher and the certain teaching. Then there are the certainties of time and …
Q&A - "Where there is a dog there will also be a tail"
Ngak’chang Rinpoche We have to change ourselves in order to accommodate the imperatives of Dharma – not the other way round. Outer …
Realised Losers
rDzogs chen and tantric tonglen
Ngak’chang Rinpoche One has to look at one’s own capacity in the moment. To artificially assume Dzogchen view—and attempt to maintain it …
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 …
Samsara, suffering, and suspicion
The path to endless enjoyment
Ngak’chang Rinpoche Ngak’chang Rinpoche recorded at the San Francisco Shambhala Center, March 2006. An 18-minute overview of Sutrayana from point of view …
‘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 …
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 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 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 Yanas
Ngak’chang Rinpoche Ngak’chang Rinpoche recorded at the San Francisco Shambhala Center, April 2006. A 13-minute talk.To learn more about the yanas, …
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 …
Wealth
Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen We were asked for our views on ‘envy’ in respect of ‘giving up materialism as the Buddhist way of life’. …
Wisdom Eccentrics
Read by Ngakma Mé-tsal Wangmo
Ngak’chang Rinpoche Rumours of realisation as told by Künzang Dorje Rinpoche with additional tales of the unexpected by Ngak'chang Rinpoche.A rare …