All teachings by Kha'drön Pamo, Khandro Déchen or Ngak’chang Rinpoche

Enraged Buddhism

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen “I’m an engaged Buddhist.” “Congratulations – when is the wedding day?”
Buddhism has been engaged from the beginning. There has never …

Entering the Heart of the Sun and Moon: Online Teaching with Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen

25 June 2021

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Buddhist Door promoted Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen's weekend of online teachings celebrating the publication of the second edition of …

Fashion

vajra cynicism and vajra naïveté

Ngak’chang Rinpoche It is fashionable—in certain intellectual circles—to be cynical. It is fashionable amongst certain circles of cultic religious devotees, to be …

Fixing to Die Blues

A poetry commentary

Ngak’chang Rinpoche People have asked me—over the years—whether I would ever provide commentary on my poetry. I have usually answered that I …

From shi-nè into lha-tong

Ngak’chang Rinpoche

Generosity

jinpa – sByin pa – dana paramita

Khandro Déchen The Paramitas—ultimately—are actions which are free from the crimp of duality – actions which arise spontaneously from the non-dual state. …

Goodbye Forever volume 1

Read by Ngakma Mé-tsal Wangmo

Ngak’chang Rinpoche A three-year-old boy has lucid dreams and visions - but no linear idea of what they mean. He tests his …

Goodbye Forever volume 2

Read by Ngakma Mé-tsal Wangmo

Ngak’chang Rinpoche The story of an artist, poet, and Bluesman
1971. At the age of 19 Ngakpa Chögyam returns from his first …

Great expectations

Khandro Déchen Apprentice I feel trapped by life—and I do not know how to apply Dharma to situations where I feel trapped. …

Guru Viking interviews: Ep8

Ngak’chang Rinpoche An interview with Ngak'chang Rinpoche about his book Wisdom Eccentrics
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Heaven and Hell

February 1998 apprentices’ questions, answered by Ngak’chang Rinpoche

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Apprentices' questions about spiritual experiences and Rinpoche's insightful responses, exploring the concepts of "heaven and hell" and the "bardo of alternating heaven and hell" versus the "interminable intermediate" state. Rinpoche provides a nuanced perspective on embracing both joy and pain as the ground of experience.

Here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Apprentice Rinpoche, I know you don’t like to answer questions in letters when the answer would be the length of …

“Here’s to boredom!”

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Apprentice You have often said that shi-nè is boring and that boredom is necessary in terms of experience. But what …

I am the last person you should trust

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Apprentice I am feeling as though I know nothing. Teachings used to make intellectual sense to me—or so I thought—but …

“I do” – one way or another

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Apprentice A man at the recent public retreat asked me about who authorises or vouches for Lamas in the Nyingma …

If I am a practitioner

Khandro Déchen Being simple does not mean that one becomes monochromatic.
Being simple does not mean being stunted in our appreciation of everything …

Insurance is not available

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Apprentice When I am practising shi-nè, does it matter if being uninvolved with my experience is only another form of …

Interviews of Aro gTér lamas

From Steve James' Guru Viking podcast

Ngak’chang Rinpoche, Khandro Déchen, Mé-tsal Wangmo, Ja'gyür Dorje, Sang-gyé A-tsal & Tsül'dzin Ying-chuk Ep8: Ngakpa Chögyam
In this interview I am joined by Ngakpa Chögyam a blues loving, horse riding Ngakpa, who with …

Introduction to Khandro-Pawo Nyida Mélong Gyüd

Ngak’chang Rinpoche This is a brief contextual introduction to the Nyida Mélong teachings on vajra romance.
The recording also includes one of a …

Is that not dualistic?

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Apprentice Within the non-dual state, what happens with memories of things? Do you experience them? And if so is that …

it’s not British, you know

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Apprentice I get a bit worried sometimes—not all the time—by what is said of the Mahasiddhas. Whenever I read about …

Jétsunma Khandro Ten’dzin Drölkar

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Jétsunma Khandro Ten’dzin Drölkar (rJe bTsun ma mKha’ ’gro bsTan ’dzin rGol dKar / རྗེ་བཙུན་མ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་བསྟ་འཛི་སྒྲོལ་དཀར་) ceased to breathe on the …

Just a nyam?

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Apprentice I had an interesting experience recently. I sat in our dining room looking out into a glowering dark blue …

Karma

The Personal Police State

Ngak’chang Rinpoche The inconsequential eccentric yogi sNgags pa chos dByings rGya mTsho utterly acknowledges his endless joyful appreciation of his Lamas – …

Kindness

the power of the awakened mind warrior

Ngak’chang Rinpoche I would like to explore something with you this evening that is so close to my heart that I do …

Kindness & Compassion

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen interviewed by Naljorma Jig’mèd Khyungtsal Pamo
Questioner Ngak’chang Rinpoche, Khandro Déchen, how can one work with oneself when one finds …

King Kong

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Apprentice At the last apprentice retreat you spoke of ‘daring’ and how it was a quality that was needed in …

Knowledge

shérab – shes rab – prajna paramita

Khandro Déchen Shérab (shes rab) means intelligence or insight. Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche called it: ‘. . . the all – seeing eye, …

Lama Khadrön Pamo on Sveriges Radio

14 January 2025

Kha'drön Pamo Listen to the interview (in Swedish) here: https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/2519431

Living the View

"We are form and emptiness—emptiness and form."

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Our advice is to deliberately name everything which moves you to smiles, laughter, or tears as Padmasambhava or Yeshé Tsogyel—because …