All teachings by Ngak’chang Rinpoche

Accountability

The Vajrayana Ethos of the Five Precepts

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen For anyone who has been concerned by the revelations of abuse in the world of Vajrayana Buddhism, here is a text from our Lineage Lamas outlining the five precept guidelines by which they, and all the Aro gTér teachers, abide.

a conduit of transmission

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Apprentice I have noticed that you get onto apprentices about small particulars and wondered why? I’m not complaining or anything, …

. . . and the art of ballistics

Ngak’chang Rinpoche ‘ . . . all you accomplish, is a preferable environment in which to find the empty moment in which …

an extract from Ngak’chang Rinpoche’s book ‘Goodbye for Ever - the Memoirs of an English Lama

A teaching from Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche began:
“gÇèrdröl, shardröl, and rangdröl. These are methods within the drol-lug-zhi: the four modes of liberation. First mode …

Apologises for being English

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Apprentice I have had some awful misunderstandings with friends and people I like very much and I wonder if you …

a rabid domestic terrorist

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Apprentice I have been thinking a lot about the subject of—I do not really know what to call it now—of …

A room of my own: Ngakpa Chogyam

14 April 1985

Ngak’chang Rinpoche The Observer published a two-page full-color article on Ngakpa Chögyam (Ngak’chang Rinpoche) with a detailed description of his shrine room, …

Being Politic

‘ . . . one big diplomat’

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche once told me that I was ‘ . . . one big diplomat’. This was not a …

being touched by poignancy

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Apprentice Sometimes there is something almost unbearable about it. The poignancy of human life. So many things. The sadness of …

Busy life as a reincarnated Tibetan yogi

21 May 1992

Ngak’chang Rinpoche “Busy life as a reincarnated Tibetan yogi,” a profile of Ngak’chang Rinpoche, was published on May 21st, 1992, in the …

Calamity Jane

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Apprentice I am aware that I am not very brave – but I would like to be brave. I seem …

career Buddhists

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Apprentice I think something strange happens to people when they become involved with religions. I have this feeling because I …

Celebrate every aspect of each other

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Prospective apprentices You said that trust and respect are essential in relationship—could you say more about that—just so that we …

Children and Pemakö

Establishing Lhundrüp Tobgyé Ling

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Lhundrüp Tobgyé Ling is the shortened form of Nga’gyür Yoga’i Drüp-dé Lhundrüp Tobgyé Ling ‘Early-translation Yogic Meditation College where Strength is Gained Spontaneously’. It is a Ngak’phang Dratsang for children – a place where boys and girls from the Pemakö region can receive both a secular education and training which will prepare them—should it be their long-term desire—to become ordained ngakpas and ngakmas.

Defining heresy

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Heresy is not a popular word, in terms of criticising religious trends. It does not lend itself to the ‘feel …

Defining the word ‘sangha’

The two divisions of the sangha of ordained practitioners

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen There are various definitions of gendün or sangha which give a sense of the position and authentic dignity of the …

demented delight

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Apprentice When I told you that I was sad but that maybe I understood something – i.e. I’m sad because …

Depression is the postern

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Apprentice I do tend to get overwhelmed, and worry intensely about things . . .
Khandro Déchen If you see this …

Drala Jong Interview with Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen

16 May 2015

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen In 2011, the Drala Jong Blog published an interview, in four parts, with Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen on the …

Drinking the wine of the situation

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Apprentice Rinpoche, you said that in the practice of shi-nè, when either physical pain or pleasure arises, I should merely …

Düd’jom

tobacco - the demonic carcinogen with tacit government sanction

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen We enthusiastically express our unending devotion to Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche, Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje—Mahasiddha and luminary gTértön of the 20th century. …

Embracing Emotions as the Path

Colours and Elements in Tantric Psychology

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen Only through direct experience can we begin to perceive our world differently. Philosophical speculations and intellectual conjectures that are not …

Empowerment and the four kayas

Ngak’chang Rinpoche Ngak’chang Rinpoche recorded at the San Francisco Shambhala Center, March 2007. A 14-minute talk.

Empowerment & Transmission

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen The fundamental damtsig is to sustain the experience of transmission through practice—and ultimately, in every moment.
The Tibetan word for empowerment …

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

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 …