On the subject of idiots
Thom-yor (འཐོམ་ཡོར)
When Kyabjé Künzang Dorje Rinpoche addressed the subject of ‘idiots’, the word he Tibetan word he used was: ‘thom-yor (འཐོམ་ཡོར).Künzang …
Short teachings
A series of short teachings orginally posted by Ngak'chang Rinpoche on Facebook
Künzang …
Valentine's Day quotations from Tracts of the Sun
The quotations from ‘Tracts of the Sun’ for Valentine’s Day— the fourteenth of February. ‘Tracts of the Sun’ is a …
Essential Vajrayana
A short essay by Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen
This essay was originally written for personal students — but Khandro Déchen and Ngak’chang Rinpoche felt that it might be …
Advice of playing the gÇod Damaru given by Ngak’chang Rinpoche
This is advice that is not commonly given — but simple, direct, and will enable anybody to improve in their …
Bhutanese sayings are highly illuminating
Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen have chosen these Bhutanese sayings for the interest of their FaceBook friends:One: ༄Those who …
An astonishing photograph of remarkable Lamas
Left to right: Kyabgön Sakya Tri’dzin Rinpoche; ‘Khordong gTérchen Tulku Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche; Thuk-sé Rinpoche; and Kyabjé Kalu Rinpoche.The …
Mahasiddha Manibhadra — a Female Master of Accomplishment
Drübchen (grub chen / གྲུབ་ཆེན / mahasiddha)
Himalayan Buddhism has several different traditions relating to the 84 mahasiddhas of ancient India. Among these traditions, two are particularly …
PaDampa Sang-gyé
The consort of Ma-gÇig Labdrön
This iconographic line drawing was created by Khandro Déchen. PaDampa Sang-gyé (rGya gar dam pa sangs gyas / རྒྱ་གར་དམ་པ་གསངས་གྱས་) was …
Song of the White Crane
Based on the poetry of the Mahasiddha Abhishekavajra, the 6th Dalai Lama
'Song of the White Crane’ is based on the poetry of the Mahasiddha Abhishekavajra: the Mantradharin Tsangyang Gyamtso (sNgags ‘chang …
The Mélong
The five metals of which the Mélong (me long / མེ་ལོང་) is made can have different meanings dependent on context. …
An introduction to Ngak’chang Rinpoche’s memoirs
By Bhumrampa Kharchen Wangchuk Rig’dzin Rinpoche
Ngak’chang Rinpoche, Aro gTér lineage holder and incarnation of gTértön Aro Yeshé, has written this autobiographical book entitled ‘Goodbye Forever’. …
Tsogyel Dzambhala
Kharchen Tsogyel Dzambhala (mKha chen mTsho rGyal dzam bha la / མཁ་ཆེན་མཚོ་རྒྱལ་ཛྃ་བྷ་ལ་). Jomo Yeshé Tsogyel manifesting in the form of …
The Mantra of Genghis Khan
།ༀ་མ་ཧཱ་དེ་ལྭ་རཱ་ཛ་སར་བ་སི་དྡྷི་ཛཿ ༄Om Maha’ Dé-lwa Ra-dza Sarwa Siddhi Dzaཿ
When Ngak’chang Rinpoche was in the Himalayas in 1976. He met a Mongolian Buddhist pilgrim called Batzorig. He was a …
Dzogchen and Advaita Vedanta
Dzogchen and Advaita Vedanta are not synonymous in terms of how they express realisation. Ngak’chang Rinpoche was asked about the …
Matari Ékajati
Mamo Ral-gÇigma (ma mo ral gCig ma / མ་མོ་རལ་གཅིག་མ་) the main protector of the Nyingma Tradition
Mamo Ral-gÇigma (ma mo ral gCig ma / མ་མོ་རལ་གཅིག་མ་) is the main protector of the Nyingma Tradition —— and particularly …
An extract from Volume IV of ‘Goodbye Forever
The Miscellaneous Memoirs of an English Lama
This photograph of Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje (sKyabs rJe bDud ‘joms ‘jigs ‘bral ye shes rDo rJe / …
Seng-gé Dradog
The Lion-voiced Buddha who arises from a raging ocean of boiling blood and clouds of flame
his thangka was painted by Khandro Déchen Tsédrüp Rolpa’i Yeshé who is the primary teacher of the Aro Dri-ku (A …
Yeshé Tsogyel
The Buddha Yogini Yeshé Tsogyel (ye shes mTsho rGyal / ཡེ་ཤེས་མཙོ་རྒྱལ / Jnana Sagara་). ༄།ༀ་ཨཱཿ ཧཱུྃ་བཛྲ་གུ་རུ་ཇྙཱ་ན་ས་ག་ར་བཾ་ཧ་རི་ནི་ས་་སི་དྡྷི་ཧཱུྃ༔Yeshé means ‘primordial wisdom’, …
The Five Adoptive Mothers of gTértön Aro Yeshé
gTértön Aro Yeshé was incarnation of ‘a-Shül Pema Legden (‘a shul pa dMa legs lDan / འ་ཤུལ་པདྨ་ལེཙས་ལྡན་) and the previous …
Doctoral Degree awarded to Ngak’chang Rinpoche in 1989
This is the original non-computer typewriter produced certificate from ‘Khordong gTérchen Tulku Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche for Ngak’chang Rinpoche’s Doctoral Degree. …
GB Doc Togden with Wilfree and Ground Og at Stillwater Landing
Unknown to some—perhaps many—Ngak’chang Rinpoche was the vocalist of The Savage Cabbage Blues Band ftom 1966 to 1979. He also …
Gakyalo Drukmo
The Sangyum of Ling Gésar
Gakyalo Drukmo (sGa sKya lo’i seng lCam ‘brug mo /,སག་སྐྱ་ལའི་སེང་ལཅམ་འབྲག་མོ་), ‘Lion of Dragons’ - Lady of the Gakyalo Clan was …
Songs of Vibrant Mahasiddha Abhishekavajra
The Mantradharin Tsangyang Gyamtso otherwise known as the Sixth Dalai Lama
Tsangyang Gyamtso (sNgags ‘chang tshang dByangs rGya mTsho / སྔགས་འཆང་ཚང་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་) was born into the family clan of gTértön Pema Lingpa …
Sky Signatures
the calligraphic art of Ngak ’chang Rinpoche
Ngak’chang Rinpoche’s is currently creating ‘Sky Signature’ calligraphies. He has had no time for some years — but has been …
Honouring the day of the parinirvana of Ngak’chang Rinpoche’s Tsawa’i Lama
The drinking song of Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje
On this most special day his Drinking Song is joyfully proffered In both English and Chö-ké / Tibetan ༄ཨོཾ་ ཨཱཿ …
People seem to think that retreats have to have results
Kyabjé Mindröl Ling Jétsünma Khandro Rinpoche said:“People seem to think that retreats have to have results. Of course, we all …
Guru Dragphur
Guru Dragphur (gu ru grags phur / གུ་རུ་གྲགས་ཕུར་) the combined yidam of Guru Drakpo (gu ru grags po / གུ་རུ་གྲགས་པི་) …
Excerpt from ’Tracts of the Sun’
Quotations from Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen for each day of the year
The quotations in Tracts of the Sun are both from written and oral sources. The book also contains quotations from …
Appreciation (brTsi mThong བརྩི་མཐོང་ / yi rang / ཡི་རང་).
Ngak’chang Rinpoche said “Appreciation spawns creativity – and creativity becomes Art. ་ Appreciation becomes Art when one refuses to compromise …
Tamdrin Phurba Kyil’khor
Tamdrin Phurba Kyil’khor (rTa mGrin phur ba dKyi ‘khor / རྟ་མགྲིན་ཕུར་བ་དཀྱལ་འཾོར་ / Hayagriva Kilaya Mandala). It was the greatest good …Forthcoming events:
US Visit
Apprentice and public retreats
Retreat with Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen.New York/New Jersey In-person only
Tue Sept. 2, 2025 - Tue Sept. 16, 2025
Tsog'khorlo
Teaching with Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen.UK Online only Apprentices only
Mon April 7, 2025, 5PM UTC - 7PM UTC
Wednesday meditation
Meditation group with Rang'bar Pa'wo.UK In-person only
Wed April 9, 2025, 5PM UTC - 6PM UTC
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Silver ru-gyèn
On the statue of Mamo Ral-gÇigma
Sit down and shut up
An introduction to silent sitting meditation
