Short teachings

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 …

The 14 Tantric Root Views

Speaking of the Ngak’phang Ordination and its profound Inner Tantra commitments, Ngak’chang Rinpoche said: “I was ordained as a ngakpa …

A verse by Kyabjé Dung-sré Garab Dorje Rinpoche

Lamas without compare, The great Lamas of the Düd‘jom Lineage,Teachings beyond comparison, The New gTérmas of .Düd‘jomI am happy wherever …

gZi གཟི་ stones

These ancient gZi གཟི་ stones were given to Ngak’chang Rinpoche by Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje; Kyabjé Künzang Dorje …

A teaching on the Vajra Master

Photograph of Kyabjé Künzang Dorje Rinpoche (sKyabs rJe kun bZang rDo rJe / སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཀུན་བཟང་རྡོ་རཉཇེ་) the Tsawa’i Lama of Ngak’chang Rinpoche …

Tsogyel-dun Sol’dep

The Seven Line Song of Guru Rinpoche

Tsogyel-dun Sol’dep (tshig bDun gSol 'debs / ཚིག་བདུན་གསོལ་འདེབས་) the Seven Line Song of Guru Rinpoche is one of the central …

You’re Buddhists — why d’you celebrate Christmas?

Someone asked Khandro Déchen and Ngak’chang Rinpoche “You’re Buddhists — why d’you celebrate Christmas?” They answered “Why not?”
This did …

The authentication of Ngak’chang Rinpoche’s dorje and drilbu

Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje (sKyabs rJe bDud ‘joms ye shes rDo rJe /,སྐྱབས་རྗེབདུད་འཇོམད་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ་) authenticating Ngak’chang Rinpoche’s dorje and …

Essential Characteristics of Vajrayana Q&A with Lama Shardröl Wangmo

Devotion as ‘harmoniousness with the Lama'

Shardröl Du-nyam Wangmo Photograph taken in Montana in 2004. Lama Shardröl answers questions regarding ‘Essential Characteristics of Vajrayana’

Question: What is devotion, exactly? Everyone …

Kyabjé Künzang Dorje Rinpoche teaching on Dzogchen Men-ngag-dé in 1976

Ngak’chang Rinpoche wrote: ‘In my last few days with Künzang Dorje Rinpoche in Tso Pema (mTsho pa dMa / མཚོ་པདྨ་ …

Ling Gésar (གལིང་གེ་སར་)

the Nondual Warrior King

The Manifestation of Guru Rinpoche —— Protector of all who look to him for support, defence, and sustenance.
Ling Gésar is …

The Aro gTérma gTér Bum Treasure Vase

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche taught on the subject of gTér bum when he visited Sang-ngak-chö-dzong in Penarth in 1995. Lama Tharchin …

gTértön Rang-rig Togden and Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér

A painting by David S. Herrerías for ‘Born in Full Flight — the illustrated history of the Aro gTér Lineage’.
Rang-rig …

Three maps for ‘Warp and Weft of Wonderment'

‘The Lives of the 84 Mahasiddhas’ as told by Ngak’chang Rinpoche to Ngakma Mé-tsal Wangmo.

These hagiographies (religious life accounts) are marvellous stories of real people and their real lives in ancient India — brought …

The Hagiography of Mahasiddha Sarvaripa

from Volume I of ‘Warp and Weft of Wonderment’

Accounts of the 84 Mahasiddhas according to the gTérma of Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér as related to Ngakma Mé-tsal Wangmo by …

Tö-pa (thod pa / ཐོད་པ་ / kapala)

Skull bowls

Tö-pa are utilised for Vajrayana practices such as tsog’khorlo (tshogs ‘khorlo / ཚོག་འཁོར་ལོ་ / ganachakrapuja) the Tantric Feast Profferment. This …

Rang-Rig Togden

the one whose powerful body could fell a wild yak

From the Aro gTér Lineage Invocation by Lopon Tenzin. Line drawing by David S. Herrerías — for the book ‘Born …

The hills were alive with the music of sound

༄From Volume V of ‘Goodbye Forever — The Miscellaneous Memoirs of an English Lama’ which will be published in a …

She who magnetises duality

Kurukulla (ku ru ku le / ཀུ་རུ་ཀུ་ལས་) or Rig Jèdma (rig byed ma་/ རིགས་བྱད་མ་) Red ‘joyous’ manifestation of Drölma (sGrol …

Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoche

An extract from ‘Wisdom Eccentrics — The Memoirs of an English Lama

Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoche (sKyabs rJe dil mGo mKhyen brTse / སྐྱབས་རྗེ་དིལ་མགོ་མཁྱེན་བརྩེ་་/ 1910 – 1991) An extract from ‘Wisdom Eccentrics …

Ngak'chang Yolmo Ten'dzin Norbu

Ngak'chang Yolmo Ten'dzin Norbu (sNgags ‘chang yol mo sPrul sKu rig 'dzin bsTan 'dzin nor bu / སྔགས་འཆང་ཡོལ་མོ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་རིག་འཛིན་བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་བུ་).་was the 3rd …

Aro gZa’ Druk-tsal Shèldrakma

Painted by David S. Herrerías for ‘Born in Full Flight’ — the illustrated history of the Aro gTér Tradition. There …

Mothers Day

This is Ngak’chang Rinpoche’s mother: Renate Louisa Maria Frieda Schubert as a young lady in Hannover, Germany. Ngak’chang Rinpoche said …

Mahasiddha Karma Gyalpo

Kyabjé Künzang Dorje Rinpoche was also known as Drüpchen Karma Gyalpo (grubs chen kar ma rGysl po / གྲུབས་ཆེན་ཀར་མ་རྒྱལ་པོ་) Mahasiddha …

Being an idiot and how to avoid being an idiot

An extract from ‘Wisdom Eccentrics — The Memoirs of an English Lama

Kyabjé Künzang Dorje Rinpoche — extract from ‘Wisdom Eccentrics’ by Ngak’chang Rinpoche in which Kyabjé Künzang Dorje Rinpoche speaks of …

6 Physio-Perceptual Gestalts

The wheel of cyclic experience — as taught by Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen

The Perditional pandemoniacs, Tormented inadequates, Primitive instinctualists, Potentially humane-beings, Avariciously covetous acquisitivists, and Vaguely vacuous yet acclaimed socially-elite divas.
❶̂ Perditional …

Rig’dzin Chenpo Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Manifesting nirmanakaya appearance through cultural modalities

This photograph shows Rig’dzin Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche at the Kalapa Court in Boulder, Colorado in the early 1980s, manifesting a …

gTértön Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér Dri’mèd Yingma

gTértön Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér Dri’mèd Yingma (gTer sTon Jo mo pad ma ’od zer dri ’med dByings ma / གཏེར་ས྄ོན་ཇོ་མོ་པདྨ་འོད་ཟེར་དྲི་འམེད་དབྱིང་མ་ …

Taxonomy

Khandro Déchen Khandro Déchen said: “Taxonomy concerns categories and classifications. We understand what we understand by comparison – but . . . …

Pride and Prejudice

A teaching on Essential Vajrayana and the dualistic perception of ‘otherness’.

Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen This is a text on the nature of the cause of prejudice — given by Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen …