Recently, I travelled over a thousand miles to visit Taiwan for the first time, and to view and pay homage to the relics of the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa, Rigpe Dorje. As I wrote about here, from 1st t…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
Recently, I have been delving into the history and works of the Karmapas and their connection to the great treasure-revealers of the Treasure tradition, such as Chogyur Lingpa and Zilnon Namkhe Dor…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
10 posts published by Dakini Translations during June 2025| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“Most Gedenpa (Gelugpas) shun alcohol and the like, making them excellent models of the teachings. Yet, most Gedenpa see no faults in those who seek to kill and maim. Such anger and hostility is a huge enemy, be careful!” –Mipham Rinpoche དགེ་ལྡན་པ་ཕལ་ཆེར་ཆང་ནག་སོགས་འཛེམ་པས་བསྟན་པའི་མིག་ལྟོས་ལེགས་ཀྱང༌། ཕལ་ཆེར་གསོད་གཅོད་ལྷ...| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“If looking outwardly, there is nothing that cannot be done. If reflecting inwardly, there is nothing that lacks being done. If thinking with certainty, it is not a realm of intellect . New Melody (Yangchen Sarma)’s nature, who can fathom that?” –8th Karmapa, Mikyo Dorje ཕྱི་ནས་བལྟས་ན་མི་བྱ་ཅི་ཡང་མེད། ། ནང་ནས་གཞིགས་ན་ཅི་ཡང་བྱེད་པ་བྲལ། ། ངེས་པར་བ...| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“In Buddhism, a woman’s body is viewed as a source of wisdom and bliss. All humans are born from women’s life-giving bodies, yet there is still continual shaming, judging, objectifying, exclusion, denigration and policing of women’s bodies. Without women as mothers, care-givers, spiritual consorts and teachers, there can be no Buddhas.” –Adele Tomlin (2025) … Continue reading THE CREATIVE POWER, BLISS AND WISDOM OF A WOMAN’S BODY: Why are wisdom, love and compassion exemplif...| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
A couple of weeks ago some photos appeared online advertising the line-up of confirmed guests for the upcoming Global Peace prayer festival in Thimphu, Bhutan (November 4th-11th) . It is fortunate to have realised Buddhist masters with pure lineages, such as HE 12th Tai Situpa and Gyaltsab Rinpoche, to join together and have Buddhist event… Continue reading “Pictures speak a thousand words”: All-male guest line-up photos for Bhutanese Global Peace Prayer Festival| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“However, in the Vajrayana, the Buddha taught that you are Amitabha, or Avalokiteshvara, or Tara right here and now. Due to the obscurations though, we have not recognised it. So recognising that everything right now is the pure land of the Buddha, and is perfect, that is bringing the fruition as the path.” “That Buddha… Continue reading THE CREATION STAGE AND PURE PERCEPTION IN VAJRAYANA: Taking refuge vows and getting a new refuge name, instructions on pure perception and the creati...| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
Generally, as I wrote about here, my time in Europe attending teachings with HE 9th Gyalton Rinpoche was blissful, meaningful and memorable indeed. I was able to attend most of his teachings that I had planned on. However, sadly it was deliberately disturbed (on several occasions) by a few “power-trip” administrators intent on harming that… Continue reading BULLYING AND DISCRIMINATION OF LONE BUDDHIST WOMAN AT PALPUNG CENTRE IN AUSTRIA: Female administrator’s “anonymous and unauth...| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“The white lady who deceives death.” འཆི་བ་སླུ་བྱེད་དཀར་མོའོ། ། –from the Origin of Tārā Tantra “Puṇya is merit. Jñāna is primordial awareness. Puṣṭiṃ kuru svāhā means may those increase.” “One million recitations of the root mantra is said to be accomplishment of the mantra. With ten million it is said that all activities are accomplished. In… Continue reading “PROTECTION FROM FEAR OF ENEMY ARMIES” WHITE TĀR...| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
Statue of Tilopa carved out of Rhinoceros horn by the 10th Karmapa, Choying Dorje. Preserved in Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim, India. Like space gazing at space, both the ‘gazer’ and the ‘ga…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
7 posts published by Dakini Translations during June 2021| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
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It was saddening (but not surprising) to see video and photos released yesterday, spread widely among the Tibetan media outlets, of the great 12th Khentin Tai Situpa (who is also elderly and suffering from various physical ailments) offering three “unnaturally” long prostrations on his knees for an all-male long-life offering ceremony to the 14th Dalai… Continue reading WHERE ARE THE WOMEN AND NO MUTUAL NON-SECTARIAN RESPECT: Noble Tārā statues but no actual “wisdom” women and no ...| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
After the blissful and meaningful times during August attending the teachings of HE 9th Gyalton Rinpoche (sadly marred by unethical and discriminatory actions of a few white (and predominantly female!) European administrators/volunteers there), I decided to leave Europe to go to “fresher pastures” and to China again (travelling alone as always!). This visit was to… Continue reading TIBETAN AND CHINESE CHENGDU SIGHTS AND SOUNDS: First trip to Chengdu, sights from the Tibetan quarter, e...| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“This image of Palden Lhamo, Rangjung Gyalmo, which punishes enemies of the Dharma and severs/subdues evil ones, was offered by Jetsun Choying Dorje [10th Karmapa] at the end of the Dog Year in the place of Jang [Lijiang] at the essential drop/mandala ground of Gyal-thang for consecration, as requested by heart son, Kuntu Zangpo.”–inscription on… Continue reading THE ARTWORK “NATURALLY-ARISING QUEEN” (RANGJUNG GYALMO) BY TIBET’S GREATEST ARTIST, 10TH KARMAPA: presentation at int...| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“Time is free, but it is also priceless.” “The nature of all beings is always Buddha [Awakened]. འགྲོ་བའི་རང་བཞིན་རྟག་ཏུ་སངས་རྒྱས་” —3rd Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje After a mont…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“Gods and Asuras with their crownsbow down at your lotus feet.To the one who liberates the destituteMother Tārā I prostrate and praise! ལྷ་དང་ལྷ་མིན་ཅོད་པན་གྱིས།ཞབས་ཀྱི་པད་མོ་ལ་བཏུད་དེ།ཕོངས…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
‘Knowing One Liberates All’ – October 2019 I recently had the great fortune to attend the Liberating All by Knowing One (gChig shes kun grol) (sometimes translated as Knowing One …| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
10 posts published by Dakini Translations during March 2025| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
In this short clip (Tibetan and English subtitles, Chinese translation in writing below) from the 36th Kagyu Monlam speech in 2019, the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa explains how as a young man he was advi…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“Many desire enlightenment in a man’s body, while not even a single [person] strives for the benefit of sentient beings in a woman’s body. Therefore, I shall work for the benefit of sentient …| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
On the the Kālacakra New Year, the full moon of the third lunar month (Nagpa Dawa), I am happy to announce the first English translation (and publication) of the Commentary on the Praises to the T…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
10 posts published by Dakini Translations during February 2025| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“One who makes the lamp offering accumulates immeasurable and boundless blessings.”–Pradīpadānīya Sūtra (Sutra of the Merit of Offering Light) “So what is the key to lightin…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
After attending the Discovering the Buddha Within I: Inner Peace course with HE 9th Chungpo Gyalton Rinpoche in Hanoi, Vietnam (see report here), as well as other teachings and empowerments Rinpoch…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
10 posts published by Dakini Translations during October 2021| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“A solitary body is not solitude. Being [mentally] solitary, away from the mental references and concepts: this is the supreme solitude. Even though you were settled in a meditative trance fo…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“Though in deepest faith and devotionWe have never been apart,Remembering the guru in my heart,Such unbearable, tormented longing,Chokes and suffocates me speechless.Please relieve this man&#…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
I first became aware of an extraordinary woman, Kunga Trinley Wangmo (Kun dga’ ‘Phrin las dbang mo (1585-1668)), a few years ago in 2016-17, during my postgraduate research on Tāranātha’s Commentar…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
10 posts published by Dakini Translations during January 2023| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
10 posts published by Dakini Translations during May 2025| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“Maintain the view as spacious as the sky. Yet, in conduct, regard cause and effect as fine as grains of flour.” –Guru Padmasambhava Guru Padmasambhava famously stated one should …| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
4 posts published by Dakini Translations during August 2025| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“Consciousness (namshé) is impermanent. Wisdom (yeshé) is permanent. རྣམ་ཤེས་ནི་མི་རྟག་པའོ། ། ཡེ་ཤེས་ནི་རྟག་པའོ། །” –Buddha Shakyamuni, Questions of Sāgaramati Sutra (Sāgaramatiparipṛcc…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
In the second part of a series of’ Buddhist pilgrim ‘travelogues’ in Sri Lanka, here is one about my trip to visit the sacred Buddha’s tooth relic in the central city of Kan…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
10 posts published by Dakini Translations during July 2025| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“4. The practice of all the bodhisattvas is to renounce this life’s concerns, For friends and relatives, long acquainted, must all go their separate ways; Wealth and prized possessions, pains…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
These short verses were published in Tibetan by the Layjang Facebook page yesterday. They are some inspiring words written by the 8th Karmapa, Mikyo Dorje for the Kagyu lineage masters. It does no…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
Monday was the commemoration of the Buddha’s First Teaching (Cho-Khor Duchen) in Sarnath, which is considered to be the four noble truths. This day is sacred in all Buddhist traditions and is…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“The [Karmapa’s] repository burned down around the year 1644, during the late Ming period when it was set ablaze by Mongol forces. At that time, Gusri Khan, the Khoshut prince and founder of the Kh…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
Āyurjñānasiddhirastu. Guru Amitayus [Tse-phagme] I bow my head at your feet in reverence. For the sacred protectors of the teachings and beings. I write the ritual for stabilising life. ཨཱཡུརྫྙཱ་ན…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
On the second day of the Taiwan Kagyu Monlam (the weekend prior to the 12th Goshir Gyaltsab Rinpoche birthday events), the young 3rd Bokar Rinpoche tulku, gave a short teaching and stunning empower…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“In the Sengdeng palace, the supreme place of awe, from the ocean of unborn compassion, emerald in color, is a precious and beautiful woman, adorned with ornaments. Victorious mother Tārā, to…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“The Buddha’s meaning can be known through symbols and actions, not through words and books.” [1] —Arrow-Maker Woman’s teaching to Saraha “A solitary body is not sol…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
On the Saga Dawa day this year (11 June 2025), after attending 7th Gyaton Rinpoche’s teachings on Milarepa (see here), as there was nothing planned for its commemoration at that Palpung centr…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“The name of Gyaltsab (Regent) is not only a mere name. It is necessary that the name matches its meaning. So one does not need to introduce the meaning of the name with long, wordy explanations, b…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“The Green Tārā five-deity practice was one of 1st Karmapa’s main practices. He had five main deity practices and each practice involves five deities, including the main one, that is why is it call…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“Shortly before escaping to India, I managed to complete a count recitation retreat of White Tārā at Tsurphu Monastery seat, as practised by the previous Gyalwang [Karmapas]. On the day of co…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
Today, it was announced on Facebook by the Zurmang Kagyu Buddhist Society Nepal (with an accompanying short video clip) that on 21st February 2025, HH 17th Gyalwang Karmapa performed for the first …| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“In the centre of a blossoming lotus lake of brilliant pure mind, A white swan with perfected seven-fold melodies and sweet lyrics, May the lamenting, resonant earthy drum of your deep, vast …| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“I eat when I am hungry, sleep when I am tired, and watch thoughts like clouds in the sky.” “Everything can be used as firewood for practice.” –Je Milarepa After atten…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
In this new video clip from the 17th Karmapa explains the crucial difference between respect, faith/belief and devotion ( Fifty Verses on the Guru: Day 11, 2025) It is in the original Tibetan (and …| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“Now you must meditate continuously on the very essence of suchness and the nature of phenomena and mind. To do this you must find some kind of activity to engage in. Previously you were a ki…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
Often students and followers of Vajrayana get confused about what qualities are seen as essential requirements in a Vajrayana guru. They falsely believe that they should not examine a teacher and t…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“Empty does not mean completely empty, but primordial awareness empty of dualistic appearances.””[The Heart Sūtra] teaches that the ultimate perfectly established [nature] is empt…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“She is darker, stronger, looser, tougher, sexier. The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold. How can an “ideal” be about women if it is defined as how much o…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“It is important to be flexible but maintain principles/discipline.” “Imagine two highly educated and skilled doctors. One is mainly motivated by money and personal success. The o…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
After Vesak 2025 conference finished on 9th May (and I checked out of the magnificent The Reverie Saigon hotel by the river), I decided to take a short boat cruise on the fabulous Saigon river at n…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
Introduction A couple of days ago was the full moon (15th Day) of the 4th Lunar month, which is traditionally celebrated as Vesak Day/Buddha Purnima in Buddhist Asian countries like Vietnam and Ind…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“You will meet a “bitch [female dog]” who will grab you by the leg……“The downfalls of the learned are the heaviest” refers to people like you.”” –Je Milarepa to Rechungpa (according to a biog…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
This short research article for Dakini Day today, inspired by a recent visit to the British Museum (London), considers ancient and modern representations of the bodies and sexuality of women in Ind…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
ཨོཾ། འཇིགས་པ་བརྒྱད་སྐྱོབ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །Oṃ! To the protectoress from the eight fears. prostrate!བཀྲ་ཤིས་དཔལ་འབར་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །To the female blazing with the auspicious splendour prostrate!ངན་…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“Nāropa is the master from whom all the lineages of Kālacakra originate. So it is without doubt that the root tantra Kālacakra was first written down by Indian Mahasidda Nāropa.” —Niraj Kumar in Kā…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje again was unable (or chose not) to attend the two biggest events in the Karma Kagyu calendar at which hundreds of mo…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“The first Kālacakra initiation that was given to large diverse public audiences outside of Tibet was conducted not by the 14th Dalai Lama, but by the 9th Panchen Lama at the turn of the twentiet…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
‘One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.’ –Plato “Let no one, however, say that I have borrowed my p…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“Clarity, transparency and truth are forms of genuine respect and protection.” On 13th March 2025, Osel Hita, a Spanish-born incarnation of Tibetan Buddhist teacher, Lama Thubten Yeshe …| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
On 13th March 2025, US government funding of media outlets such as Radio Free Asia (RFA) and Voice of America (VOA) , which broadcasts in nine Asian languages, was terminated on Saturday, March 15,…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but not yet gone; that …| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
Today, is the anniversary of the great scholar, practitioner and thinker, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (1820-1892). From 2018-2020, I enthusiastically and voluntarily wrote various research articles, t…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
Many people wrongly think that vajrayana samaya/damtsig (commitment) means you cannot ask any questions to a teacher or their community. Especially if those questions are seeking clarity on somethi…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“Reading the true Dharma, generosity, explaining teachings, giving pith instructions, bestowing empowerment, performing mandala activities. These are the six types of Masters….There are several dif…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“Jetsun, master of space, with your arrival, The flock of accomplished ones flutter their white cotton wings Flying and soaring throughout the environment of this realm, Bestowing the spectac…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
The Great Master of Oddiyana [Guru Padmasambhava] warns: “Not to examine the teacher, Is like drinking poison; Not to examine the disciple, Is like leaping from a precipice.” “If …| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“All these mahasiddhas who appeared in India are also not separate from the primordial Buddha. The teacher and retinue are inseparable. This is actually taught in the Tantras which says: “I …| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
16th Karmapa, Rigpe Dorje (image from Volume II of his Collected Works) Recently, I have been doing some research on the 15th Karmapa’s lineage of Immortal Life-essence Bindu, and whom he passed it…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
Recently, I wrote about the 15th Karmapa and how his incarnation was predicted by Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) as revealed to terton Chogyur Lingpa (1829-1870). Although there are a few online acc…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
Thangka of the Immortal Life-Essence Bindu (Chime Sogtig) For Ḍākinī day today am happy to offer this article (and new translation) of the 15th Karmapa’s lineage supplication, and information about…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“It is said that there is no more effective practice than Vajrakilaya for overcoming obstacles and protecting ourselves from hindrances to practice.” Over the last couple of days, incl…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”. So who’s really the insane ones in this situation?” –Albert Einste…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“The method for attaining Buddhahood in one lifetime is to definitely generate great bliss. In a place of mindfulness, recite: Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Pema Siddhi Hum. It is said to be liberation upon…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
My next pilgrimage trip in Vietnam was to Da Lat from Saigon. It is the capital of Lâm Đồng Province and the largest city of the Central Highlands region in Vietnam. The city is located 1,500 m (4…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
Gleaming golden-white, smiling, with with slender, gazing eyes.On the head, a meditation hat, wearing the three Dharma robes.With the samadhi mudra, holding a wish-fulfilling jewelSeated in vajra p…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“Whereas some brahmans and contemplatives, living off food given in faith, are addicted to watching shows such as these — dancing, singing, instrumental music, plays, ballad recitations, hand…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
Recently, on my continuing Buddhist pilgrimage travels, I also visited the Vietnamese city of Ho Chih Minh. I have never been here before, and like my recent trip to Hanoi, and so was interested to…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“It is very important for the Kagyu monasteries to come together and practice whenever they get the opportunity to do so.” For those who follow the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, here is…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“Without Xuanzang, we would never know where the Buddha went wandering.” –Deepak Anand For Episode 9 of the Dakini Conversations podcast (available on Youtube (with English capti…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“He walks in the streets of Kuala Lumpur and no one pays any attention to him [Tsewang Rinpoche]. Yet, he is regarded as a bodhisattva and he is forever etched into the history of Karma Kagyu…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
Today, the 2nd September is the 63rd anniversary of the officially declared day, widely known within the Tibetan exile community as Tibetan Democracy Day, Mangsto Duchen (‘Mangsto’: democracy; ‘Duc…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
HH 17th Karmapa with Tibetan Buddhist nuns 17th Gyalwang Karmapa and female empowerment Within the male privileged environs of Tibetan Buddhist monasteries, apart from well-meaning words and s…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“Ka-gyu (བཀའ་རྒྱུད།) means anyone who upholds the words of the teachings and treatises of the ‘three baskets’ and ‘four tantras’ of Buddha.” “The Nirmanakāya, Da…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“It is better to live for a single day free from arising and disintegrating than live for a hundred years not free from arising and disintegrating.” “If you memorize the Sutras incorrectly, i…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“Generally, in the Vinaya, there was a tradition in the Sangha for people to be normally appointed by some kind of vote, or consensus. However, there was no vote for the first ‘inherit…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
Today, for Noble Tārā day, am sharing a video clip from a presentation on White Tārā that I created for Goddess of Healing conference in Glastonbury, UK, which took place last month. Even though t…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“How devastatingly hateful this murdering beings ‘custom’!How hugely regrettable this self-deception ‘custom’!How heavy a weight this killing parents ‘custom’!How much wrong action for this s…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
