10 posts published by Dakini Translations during October 2021| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
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“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་...
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“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་...
Today, on Dakini Day, we are all fortunate to have the opportunity to watch and listen to HH 17th Gyalwang Karmapa (supreme lineage head and root of the Karma Kagyu lineage) beginning a month long online online live teaching programme from 18th August to 17th September (GMT 10-11.30am, IST 3-5.30pm) . See detailed schedule here:… Continue reading MISUSING A GURU’S PROPERTY, WEALTH OR OBJECTS WITHOUT THEIR ADVICE OR WISHES: 17th Karmapa’s online teachings August -September 2025, and new ...| 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, painstakingly acquired, must all be left behind; And consciousness, the guest who lodges in the body, must in time depart… 14. Even if others should declare… Continue reading AROUSING BLISSFUL BODHICITTA AND “JEWEL-IN THE LOTUS” RICHES IN BERLIN: HE 9th Khyungpo Gyaton Rinpoche’s teachings on 37 ...| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“It is said that when the mantra yogis pass away, the heros and heroines lead them to the realm of the dakinis/space-movers. It is also very common in the biographies of the Sarma siddhas that this happens. The reason why it is possible to avert/repel such “untimely summons” is this ritual of Drowa Zangmo that… Continue reading “ECSTATIC MUSIC OF THE BLISS DAKINI”, REPELLING “UNTIMELY DEATH SUMMONS” RITUAL BY 17TH KARMAPA: The remarkable life-story of wisdom dakini, Drowa Za...| 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 not say the source text name or location. It was also accompanied with this image of the footprints of the 3rd Karmapa, Rangung… Continue reading “Heartfelt inspiration for the Kagyu Masters” – Translated verses by 8th Karmapa, Mikyo Dorje| 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 Khoshut Khanate, led a large army into the Tibetan region, defeating the Tibetan rulers who supported the Karma Kagyu tradition. This… Continue reading THE SIXTEEN ARHAT STATUES OF THE KARMAPA “LOOTED AND EXHIBITED” BY GELUGPA: Origin, history and style of sacred “Yongxuan” Arhat statues...| 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་སིདྡྷི་རསྟུ། བླ་མ་ཚེ་དཔག་མེད་པ་ཡི། ། ཞབས་ལ་སྤྱི་བོས་ཉེར་བཏུད་དེ། ། བསྟན་འགྲོའི་དཔལ་མགོན་དམ་པ་རྣ...| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“Just as a drop of water that falls into the great ocean Will never disappear until the ocean itself runs dry, Merit totally dedicated to enlightenment Will never disappear until enlightenment is reached.” ཇི་ལྟར་ཆུ་ཐིགས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཆེ་ནང་ལྷུང༌། །རྒྱ་མཚོ་མ་ཟད་བར་དུ་དེ་མི་འཛད། ། དེ་བཞིན་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཡོངས་བསྔོས་ད...| 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 empowerment on the deity of compassion Chenrezig, at another venue in Taipei that was organised for the Monlam there. As I wrote in… Continue reading BLISSFUL “INNOCENT” LOVING SOUNDS OF THE MANI MANTRA CIRCLING HEART CHAKRA: A report of the 3rd Bokar Rinpoche’s teaching and empowerment in Taipei, ...| 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་...
Today, the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje publicly released his new artwork of the brilliant light goddess Mārīcī (Ozer Chenma) as part of the forthcoming newly composed Thousand-fold Offering R…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
10 posts published by Dakini Translations during March 2022| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
Today for the full moon, I am delighted to offer the first translation of a short root text by the 3rd Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje, ‘There is No Time to Waste: an Appeal’, together with a s…| 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་...
“Kālacakra is infatuated with machines [and numbers]….the goal of Kālacakra is to have a machine-like personality, where there is a cessation of the flow of karma, machines do not exp…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“That physician, Gampopa will benefit many sentient beings. Last night, I had a dream that a yellow bird flew away from me in the direction of central Tibet. It landed on the peak of a great …| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
Kara Marni has “come a long way” since her performance at the Karma Kagyu Marme Monlam concert 2018 in the most sacred Buddhist place of Bodh Gaya (said by the organisers to have been p…| 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་...
6 posts published by Dakini Translations during November 2023| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
10 posts published by Dakini Translations during March 2025| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
6 posts published by Dakini Translations during June 2025| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
“If you study Phowa, then at the time when death is approaching, you will know no despair. If beforehand you have become accustomed to the path of phowa, then at the time of death you will be full …| 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་...
“At the centre of your enlightened intention of immeasurable limitless profundity, even the ocean renowned for its depths, is like no more than a footprint.–from the 150 Verses of Prai…| Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་...
Today, I am sad and concerned to report that I got this message from an anonymous person concerned about the well-being and safety of a Tibetan woman, Tsering Dolkar Taglha, in the Tibetan communit…| 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་...
“One of the temples built at that time was the chapel at the rooftop of the Great Assembly Hall [in Drepung monastery] called the Temple of the Sixteen Arhats (Gnas bcu lha khang). It was named aft…| 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་...