His Eminence Khenpo Tsering Dorje

His Eminence Khenpo Tsering Dorje

"I have great confidence that Khenpo Tsering Dorje will benefit many beings as a spiritual guide and teacher. Therefore l request all concerned to revere him as a religious master and assure that anyone who have dharmic connection to Khenpo will be benefited in this and the life after."

-- Kyabje Drubwang Penor Rinpoche

( Supreme Head Emeritus of the Nyingma Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism )

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The Karmapa. Ogyen Trinley Dorje

We hold within us the power of compassion and wisdom, the power of discernment and intentional action, the powers of imagination and human intelligence, and even of skill in using technology. They work interdependently within us to allow us to experience true freedom, inspire us to take up our responsibility, and greatly extend the scope of our impact on the world.

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INTERCONNECTED

Embracing Life in Our Global Society

The Karmapa. Ogyen Trinley Dorje

Edited by Karen Derris and Damcho Diana Fimurgan

Translated by Damcho Diana Fimiegan

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H.H Paltrul Jampal Lodoe Rinpoche

H.H Paltrul Jampal Lodoe Rinpoche

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The Jowo Shakyamuni Rinpoche

The Jowo Shakyamuni Rinpoche The Jowo Shakyamuni Rinpoche was transported to Tibet by the Tang China princess Wencheng, and is a large 7th century statue of Gautama Buddha for which the Ramoche was constructed. 

Established: 7th century by Tibetan king Songtsen Gampo

Main Statue: 2500 years old statue of Jowo Shakyamuni consecrated by the historical Buddha

Location: in the heart of Lhasa, the Old Town

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HH KARMAPA

Happy New Year 2025

 Time is precious; therefore, utilize every moment wisely. Foster a positive mindset in thought, word, and deed. 🎉💫🌟🎊

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His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

The magnifying glass of your faith and devotion

Without being concentrated by a magnifying glass, dry grass cannot be set alight by the rays of the sun, even though they bathe the whole earth evenly in their warmth. In the same way, it is only when focussed through the magnifying glass of your faith and devotion that the all-pervading warm rays of the buddhas' compassion can make blessings blaze up in your being, like dry grass on fire.

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THE HEART OF COMPASSION 

THE THIRTY – SEVEN VERSE ON THE PRACTICE OF A BODHISATTVA 

His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Translated From the Tibetan by the Padmakara Translation Group

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HH Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorjee

HH Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorjee performed

20th February 2012 the sacred Vajra dance for the first time today in India  during a historic ceremony at the stage ground of Tergar monastery in Bodhgaya.

The Vajra dance is traditionally held on the concluding day of an intensive ritual cycle of Mahakala, performed annually at the beginning of the Tibetan New year 

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THE LORD BUDDHA

“Mind beyond concepts” refers to the situation of being free of the three poisons. A normal person is totally engrossed in the three poisons through his whole lifetime. To attain liberation from samsara we need to leave behind the three poisons. How can we be free from them? We cannot bury them underground, flush them away, burn them, blow them up or even throw a nuclear bomb at them and expect the three poisons to disappear. Our continuous involvement with them is like an evil machine. The perfect Buddha described samsaric existence as an ocean of endless suffering, or like the continuous revolving of an evil machine, like a vicious circle.

 Buddha told us we need to apply a method in order to liberate ourselves and all other sentient beings from the ocean of samsara. The primary cause of samsaric existence is our own dualistic mind, as I just pointed out. Some people might claim, “I don’t commit any evil! I don’t kill, I don’t steal and I don’t lie. I don’t do any negative actions!” While we might not perform such coarse negative actions, subtle negative actions are continuously created in our mind. As long as our liking, disliking and indifference are not purified, they block the path to liberation and complete enlightenment. So what can clear away and eradicate the three poisons in our own mind? The recognition

 of buddha nature, self-existing awareness.

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REPEATING THE WORDS OF THE BUDDHA

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Foreword by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche

Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang Compiled Er edited by Marcia Binder Schmidt

RANGJUNG YESHE Восписти. Начо Казву 2006

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Acala, also known as Fudo Myoo

Acala, also known as Fudo Myoo

, is a Buddhist deity that is revered in Tibetan, Himalayan, and Japanese Buddhism:  In Tibetan Buddhism, Acala is a member of the Vajrakīla, a family of deities ruled by the Buddha Akṣobhya. Acala is sometimes depicted wearing a crown with an image of Akṣobhya. Acala is also known as Miyowa in Tibetan 🙏🏻💫🌟🕉️

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MAHA VISHNU

The Tibetan name for the Hindu god Maha Vishnu is "Khyab 'jug chen po". 

ཁྱབ་འཇུག, ཁྱབ་འཇུག are the top translations of "Vishnu" into Tibetan. (Hinduism) One of the Trimurti (trinity) in Hindu mythology, and the most popularly venerated god in Hinduism.

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Maha guru padmasambhava

7. THE BENEFITS 

The benefits of training in the Bodhicitta you have thus developed are as follows. Elevated above the shravakas and pratyekabuddhas, you are included in the assembly of Mahayana practitioners. Your disturbing emotions, misdeeds, and obscurations are all annihilated from their very root. All the virtuous actions of your body, speech, and mind become causes for what is meaningful and a vast gathering of merit will be perfected in your being. You will always be watched over by the Buddhas and bodhisattvas and the great protectors of the Dharma. All sentient beings will love you as their own child and find you beautiful to behold. You will never be separated from the Mahayana teachings. In short, you will quickly accomplish the superior qualities of Buddhahood and awaken to true and complete enlightenment. Thus the qualities are inconceivable. Therefore be persistent in just this.

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Dakini Teachings

PADMASAMBHAVA'S ORAL INSTRUCTIONS TO LADY TSOGYAL

Recorded and concealed by YESHE TSOGYAL Revealed by NYANG RAL NYIMA ÖSER and SANGYE LINGPA

Translated according the oral teachings of Kyabje Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche by ERIK PEMA KUNSANG

RANGJUNG YESHE PUBLICATIONS

BOUDHANATH, HONG KONG & ESBY

1999

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Maha guru padmasambhava

Lady Tsogyal asked the master: 

Should we depend upon conditioned roots of virtue? 

The master replied: Fabricated dharmas are all conceptual mind, So all conditioned dharmas perish. Dharmata, however, is self-present timelessly. Be free from effort in conditioned, material virtues.  You can firmly resolve on that.

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Treasures from Juniper Ridge

THE PROFOUND TREASURE INSTRUCTIONS OF PADMASAMBHAVA TO THE DAKINI YESHE TSOGYAL

Recorded and concealed by Yeshe Tsogyal

From the revelations of Nyang Ral Nyima Özer, Rigdzin Gödem, Sangye Lingpa, Rinchen Lingpa, Dorje Lingpa, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, and Chokgyur Lingpa

Translated and edited by ERIK PEMA KUNSANG & MARCIA BINDER SCHMIDT

Rangjung Yeshe Publications

Boudhanath, Hong Kong & Esby 2008

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Khenchen Pema Sherab Rinpoche

Khenchen Pema Sherab Rinpoch

e (Tib. པདྨ་ཤེས་རབ་, Wyl. pad+ma shes rab) is one of the seniormost khenpos in the Nyingma tradition and one of the three Khenchen or 'great khenpos' of Namdroling Monastery.

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H.H Paltrul Jampal Lodoe Rinpoche

H.H Paltrul Jampal Lodoe Rinpoche

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Nalagiri elephant Lord Buddha

According to the Buddhist calendar, today's Full Moon day commemorates the occasion when Lord Buddha subdued the Nalagiri elephant. In Buddhist teachings, Nalagiri is characterized as a fierce elephant utilized to harm the Buddha. The story of Nalagiri and the Buddha is a pivotal element in Buddhist traditions, highlighting the capacity of loving-kindness to transcend hostility.

Venerable Tulku choedharr

Venerable Tulku choedharr

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Great Yogi Milarepa

Happy is the path of both Wisdom and Means! 

Happy the Yoga of Arising and Perfecting; the meditation of the Two-in-One.

Happy the Prajñā; the awareness of no- coming-and-going!

Happy the absence of talk; no friends and no chatting!

These are the pleasures of words.

Happy is the understanding of Non-grasping; 

Happy the meditation without interruption; Happy the accomplishment without hope or fear; 

Happy the action done without defilement. These are the pleasures of Mind.

Happy is the illumination with no thought and no mutation!

Happy the great bliss in the purity of Dharmadhatu!" 

Happy the Non-ceasing Realm of Form!

This little song of great happiness That flows freely from my heart, Is inspired by meditation, By the merging of act and knowledge. Those who aim at the fruit of Bodhi May follow this way of yogic practice.

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The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa: The Life-Story and Teaching of the Greatest Poet-Saint Ever to Appear in the History of Buddhism

PublisherShambhala Pubns (1 June 1999)

Hardcover730 pages

ISBN-101570624763

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Subramanya Swamy

Today December 07 skanda shasthi day of lord Murugan 

In Buddhism, "Subramanya Swamy," also known as "Skanda" or "Kartikeya" in Hinduism, is often considered a protective deity, sometimes referred to as a Bodhisattva, particularly in the Sri Lankan Buddhist tradition where he is worshipped as "Kataragama Deviyo" at the Kataragama temple; essentially, Buddhists view him as a powerful guardian figure with a connection to the Hindu pantheon, not as a central Buddha or Bodhisattva within their own theology.

Khenchen Pema Sherab Rinpoche

Khenchen Pema Sherab Rinpoche (Tib. པདྨ་ཤེས་རབ་, Wyl. pad+ma shes rab) is one of the seniormost khenpos in the Nyingma tradition and one of the three Khenchen or 'great khenpos' of Namdroling Monastery.

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Maha guru padmasambhava

Lady Tsogyal asked the Lotus-Born master: What is the dividing line between dullness and wakefulness?

The master replied: Dullness is failing to comprehend anything, because of a dense mental veil. Wakefulness is to vividly see the original, natural state as it is. When applying this experientially in your stream-of-being, look into this unknowing, uncomprehending mind itself—without questioning whether mind understands or not—and thereby see that it does not consist of any identity whatsoever but is lucid and unobscured. This is the vital point of naturally dissolving dullness. Tsogyal, this advice of utmost importance, I give to you.

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Treasures from Juniper Ridge

THE PROFOUND TREASURE INSTRUCTIONS OF PADMASAMBHAVA TO THE DAKINI YESHE TSOGYAL

Recorded and concealed by Yeshe Tsogyal

From the revelations of Nyang Ral Nyima Özer, Rigdzin Gödem, Sangye Lingpa, Rinchen Lingpa, Dorje Lingpa, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, and Chokgyur Lingpa

Translated and edited by ERIK PEMA KUNSANG & MARCIA BINDER SCHMIDT

Rangjung Yeshe Publications

Boudhanath, Hong Kong & Esby 2008

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LAMA ZOPA RINPOCHE

DECEMBER 3RD BIRTHDAY OF LAMA ZOPA RINPOCHE 

A Prayer for the Swift Return of Lama Zopa Rinpoche By His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama,  Tenzin Gyatso 

༄༅། །ཟླ་མེད་སྟོན་པ་རྒྱལ་སྲས་ཉན་རང་ཚོགས། ། བྟོ་བཟང་རྒྱལ་བ་ཡབ་སྲས་བརྒྱུད་པར་བཅས། །  རབ་འབྱམས་ཞིང་གི་སྐྱབས་ཡུལ་མ་ལུས་པས། ། དེང་འདིར་སྟོན་པ་འགྲུབ་པའི་དགེ་ལེགས་སྟོལ། ། 

Da me tön pa gyäl sä nyän rang tshog lo zang gyäl wa yab sä gyü par chä rab jam zhing gi kyab yül ma lü pä Deng Dir mön pa Drub päi ge leg tsöl 

Peerless Teacher and assembly of the children of the victorious ones, śrāvakas, and pratyekabuddhas; Victorious Lozang, father and sons, along with the lineage masters; All the objects of refuge of infinite lands— Please bestow the virtue and goodness of accomplishing  this prayer here and now.

Arahant Maha Maudgalyāyana

Today, December 1st, Sunday,2024 according to the Buddhist calendar, marks the day Arahant Maha Maudgalyāyana

attained pari nirvana. 

Maha Maudgalyāyana had mastered a range of super normal psychic powers, which he utilized for the benefit of the Buddha's dispensation and the welfare of his disciples and pupils. Consequently, the Buddha formally declared him to be the foremost in psychic powers among all the Buddha's disciples.

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COMPASSIONATE ACTION Chatral Rinpoche

According to Tibetan Buddhist astrology, we are in “the age of residues” where only traces of the virtue of the “golden age” remain. These troubled times are marked by war, disease, natural disasters, rampant drug use and disrespect towards spirituality. Guru Padmasambhava saw all of this coming and that is why he came up with his terma system of concealing teachings to be discovered by the reincarnations of his twenty-five disciples — called tertons or treasure-revealers — at the appropriate time for these teachings to help the beings of that generation. Tulku Thondup explains, “[Guru Rinpoche] gave the Mind-mandate Transmission of the teachings [to his core group of disciples] and recognized them as his own regents and blessed them to tame the beings of the end-age.”

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COMPASSIONATE ACTION Chatral Rinpoche

Edited, Introduced, and Annotated by Zach Larson Snow Lion Publications Ithaca, New York Boulder, Colorado

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His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

When the visualization of Chenrezi becomes clear and stable, visualize light rays radiating out from his body in each of the ten directions,making offerings to all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the innumerable Buddhafields. These rays of light return, carrying the blessings of all the enlightened ones, and dissolve back into Chenrezi, who becomes even more brilliant and resplendent. Once again, he emanates rays of light, which this time reach out to all beings, dispelling their suffering, establishing them in the wisdom of great bliss, and transforming them into male and female Bodhisattvas and the whole universe into a perfect Buddha-field.

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THE HEART TREASURE OF THE ENLIGHTENED ONES

The Practice of View, Meditation, and Action A Discourse Virtuous in the Beginning, Middle, and End by Patrul Rinpoche With commentary by Dilgo Khyentse

Translated from the Tibetan by The Padmakara Translation Group

SHAMBHALA Boston & London 2012

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Monju Bosatsu,

In Buddhist iconography, Monju Bosatsu,

also referred to as Manjushri, embodies wisdom. Characteristic representations of Monju show him mounted on a lion, holding a sacred text in the form of a book or scroll.

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Enkö Kannon

Enkö Kannon

is commonly illustrated as a Bodhisattva radiating light, or seated on a rainbow, characterized by joined hands.  #paintingartwork #japan #artwork #buddhism

Iwato Kannon

Iwato Kannon, translated as 'Kannon of the Rocky Gateway', is likely a Buddhist interpretation of the Shinto Kami Amaterasu Omikami, residing at the threshold of a cave.

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Shühü Kannon

Shühü Kannon

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Kannon, the benevolent feminine deity of abundance, sits serenely royal posture. A revered and esoteric manifestation of Kannon in Japanese art.  #paintingartwork #buddhism #artwork

His Holiness Penor Rinpoche

Life is more difficult if you worry.  It’s better to deal with things as they come up.

Penor Rinpoche, via Turning the Mind Into An Ally (Page 101)

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White tara

Old artwork 

White tara

His holiness karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje

Compassion itself is noble.

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His holiness karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje

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MAHA KALI

During the five-day Diwali celebration, Goddess Kali is worshipped twice Puja – once on Narak Chaturdashi and on the dark Amavasya night of Diwali. Goddess Kali  liberates from fears, sufferings, and the influence of negative energies.

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Hanuman

In Thai mythology, Hanuman is a monkey god and a central character in the Thai epic, Ramakien: 

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

October 31, 1996 Hong Kong

73. IN THE SOLITUDE OF THE SELF

Buddha is not on the peak, rather the peak is beneath Buddha. One who goes up to the peak comes down, but the peak seeks the one who is stationed higher, in the inner space.

Shiva is called Chandrashekhara, which means the mind that is in Shiva (transcendence) and is always above the peak.

People run after parties and celebrations, but for the one who does not run after them, parties and celebrations follow him wherever he goes.

If you run after parties, loneliness comes to you;

If you are in the solitude of the Self, parties surround you.

HH The 16th Gyalwa Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje

"When you do things, obstacles will come and you can go through them. Obstacles are a sign of success."

 ~ HH The 16th Gyalwa Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje

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Arya Avalokiteswara

“Divine Compassion: A Lord’s Gentle Gaze.” 

Om mani padme hum.

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Chogyam Trungpa

Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.

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Chogyam Trungpa,

 The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation

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Arya Tara

The Green Tara mantra, Om tara tuttare ture soha, is one of the most commonly recited in Tibetan Buddhism and is used as a veil of protection as practitioners face physical or emotional challenges. Her story and practices first emerged in India fifteen hundred years ago.

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Maha Guru Padmasambhava

Lady Tsogyal asked the master: What cuts the root of thoughts? 

The master replied: Here I shall teach how thoughts can naturally dissolve, by means of three ways of improvement that transcend improving: 

●  The senses need no improving since they are clearly sense the sense objects. 

●  Dharmata needs no improving since it never arises.

 ●  Thoughts need no improving since they are clearly seen to be original wakefulness. Why is that? Because it should be understood that everything is original wakefulness since there is nothing other than mind.

 This is how thoughts naturally dissolve, since they are clearly seen to be dharmata.

Treasures from Juniper Ridge

THE PROFOUND TREASURE INSTRUCTIONS OF PADMASAMBHAVA TO THE DAKINI YESHE TSOGYAL

Recorded and concealed by Yeshe Tsogyal

From the revelations of Nyang Ral Nyima Özer, Rigdzin Gödem, Sangye Lingpa, Rinchen Lingpa, Dorje Lingpa, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, and Chokgyur Lingpa

Translated and edited by ERIK PEMA KUNSANG & MARCIA BINDER SCHMIDT

Rangjung Yeshe Publications

Boudhanath, Hong Kong &ε Esby 2008

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The Endless knot

Maha Guru Padmasambhava

“When my arms can't reach to sentient beings, I always bless them with my prayers”. 

Om Ahh Hung Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hung

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Endless knot

The Endless Knot

The Endless Knot has no beginning or end, it symbolises the infinite wisdom and compassion of the Buddha.

OSHO

I have a totally different concept of desire. First, desire itself is God. Desire without any object, desire without being goal-oriented, unmotivated desire, pure desire, is God. The energy called desire is the same energy as God.

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The Genesa crystal

Shirdi saibaba

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Golden Sun

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