Profound and pithy advice in verses composed for the sake of two disciples—a descendant of Jatsön Nyingpo called Pema Tsangyang and a minister named Tsering Namgyal.
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The Fourth Dodrupchen Rinpoche, Tupten Trinlé Palzangpo (1927–2022) took Jigme Lingpa's original fire offering, which was composed for both peaceful and wrathful practices—and was itself based on the fire offering for Nyangral Nyima Özer's Kagyé Deshek Düpa—as the basis for this peaceful fire offering for the Rigdzin Düpa practice within the Longchen Nyingtik.
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In these verses of general advice, the great Khenpo Ngawang Pazang (1879–1941) encourages a disciple named Kalgön to prioritize sincere practice by applying the teachings of Longchenpa.
Latest from the Nyingtik Yabzhi Project
Vajravārāhī is the main deity for this ḍākinī practice from the Jewel Trilogy within the Lama Yangtik collection, which features the ḍākinīs of the five families—Buddha, Vajra, Padma, Ratna and Karma.
Part of the Essence Trilogy within the Lama Yangtik collection, this is an instruction for inducing the dawning of the clear light of samādhi.
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Verses in praise of the great Nyingma hierarch and treasure-revealer Dudjom Rinpoche, Jigdral Yeshe Dorje (1904–1987), composed in 2024.
Verses on the five perfections (phun sum tshogs pa lnga)—the perfect site, occasion, teacher, community, and teaching—and how they are all complete within the ultimate nature of the mind.
In these verses, the Kuri Chhu River answers a series of questions, conveys a message from Marpa's home in Lhodrak, and offers aspirations for the flourishing of the Dharma.
This short versified overview of the two truths—conventional and ultimate—was composed by Chögyal Pakpa Lodrö Gyaltsen (1235–1280) in 1263.
Latest from the Ḍākinī Treasury Series
Seven verses of advice on the nature of the ground, path and fruition and the techniques of view, meditation and conduct.
Verses of advice stressing the importance of maintaining ethical discipline, generating a vast altruistic motivation and diligently practising the Great Perfection.
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Composed in Lerab Ling, France in 2005 at the request of several translators, led by Tenzin Jamchen (Sean Price) and Chökyi Nyima (Richard Barron), this is a prayer of aspiration to be recited by modern-day lotsāwas.
Jamyang Khyentse offered these words of heart-advice, encapsulating the entire Buddhist path, to Khandro Tsering Chödrön (1929–2011), his spiritual consort.
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Texts on the theme of nonsectarianism, impartiality or the absence of sectarian bias, a central ideal of the so-called nonsectarian or rimé (ris med) movement that blossomed in nineteenth-century Kham.
* Lotsāwa ལོ་ཙཱ་བ་; lo tsā ba n. Title used for native Tibetan translators who worked together with Indian scholars (or paṇḍitas) to translate major buddhist texts into Tibetan from Sanskrit and other Asian languages; it is said to derive from lokacakṣu, literally "eyes of the world". See also paṇḍita.
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