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Maha Guru Aspiration Prayer of Khandro Yeshe Tsogyal, 16 September 2021, Online - Part 2

Khandro Yeshe Tsogyal addresses this vast and profound prayer to Guru Rinpoche on the occasion of his departure to Copper-Coloured Mountain. The prayer is a treasure teaching, or terma, of Pema Lingpa and contains within itself a condensed and complete guide to the Buddhadharma. Yeshe Tsogyal instructs us in how to develop and maintain a relationship with the guru, how to eliminate obstacles, how and where we should practice, and how we can develop bodhicitta. The prayer instils confidence in our basic purity and goodness and reinforces the inseparability of our minds from the mind of the guru.

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Maha Guru Aspiration Prayer of Khandro Yeshe Tsogyal, 16 September 2021, Online - Part 2

JOWI LAM ~REXXBHAI

June 24, 1987
Santa Cruz, California

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche teaches on the feminine principle in Vajrayana Buddhism with a focus on the Dakini, or Khandro. Rinpoche tells stories of extraordinary human Khandros, such as Yeshe Tsogyal, Dresi Khandro, who came from his father’s region in Amdo, Tromge Dawa Drolma (Chagdud Rinpoche's Ma-Yum), Sera Khandro, Shuksep Jetsun Rinpoche of Gangri Tokar, Machik Labdron, and others. Rinpoche also tells stories about practitioners who receive the blessings of Khandros such as Vajrayogini, and how meditating upon the Dakini brings swift blessings and the rapid attainment of siddhis.

Oral interpretation by Anne Klein, PhD (Lama Rigzin Drolma).

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© 1987 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche & Vajrayana Foundation, 2022 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche Heritage Foundation

Produced and posted in honor of Dakini Day, October 20, 2022.

Photo: Vajrayogini from a small album Lama Tharchin Rinpoche kept for decades with a selection of tsakli and images for bestowing empowerments

Feminine Tradition in Tantric Buddhism 1987

The Shadows 'Nepal' is back. A long awaited record was released on the 6th of September 2014 in Sydney. With Amit Pradhan & Prakash Rasaily in Australia, Swapnil Sharma in Nepal, it wasn't easy to come up with this EP. But all the hard work and a long gap was worth the wait.


1 Buddha Nepalko

Saayad - OST

4 Prakriti

2 Dharma

Iron Fang Anthem - HARD ROCK MUSIC

From the upcoming album Sojourner, “When No One Answered” tells the story of a man in the final moments of his life. Instead of encountering what he had been taught to expect, he finds something entirely different. He sees people everywhere, but nothing divine appears. In that moment, he realizes that God is not present in the form shaped by the modern evangelical church. He isn’t afraid—he’s fascinated by what he’s witnessing—but he also understands that he must accept a difficult truth: he doesn’t know everything, and neither do the people who claimed they did.

LYRICS:

VERSE 1
I slipped beneath
A waking tide
The world grew thin
And opened wide
A drifting leaf
In winter air
A brittle hush
No presence there

VERSE 2
I waited long
For gold to bloom
A whispered dawn
To cut the gloom
But dark held on
With iron hands
No open gate
No promised lands

PRE-CHORUS
I reached for heaven
Like it was mine
But found a desert
Without a sign

CHORUS
When nothing answered
I drifted further inside
When nothing answered
I learned the quiet could guide

VERSE 3
The sacred hush
Became a wall
A hollow sky
Too vast to call
And in that void
Where God should be
I saw a truth
Not taught to me

BRIDGE
The truth was softer
Than sermon hands
Not fire above
Nor strict commands
The God I sought
Was shaped by fear
And in the dark
That shadow disappeared

PRE-CHORUS
I reached for heaven
Like it was mine
But found a desert
With a different sign

CHORUS
When nothing answered
I drifted further inside
When nothing answered
I learned the quiet could guide

CHORUS REPRISE
When nothing answered
I drifted nearer the outside
When nothing answered
I found the strength to survive

When No One Answered

I've been loving Ruth B's songs lately, so here is a cover of one of her most famous, Superficial Love. Thanks for listening!

Superficial Love - Ruth B

NOSAM JIGS DECHEN MUSIC TWANGDI Film Serga Mathang

Vocalist: Karma Nima
Music and Mix: Fx Music | Bhutan

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