Lama Tharchin Rinpoche

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche chants the Prayer to Guru Rinpoche to Dispel Obstacles & Bestow Blessings (Du Sum Sang Gyay) by Terton Dechen Lingpa, repeating three times. Recorded at the Introduction to Buddhism teaching, Pema Osel Ling, December 10, 1994.

Text PDF: https://www.vajrayana.org/media/files/files/c8888d04/Sampa_Nyur_Drupma_Du_Sum_Sang_Gyay_UNI_half_page.pdf

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Du Sum Sang Gyay 1994

Du Sum Sang Gyay triplet

Siddhanta Drub-tha Buddist Philosophy Course A way to know better oneself and the world in which we live
Introduction to Buddhist philosophy according to the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism

a. Who was Buddha Shakyamuni and the aim of his teachings

b. The principals, the four noble truths

c. The importance of spirituality in daily life

The four Seals of Buddha Shakyamuni’s teachings

a. The difference between practicing buddhism and following its philosophy

b. The importance of having a philosophy of life: giving an inner direction to one’s life in such a way as gives it meaning

c. The principals required to construct a personal philosophy of life from buddhist philosophy

4/4 The Four Noble Truths, teachings on Buddhist philosophy with Lama Michel Rinpoche

3/4 The Four Noble Truths, teachings on Buddhist philosophy with Lama Michel Rinpoche

2/4 The Four Noble Truths, teachings on Buddhist philosophy with Lama Michel Rinpoche

1/4 The Four Noble Truths, teachings on Buddhist philosophy with Lama Michel Rinpoche

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche recites the Seven Line Prayer (in a 32-minute loop). 

Seven Line Prayer recited by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche

November 10, 2011 talk at Sarah Harding's in Boulder, Colorado

Using Illusion on the Path

Using Illusion On The Path

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche teaches on the significance of ngondro (preliminary practice) and the four thoughts that turn the mind to the dharma. Recorded in 2007. You can stream and download the video on Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/lamatharchinrinpoche) or purchase the DVD or digital download on www.heartteachings.com via the Buy link.

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Photo by Angela Poopova

Significance of Ngondro & the Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind

Significance of Ngondro & the Four Thoughts That Turn the Mind

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche teaches on the meaning of the Seven Line Prayer to Guru Rinpoche at Lowell and Eileen Boyers’ place in New York City, April 28, 2011. Running Time: 1 hour 36 min. You can support the work of Heart Teachings by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche by purchasing the download through the BUY link.

Image of Guru Rinpoche statue is from Riwoche Temple, Toronto, Canada.

© 2011 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche

Seven Line Prayer Teachings NYC

Seven Line Prayer teaching NYC 2011-04-28

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche teaches on the practice of Guru Yoga and the Seven Line Prayer in the Vajrayana. Open Secret Bookstore, San Rafael, California, January 26, 2009. 

Rinpoche says, "The point of guru yoga is to train in merging our mind with our lama's wisdom mind and to have those qualities of wisdom and compassion that we glimpse within our lama's mind inhabit our own mind." In these Open Secret teachings, Rinpoche guides us in using guru yoga meditation on Guru Rinpoche to awaken the uncontrived, uncontaminated, primordial state of enlightenment that is our own natural, indwelling, primordial state of being.

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Photo of Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche with Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, Pema Osel Ling, March 1994. 

Thank you to Sheppard Powell for requesting and recording the teaching.

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Guru Yoga OS 2009-01-26

Guru Yoga Open Secret 2009 - 01 - 26

© 2008 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche; 2018 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche Heritage Foundation; Open Secret Bookstore, San Rafael, CA 2008-09-11; Track 1 of 2.
“While, generally, all enlightened buddhas have the same wisdom, the same activity, according to the Vajrayana point of view, because we live in the desire realm, dakinis', or female buddhas', activities are especially effective at helping us achieve our main aim of enlightenment. As the feminine aspect represents wisdom, dakini practices are easy to accomplish and siddhis are easily and quickly received. There are many different aspects of the dakini, but here we can talk about the practical level of making a connection to the dakini to awaken our own wisdom. The blessings of Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche's Dudjom Tersar practices are especially direct and effective allowing us to attain the result through the warm blessings of the dakini.” – Lama Tharchin Rinpoche
Download the Yeshe Tsogyal Quintessential Daily Practice text: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1025/2987/files/Abbreviated_Quintessential_Sadhana_of_Yeshe_Tsogyal.pdf
Please obtain the oral transmission for the Yeshe Tsogyal daily practice from a qualified Dudjom lineage lama.
Yeshe Tsogyal thangka painted by Lama Pema Dorje Rinpoche.

Warm Blessings of the Dakini OS 2008-09-11

Warm Blessings of the Dakini

Warm Blessings of the Dakini Track 1

© 1999 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, 2016 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche Heritage Foundation
Rinpoche returns to Open Secret after an extended period of personal retreat to talk about the subject of death and dying. Rinpoche emphasizes how, as practitioners, we should always keep death in mind and learn “how to die professionally.” With a focus on the bardos, the intermediate states encompassing this life and the states after death, Rinpoche teaches us how to approach each one so that we can use this valuable opportunity to gain liberation.

Death & Dying OS 1999-03-15

Death & Dying Open Secret 1999 - 03 - 15

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche teaches on the Dudjom lineage at Open Secret Bookstore in San Rafael, California, November 10, 2003. Ngawang Zangpo translates. 

Produced and posted in honor of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche's fifth anniversary of his parinirvana, Sixth Lunar Month Full Moon Day, July 27, 2018. Thanks to Sheppard Powell for requesting and hosting the teaching. Purchasing the download helps support our work of preserving Lama Tharchin Rinpoche's dharma heritage.

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Dudjom Lineage OS 2003-11-10

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche teaches at Open Secret Bookstore in San Rafael, California, November 17, 2008. Produced in honor of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche's birthday, Guru Rinpoche Day, 10th Day, 5th Lunar Month, July 11, 2019

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche teaches how to manifest joy in our world based on the prayer:
“Whatever joy there is in this world, 
All comes from desiring others to be happy; 
Whatever suffering there is in this world, 
All comes from desiring myself to be happy.”

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© 2008 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, 2019 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche Heritage Foundation; recorded by Sheppard Powell at Open Secret Bookstore.

How to Manifest Joy in Our World

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche begins in classic form that will be instantly recognizable to his students, telling jokes and relating stories about his ancestral yogi lineage of Tibet, wild stories of his youth, the development of his own motivation for practicing the dharma through the influence of teachers, family, and sangha, stories of his mom who he considered a living bodhisattva, his visions for dharma in the West, the origin stories of Vajrayana Foundation and Pema Osel Ling, and lots more. 
Seattle, Washington, April 17, 1993.
© 1993 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche & Vajrayana Foundation, 2019 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche Heritage Foundation in honor of Rinpoche's sixth anniversary of passing into parinirvana.

An Evening of Stories

An Evening Of Stories LTR Seattle 1993 - 04 - 17

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During this intimate evening of inspirational stories shared at Open Secret Bookstore in San Rafael, California, in the Spring of 2010, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche relates the history of the Repkong yogi tradition founded by his ancestor, Palchen Namkha Jigme, a former hunter who discovered the true nature of samsara and sought a way out of its endless cycle, as well as stories of his own special upbringing in a ngakpa yogi family in Tibet. The Repkong ngakpas were famous and revered for both their not-so-ordinary ordinary accomplishments, as well as for their realization of supreme siddhis. Rinpoche, the tenth family lineage holder of the Repkong yogis, relates awe-inspiring stories of these powerful householder ngakpa practitioners, as well as his father’s influence on Rinpoche’s own spiritual development and maturation. 
Open Secret Bookstore, San Rafael, California, April 13, 2010.
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Photo: Zhitro Pujas at Repkong, Amdo, Tibet, August 2011

Repkong Ngakpas OS 2010-04-13

Wishing you an auspicious Losar Year of the Metal Rat 2020! Lama Tharchin Rinpoche teaches on the meaning and importance of sangha and answers questions about the role of accumulating merit, advice for avoiding politics in the dharma, and how to examine a teacher and what to do if we feel we've made a connection with a negative teacher. Teaching given at Sakya Dechen Ling, Katherine Pfaff's, in West Oakland, California, December 17, 1994. Thanks to Sheppard Powell for preserving this recording.
Note: the recording sound level with people's questions is very low. We've tried to increase the volume without causing too much distortion, but it is difficult to hear the questions (though not Rinpoche's answers!).

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Sangha Dechen Ling Oakland 1994-12-17

Meaning & Importance of Sangha 1994

In Spring 2006 at Open Secret Bookstore in San Rafael, California, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche taught on how the phenomenal world and its inhabitants came into being, what makes our experience of this world worse, and how we can make it better, saying:

“During this degenerate time when our mental habits are becoming grosser, our afflictive emotions are becoming more turbulent, and our outer circumstances are becoming increasingly difficult, how we can accomplish not only the noble goal of world peace but go beyond that to attain universal peace? The degeneration part is the bad news! The good news is that according to Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava’s Dzogchen Great Perfection teachings, however strong the afflictive emotions you have, that much greater wisdom you have. These are like the two sides of your hand. Which side do you want to turn up and which side do you want to turn down? We have a choice. We have a chance.”

2006-04-03

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Photo: Lama Tharchin Rinpoche at Orgyen Dechen Cho Dzong, Na'alehu, Big Island, Hawaii
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Universal Peace OS 2006-04-03

Universal Peace OS 2006

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Open Secret Bookstore, San Rafael, California, December 4, 2006

In Winter 2006, as part of his Open Secret Bookstore teaching series, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche used a concise prayer as the basis for presenting how Buddhist practitioners accumulate merit and wisdom through training in the Six Paramitas (the transcendent perfections of generosity, ethical conduct, patience, diligence, meditation, and wisdom) and meditating upon the four immeasurable attitudes of love, compassion, joy, and equanimity. Rinpoche teaches how, by engaging in the key practices of the Mahayana path along with making the vast bodhisattva aspiration to gain awakening for the benefit of all sentient beings, we can accomplish both short-term happiness and the lasting happiness of fully awakened buddhahood for ourselves and all beings.

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Photo by Myron Berney, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche in Honolulu, July 2011

Tonglen & the Four Immeasurables OS 2006_12_04

Tonglen & The Four Immeasurables OS 2006-12-04

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche draws upon the words of his root lamas, Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche and Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, to show us how to use skillful means and sublime insight to naturally liberate our afflictive emotions and reveal our innate buddha nature. The best technique, they say, is through praying to our guru, and thus reveal the three kayas essence, intrinsic nature, and compassion. Lama Tharchin Rinpoche’s deep devotion to his gurus and the example of their infallible wisdom is evident and moving in this heartfelt teaching.

Rinpoche teaches in Tibetan with oral interpretation by Ngawang Zangpo as well as directly in English.

Download the Supplication to Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche: https://www.vajrayana.org/media/files/files/54e6f356/Supplication_Prayer_to_Dungse_Thinley_Norbu_Rinpoche.pdf

October 13, 2012. Threshold, New York City (Thank you Lowell & Eileen for hosting Lama Tharchin Rinpoche)

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