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Lama Tharchin Rinpoche teaches on the concise Daily Practice of Vajrasattva (Dorsem Gyun Khyer) by Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche. Hosted by Bodhi House, Olympia, Washington. March 14, 2013.

© 2013 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche; produced 2021 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche Heritage Foundation

Produced and posted in honor of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche’s 8th Parinirvana (dechö) anniversary (July 22, 2021)

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Vajrasattva Daily Practice

Vajrasattva Daily Practice Teaching 2013

Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche's concise Vajrasattva Daily Practice (Dorsem Gyun Khyer) recited by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche's students, Sarah Beasley and Jeremi Plazas.

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Vajrasattva Daily Practice Concise

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche recites the Hundred-Syllable Mantra of Vajrasattva in a loop of 54 recitations (half mala). Produced from the Concise Dudjom Tersar Ngondro Recitation, 2006.

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Hundred Syllable Mantra Loop 54

Open Secret Bookstore, San Rafael, California
February 10, 1997
Rinpoche teaches in English

© 1997 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche & Vajrayana Foundation; 2022 LTRHF & Heart Teachings by LTR

Please note that the audio is somewhat muffled for the first 45 minutes of the teaching. We did our best to reduce the noise and sharpen the speech from the original recording, but it is still difficult to hear in some parts. Again, the questions at the end of the teaching are difficult to hear. We have tried to amplify them without causing too much noise and distortion. Thanks for your patience with these older recordings in particular.

Transforming the Moment of Death

Transforming the Moment of Death OS 1997

Practising vipassana is all about experiencing life directly. Sadhana is a systematic means to reach a goal. Though traditional sadhana practice might involve ritual offerings and visualisation of deities, the ultimate goal is to have this direct experience. Traditionally, vipassana practice is associated with sitting straight and focusing on the breath. This practice has much merit and should be upheld, but to apply vipassana in the modern world we need to adopt a much more abundant and infinite approach. We need to train our minds through the contemplation of impermanence, “unsatisfactoriness” (dukkha) and emptiness to find the courage to go outside our comfort zones, to see the world as it is and find liberation through a direct experience of the truth.

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Open Secret Bookstore, San Rafael, California
December 3, 2007
Rinpoche teaches in English

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche teaches on the meaning of the Seven Branch Offering Prayer (by Kyabje Chatral Rinpoche from the Khandro Tuk-Tik Ngondro).

Why do we make the seven branch offerings? As sentient beings, our buddha nature has been temporarily obscured by the two defilements (gross and subtle levels). How, then, can we manifest our buddha nature? We do this by removing the two obscurations by practicing the two accumulations of merit and wisdom. In this way, we become perfect buddhas. It is for this purpose that we recite the Seven Branch Offering Prayer.

The seven branches: 1) prostration; 2) offering; 3) confession; 4) rejoicing; 5) requesting the dharma teachings; 6) requesting enlightened beings to remain; 7) dedication of merit

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© 2007 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, 2023 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche Heritage Foundation & Heart Teachings by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche

Produced and posted in honor of Guru Rinpoche Day, March 1, 2023. Thank you to Sheppard Powell for requesting and organizing the teaching; and for the original recording.

Seven Branch Offering Prayer OS 2007-12-03

Seven Branch Offering Prayer

The Four Immeasurable Thoughts, May 13 - 14 2023, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - Part 2

The Four Immeasurable Thoughts, May 13 - 14 2023, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - Part 1

March 16, 2009. Honolulu Buddhist Studies Center, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Hosted by Lama Dechen Yeshe Wangmo & Jnanasukha Foundation

About the teaching, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche said:

"The topic on which I want to speak tonight has to do with the ultimate inner peace or happiness that inhabits all of our beings. This inner peace has as its nature an inner luminosity and brilliant clarity. This is primordially our nature, and it is primordially the nature of all sentient beings... However, regardless of our thoughts about how we’re going to gain peace and happiness, there are very few who actually come to awaken their original natural inner peace and happiness. Why is that? The answer to this is something I’d like to speak about."

Posted in honor of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche's 11th Decho Anniversary, July 21-22, 2024.

© 2009 Jnanasukha Foundation & Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, 2024 Jnanasukha Foundation & Lama Tharchin Rinpoche Heritage Foundation

Photo by Fariba Bogzaran, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche with plumeria lei crown, Big Island of Hawaii, March 2009

Inner Peace Luminous Mind Honolulu 2009-03-16

In his 1997 teaching at Open Secret Bookstore in San Rafael, California, Lama Tharchin Rinpoche explains how emptiness, or shunyata, is viewed from the Hinayana, Mahayana, and Vajrayana perspectives, and the Great Emptiness of Dzogchen Great Perfection. Hinayana focuses on the emptiness of the self, Mahayana on the emptiness of self and other, and Vajrayana on the clarity and luminous nature of the mind. Realization of emptiness, ultimate truth, is free from dualism and extremes, and is essential for liberation from suffering. Rinpoche speaks about the importance of recognizing one's Buddha nature, the role of meditation in becoming familiar with this nature, and the inseparability of emptiness and phenomena.

Posted in honor of the Wood Snake Lunar New Year, February 28, 2025.

© 1997 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche & Vajrayana Foundation, 2025 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche Heritage Foundation

Emptiness in the Three Yanas LTR OS 1997-11-17

Recorded September 7, 2011, in Santa Barbara, California
Language: Rinpoche teaches in English.

In this accessible and profound talk from Santa Barbara, Rinpoche reveals how spiritual practice ultimately leads us to discover lasting happiness for ourselves and others by recognizing our inherent Buddha nature. Vajrayana Buddhism, and the Great Perfection in particular, offer powerful methods to transform the mental poisons of ignorance, anger, and desire into awakened wisdom. 

Rinpoche beautifully illustrates how bodhicitta—both as compassion for all beings and recognition of our ultimate wisdom nature—forms the heart of genuine spiritual practice. Through engaging stories and analogies, Rinpoche illustrates the importance of consistent meditation practice, with an emphasis on the role of faith and devotion, in developing the wisdom and compassion that bring lasting happiness and freedom from suffering. 

As Rinpoche teaches, though countless lifetimes of dualistic thinking have obscured our true nature, through authentic, uncontrived meditation practice and recognition, this luminous awareness can fully blossom into Buddhahood.

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© 2011 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, 2025 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche Heritage Foundation & Heart Teachings by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche

Advice for Spiritual Practice LTR 2011-09-07

This profound teaching on Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche's "Lama Gyangpo (Calling the Lama from Afar)" was given by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche on July 16, 1998, at Pema Ösel Ling. The text is a Guru Yoga song of realization (doha), based on the Dzogchen tradition. 

The teaching explores the essential role of Guru Yoga in realizing the ultimate nature of mind, emphasizing that according to Dudjom Rinpoche, Guru Yoga is the most effective technique for recognizing rigpa (awareness). Lama Tharchin Rinpoche explains the three levels of guru (outer, inner, and secret), the crucial importance of faith and devotion, and how the ultimate guru is inseparable from one's own Buddha nature.

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© 1998 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche & Vajrayana Foundation, 2025 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche Heritage Foundation & Heart Teachings by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche
Posted in honor of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche's 12th anniversary of passing into Parinirvana, August 9, 2025.

Calling the Lama from Afar_Nying U Day Pay_1998-07-16

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche chants Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche's “Calling the Lama from Afar (Nying U Day Pay)," a guru yoga and Dzogchen song of realization.

Recorded in California in 2011.

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© 2011 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, 2020 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche Heritage Foundation & Heart Teachings by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche

Nying U Day Pay

Nying U Day Pay, Calling the Lama from Afar Recitation

Chanting the Praises to Tara in Twenty-One Verses of Homage. Translated to be sung in English by Erik Pema Kunsang. The tune is composed by Tara Trinley Wangmo. Rearranged and singing by Sascha Alexandra Aurora and Rodrigo Reijers.

Homage To Tara By Sascha And Rodrigo

Lama Tharchin Rinpoche recites the Riwo Sang Chod practice by Lhatsun Namkha Jigme. Text available as download or in print through Dharma Treasures bookstore: http://www.dharmatreasures.com: https://www.dharmatreasures.com/search?q=riwo+sang+chod&_pos=2&_psq=riwo+sang&_ss=e&_v=1.0

Running time: 12 minutes

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Original Daily Practice Book

Seven Line Prayer & Riwo Sang Chod

© 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 recites the concise Copper-Colored Mountain Prayer, the Zangdok Palri Monlam. Excerpt taken from Bardo Teachings at Esalen Institute, August 2005, available through Heart Teachings by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche. Click the Buy link if you're interested in purchasing a set of downloads of the Medium & Concise Zangdok Palri (3 min), Concise Zangdok Palri 3x (1 min), and Concise Zangdok Palri loop (23 min).

Zangdok Palri Monlam

Zangdok Palri Monlam concise

© 2006 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche, © 2020 Lama Tharchin Rinpoche Heritage Foundation

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

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