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AstrologyCongratulations, your emotions are stable and you are able to wait out a slow-moving situation. This is a great time to engage in renovation and beautification projects. Spiff things up! Material objects are excellent, and encouragement comes from things you can see and touch. Good shopping! Medical issues are well resolved, and work is motoring [...]  The First Object of RefugeThe following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called “Essence of Devotion” Although the Buddha that we remember as Siddhartha, Gautama Buddha, Shakyamuni is not present in his physical body as we understand it right now, we look at the Lama as the embodiment of the qualities, intentions, compassion and [...] AstrologyAn important message, letter or communication happens today. It’s most crucial to speak in a kind, diplomatic manner. Angry or demanding speech harms your cause and you will be ignored, or worse. The urge to “tell people off” is strong today, as is the wish to push others who aren’t responding the way you would [...]  Right SpeechAn excerpt from a teaching called The Eightfold Path by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Right speech is the first principal of ethical conduct on the Eightfold Path. And on the Eightfold Path is really based on ethical conduct. It’s one of the things that I like best about Buddhism. It isn’t based on a pie-in-the-sky [...] |
The Seventh Throne Holder Pedma Do-Ngag Tenzin Ngesang Chokyi Nangwa (1830 – 1891) Gyatrul Rinpoche was born amid many extraordinary phenomena into the household of a Chinese Emperor’s minister in Gyalmo Tsawai-rong in the fourteenth rabjung year of Iron Tiger (1830). His birth was prophesied [...] The Sixth Throne Holder The Second Karma Kuchen Rinpoche, Gyurmed Ngedon Tenzin Palzangpo (1794 – 1851) Karma Gyurmed was born at the foothills of Me Chu Gang in Me Shod in the thirteenth rabjung year of the Wood Tiger (1794). His birth was prophesied by Duddul Lingpa’s Terma revelation. Acting in accordance [...]
Karma Lhawang was the nephew of Kunzang Sherab. He exhibited signs of recognizing the true nature of mind and demonstrated adept attainment in Dharma practice since childhood. His early years were spent at his uncle’s former quarters atop the Dzong-nang Mountain where his root guru Karma Tashi transmitted to him all the [...]
The Third Throneholder The First Drubwang Pedma Norbu Rinpoche (1679 – 1757) The birth of the first Drubwang Pedma Norbu Rinpoche as an emanation of the great Pandit Vimalamitra and the Vidyadhara Terton Jatson Nyingpo was prophesied in Terton Jatson Nyingpo’s Ma-ning revelation. He was [...]
The Second Throne Holder Pedma Lhundrub Gyatso (1660 – 1727) Pedma Lhundrub Gyatso was born in the province of Do Kham in a place known as Seng-gang in the eleven rabjung year of the Iron Rat (1660). His birth was prophesied in Terton Duddul Lingpa’s Vajrakilaya Terma as the reincarnation [...]
The First Throne Holder Vidhyadhara Kunzang Sherab (1636 – 1699) Kunzang Sherab was born in the province of Do-Kham in the region of Bubor on the eleventh rabjung year of the Fire Rat (1636 A.D.). He showed great capacity of compassion as a small child and would not cause [...]
Mahasiddha Karma Chagmed Rinpoche (1613 – 1678) Mahasiddha Karma Chagmed Rinpoche was one of the main teachers of Terton Migyur Dorje, and served as his scribe, writing down all the terma revelations as they were spontaneously revealed to the young treasure revealer. Karma Chagmed Rinpoche was born in the province of [...] The following is a collection of resources for all those who are new to Buddhist practice The Basics Back to Basics Why I Chose Buddhism To Be a Practitioner I WON! A Precious Human Rebirth! Buddha in the Palm of Your Hand Faults of Cyclic Existence The Six Realms of Cyclic Existence The Origin [...] |
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