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Your thinking is powerful, and communication is great today.  Someone comes along and gives you a whole different perspective.  Integrate the new ideas into your game plan and you will move forward rapidly.  Have fun!  If you’re invited to be part of a creative venture, accept and play your part.  Someone shines and a group [...]

Relying on the Lineage and the Guru: Full Length Video Teaching

The following is a full length video teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo offered at Kunzang Palyul Choling:

Relationship with the Guru is the “rocketship of Vajrayana”. These teachers appear for only one reason – us. So, we can rely utterly on their blessing.

© copyright Jetsunma Ahkon Norbu Lhamo All rights reserved.

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Identifying What is Important

Identifying What is Important

The following is an excerpt from a teaching by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo called Commitment to the Path:

These two particular teachings about the preciousness of this human rebirth and the impermanence of all things samsaric are supposed to make us see, recognize and call to mind and to be mindful of the difference between [...]

Astrology

You get up on the wrong side of the bed today, unwilling to meet the day.  A bad dream or trouble sleeping slows you down.  Wait a bit and you will perk up, and when you do you have enough energy for a hundred people!  Suddenly, you’re magnetic and feeling great!  Enough of the moody, [...]

Coming Together for Peace

The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:

Tomorrow evening KPC is having a potluck feast with His Holiness Karma Kuchen Rinpoche for Palyul students. Both PCD and KPC. The sincere wish and prayer is that all Palyul will be truly united. For the sake of all sentient beings and [...]

Tea with His Holiness Karma Kuchen

The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:

Palyul totally rocks, moves my heart, and is my beloved family. The tea with His Holiness Karma Kuchen Rinpoche was wonderful! There was so much to tell each other. I shared what hellishness has gone on the past few years. His Holiness [...]

Welcoming His Holiness Karma Kuchen Rinpoche to KPC

The following is from a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo:

I am happy that Palyul Throneholder His Holiness Karma Kuchen Rinpoche is here and settled in. He seems comfortable and happy. And His Eminence Muksang Tulku will be arriving tomorrow. How fortunate we are! We are blessed to gather again we have [...]

Young Throne Holder

Prince of power this is the hour This is the time when you must shine I see it on your face, in your mind You awaken right on time To honor our Guru, our Lord Sublime.

You alone are well prepared This time would come, you were  aware He gave you his [...]

Prayer to His Holiness Karma Kuchen

From a series of tweets by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo while at Palyul Ling Retreat Center in Upstate New York:

To the victorious Guru Karma Kuchen I pray – for the sake of beings in these degenerate times, ascend the Lion Throne of Palyul fully endowed with every strength and virtue! May we who long [...]

The First Karma Kuchen Rinpoche

The Fourth Throne Holder

The First Karma Kuchen Rinpoche, Karma Tashi (1728 – 1791)

The first Karma Kuchen was born as Karma Tashi in the twelfth rabjung year of the Earth Monkey (1728) in the town of Ahchog in Do Kham. His birth was foretold in [...]

Tibetan Schools and Palyul

Tibetan Buddhism has four main traditions:

Nyingma “the Ancient Ones” This is the oldest, the original order founded by Padmasambhava andSantaraksita.  Whereas other schools categorize their teachings into the three vehicles: The Foundation Vehicle, Mahayana and Vajrayana, the Nyingma tradition classifies them into nine vehicles, among the highest of which is known as Atiyoga or Dzogchen “Great Perfection”.  Hidden treasures (terma) are of [...]

Tsawei Lama 2

Jetsunma greeting His Holiness Karma Kuchen

It’s raining now, but I can see That soon the sun will be with me. It’s pouring now, but I can tell That soon the bliss will come, as well.

That kiss of sunlight, a warming spell Reminds me that when darkness fell It [...]

Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo and Empowerment

In late October of 2010, after repeated requests by many devoted students, Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo agreed to begin formal training in offering empowerments, or wangs.  In so doing, Jetsunma is offering an incalculable blessing to Western students. She has said in her teachings that she was born in Brooklyn, as a woman, for a [...]

Long Life Prayer for His Holiness Karma Kuchen Rinpoche

The Melodious Sound of the Indestructible Vajra

RAB  JAM  SE  CHE  GYAL  WAI  SANG  SUM  LHA

Infinite buddhas and their heirs, the deities of the Conqueror’s three secrets,

 

CHI  MED  TOB  DANG  WANG  CHUI  DEN TSIG  GI

By the truth of your ten powers and the strength of your immortality

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