Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Buddha Nature

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Buddha nature is continuously present in ourselves as well as in everyone else, without any exception whatsoever. It is in essence forever u...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005

A rare photo

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The caption on this rare picture reads "jkclsitushengajamgyal" which supposedly means: Jamyang Khyentse Chokyi Lodro, Katok Situ,...
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Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Three-Year Retreat Begins at Asura Cave

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This year, nearly 200 people participated in our traditional fall seminar at Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling monastery in Boudha. Rinpoche taught an a...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005

From a collection of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche's favorite songs

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From The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa , p. 131-135-folio 56-58 Namo Guru. Jetsün Milarepa then went from Kyirong in Mang-Yül to Nyanan...
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Monday, November 28, 2005

Karsey Kongtrul - a great master of the ultimate realization

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This great master, also known as Palden Khyentse Oser, received a special command from his father the 15th Karmapa to focus on the practice ...
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Sunday, November 27, 2005

Tashi who becomes the Shechen Rabjam Rinpoche

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Last night was the yearly Thanksgiving party at Pam and Charles in Kathmandu and present was an old familiar face from the Boudha Stupa - Ri...
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Thursday, November 24, 2005

Dilgo Khyentse with lamas in Boudhanath

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Graham Sustein - a student of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche - recently handed me this early photo of Dilgo Khyentse flanked Dabzang Rinpoche and Tr...
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Monday, November 21, 2005

Heart Shrine Relic Tour

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In Blazing Splendor , you often read about ringsel , relic-pills left behind in the ashes of great masters. Now some of these relics are tou...
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Saturday, November 19, 2005

Patrul Rinpoche

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Various of Tulku Urgyen's relatives had great devotion for Patrul Rinpoche and there are various tales about the great Patrul in Blazing...
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Friday, November 18, 2005

Lamas from the latest three-year retreat at the Asura Cave Temple

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Monks with an earnest desire to devote themselves full-time to spiritual practice may, with the abbot's permission, set aside their aca...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Atisha's timeless teachings

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Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche often quoted Atisha, the great master of the Kadam tradition, and here are some of these precious pieces of advice, fr...
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Monday, November 14, 2005

Chatral Rinpoche & Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche with grandson

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Here is an early picture of Chatral Rinpoche visiting Nagi Gompa above the Kathmandu valley. Standing behind Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche is Kunsa...
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Friday, November 04, 2005

A game of pool among sacred mountains

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The mountain range in the background is supposed sacred to the five Sisters of Long Life, the Tsering Che-Nga. In the foreground you see a f...

First snow at Fortress Peak

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At Fortress Peak - the hermitage of Tulku Urgyen Rinppoche and his guru in Nangchen - there are still people in retreat. When the snow falls...
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Vajra Speech is back in print

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The real buddha is the nature of our mind. Right now, our buddha nature is covered by obscurations that we need to purify. We also need to g...
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Enacting the grand drama at the Great Stupa

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Back in 1978, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche was invited to Nepal to bestow the complete empowerments and reading transmissions for the New Treasu...
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Two short reviews from Bernie Simon

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Bernie Simon author's The Careless Hand and recently mentions Blazing Splendor : http://carelesshand.net/weblog.pl/dharma/blazing_splen...
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Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Wide open space of wisdom

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Wide open space of wisdom Please read this piece by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche on buddha nature. He was a very close friend of Tulku Urgyen R...
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Monday, October 31, 2005

Early picture of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche in the Ipoh Cave

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Earlier in this weblog it was brought up that Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche may have been the first Tibetan Lama to visit Southeast Asia. At that ti...
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Friday, October 28, 2005

New Dimensions Radio highlights Blazing Splendor

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Michael Toms and his wife Justine recently invited us -- Daniel Goleman, Marcia Binder Schmidt and Erik Pema Kunsang -- to speak freely abou...
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