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Dear friends, Many of you have asked us  what practice we can do during this period following the passing of Yongdzin Rinpoche. Triten Norbutse Monastery may issue some guidance in the following days but, generally, one can do Guru Yoga with the following invocation: ཨེ་མ་ཧོ། EMAHO Marvellous! བསླབ་གསུམ་བསྟན་པའི་བདག་ཉིད་འགྲོ་བའི་མགོན། LAB SUM TEN PAI DAG NYI DRO WAI GÖN Oh, Lord of the Doctrine of the Three Trainings and the Protector of beings, ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཉི་དབང་རྣམ་རོལ་དགོངས་རྩལ་རྫོགས། KÜN CHYEN NYI WANG NAM ROL GONG TSAL DZOG the emanation of the omniscient Nyima Tenzin Wanggi Gyalpo with perfect Power and Knowledge! མདོ་སྡེ་སྔགས་ཀྱི་གནས་ལུགས་རྫོགས་པ་ཆེ། DÖ DE NGAG CHYI Read more

It is with the greatest sorrow yet profound gratitude that we share the news of Yongdzin Lopön Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche entering thugdam. Read more

RIG-GYAI CHYI-PAL KÜN-CHYEN SHAR-DZA-PA རིགས་རྒྱའི་སྤྱི་དཔལ་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཤར་རྫ་པ། O, Splendour of the Universe, Omniscient Shardzapa PHO-CHEN-JA-LÜ WÖ DU DENG NA YANG འཕོ་ཆེན་འཇའ་ལུས་འོད་དུ་དེངས་ན་ཡང་།  You who have gone into the Luminous Rainbow Body of Great Transfer – DAG-SOG RIG-CHEN SOL-WA-TAB-PA NAM བདག་སོགས་རིགས་ཅན་གསོལ་བ་བཏབ་པ་རྣམས།།  I and all fortunate followers pray to you: THUG-JE’E DOR-ME GONG-GYU PHO-PAR DZÖ ཐུགས་རྗེས་འདོར་མེད་དགོངས་རྒྱུད་འཕོ་པར་མཛོད། Through your compassion, please enable us to enter the unwavering Buddha-Mind! Translated by Dmitry Ermakov. Today is the 91st anniversary of the great Bönpo master Shardza Trashi Gyaltsen’s (Shar-rdza Bkra-shis rgyal-mtshan) realisation of Rainbow Body, which he achieved on the 13th day of the 4th month of the Wood Read more

Italiano sotto What – This 4-day residential retreat is a rare opportunity to deepen our practice as we become more familiar and stable with the true Nature of our own Mind. For beginners, the techniques taught here will help you recognise the Natural State and gain confidence in your practice. For advanced practitioners, these teachings will provide a rare opportunity to check and correct our Dzogchen meditation in the presence of a great master. Teaching from the Athri Dzogchen cycle, Drubdra Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin will give clear instructions on how to search for the mind, how to recognise the Natural Read more

Who are the Lu? Lu are water spirits or Water Owners, known as Naga in Sanskrit and Zhang Zhung. They don’t only live in water, and in fact there are many different classes of Lu inhabiting various worlds and elements. Since each of the five main elements is made of five sub-elements, each has a sub-element of water in which Lu reside. For example, if we take the fire element there is fire-fire, fire-earth, fire-wind, fire-space and fire-water, and some Lu reside in fire-water. The same is true for all the other elements. The full list of various kinds of Read more