Activities at Namdroling Dratsang Losar The year 2560 of the Buddha Era, 17th Rabjung, Tibetan Royal Year 2143, Fire Male Monkey Year—also Guru Padmasambhava’s birth year—started on February 9, 2016. On this auspicious day, all the sangha of Namdroling, with His Eminence Gyangkhang Khentrul Rinpoche presiding, gathered inside the main temple to mark the start of the year by making…
Palyul Times (PT): Tashi delek Khen Rinpoche! We, the members of Ngagyur Rigzod Editorial Committee, have been publishing an annual English magazine called Palyul Times and this will be the ninth issue. In this magazine we publish articles about Buddhism and its sacred sites, life stories of great masters, the throneholders of the Palyul lineage, and events at Namdroling, as…
Prajna-mula-madhyamika, the major text among the six root Madhyamika teachings of Nagarjuna, teaches about emptiness, the sole path to attain pristine cognition. By learning and contemplating this teaching, one can generate insight into the reality that is beyond the eight fabricated extremes. The teaching is described briefly through the following summary of its twenty-seven chapters. [The first fifteen chapters were…
I pay homage to and take refuge in the Lama Dorje Zijid Tsal (Indestructible Resplendent Expression)! In the twelfth Tibetan month this year, in the hidden land of Tashi Ding, in order to receive the Rinchen Terzod empowerments from the teacher Dodrup Tulku, I purposely sent some of my young monks and for them I have three pieces of advice.…
Part Two Since with this precious human birth we have the capacity for intellectual understanding, we really have to contemplate what is the best benefit that we can achieve within this lifetime. We might just focus on our worldly activities, but that would just be cultivating the causes and conditions to cycle in samsara again, and we will not achieve…
The mandala, which literally means ‘circle’ in Sanskrit, has many purposes in different spiritual traditions. According to the tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, there are two aspects where the name mandala is applied, based upon its literal presentation and its symbolic significance. These two aspects are the representation of a palace of a meditational deity and that which represents a mode…
As often happens, I felt quite nostalgic about my home and decided to go to my favourite place to quench the thirst of my longing homesickness. We call it Madikeri Garden Park—a flower garden with enjoyable and refreshing layers of greenery, from where we can see a chain of high and low mountain scenery. It was a dull and drizzling…
Rewalsar Lake (Tib. Tso Pema—Lotus Lake) is a sacred site for Buddhist pilgrims, especially Tantrayana Buddhist practitioners, associated with life events of Guru Padmasambhava and Dakini Mandarava. It is located high up in the hills beside the village of Rewalsar, 24km southwest of the town of Mandi in Himachal Pradesh, north India. Its elevation is about 1360m above sea level…
Maratika Cave in Nepal, known as Haleshi in the local language, is one of the most sacred sites of Tantrayana Buddhism. According to many tantric scriptures, Panchshula Parvat (Chi. Wu-t’ai-shan), the abode of Manjushri, is located in the east of Jambudvipa (the Sanskrit name for our world); Potala, the palace of Avalokiteshvara, is in the south; Odiyana, the land of…
Once the Buddha was residing on one side of Vulture Peak. At that time, King Bimbisara, who loved his son Ajatashatru very much, let him do whatever he wished. However, his son had as his companion a bad friend, Devadatta, and did whatever Devadatta incited him to do. When his father told him to treat the ministers, subjects, people, and…
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