𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐲 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫

The K**a tradition represents the unbroken oral lineage of teachings transmitted from Guru Padmasambhava and the great realized masters of the Nyingma school. The annual K**a Drubchoed is among the most sacred events of the Nyingma tradition, where monks and practitioners gather for intensive meditation, ritual practice, mantra recitation, offerings, and prayers dedicated to world peace and the liberation of all sentient beings.

A special feature of this year’s Drubchoed is the creation of sacred sand mandalas for seven major K**a sadhana cycles. These intricate mandalas are carefully constructed using colored sand as symbolic representations of enlightened body, speech, and mind. The creation of a sand mandala itself is a sacred meditation practice expressing purity, interdependence, compassion, and impermanence.

The Seven Sacred Sand Mandalas

A) Anuyoga Tradition (ཨ་ནུ་ཡོ་ག)

1. The Great Gathering Sutra Practice

Tibetan: མདོ་དགོངས་པ་འདུས་པ། / ཚོགས་ཆེན་འདུས་པ།
(Do Gongpa Düpa / Tshogchen Düpa)

This Anuyoga practice represents the gathering of all enlightened wisdom and compassion into a single mandala. It emphasizes the inseparable nature of appearance and emptiness and serves as a profound method for accumulating merit and wisdom for the benefit of all beings.

Ta**ra Section of Mahayoga Tradition

མ་ཧཱ་ཡོ་གའི་རྒྱུད་སྡེ།

2. The Peaceful Magical Net

Tibetan: སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་ཞི་བ།
(Gyutrul Zhiwa)

This peaceful manifestation of the Magical Net Ta**ra emphasizes wisdom, clarity, and pure perception. Practitioners visualize the universe as a completely pure mandala of enlightened awareness.

3. The Wrathful Magical Net

Tibetan: སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་ཁྲོ་བོ།
(Gyutrul Trowo)

The wrathful aspect of the Magical Net teachings transforms negative emotions and obstacles into enlightened wisdom. Though fierce in appearance, the wrathful deities embody fearless compassion working swiftly to liberate beings from suffering.

4. The Union of Buddhas

Tibetan: སངས་རྒྱས་མཉམ་སྦྱོར།
(Sangye Nyamjor)

This profound ta**ra symbolizes the indivisible unity of all Buddhas and enlightened qualities. It reveals the non-dual nature of enlightened body, speech, and mind.

C) Sadhana Section of Mahayoga Tradition

མ་ཧཱ་ཡོ་གའི་སྒྲུབ་སྡེ།

5. Yangdag Heruka

Tibetan: ཡང་དག་ཧེ་རུ་ཀ
(Yangdag Heruka)

Yangdag Heruka is one of the Eight Great Herukas of the Nyingma tradition. This wrathful wisdom deity is practiced to purify ignorance, transform anger into wisdom, and eliminate inner and outer obstacles.

6. Six-Faced Yamantaka

Tibetan: གཤིན་རྗེ།
(Shinje)

Yamantaka is the conqueror of death and ignorance. The six faces symbolize mastery over the six realms of cyclic existence, while the practice helps practitioners overcome fear and ego-clinging.

7. Vajrakilaya

Tibetan: ཕུར་པ།
(Phurpa)

Vajrakilaya is one of the most important wrathful deities in Vajrayana Buddhism. Vajrakilaya practice is renowned for removing obstacles, purifying negativity, and cutting through ignorance with swift enlightened activity.

The sacred sand mandalas created for these practices are not merely artistic works, but symbolic palaces of enlightened wisdom and compassion. Every color, shape, deity, and geometric design carries profound spiritual meaning according to Vajrayana teachings.

After completion, the mandalas are traditionally dissolved, reminding practitioners of the impermanent nature of all compounded phenomena and encouraging non-attachment while dedicating all accumulated merit for the peace and benefit of the world.

May this sacred K**a Drubchoed bring harmony, wisdom, compassion, and auspiciousness to all beings.

At Namdroling Monastery, the 56th Annual K**a Drubchoed — the Great Accomplishment Ceremony of the Nyingma K**a Tradition — officially began on May 25, 2026, under the guidance of His Holiness Chogtrul Gyangkhang Rinpoche, the head of Namdroling Monastery. The sacred gathering will continue until the 15th day of the holy Saga Dawa month, concluding on May 31, 2026.

Sarva Mangalam 🙏

Photo from Penor Rinpoche charity foundation

When alone, look at your own mind.
Your own mind is the real enemy!"
- By Mipham

Wishing everyone a happy Buddha Purnima! May this day inspire us to cultivate inner peace and cultivate mindfulness in our daily lives. Let's remember Lord Buddha's message of self-reliance and personal responsibility for our own happiness. May we all find the strength within to walk the path of liberation.

Brief Introduction to the Tenth Day (Tshechu)

Why Ancient Yogis Practiced Specially on the Tenth Day
The reason former yogis practiced retreat, feast offerings (tshogs mchod), and confession-restoration (bskang bshags) with special effort on the tenth days of the waxing and waning lunar months is this: on the tenth of both the waxing and waning moon, the refined vital wind-mind (dwangs ma’i rlung sems) of beings gathers at the crown, at Jālandhara, and other sacred points — making it a special time for generating the wisdom of great bliss.
As stated in the Cakrasaṃvara Root Ta**ra:
The yogi, acting according to his own intention, should make offerings properly according to ritual — on the tenth of the waning moon, and on whatever day falls as the tenth of the waxing month; with swift effort one should make offering.
And the Omniscient Dharma Lord (Kun mkhyen Chos rje) said:
On the day and night of the tenth of waxing and waning, engage diligently in retreat, feast offering, and confession-restoration.

The Special Significance of the Waxing Tenth
In particular, the tenth of the waxing moon is a special time when Orgyen Rinpoche (Padmasambhava), with his red-glowing face, actually came to Tibet in various forms in order to tame those disciples to be tamed. During this time, if one takes supplication and devotion to Orgyen Rinpoche as one’s path, his compassion and blessings will especially enter — and so former accomplished yogis would exert themselves on the waxing tenth in retreat, in the triad of empowerment, transmission, and pith instruction, in feast offerings for the gathering of Vidyādharas, and in restoration.
As stated in Padmalingpa’s Account of the Benefits of the Tenth Day:
On every tenth day, the king of times — if one performs the white virtuous actions such as empowerment and pith instruction, the merit multiplies by tens and hundreds of thousands.
And from the Byang gter (Northern Treasure):
If one wishes happiness and peace to arise in Tibet — when the tenth of the waxing moon dawns, Orgyen Padma’s emanation appears.
And from the Tshechu Proclamation:
When I myself traveled to the land of rākṣasas, I promised the kings, ministers, and mantra students of Tibet: on every tenth day that arises, receive me as one who actually arrives. Padmākara does not deceive others — those who follow, dispel your doubts!

The Triple Auspicious Convergence of the Fifth Month’s Tenth Day
In particular, the tenth day of the fifth Hor month is widely and definitively recognized by the Phugpa school and its followers as the tenth of the Monkey Month (sprel zla). On this day, three great occasions converge:
1. The birth of Orgyen Rinpoche — he who miraculously arose from a lotus stem in the southwestern Milk Ocean (’O ma can gyi rgya mtsho)
2. His arrival in Tibet — when the great Orgyen established the entire land of Tibet in the Dharma and came to subdue the terrifying rākṣasas
3. His direct promise — on the tenth of the Monkey Month, Orgyen Rinpoche himself pledged: “I will personally come to Tibet and bestow common and supreme siddhis upon those beings to be tamed”
Because it is this day of triple convergence, those with great faith and devotion to Orgyen Rinpoche who connect through supplication and devotion and apply themselves to the work of retreat — for them, his compassion and blessings will especially enter. Of this there is no doubt.
As stated in the Guhyasamāja Them med oral instructions:
On the mighty tenth of the Monkey Month, and on every tenth-day occasion — emanations spread throughout the entire world; I myself bestow common and supreme siddhis.
And from Padmalingpa’s Benefits of the Tenth Day:
The unshakeable tenth of the Monkey Year and Monkey Month — that is the date of Padma’s own arrival.

This brief introduction to the Tenth Day was spoken by Zhechen Gyaltsab and others.

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Questions : Khenpo la, I have struggled with a mental health condition for over ten years. It’s a kind of obsession, or perhaps a phobia, that has haunted me since childhood. I often felt completely beyond help, lacking any confidence that I could ever be cured. Fortunately, things have improved significantly since I began practicing Buddhist teachings. Even so, I am deeply aware that so many others are suffering from similar challenges, for whom medicine often fails to provide a lasting solution. May I ask, drawing from your wisdom, how we can truly free ourselves from this kind of suffering?

Answer: According to the Auto-Commentary on the Treasury of Abhidharma, the fear and anxiety we experience in this life can be the karmic result of having recklessly dropped small living creatures from heights in past lives, causing them immense fear and distress. One effective way to relieve such suffering is to regularly recite the names of the Seven Medicine Buddhas and read the Sutra of the Medicine Buddha. For more experienced practitioners, one can engage in the practice of exchanging self and others with this contemplation: “Countless others in this world suffer just as I do. May I take on all their suffering, and may they receive all my happiness.” Through this profound practice, you may find your own pain eases quickly as you gradually find true peace.

Taken from a talk at Hunan Normal University, November 18, 2011

Note: The Seven Medicine Buddhas are:
1. Buddha Renowned Glorious King of Excellent Name
2. Buddha King of Melodious Sounds, Brilliant Radiance of Skill, Adorned with Jewels, Moon, and Lotus
3. Buddha Stainless Excellent Gold, Great Jewel Who Accomplishes All Vows
4. Buddha Supreme Glory Free from Sorrow
5. Buddha Melodious Ocean of Proclaimed Dharma
6. Buddha Delightful King of Clear Knowing, Supreme Wisdom of an Ocean of Dharma
7. Buddha Medicine Guru, King of Lapis Light

*Translated from Khenpo Sodargye’s latest post shared on his Weibo account “Sodargye Tibetan Culture” on April 9, 2026. The original text was written in both Tibetan and Chinese.

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●དྲི་བ།：བླ་མ་ལགས་སྐུ་ཁམས་བཟང་། ང་རང་ལོ་བཅུ་ཕྲག་ཁ་ཤས་ཀྱི་རིང་ལ། སེམས་ཁམས་ཀྱི་ནད་ཅིག་གིས་མནར་ནས་དཀའ་ངལ་ཆེན་པོ་བཟོས་སོང་། དེ་ནི་བཙན་སྐུལ་ཞེས་པའི་ནད་ཅིག་རེད། ནད་དེའི་མིང་ལ་བྲེད་ནད་ཀྱང་ཟེར། ངའི་ནད་འདི་འདྲ་ཡོད་མཁན་ཧ་ཅང་མང་པོ་འདུག ངའི་ནད་རྟགས་ནི་བཙན་སྐུལ་རང་བཞིན་གྱིས་བསམ་བློ་གཏོང་དགོས་པ་ཞིག་རེད། ནད་འདི་སྨན་རིག་གི་ཕྱོགས་ནས་བཅོས་ཐབས་མེད་པར་འདྲ། ཡིན་ཡང་ནང་ཆོས་ལ་སློབ་སྦྱོང་བྱས་རྗེས་ཕན་པོ་ཆེན་པོ་བྱུང་སོང་། ཆོས་གྲོགས་དང་དགེ་རྒན་མང་པོ་ཞིག་གིས། ང་ཚོ་ལ་སློབ་གསོ་བཏང་ནས་སེམས་ལ་འགྱུར་བ་ཆེན་པོ་བྱུང་། ཡིན་ནའང་ངས་མཐོང་གསལ་ལྟར་ན། ད་དུང་ནད་གྲོགས་གཞན་མང་པོ་ཞིག་ལའང་། ཚོར་སྣང་འདི་འདྲ་ཡོད་འདུག འཇིག་རྟེན་འདིའི་སྟེང་དུ་རང་ཉིད་བཅོས་ཐབས་མི་འདུག་སྙམ་ནས། ཡིད་ཆེས་གཏན་ནས་མེད་པར་གྱུར། ང་དང་ང་འདྲ་བ་དག་སྐྱོབ་པའི་ཆེད་དུ་ཆོས་ཤིག་གསུང་རོགས་ཞུ།
●ལན།：ང་ཚོར་འཇིགས་སྣང་སྟེར་བའི་ནད་རིགས་འདི་ནི། ཆོས་མངོན་པ་མཛོད་ཀྱི་འགྲེལ་བ་འགའི་ནང་དུ། སྐྱེ་བ་སྔོན་མར། བསམ་བཞིན་དུ་སྲོག་ཆགས་ཆུང་ཆུང་ཚོ་གང་སར་འཕངས་སྟེ། དེ་འཇིགས་སྣང་གི་ངང་ནས་འཆི་བར་བྱས་པ། དེའི་རྣམ་སྨིན་གྱིས། ཚེ་འདི་ལ་སེམས་ནང་དུ་རྒྱུན་པར་འདི་འདྲའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་འབྱུང་བ་གསུངས། དེ་བཅོས་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཐབས་གཅིག་པུ་ནི། ང་ཚོས་རྒྱུན་དུ་སྨན་བླ་བདེ་གཤེགས་བདུན་གྱི་མཚན་འདོན་པ་དང་། སྨན་མདོ་བརྒྱད་བརྒྱ་པ་དང་སྨན་གཟུངས་སོགས་བཏོན་ན། འདི་ལྟ་བུའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་དང་ནད་སེལ་ཐུབ་པ་ཡིན། ང་ཚོའི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཁྲོད་དུ་ཡང་ད་རུང་འདི་འདྲའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་མྱོང་མཁན་མང་པོ་ཡོད་པ་རེད། གལ་ཏེ་རང་ཉིད་ལ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཉམས་ལེན་ཅུང་ཙམ་ཡོད་ན། སེམས་ཅན་གཞན་གྱི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་དེ། དངོས་སུ་རང་གི་ལུས་ལ་བླངས་ནས། རང་གི་བདེ་བ་ཐམས་ཅད་སེམས་ཅན་དེ་ལ་བསྔོ་བ་དང་། རང་གི་འདི་ལྟ་བུའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་དེས། འགྲོ་བ་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་གོ་ཆོད་པར་ཤོག་ཅེས། དེ་ལྟར་བསམས་ན། སྡུག་བསྔལ་རིམ་གྱིས་ཇེ་ཆུང་དུ་འགྲོ་བ་དང་། ནད་དེའང་སངས་དྲག་ཏུ་འགྱུར་བ་ཡིན།
ཧུའུ་ནན་དགེ་འོས་སློབ་ཆེན་གྱི་འཆད་འཁྲིད་ལས་བཏུས།

བདེ་བ་ཅན་དུ་སྐྱེ་བའི་ཐབས་ཚུལ་བཞི། (极乐四因)

Methods for Achieving Rebirth in the Pure Land of Bliss