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04/01/2025
A blissful year-end transitioned into a brand new year due to the karmic maturation of the many Bhutanese Buddhists foregathered down under. Lama Kheno, Lama Kheno, Lama Kheno! May the year be mindfully healthy, peaceful and prosperous for all!
15/10/2024
Arya Dewa la Namo!
01/08/2022
HAPPY CHÖKHOR DÜCHEN …May all be auspicious!
༆རང་ཟླ་༦ པའི་ ཚེས་༤ འདི་ བདེན་བཞིའི་ཆོས་འཁོར་སྐོར་བའི་དུས་ཆེན་ཨིན། First Sermon of Lord Buddha
ཟླ་༦ པའི་ ཚེས་༤ ལུ་ བདག་ཅག་གི་སྟོན་པ་ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ་མཆོག་གིས་ ཡུལ་ཝ་ར་ན་སིར(Varanasi)ལུ་ འཁོར་ལྔ་སྡེ་བཟང་པོ་ལ་སོགས་པའི་ གདུལ་བྱ་རྣམས་ལུ་ བདེན་པ་བཞིའི་ ཆོས་འཁོར་བསྐོར་གནང་ནུག།
བདེན་བཞི་ཡང་། (four noble truths)
༡ ༽ སྡུག་བསྔལ་གྱི་བདེན་པ། The truth of suffering.
སྡུག་བསྔལ་༣ དེ་ཡང་ ༡• སྡུག་བསྔལ་གྱི་སྡུག་བསྔལ། ༢• འགྱུར་བའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ། ༣• ཁྱབ་པ་འདུ་བྱེད་ཀྱི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཚུ་ འགྲོ་བ་སེམས་ཅན་ཚུ་ལུ་ འཁོར་བའི་སྐབས་ལུ་ སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཟེར་མི་འདི་ ག་ཅི་བཟུམ་ཨིན་ན་ ཤེས་ནི་ཆེད་དུ་ སྡུག་བསྔལ་བདེན་པ་བསྟན་གནང་ནུག །
༢ ༽ ཀུན་འབྱུང་གི་བདེན་པ། The truth of the causes of suffering.
དེ་ལས་ རང་ལུ་འཁོར་བའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་དེ་ འབྱུང་སའི་གཞི་ ཧ་མ་གོ་བར་ཡོད་མི་ཚུ་ལུ་ སྡུག་བསྔལ་དེ་ རྒྱུ་ག་ཅི་ལས་བརྟེན་ཏེ་ བྱུང་ཡོད་ག་ཟེར་ དེ་ཤེས་ནི་ཆེད་དུ་ ཀུན་འབྱུང་བདེན་པ་བསྟན་གནང་ནུག །
༣ ༽ ལམ་གྱི་བདེན་པ། The truth of the end of suffering.
རང་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཚུ་ མེདཔ྄་བཟོ་ཐབས་ལུ་དམིགས་ཏེ་ ཐབས་ཤེས་སྟོན་མ་ཤེས་མི་ཚུ་ལུ་ དེ་ཤེས་པའི་ཐབས་ལམ་ལུ་དམིགས་ཏེ་ སྡུག་བསྔལ་སྤོང་ཚུལ་གྱི་ཐབས་ལམ་བསྟན་ནི་དོན་ལུ་ ལམ་གྱི་བདེན་པ་བསྟན་གནང་ནུག །
༤ ༽ འགོག་པའི་བདེན་པ། The truth of the path leading to the end of suffering.
རང་གི་རྒྱུད་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཉོན་མོངས་དང་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཚུ་ སྤངས་ཚར་བའི་རྗེས་སུ་ དེ་ཚུ་ལོག་སྟེ་ རང་ལུ་ མི་འབྱུང་ནི་དོན་ལུ་དང་ འབྲས་བུ་བདེ་བ་མྱོང་ནི་དོན་ལུ་དམིགས་ཏེ་ འགོག་པའི་བདེན་པ་བསྟན་གནང་ནུག།
དེ་འབད་ནི་འདི་གིས་ རང་ཟླ་༦ པའི་ ཚེས་༤ ལུ་ དགེ་སྦྱོར་གྱི་ ལཱ་ག་ཅི་འབད་རུང་ ཕན་ཡོན་སྦོམ་ཡོདཔ་མ་ཚད་ ག་ར་འབད་རུང་ ལྷག་བསམ་རྣམ་དག་གི་སྒོ་ལས་ གདུང་ཤུགས་དྲག་པོས་ སངས་རྒྱས་ལུ་དམིགས་པའི་དད་པ་བསྐྱེད་དེ་ དགེ་བ་སྒྲུབ་ནི་དང་ སྡིག་པ་སྤོང་དགོཔ་ ཤིན་ཏུ་ནས་གལ་ཆེཝ་ཨིན།
10/07/2022
Trelda Tshechu Read on Guru Rinpoche!
𝑻𝒐 𝒑𝒂𝒚 𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝑮𝒖𝒓𝒖 𝑷𝒂𝒅𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒋𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒌𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒂 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑮𝒖𝒓𝒖 𝑹𝒊𝒏𝒑𝒐𝒄𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔, 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚, 𝒅𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝑮𝒖𝒓𝒖 𝑹𝒊𝒏𝒑𝒐𝒄𝒉𝒆.
𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐖𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐘-𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐓𝐇 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐓𝐔𝐒- 𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐍 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑, 𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐀𝐃𝐌𝐀 𝐆𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐓.
At the time Master Padma planned to depart for the southwestern continent to tame the rakshasas, Prince Mutig Tsenpo and other kings entreated him in these words:
“Master, as you intend to leave for India and will not remain here any longer,
how should the Tibetan kings of future generations behave?”
Master Padma then sang this song to the kings of Tibet:
Kings of Tibet, possessors of merit,
Do not equalize your royal class with your subjects.
A king should not engage in the actions of a commoner,
But remain with a dignified and balanced poise.
Benevolently, ask advice from the inner cabinet ministers,
While also being decisive in tasks and speaking unrestrained.
Do not listen to advice that will jeopardize the country.
Be gentle and cordial and never ruthless.
Be wise when issuing a decree or giving gifts.
Do not bestow too many distinctions - be moderate.
Ministers who are greedy and unintelligent
Pose the greatest danger of destroying the fortress of the country.
When the ministers take control of the country,
Be very careful with funds and avoid evil deeds.
If the country degenerates, the kingdom is lost.
Do not be gullible or easily influenced.
Ignore half of what you hear and remain undaunted.
Then the kingdom will last for a long time.
If out of desire for queens and other women
You grow too fond and attached,
You will be overpowered by your emotions and lose control.
Do not place your trust in unreliable people.
To do so brings no success but may cost your life.
Maintain peace with your outer servants and sustain the inner attendants with food.
Give up prejudice; be unshakeable and fair toward all.
Constructing temples, shrine halls, and stupas is all of great merit,
But in the end, they become the cause of misdeeds.
It is better to pay respect to the shrines that are already built.
Be correct when translating the sacred Dharma.
Be decisive and hold the Buddha’s words to be authentic.
Treasure the Three Jewels as dear as your eyes.
The different vehicles each have their own approach,
And through any one of them the fruition can be attained;
Yet, give higher priority to the vajra vehicle of Secret Mantra.
Too many glamorous dwellings cause the risk of disaster.
Be very steady and scrutinize well.
Some scholars and translators will be false and lack discernment.
Do not trust them; there is the danger of deceit.
Attacks from gongpo spirits will threaten to destroy the kingdom.
Do not be fickle but remain steadfast and dignified.
Queens, you are the foundation for the heirs to the kingdom.
Be open-minded, generous, and patient.
Maintain a good diet and cleanliness of hands and face.
Keep propriety and oversee your possessions.
Avoid distraction and bridle your conduct.
Do not talk excessively but with a gentle and courteous manner.
Take care of your outer and inner attendants nicely and with grace.
Bring your children and consorts to the Dharma.
When pious in this life you will attain the realms of gods and humans in the following.
I, Padmakara, am now taking leave,
Whether you live in the present or will appear in the future,
Keep this in your hearts, kings of Tibet.
Thus, he gave instructions.
04/07/2022
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26/06/2022
The Buddha-Dharma is in full form now - may it be auspicious! Sarvamangalam!
13/06/2022
I make a wish to try and recite the translated sutras from this day forward for the benefit of all sentient beings.
New Sūtra | On the auspicious occasion of Saga Dawa Düchen, we are delighted to announce the translation into English of the sūtra, The Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines.
Here is a short introduction by Professor Anne Klein:
This sūtra is both clear and full of mystery. It is simultaneously meant to inspire, as well as to be a warning against getting carried away. The Prajñāpāramitā is so called, because it goes to the distant “other side” of all things, but at the same time reminds us that there is nowhere to go. To this day, the creative tensions in this sūtra continue to animate philosophical and contemplative sense-making. Every phrase is a pith instruction from the Buddha, nectar in the palm of your hand.
Gareth Sparham’s translation sparkles, as does his deeply informed introductory material. Just as wisdom itself is inexpressible, so too is our appreciation for 84000’s marvelous gift of The Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines. A treasure trove for practitioners looking for deliciously long threads or pithy take-aways, it is also a vital resource for scholars probing the early harbingers of wisdom teachings that have continued to unfold throughout Buddhist Asia, and beyond, to this day.
Anne Carolyn Klein (Lama Rigzin Drolma) is professor of the Department of Religion at Rice University, Houston, Texas, and director and resident teacher at Dawn Mountain.
📖 The Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines: https://loom.ly/IvQqQCA