Tibet – A Buddhist Trilogy (1984 Documentary)

Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy is one of the very highly accomplished films to be made about our culture … The film also captures the sense of inner peace and light-heartedness in the face of adversity, which many have remarked is a compelling quality of the Tibetan character. –His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama New direct-to-digital [...]

White Tārā Meditation

Tārā is a female Bodhisattva typically associated with Tibetan Buddhism. She is one of the more popular figures in the Tibetan pantheon of deities. Tārā (pronounced tah’ rah), whose name in means Star, originated in Indian Hinduism as the Mother Creator, and her many representations spread from Ireland to Indonesia under many different names. As [...]

Treasure Valley : a song remembering Yeshe Tsogyel

The great Dakini Yeshe Tsogyel was a female Buddha and disciple of Guru Rinpoche who worked tirelessly to lay the foundations for Tantra and Dzogchen in Tibet. Her activities embodied love and compassion in action and her realization of the most subtle wisdom was an example for anyone seeking Buddhahood. tk wrote this song one [...]

Queen of Dakinis Yeshe Tsogyel

Yeshe Tsogyel, Dakini Queen, is the expanse of wisdom appearing as the action of Love. The emptiness spoken of in Buddhism is not a mere nothingness but a luminous expanse of divine fullness whose essence is beyond any concept or quality and whose nature is a luminous radiance – these two in union give birth [...]

Dakini Prayer a song on the stages of Tantra

Audio corrected version- In the luminous cloud of waking arising from the mystery of deep sleep’s dharmakaya tk heard a beautiful dakini sing these words and jotted them down. GURU DEVA DAKINI SARVA SIDDHI PHELA HUNG: To the sublime innate union of awareness and appearance To inseparable Kunzang Yabyum, free from all elaboration, To the [...]

Mantra of the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyel

Mantra is gnosemic or trans-rational language that communicates wisdom and freedom directly through the union of ones meditation and the blessing power of the Buddhas. With mantra the medium is the message in encapsulated form – living knowing communicated through subtle vibration. This is one of several mantras of the dakini Yeshe Tsogyel.

TALKING WITH A BUDDHIST NUN by Empty Mind Films

A clip from our new film release, Talking With Buddha with conversations from some great Lamas of Tibetan Buddhism. This is Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo who opened a nunnery for refugee Tibetan Women. Her story became a best selling book about her 12 year retreat in a Himalayan mountain cave. See the DVD full length film [...]