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 [...]]]>

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 transfer and remaster from original 16mm film Bonus Features Include: Interview with the Producer and Director and the complete sound recording from a tantric Buddhist ritual Stunning cinematography, unprecedented access and informed direction take us on an intimate journey deep into the heart of the ancient Buddhist culture of Tibet. This is a classic work filmed in 16mm on location in India, Nepal and Ladakh during 1977. Hailed as a masterpiece, this is a spellbinding exploration of Tibetan Buddhism. Written and directed by Graham Coleman (editor of the recently released first complete translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead) and produced and photographed by David Lascelles, the film features an intimate portrait of the Dalai Lama, a rare look at an ancient tantric ritual associated with the female deity Tara, commentary based on the teachings of the great 20th century Tibetan master Dudjom Rinpoche, and the moving response of a monastery to a death in the community. In making the Trilogy, we were searching for an immediacy, intimacy and unobtrusiveness, which had been so masterfully achieved in such classic documentaries as Robert …

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 [...]]]>

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 morning after a dream of receiving teachings in Terdrom Valley, one of the many place Khandroma Yeshe Tsogyel taught. I remember a time when we danced in deep valleys the rushing of water a gathering of friends our songs and our feasting rang out with sweet brilliance as we gave our hearts freely in your sweet embrace oh Tsogyel, great victor, and fiercest of warriors you were the tigress who suckled us sheep you are the dragonʼs loud crashing of thunder, the Lionʼs Five Nectars, the Khyungchenʼs great ease Your words sung like bells and our drums beat with freedom You poured out your teachings like stars in the sky You opened the womb of spaceʼs vast secrets You gave us the richness of fields at first dawn You lifted our hearts beyond mere conception and shattered our lives with the glance of your love We were rag tag free Yogins who lived in the reaches of mountains and dreamscapes awakened through vision like poets and warriors who live fierce this moment you taught us to harness the winds of our minds you danced unimpeded on tip tops of mountains surrounded by Mamos and guardians of passes you transformed our world and displayed your deep …

The compassion, totality and rarity of the Dakini. Historic and geographic variations on the archetype. Discerning and pioneering the modern expression and teaching modalities of the Dakini. The re-establishment of the feminine as primary in Tantra.

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 [...]]]>

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 to the ceaselessly arising magical appearances. To sing the praises of Khandroma Yeshe Tsogyel is to invite your own deepest nature of reality into your being and world.

The compassion, totality and rarity of the Dakini. Historic and geographic variations on the archetype. Discerning and pioneering the modern expression and teaching modalities of the Dakini. The re-establishment of the feminine as primary in Tantra.

“Woman is dakini adore her everywhere. Do not question woman. In her real nature she is Bhagavati! Perfection of Wisdom; and in this empirical world Bhagavati has assumed the form of woman” the tantras This song is from a sadhana of Princess Mandarava one of the great dakini consoprts of Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava. From the [...]]]>

“Woman is dakini adore her everywhere. Do not question woman. In her real nature she is Bhagavati! Perfection of Wisdom; and in this empirical world Bhagavati has assumed the form of woman” the tantras This song is from a sadhana of Princess Mandarava one of the great dakini consoprts of Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava. From the pure essential nature, from the non conceptual ground, From sunyata’s luminous vastness, profound nature of appearance, Come oh Dharmakaya maidens, shower upon us sublime blessings! From the lustrous dimension, the stronghold of sheer clarity, Come Sambhogakaya maidens, shower upon us sublime blessings. From the dynamic pure appearance, magical nature of compassion Come Nirmanakaya maidens rain down upon us ceaseless blessing. Shower upon us formless blessings, rain upon us bliss’ blessing, Drench us in compassion’s blessings, soak us through with wisdom bliss! Turn back the fearsome obstacles, reverse the inauspicious signs, Make swift and sure the pure attainments, make strong the unborn realization. Princess Mandara, bliss dakini, sovereign of the Vajra realm, Your power and beauty overwhelm us, your elegance enchants our minds. In the celestial Dharmdhatu you dwell as luminous open space. In the bliss realm Dense Array you dwell as kayas and the yidams. Uncountable your emanations, ceaseless are your incarnations, One hundred thousands bliss dakinis dancing in revealing poses. Singing songs of liberation, pervading space with lucent joy. One …

Amrit Stein Tibetan Songs of Love and Compassion This CD offers a precious collection of traditional wisdom-songs of the Dakinis, Yogis and Spiritual Masters of Tibet. One of the highlights is the devotional song by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche to the magical intonations of the horse head violin. Amrit Stein arranged this album based upon her [...]]]>

Amrit Stein Tibetan Songs of Love and Compassion This CD offers a precious collection of traditional wisdom-songs of the Dakinis, Yogis and Spiritual Masters of Tibet. One of the highlights is the devotional song by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche to the magical intonations of the horse head violin. Amrit Stein arranged this album based upon her many years of extensive practice of Tibetan Buddhism. With her sensitive interpretations of the profound and precious texts and mantras she guides the listener through the many-facets of a rich and enchanting musical journey accompanied by ritual drums, dulcimer, bamboo flute and sitar. The accompanying booklet includes the texts and mantras of each of the ten songs, translated from Tibetan into German, as well as biographies and extraordinary stories from the lives of the great Tibetan masters.

www.tsemtulku.com http Short film using the original talk from Tsem Tulku Rinpoche called “Don’t embarrass the Buddha”. Tantra, Secret Initiation, dharma, patience, kindness, what the Buddha wants, Tsem Tulku Rinpoche, Geshe Langri Tangpa, EJ Gold, Heart Advice

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 [...]]]>

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 Dharmakaya consorts, I offer homage free from concepts. Please grant the blessing realizing, unborn stainless youthful freedom (Youthful Vase Body) To E the supreme basic space, VAM the bliss beyond all stain, To great bliss wisdom Dorje Chang, within the Akanishta palace, To Sambhogakaya consorts I offer homage, exaltation, Please grant the blessing realizing coemergent bliss and wisdom. To compassion’s evidence, obvious for the sake of beings, To emptiness and clarity, unified as wisdom magic, To Nirmanakaya Buddhas, I offer homage through great faith. Please grant the blessings realizing great appearance emptiness. To HUNG, the marriage of appearance and the unborn pure unmoving, To the supreme Guru Pema within the palace Lotus Light To Heruka Tro Tren Tsal I offer homage with remembrance. Please grant the blessing realizing every stage and path of tantra. To BAM the secret wisdom pathway, the dakini’s secret lotus, To Saraswati’s emanation, Single Mother Wisdom Khandro, To exaltation manifesting, I offer homage through the four joys. Please grant the blessing realizing blazing, dripping and the union. To the retinue of wisdom Khandros …

by Cesar Turrubiates through Professor Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org This very beautiful work invites us to understand that very sexy of female Buddhist figures, Vajrayogini the “Diamond Yogi”. Her fearsome aspect is modeled the Hindu goddess Kali but she is most certainly a Buddhist creation, naked to indicate she is free of [...]]]>

by Cesar Turrubiates through Professor Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Powell II, opensourcebuddhism.org This very beautiful work invites us to understand that very sexy of female Buddhist figures, Vajrayogini the “Diamond Yogi”. Her fearsome aspect is modeled the Hindu goddess Kali but she is most certainly a Buddhist creation, naked to indicate she is free of mental obscuration, fully clothed in “sunayat” or nothing at all.