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Milarepa’s Wisdom
Three Teachings from The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
Milarepa was Tibet’s most famous saint who renounced dark magic and with Buddhist practice was able to become realized in one lifetime. Practicing in the high Himalayan mountains, wearing only a cotton robe, he taught the Dharma through beautiful, imagery-filled spiritual songs making them very accessible to the reader.
A Garland of Blue Lotuses
A Daily Practice of the Five-Deity Tara
སྒྲོལ་མ་ལྷ་ལྔའི་རྒྱུན་ཁྱེར་ཨུཏྤལ་ཕྲེང་བ།
The venerable Tara has always been one of the most significant deities in both India and Tibet. Among all the lineages of Tara, this particular lineage of Five-Deity Tara passed down from Nagarjuna has the most venerable source and longest history. Moreover, it is also an important practice of the Karma Kagyu lineage, and due to karmic connections and aspirations, there is a deep connection for both Buddhism in general and the individual practitioner when members of the Karma Kagyu lineage do this practice; it is a genuine transmission of the lineage.
A Chest of Amṛita
An Instruction Manual on the Practice of White Tārā
ཡིད་བཞིན་འཁོར་ལོའི་ཚེ་ཁྲིད་བདུད་རྩིའི་ཟ་མ་ཏོག །
This text has been the very basis for teaching the meditation instructions for the contemplative practice of White Tārā within the Karma Kamtsang tradition ever since it was composed by its author, Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye. These instructions would be implemented together with either one of three White Tārā sādhanas available to us nowadays. The first of these (The Daily Practice of White Tara), and by far the most widespread one, was composed by the Eighth Tai Situpa, Chökyi Jungne, which he however signed with his alternate name of Tenpe Nyinje. The second is by Jamgön Kongtrul himself. The last of these three was composed relatively recently by the late Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche and is a much-abbreviated version of its forerunners. Nevertheless, the same meditation instructions do apply in all three cases.
Pervasive Auspiciousness
Nyungne Sadhana of the Noble Eleven-Faced Avalokiteshvara
འཕགས་པ་བཅུ་གཅིིག་ཞལ་གྱིི་སྨྱུང་ཆོོག་བཀྲ་ཤིིས་ཀུན་ཁྱབ།
Pervasive Auspiciousness is a practice text used during the Nyungne retreats of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. It was composed by Khenchen Tashi Öser, one of the main disciples of Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye.
The tradition of fasting practices connected to Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara was started a few centuries ago by Bhikshuni Lakshmi, who used it to cure herself of leprosy. She composed a famous praise of Avalokiteshvara that is repeated multiple times during the Nyungne retreat and this eBook features a recitation of the praise by the Gyalwang Karmapa.
Good Questions Wise Answers
Good Questions Wise Answers presents a collection of thoughtful questions from students, paired with the wise, compassionate responses of Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche. His answers are simple, profound, and accessible to practitioners at all levels.
365 Daily Teachings • Volume 2
365 Daily Teachings of Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, Volume 2 is a carefully selected compilation of 365 short, practical heart-advice teachings from the 9th Very Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche. These profound teachings have been selected from over 45 English language books.
On the Heart Sutra
This book compiles the contents of the teaching on the Heart Sutra offered by the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa in Chinese to a Chinese speaking audience in New Delhi, in August 2016. First published in Chinese it has now been translated into English by Jamyang Woser. It features two versions of the sutra found in the Chinese canon as well as the Karmapa’s commentary.
A History of Goshir Paljor Dhondup
གོ་ཤྲི་དཔལ་འབྱོར་དོན་གྲུབ་ཀྱི་ལོ་རྒྱུས།
The first Gyaltsab Goshir Paljor Dondrub, was a heart son of the Sixth Karmapa Thongwa Dondhen and the root guru of the Seventh Karmapa Chodrak Gyatso. Therefore, he is also included in the Golden Rosary of the Karma Kagyu lineage. The biography of Goshir Paljor Dondrub, titled Clouds of Offerings to Delight the Bodhisattva, was meticulously researched and composed by Zeeche Leethong. This work not only covers the life of Goshir Paljor Dhondub but also contains significant historical information related to the Karma Kagyu tradition. Therefore, we have made this eBook and published it to coincide with the 600th anniversary of the Gyaltsab lineage.
Reciting the Names of Manjushri
Mañjuśrīnāmasaṃgīti
Reciting the Names of Manjushri is one of the most important and beloved Buddhist tantras. Here it is presented in a rhythmic, chantable new translation by Khenpo David Karma Choephel from the Sanskrit with reference to the Tibetan translations as well as to various Sanskrit and Tibetan commentaries. It is accompanied by a version arranged for chanting in Tibetan as well as an analysis of the sources.
A Rosary of Rubies
The Chronicle of the Gur-rigs mDo-chen Tradition from South-West Tibet
This book presents a history of a less known Dochen Kagyu school (sub-branch of Drukpa Kagyu), also called Madunpa’s Tradition, written by Dakarwa Chokyi Wangchuk. It was translated and introduced in a rather academic style by Prof. Dr. Franz-Karl Ehrhard, who has agreed that it would be republished by Tsum Research Group as a part of their project – a collection of texts presenting the history of Tibetan religion and culture on the current territory of Nepal.
A String of Pearls
ཚོགས་ཆོས་མུ་ཏིག་ཕྲེང་བ།
A String of Pearls is a collection of dharma talks given by Lord Gampopa in plain-spoken, no-nonsense, and direct language. In them, Gampopa continually exhorts us to remember the qualities that will allow us to practice dharma genuinely—loving-kindness, compassion, and bodhichitta. These talks speak to issues that affect practitioners of today just as much as they did the people who gathered around Gampopa and listened to him teach some 800 years ago.
Invoking Compassion Swiftly
Guru Yoga for Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche
This book presents Invoking Compassion Swiftly, a guru yoga for the Ninth Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche written by the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje in an attractive format with the Tibetan original as well as the English and Chinese translations. In addition, it also includes prayers for calling the guru from afar, including one by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, and prayers for Rinpoche’s swift return by over twenty lamas of all the major dharma lineages.
The Million Aspiration Monlam
འབུམ་ཚོགས་སྨོན་ལམ་གྱི་འདོན་ཆ་ཕྱོགས་བསྒྲིགས།
In January 2024 the 38th Kagyu Monlam will feature a million recitations of the Noble Aspiration for Excellent Conduct and Samaya Vajra practice. This publication includes the texts to be chanted at the Monlam that are not included in the Kagyu Monlam Book.
365 Daily Teachings
༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཡོངས་འཛིན་མཁན་ཆེན་ཁྲ་འགུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཞལ་གདམས་གཅེས་བཏུས།
This book “356 Daily Teachings of Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche” is a carefully selected compilation of 365 short and practical heart advice from the teachings of the 9th Very Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche. These profound teachings have been selected from more than 35 English books that were skillfully translated, ensuring their authenticity and clarity.
The Profound Essence Tara
དགོངས་གཏེར་སྒྲོལ་མའི་ཟབ་ཏིག་ལས། མཎྜལ་ཆོ་ག་ཚོགས་གཉིས་སྙིང་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་བཞུགས་སོ།
This Green Tara practice, a terma of Terchen Chokgyur Lingpa, is widely renowned for its efficacy in removing obstacles and fulfilling wishes for our dharma practice and our daily lives. This new electronic edition features recitations in Tibetan of the Homages as well as of the prayers to Guru Rinpoche by the Seventeenth Gyalwang Karmapa. The new English translation was rendered in poetic meter so that it can be sung with the same melodies as the Tibetan, and this eBook includes recordings of the Homages in English as well.
An Overview of the Five Texts of Maitreya
The Sun Rays that Open the Lotus of the Mahāyāna
The five treatises of the next Buddha Maitreya are crucial and celebrated because they provide a comprehensive overview of all the essential elements of mahāyāna motivation, view, meditation, conduct, and fruition in a very concise form. Thus, they resemble zip-files that contain all the profound and vast topics of the entire mahāyāna Buddhism.
A Daily Practice of Chö
This very practical, detailed and illustrated guide specifically describes the practice of the shorter Chö liturgy of Kagyu tradition: A Concise Daily Practice of Offering One’s Body (རྒྱུན་ཁྱེར་གྱི་ལུས་སྦྱིན་བསྡུས་པ།). However, it is so informative that it will be of use to all Chö practitioners. The original edition, published in 2008 as Chö: The Garden of All Joy & Generosity of the Body, has now been revised, updated and amended.
Transforming the Mind
The Four Dharmas of Gampopa
This commentary on the Four Dharmas of Gampopa is based on teachings Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche gave at Karma Triyana Dharmachakra. The Tibetan edition, reviewed and revised by Rinpoche, was published by Thrangu Monastery in 2016. A Chinese edition was published soon afterwards, combining the commentary with another short teaching on consciousness and wisdom, given by Rinpoche in Germany in 1988. This eBook presents both these teachings in English.
Prayers for Rebirth in Sukhavati
The three prayers to Buddha Amitabha by Karma Chakme and Tertön Mingyur Dorje that are recited frequently in monasteries, nunneries, and dharma centers around the world, and many practitioners also include them in their daily practice to pray either for themselves or on behalf of recently departed loved ones. In Tibetan, they are frequently sung to the melody for the MAṆI mantra, so they are presented here in a new translation that can easily be sung to that same melody, with instructions, music notation, and recordings at the end of this publication.
Beloved Garden
Brief Notes on the Offering and Gift of the Body
ལུས་མཆོད་སྦྱིན་གྱི་ཟིན་བྲིས་མདོར་བསྡུས་ཀུན་དགའི་སྐྱེད་ཚལ།
This is Jamgön Kongtrul’s well-known and probably most useful instruction on the daily practice of Severance (see A Concise Daily Practice of Offering One’s Body), written at the behest of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo. It has been translated several times, with the title rendered variously as “Grove of Delights,” “Garden of All Joy,” “Garden of Pleasures,” and so forth. It is also the basis of many oral commentaries by great contemporary masters such as Venerable Tenga Rinpoche, Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, and so on. Indeed, the text is concise and yet thoroughly informative; one might almost call it user-friendly.
A Concise Daily Practice of Offering One’s Body
རྒྱུན་ཁྱེར་གྱི་ལུས་སྦྱིན་བསྡུས་པ།
This brief Chö text has become the most popular version for those who wish to do the practice on a regular basis, particularly in the Kagyu lineage. The authorship of the liturgy has not been explicitly established, however all the prayers contained in this short version will have ancient origins in the lineage-holders, such as the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje, and carry these blessings. The text featured in this eBook was prepared according to the instructions given by Dorlop Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche.
ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྙན་གྲགས། • The Glory of Dharma
༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་མཁན་ཆེན་ཁྲ་འགུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་རིམ་བྱོན་གྱི་མཛད་རྣམ་རགས་བསྡུས།
Brief Accounts of the Lives and Deeds of the Incarnations of the Lord of Refuge Thrangu Rinpoche
སྒྲུབ་བརྒྱུད་བསྟན་པའི་མཛེས་རྒྱན་༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཡོངས་འཛིན་མཁན་ཆེན་ཁྲ་འགུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་འགྲོ་བ་སེམས་ཅན་གྱི་དོན་དུ་ད་བར་སྐུའི་འཕྲེང་བ་རིམ་པ་དགུ་བར་བྱོན་ཡོད། དེ་བས་མགོན་གང་གི་རྣམ་ཐར་རྗེས་དྲན་སླད་གདུང་སྲས་བླ་མ་པདྨ་མཆོག་གིས་བརྙན་དེབ་འདིར་༧སྐྱབས་རྗེ་ཁྲ་འགུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་སྐུ་འཕྲེང་རིམ་བྱོན་གྱི་རྣམ་ཐར་སྐུ་ཐང་དང་བཅས་པ་མདོར་བསྡུས་བཀོད་ཡོད་པ་དང་ལྷག་པར་དུ་ཁྲ་འགུ་སྐུ་འཕྲེང་དགུ་པ་ཀརྨ་བློ་གྲོས་རིང་ལུགས་སྨྲ་བའི་སེང་གེ་མཆོག་གི་ཞལ་པར་མང་དག་ཅིག་ཕྱོགས་བསྒྲིགས་བྱས་ཡོད།
The Guru Yoga “Showers of Blessings”
བླ་མའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་བྱིན་རླབས་ཆར་རྒྱུན། །
On the occasion of the Karmapa 900 celebration of the 900th anniversary of Karmapa Dusum Khyenpa’s birth, His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje wrote this special guru yoga for Dusum Khyenpa. At his request, the heart sons Their Eminences Tai Situ Rinpoche, Jamgön Kongtrul Rinpoche, and Goshir Gyaltsab Rinpoche also wrote supplications, offerings, and auspicious prayers to be recited during the practice. When recited with faith and devotion, this guru sadhana is certain to plant the seeds of devotion in the practitioner’s heart.
The Sadhana of the Vision of Lord Karma Pakshi
From the Mind Treasure of
the Great Terton Mingyur Dorje
རྗེ་ཀརྨ་པཀྵི་ཞལ་གཟིགས་མའི་ལས་བྱང་༔
This practice text was composed by the great terton Mingyur Dorje, who had a vision of the Second Karmapa Karma Pakshi as the embodiment of all the gurus, yidams, dakas, dakinis and Dharma protectors — the single source of the Three Jewels and the Three Roots. Later other masters, like the Fourteenth Karmapa Tekchok Dorje or Palden Khyentse Özer, the Second Jamgön Rinpoche, added the ritual parts and supplications to create a complete sadhana used nowadays. It should be used with care and only by those who received the appropriate empowerment, transmission and instructions from a qualified lama.
