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How to Recite the Mani Mantra
A Commentary on the Song of the Mani by Khenpo Gangshar Wangpo
Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche teaches on the essential meaning of the Mani mantra based on “Song of the Mani” composed by Khenpo Gangshar Wangpo Rinpoche, a great Tibetan scholar and meditator who was also a teacher to Thrangu Rinpoche.
A Necklace of Youthful Utpala: A Praise of White Tara
རྗེ་བཙུན་སྒྲོལ་མ་དཀར་མོ་ལ་བསྟོད་པ་ཨུཏྤལ་གཞོན་ནུའི་མགུལ་རྒྱན།
These verses in praise of White Tara distill the essence of the Karma Kamtsang tradition of White Tara practice into seventeen inspiring stanzas. For this reason, the Gyalwang Karmapa has said that reading and reciting them will benefit anyone who has faith in or practices White Tara. Translated by Khenpo David Karma Choephel at the request of the Gyalwang Karmapa.
A short daily practice for White Tara
སྒྲོལ་དཀར་རྒྱུན་ཁྱེར་བསྡུས་པ། །
Kyabje Third Tenga Rinpoche wrote this very short, essential White Tara practice text for one of his close students, and for some years it was kept private. Later, it was widely distributed by other Benchen Lamas, and till this day it is used by many of Tenga Rinpoche’s followers. This eBook edition also features Rinpoche’s recitation of the sadhana.
Achieving Deathlessness
A Convenient Daily Practice of White Tara, the Venerable Wish-Fulfilling Wheel རྗེ་བཙུན་ཡིད་བཞིན་འཁོར་ལོའི་རྒྱུན་གྱི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཁྱེར་བདེ་འཆི་མེད་གྲུབ་པ།
Achieving Deathlessness: A Convenient Daily Practice of White Tara, the Venerable Wish-Fulfilling Wheel by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye (1813–1899) is one of the most popular daily practices of White Tara. Succinct, arranged in verse, and easy to chant, this short work nevertheless contains the requisite components of a yidam practice of the highest yoga tantra.
Instructions for the pratice of White Tara
Oral Explanations on A Chest of Amṛita from The Treasury of Kagyu Mantras by Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thaye
This work presents a detailed and illustrated commentary by Venerable Tenga Rinpoche on the complete long-life practice of Noble White Tara, based on Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé’s A Chest of Amṛita from The Treasury of Kagyu Mantras. It carefully explains the specific Tara ngöndro and then guides the practitioner step by step through the development phase, including the visualization of White Tara’s palace, form, and mantra, together with an explanation of their meanings.
Sowa Rigpa and the Healer’s Journey
The book interweaves biographical stories of doctor Lhadak Amji and his son (and the author) Rinzin Norbu, with historical background, theory, and empirical information on traditional medicine practiced in Tibet and Bhutan.
16 Arhats
Murals at the Vajra Vidya Institute
The Sixteen Arhats are 16 different wise teachers who lived in India and who represent many different aspect of the Buddhist experience. Although these adepts lived in India their stories and accomplishments were taken to China, Japan, and Tibet where they are featured in Buddhist ceremonies.
Mahāmudrā, Pointing Out the Dharmakāya
A Manual of Instruction on the Union of Connate Mahāmudrā; The Torch that Illuminates the Heart Essence; The Innermost Nectar Essence.ཕྱག་ཆེན་ཆོས་སྐུ་མཛུབ་ཚུགས།
The present text, Mahāmudrā, Pointing out the Dharmakāya, by the ninth holder of the black vajra crown, Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje [1556-1603], is among the profoundest teachings which the practice lineage of the Karma Kamtsang has to offer. It is designed as a practice manual for practitioners to take on a secluded retreat to apply these instructions and gain hands-on experience through personal practice. This is a text that needs to be practised, not just studied or read casually.
The Daily Practice of White Tara
ཀུན་མཁྱེན་ཏཱའི་སི་ཏུ་བསྟན་པའི་ཉིན་བྱེད་ཀྱིས་མཛད་པའི་སྒྲོལ་དཀར་རྒྱུན་ཁྱེར་བཞུགས།New edition
The Daily Practice of White Tara was composed by the 8th Tai Situ, Chökyi Jungné (1700-1774). Famous under the name Situ Penchen, he was a great Buddhist master, scholar, and polymath, gifted as a brilliant painter, writer, publisher, grammarian, and medical innovator. Within the Karma Kamtsang tradition, this beautiful daily practice of White Tara is the most beloved.
Journey of the Mind
Preparing for the Bardo in Life, Dreams, Meditation, while Dying, and Rebirth
This book is a lucid, comprehensive, and practical explanation of the four kinds of bardo. It contains extensive appendices and color pictures. Thrangu Rinpoche teaches us that while we are alive, we can prepare for this experience of dying and why this will be very beneficial to us.
A Guide to Shamatha and Vipashyana Meditation
This short book gives a clear and concise overview of how to do basic sitting meditation. Thrangu Rinpoche spent over 40 years teaching meditation and other Buddhist topics to both Western and Asian students. In this book Rinpoche explains meditation in a simple, non-technical language based on a tradition that is over 1,000-year-old that has produced many enlightened individuals.
The History of Buddhism in India
In 1991 Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche accompanied a group of western Buddhist students to each of the four major pilgrimage sites from the life of the Buddha (Bodhgaya, Sarnath, Kushinagar, and Lumbini). This book contains the teachings Rinpoche gave to the group at each pilgrimage site. So here the reader not only sees history and pictures of these major Buddhist sites but also Rinpoche’s teaching of the significance of each.
A Spiritual Biography of Marpa the Translator
Marpa was a Tibetan who risked his life three times to go to India and learn and practice the profound Buddhist teachings from the great yogi Naropa. This book tells the story of how he received these teachings and brought them back to Tibet, where he achieved enlightenment. Soon afterwards, the Muslim invasion of India began, and many of these teachings were destroyed and lost in the Noble Land.
Milarepa Tames Rechungpa
In Tibetan there are a several complete spiritual biographies on the life of Rechungpa, and except for this book by Thrangu Rinpoche there are no others in English. Tibetan spiritual biographies of Buddhist masters usually present them in a very positive light. But Rechungpa’s biography differs because it presents his serious flaws, the fact that he defied his root guru’s commands three times, and that he went and received teachings on sorcery, and that at times he had a wife and lived in luxury.
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.
