Announcing the Tulku of Adeu Rinpoche
The Eighth Adeu Rinpoche was one my (Tsoknyi Rinpoche III) root gurus; he passed away at Tsechu, his monastery in Nangchen, Tibet, in July, 2007. Adeu Rinpoche was renowned (read the rest of this entry)
ADEU YANGSI RINPOCHE
June 19th, 2010Announcing the Tulku of Adeu Rinpoche
TSOKNYI NUNS UPDATE ~ Summer 2010
June 18th, 2010Yushu Earthquake
Rinpoche regrettfully reports that one of the Tsoknyi Lineage Nuns in Yushu died in the recent earthquake, and 14 members of the Nuns’ families were seriously affected by the earthquake, resulting in death, injury, and homelessness. To learn more about the earthquake and how to help, please visit www.tibetanvillageproject.org
The Tsoknyi Lineage Nuns of Gebchak Gonpa
The Tsoknyi Lineage Nuns of Gebchak Gonpa welcome Rinpoche to Tsechu Gonpa
“While I was in Tsechu Gonpa for the announcment of the Adeu Rinpoche Yangsi, a group of 16 senior Tsoknyi nuns from Gebchak Gonpa in Nangchen came to see me (Tsoknyi Rinpoche) to ask for my help. Their gonpa’s main shrine hall is falling down (click here for rest of entry)
Protected: Spirit Rock 2010 Retreatants
June 13th, 2010Web Teaching II
May 11th, 2010
To enhance your Dharma practice, Tsoknyi Rinpoche has requested that a series of short papers based on his retreat teachings and an accompanying glossary be published on the Pundarika website. This is the second paper in that series of teachings, and a glossary will follow shortly. This newly revised Teachings Section also contains a library of previously published materials and chants. More invaluable short papers by Rinpoche on various teachings will be forthcoming, so please check back from time to time.
II. TAKING EMOTIONS AS THE PATH
by Tsoknyi Rinpoche III
The Vajrayana says not to reject the kleshas, the negative emotions, but to take them as the path. This can be quite challenging to most people because emotions often govern our body, speech, and mind. So in order to take emotions as the path, we need to take a step back to take a look at emotions.
Where do these emotions come from? The most obvious are the karmic habitual patterns stored in our alaya. We know our own emotional inclinations, these kleshas very well, don’t we? They often seem to be running the show! But sometimes they are confusing; they seem to pop out of the alaya according to very subtle causes and conditions of which we are unaware, not from traceable situations. Other emotions, particularly pure emotions, are not necessarily created by the mind. When these emotions come, they inform the mind and create moods that color everything. Some emotions are Read the rest of this entry »
Web Teaching I
May 11th, 2010
I. FOUR THOUGHTS THAT CHANGE THE MIND
(Please use glossary at end of article)
by Tsoknyi Rinpoche III
I want to speak about The Four Thoughts That Change the Mind, but I think many of you will chant the Western mantra, “I know, I know.” I’ve heard the “I know” mantra chanted 100 times in a single conversation. Really! I think it means, “I’ve got it, so don’t make me listen to it again…” You’re all really smart, but in the case of the Dharma, repeating a teaching is not just for your conceptual mind. Once your conceptual brain understands, you think you understand. But that kind of understanding is not enough because repetition is for your mind’s emotional understanding. In order to feel the teachings deep down, 
the Dharma needs to take root in the alaya, your unconscious mind. Only then can the Dharma grow from the inside out and be true nourishment for how you live. I think this takes a lot of repetition. That’s why you need to hear the Read the rest of this entry »
Update from Tsoknyi Rinpoche
March 29th, 2010March 2010
From the foothills of the Himalayas, I send my best wishes to you for a happy and prosperous 2010.
As usual, I’ve been quite busy–partly with projects I have initiated and partly with fulfilling the vision and obligations set in motion by the First and Second Tsoknyi Rinpoches. It is my intention in this letter to Read the rest of this entry »
Entering Rinpoche’s Mandala
March 28th, 2010On Becoming a Student of Tsoknyi Rinpoche III
Rinpoche invited all of his students beginning with the 2009 Devotion Retreat in Crestone, to acknowledge their student-teacher relationship with him, if they chose to do so. He said that there has been confusion around the issue of who is and who is not his student, and that he wished to clarify it by asking students to accept a “student mandala card.”
Tsewang Rinzing Lama (Tashi Lama)
March 19th, 2010
A Letter from Tsoknyi Rinpoche III on Tashi Lama
I am happy to give my full and complete authorization to Tsewang Rinzing Lama, also known as Tashi Lama, to give teachings in Buddhist theory and practice whenever he may be requested to do so.
Tashi Lama became a monk of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche at the Kat Nying Shedrup Ling monastery in Boudhanath, Nepal in 1975, when he was nine years old. Tashi Lama completed his full monastic training, including philosophical learning and study, training in ritual practices and personal meditation retreat between 1975-1991, primarily under the guidance of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche. (Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche was well known throughout the world as a meditation master. He passed away in February 1996.) Tashi Lama has served as my main assistant since 1991, when I first began my major work of building Ngesdon Osel Ling monastery in Nepal and giving Buddhist teachings throughout the world. In 1992, Tashi began accompanying me on my travels to teach outside of Nepal.
He is a core teacher in my organization and has traveled and taught with me in the following countries: India, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan in Asia; the U.K., France, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria in Europe; the U.S. and Canada in North America; and, Argentina and Brazil in South America.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche III
(Photos by Tony Barrs; 2009 Crestone, CO at Yeshe Rangsal and Vajrasattva Empowerment)
Travelogue August-December 2009
January 4th, 2010Rinpoche continued his intensive travel and teaching schedule throughout the last six months of 2009. Here are some highlights:
August 16 -22, Crestone, CO: Empowerment–Transmission and Practice
In an unprecedented teaching demonstration, Rinpoche gave three empowerments and practice instructions for Green Tara, Vajrasattva and Guru Rinpoche during this week. Additionally, participants had an opportunity to circumambulate the Jangchub Chorten Stupa (Stupa of Enlightentment) with Rinpoche prior to his blessing the newly almost-completed Dorje Yudronma Shrine on the Yeshe Rangsal land. (This week also served as the first week of the Monthlong retreat in Crestone.)
August 16-September 13, Crestone, CO: Monthlong–The Precious Garland of the Sublime Path (The Teachings of Gampopa) One hundred participants from over 14 countries attended the Monthlong this year, which was held in the teaching tent on the Yeshe Rangsal retreat land in Crestone. Rinpoche gave daily morning teachings, as well as small group interviews in the afternoon, along with group instructions on ngondro, yidam practice, and dzogchen practice. The retreat closed with a fire puja and bountiful tsok. Retreatants were also invited to visit Rinpoche’s new home that borders the retreat land.
Monthlong 2009
Please click below for photos of the Empowerment Retreat and 2009 Monthlong:
Tony Barrs’ Picasa Web Album/ Monthlong 2009
Richard Timan’s Picasa Web Album/Monthlong 2009
Jim Gritz Gallery (password: Gampopa)
October 2-4, San Francisco, CA: Wisdom for Difficult Times: What the Buddhists Teach Sylvia Boorstein, Zoketsu Norman Fischer, and Tsoknyi Rinpoche co-chaired this discussion sponsored by the California Institute of Integral Studies and the Asia Society of California at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco.
October 8-9, Washington, D.C.: The Heart of Change (The Mind & Life Conference with H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama) To learn more about this event, please visit: www.jamesgritz.com/blog/
The Lady Yeshe Tsogyal
October 10-15, Tara Mandala, Pagosa Springs, CO: Songs of Yeshe Tsogyal Rinpoche taught the nature of mind using one of the dohas (songs) of Yeshe Tsogyal who chronicled the teachings of Guru Rinpoche for the sake of future generations.
October 16-22, Garrison, NY: The Bardo Teachings The description of the six bardos, or major intermediate states occurring in our existence, provide us with great opportunities for liberation while living and dying. Particularly useful are the instructions on the bardo of death and the following states, because we learn how to deal with these extreme situations and use them to reach enlightenment.
October 23-25, Kripalu Yoga Center, Lennox, MA: Rinpoche taught on the topic of Finding Fearlessness in Difficult Times
November 21: Tulku Urgyen Yangsi Rinpoche arrived at Kathmandu airport, accompanied by his parents, Neten Chokling Rinpoche and Khandro Tendzin Choyang Gyari. Tsoknyi Rinpoche then escorted the Yangsi and his family along with Namdol Gyatso Lama and two attendants to Nepal. For more information, please visit www.Shedrub.org and see “The Return of Tulku Urgyen Yangsi Rinpoche” dated Sunday, November 22, 2009.
Tulku Urgyen Yangsi Rinpoche
Blessings Continues Success
January 4th, 2010
Blessings: The Tsoknyi Nangchen Nuns of Tibet continues to receive a warm reception and international praise in its many screenings worldwide. It is making a heartfelt impact on non-Buddhists and Buddhists alike, initiating in-depth audience discussion about the power of prayer.
Blessings presented to a full house at the Omni Theater in Washington, D.C. in association with The Heart of Change (The Mind & Life Conference with H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama). Tsoknyi Rinpoche introduced the film, along with producer/director Victress Hitchcock, Barbara Green, and Jim Gritz participating in a question and answer dialog with the audience.
The Rubin Museum of Art presented two New York screenings of Blessings on December 23 and 30th. The film has been screened in: Boise, Albuquerque, the Denver Film Festival, the Academy of Music in Northampton, MA, the Buddhist Film Festival of Europe in Amsterdam, the St. Johns Womens Film Festival in New Foundland, and the Sun Valley Spiritual Film Festival.
Upcoming public screening and film festivals are:
- January 13, 2010: The Frontier Theater in Brunswick, Maine
- February 2010: European Spiritual Film Festival 2010
- Spring 2010: Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
- Fall 2010: Melbourne Buddhist Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia
- 2010: The International Buddhist Film Festival (dates and locations to be announced)
Supporters of the Tsoknyi Lineage Nangchen Nuns are holding successful screenings of the film in association with home fundraisers, as well as public and film festival events. For a complete list of upcoming screenings, please visit Chariot Videos. And to find out about hosting your own home fundraiser, please email maryann@pundarika.org.
