Shop results

6th Karmapa – Tongwa Donden

19
Feb
2021
Art, Himalayan Art, Thangka
The birth of the 6th , Tongwa Donden (1416-1453), at Ngomto Shakyam near Gon in east , was marked by many auspicious signs. One month later, carried by his mother as she went begging, he became highly excited when their path crossed that of Ngompa Chadral, a student of the fifth Karmapa. When Lama Ngompa Chadral asked who he was, the child smiled and replied “I’m the unborn, free from all names, places, and .
Read More

Explaining Lama Teacher Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen

28
Apr
2020
Art, Himalayan Art, Thangka
PanditaKunga Gyeltsen was a and scholar and the fourth of the Five Sakya Forefathers. He is held in the tradition to have been an emanation of Manjusri, the embodiment of the of all the . The Viability of Kunga Gyaltsen In this portion, we are going to talk about the life of Sakya PanditaKunga Gyeltsen. After a short etymological description of the word Sakya PanditaKunga Gyeltsen itself, we will .
Read More
Yeshe Tsogyal

Yogini Yeshe Tsogyal – Mother of Tibetan Buddhism

28
Aug
2019
Dharma, Yeshe Tsogyal, Yogini
Tsogyal was the Mother of . Some sources regard her as a wife of , Emperor of . Her main consort was , a founder-figure of the tradition of . She is known to have revealed terma with Padmasambhava and was also the main scribe for this terma. Later, also hid many of Padmasambhava's terma on her own, under the instructions of Padmasambhava for future generations. Born a .
Read More

Thrangu Rinpoche Sixteenth Karmapa

25
Apr
2018
Biography
was born in Kham in 1933. At the age of five, he was formally recognized by the Sixteenth and the previous Situ Rinpoche as the incarnation of the great Thrangu . Entering , from the ages of seven to sixteen he studied reading, writing, grammar, poetry, and astrology, memorized ritual texts, and completed two preliminary retreats. At sixteen under the direction of Lodro Rabsel, he began the of .
Read More

The Himalayan Yoga Tradation

18
Mar
2018
Himalayas, Yoga
The Mountains have been the home of sages for millennia. These great sages have lived and passed on of the yogic to disciples who then became passing on the teachings in an unbroken lineage since the . Twelve hundred years ago organized his teaching into five centers of the . As one of those five, our tradition is the Bharati lineage connected with the Shankaracharya at the Shringeri .
Read More

Biography of the 14th Dalai Lama

7
Jan
2018
Biography, Dalai Lama Quotes, Dharma
H.H. the , Tenzin Gyatso, is the simple . He was born on 6 July 1935 in Taktser, Amdo, northeastern . Born in a small family of Tibet, he spent the major part of his childhood in farming and kinds of stuff. He grew up to be a of Tibet. Soon after his birth, he was named as Lhamo Thondup that means ‘Wish-Fulfilling Goddess.’ Early Education Like every , His Holiness also attended the monastic .
Read More

Saraswati, the Goddesses and her significance

4
Jan
2018
Deities, Gods, Hinduism
is the of and . She is also the goddesses of and poetry. She is believed to be the consort of the Lord . Considered as the mother of language she is identified in different , Bharati (eloquence), (existence), Vedamata (mother of the Vedas), Brahmi, Sarada, Vagisvari, and Putkari. Saraswati first appeared in the  and, in later texts. Goddesses of Wisdom Sanskrit word Sara means ‘’ and saw means ‘self’.  Thus .
Read More