The First Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche explains the unique features of the four classes of tantra and their practices based on a text by Sogpo Ngawang Palden Choge.

A concise explanation of the Avalokiteshvara practice together with the practices for the time of death and in-between bardo state.

To overcome the karmic obstacles we create for ourselves, we must forcefully destroy the self-grasping underlying our compulsive destructive behavior.

The Establishment of the Pagmodru Hegemony Dorje-Gyalpo (1110 – 1170), a highly educated monk from Kham, disciple of the Kagyu master Gampopa, arrived in Central Tibet in 1158. He was given the name “Pagmodrupa” (Phag-mo gru-pa), meaning “One from Sow’s Ferry,” since he...

These teachings from “Advice of an Experienced Old Man” by Gungthang Rinpoche deal with the sufferings of old age and lay the ground for bodhichitta.

Gungthang Rinpoche’s text warns us that before the Dharma practice of tomorrow takes place, the death of today may come sooner.

When You Have Parted from Clinging to This Life, Your Mind Has Gone toward the Dharma  Of these four main points, the first (when you have parted from clinging to this life, you have made your mind go toward the Dharma) has meditation on three topics: (1) firstly, as a...

When You Have Parted from Clinging to Your Own Benefit, You Have Made the Pathway Minds Eliminate Confusion Concerning the third (parting), “When you have parted from clinging to your own benefit, you have made the pathway minds eliminate confusion,”  In general, when you...

Verses of Homage and Promise to Compose The name of this text is A Text for Discourse on the Mind Training “Parting from the Four Clingings”: Key to the Profound Essential Points (Blo-sbyong zhen-pa bzhi-bral-gyi khrid-yig zab-don gnad-kyi lde’u-mig). It was written by the...

Introduction  Within the discussion of time, we also have the discussion of the future, the present and the past. Jorge touched on that a little bit in the discussion about blocks of time. If there’s nothing that is an absolute present, then likewise past and future,...