Dudjom Lingpa

Dudjom Ngondro Monthly Teaching

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

Dudjom Lingpa Statue, Pema Osel Ling

At age twenty-five Dudjom Lingpa revealed the prophetic guide (kha byang) from among rocks in the Mar Valley. This contained instructions on how he should reveal his own hidden treasures. He revealed twenty volumes of earth and mind treasures (sa gter, dgongs gter). These came to be known as the Dudjom Tersar (bdud ‘joms gter gsar), the New Treasures of Dudjom.

This month’s Vajrayana Foundation Monthly Ngondro Public Teaching will be August 16th from 5:00 ~ 6:30 pm. Tulku Thadral Rinpoche will continue with the How to Meditate with Confidence Series Part 6.

Rinpoche will begin the teaching with the Dudjom Tersar Ngondro and Dudjom Lingpa Troma Ngondro Reading Transmission (Lung).

This teaching is free (offerings welcome) and OPEN TO ALL. Attend in person at Pema Osel Ling or by live-stream: 

Language: Tibetan with English translation by Cy Kassoff

“Whether we are doing Ngondro Practice or whether we are doing some other Main Practice, all the practices we do, have to encompass the view or to be sealed with the view. First, we establish our understanding of the view through study and reflection and study that meaning. From this, I will begin the teaching on the stages of meditating on the view.”
~ Tulku Thadral Rinpoche, Pema Osel Ling,
How to Meditate with Confidence, Jan 2023

If you have missed any of, or want to review any of Tulku Thadral Rinpoche’s Monthly Ngondro Teaching Series on How to Meditate with Confidence, here are the You Tube Links.

Part 1–Jan. 25, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgC21GzJX90
Part 2–Feb 8, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxYf5rChHdk
Part 3–Mar 8, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KJjxrKnkEw
Part 4–May 10, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ustMh_DR31U
Part 5–July 19th, 2023
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LqBFXU4Hefk

 

Cloud Banks of Blessings

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

The Prayer for Calling the Guru from Afar, Cloud Banks of Blessings, was written by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche III  Sangye Pema Shepa. It is a supplication for Dudjom Lingpa, Dudjom Yeshe Dorje and Dudjom Sangye Pema Shepa of the three Kayas to ripen our mind and to be liberated through the blessed nectar of the four empowerments.

From the colophon:

“Many years ago, Sangye Gyalmo requested me for such a supplication. I, however, felt it unnecessary at the time and left it. She persisted and so as not to refuse her earnest requests, I reflected on the teaching that the common and uncommon spiritual accomplishments result from supplicating the guru as inseparable from one’s own mind – the indivisible three kayas – and wrote this on New Year’s Day, the Year of the Metal Ox. (Feb 12, 2021).”

Cloud Banks of Blessings A Prayer for Calling the Guru from Afar

Khandro Chime Chants the Cloud Banks of Blessings
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January 9, 2023 marks the 36th Dechö Anniversary of His Holiness Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje.

Livestreaming from Pema Osel Ling with Tulku Thadral Rinpoche 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm Pacific https://youtu.be/9rs95-3fpLk.

We will be reciting the Ka Ter Dorsem (Vajrasattva). There will be an online viewable text for this puja. This text is also available for purchase as part of  “Vajrasattva Practices for the Time of Death” in digital format here or physical format here.

Anniversary of Dudjom Lingpa

~ DudjomTersarNgondro

 

Dudjom Lingpa Thangka from Sonam Famarin painted by Tsering Dorje, Buthan

119th Anniversary of Dudjom Lingpa’s Mahaparinirvana (Dechöd) is on
the 8th day of the 11th month,. This year, 2022 of the Western Calendar,
it falls today, December 30th.

Traktung Dudjom Lingpa was a mystic with great power and wisdom.  He was born in 1835 – just before steamships started crossing the Atlantic Ocean – in Golok, in eastern Tibet.  His birthplace was a land known for its wild and pure landscapes, its fierce bandits, and its uncompromising and realized Dharma practitioners.

Never recognized as a tulku or reincarnated master, Dudjom Lingpa did not receive formal training in a monastic environment.  His education came principally through direct teachings from wisdom teachers encountered in his rich and vivid visionary life.  He was a yogi, a lay practitioner and family man with eight sons and four daughters. His life was characterized by material poverty and hardship, intrigue, and unwavering confidence in the tantric teachings.  Direct encounters with wisdom deities and fearsome spirits were part of his daily experience.

As a terton or Treasure-revealer, Dudjom Lingpa had the fortune to discover a vast storehouse of sacred teachings. These had been hidden and sealed centuries earlier by the Buddhist master Padmasambhava and his consort Yeshe Tsogyal in Tibet.  The spiritual practices and instructions that Dudjom Lingpa revealed – contained within twenty-one volumes and

over 20,000 pages of scripture – form the basis of the Dudjom Tersar lineage. They are unsurpassed in their potency to lay bare the true nature of reality, directly and swiftly, for those who practice them correctly.

During Dudjom Lingpa’s lifetime, a series of events amazed people all over Tibet and brought renown to his Treasure lineage. More than thirteen students manifested the ultimate sign of complete enlightenment: the achievement of a rainbow body. This is the fruition of the path of Dzogchen, Great Perfection, where the physical body dissolves into its pure nature of wisdom light. 

Since Dudjom Lingpa himself departed the world in 1904, his spiritual heritage has spread throughout the east and west. Up to the present day, vibrant communities of Dudjom Tersar practitioners committed to awakening continue to demonstrate high levels of spiritual realization among their members. The Dudjom tradition is alive and well, thriving with the warm breath of the dakinis as one of the most important Early Translation Nyingma lineages in the history of Tibetan Buddhism

source:  https://www.dudjominternationalfoundation.com/lineage/traktung-dudjom-lingpa/


༄༅། །པདྨའི་རིང་ལུགས་སྔ་འགྱུར་རྫོགས་པ་ཆེ། །
Padmasambhava’s tradition is the Early Translation Great Perfection School

ངེས་དོན་སྙིང་པོའི ་ཤིང་རྟ་བདུད་འཇོམས་གླིང་། །
And Dudjom Lingpa is the chariot of the essential true meaning.

གང་གི་ཟབ་གཏེར་བསྟན་པ་སྲིད་མཐའི་བར། །
Until the end of cyclic existence,
may his profound treasure doctrine be preserved

མི་ནུབ་བཤད་དང་སྒྲུབ་པས་འཛནི་གྱུར་ཅིག །
Through study and practice, without declining.

ཅེས་རགིས་སྲས་མིང་འཛིན་མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་མྱུ་གསུ་སོ༎ ༎
This was written by Khyentse Nyugu,
the son of Dudjom Lingpa and holder of the family name.