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14/08/2025

Celebrating India's 79th Independence Day

09/08/2025

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07/08/2025

“Just as when you look in the center of space, seeing stops,
Likewise, when the mind looks at mind
Thoughts cease and unexcelled enlightenment is achieved.”

—Tilopa’s “Ganges Mahamudra,” translated by Khenpo David Karma Choephel

06/08/2025

04/08/2025

GURU RINPOCHE DAY

“In the north-western part of the land of Oddiyana, on an island in the lake of Dhanakosha, the blessings of all the buddhas took shape in the form of a multi-coloured lotus flower. Moved by compassion at the suffering of sentient beings, the Buddha Amitabha sent out from his heart a golden vajra, marked with the syllable HRIH, which descended onto the lotus blossom. It transformed into an exquisitely beautiful eight year old child, endowed with all the major and minor marks of perfection, and holding a vajra and a lotus. At that moment all the buddhas of the ten directions, together with hundreds of thousands of dakinis from different celestial realms, invoked the blessings and the incarnation of all the buddhas for the benefit of beings and the flourishing of the secret mantra teachings. Their invocation is known as ‘The Seven Verses of the Vajra’, or ‘The Seven Line Prayer’.” (Text from Rigpa Wiki)

༄༅། །གུ་རུ་རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་ཚིག་བདུན་གསོལ་འདེབས་བཞུགས་སོ། །
The Seven Line Prayer

ཧཱུྂ༔ ཨོ་རྒྱན་ཡུལ་གྱི་ནུབ་བྱང་མཚམས༔
hung orgyen yul gyi nubjang tsam
Hūṃ! In the north-west of the land of Oḍḍiyāṇa,
པདྨ་གེ་སར་སྡོང་པོ་ལ༔
pema gesar dongpo la
In the heart of a lotus flower,
ཡ་མཚན་མཆོག་གི་དངོས་གྲུབ་བརྙེས༔
yatsen chok gi ngödrub nyé
Endowed with the most marvellous attainments,
པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་ཞེས་སུ་གྲགས༔
pema jungné shyé su drak
You are renowned as the ‘Lotus-born’,
འཁོར་དུ་མཁའ་འགྲོ་མང་པོས་བསྐོར༔
khor du khandro mangpö kor
Surrounded by many hosts of ḍākinīs.
ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་རྗེས་སུ་བདག་བསྒྲུབ་ཀྱི༔
khyé kyi jesu dak drub kyi
Following in your footsteps,
བྱིན་གྱིས་བརླབ་ཕྱིར་གཤེགས་སུ་གསོལ༔
jingyi lab chir shek su sol
I pray to you: Come, inspire me with your blessing!
གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྂ༔
guru pema siddhi hung

Link to the complete text from Rigpa Wiki here:
https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Padmasambhava

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Ringu Tulku Rinpoche gave a teaching on February 28th, 2023 and March, 1rst, 2023, on “The Seven Line Prayer to Guru Rinpoche” based on "White Lotus" by Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche. Click here to listen to his teaching on Ringu Tulku Archive:
https://bodhicharya.org/teachings/archives/the-seven-line-prayer-of-guru-rinpoche

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Photo: Cover of the book “White Lotus: An Explanation of the Seven-Line Prayer to Guru Padmasambhava”, by Jamgon Mipham, translated by Padmakara Translation Group.

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27/07/2025

CHOKHOR DUCHEN
July, 28th, 2025

Chökhor Düchen, the 'Festival of Turning the Wheel of Dharma' is "one of the four major Buddhist holidays. It occurs on the fourth day of the sixth Tibetan lunar month. For seven weeks after his enlightenment, Buddha did not teach. Finally, encouraged by Indra and Brahma, he turned the Wheel of Dharma for the first time, at Sarnath, by teaching the ‘Four Noble Truths’."

Text and picture from www.rigpawiki.org