As Wide As The Skies
Ngagpa life in the Nyingma tradition
White robes, long hair, earrings and the entire life dedicated to Dharma practice.
This blog aims to provide insights and starting points for getting in touch with the tradition of non-monastic, tantric practitioners of the Tibetan Buddhist Nyingmapa school through classical texts, my own reflections and announcements for events.
Within the Nyingmapa school, my home base is particularly the Düdjom Tersar lineage. In this short treasure lineage stemming from the late 19th and 20th centuries, the community of non-celibate yogis and yoginis is emphatically preserved and practiced to this day.
And in addition to the other well-known practice methods of this lineage, it is above all the chöd methods of the Thröma Nagmo cycle according to the Upper Thröma lineage that I wish to give a homestead here.
Texts, Translations and More
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Additional Advice on the View – Dilgo Khyentse’s Advice to the Ngagpas of Rebkong (excerpt 3)
The most important key point among these instructions is the meaning of what is called the “view as the inseparable truth of purity and equality”. If explained in an easily understandable way, it means: the five elements of the outer container of the inanimate world are the five mother consorts. The five skandha accumulations of…
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A Banquet of Nectar, useful advice to ngagpas – Dilgo Khyentse’s Advice to the Ngagpas of Rebkong (excerpt 2)
This is Dilgo Khyente’s commentary on Guru Rinpoche’s Advice to the Ngagpas of Tibet, another excerpt from Dilgo Khyente’s Advice to the Ngagpas of Rebkong I bow to the vajra lama Padmasambhava! The glorious great master from Oddiyana gave to us ngagpas teachings in which he spoke: [1]You ngagpas of Tibet who have entered the…
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A Prayer to Düdjom Lingpa
Düdjom Lingpa was one of the great treasure discoverers, living in the second half of the 19th century in eastern Tibet. It is this lineage that I mainly practice in. Here is a famous invocation to him that introduces each of my practice sessions: Nature itself of the non-deceptive Three Jewels,supreme expression of the three…
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Dilgo Khyentse’s Advice to the Ngagpas of Rebkong (excerpt 1)
When you tie your hair at the crown of your head, pray undistractedly to the refuge, the lama! When your stream of being enters the blessing, you are a ngagpa. When you hold mala or kila in your hands, meditate your meditation deity and do creation and mantra recitation! When you attain ultimate realization, you…
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Guru Rinpoche’s Advice to the Ngagpas of Tibet
From the (Account of Guru Rinpoche’s) Complete Liberation, The Copper Temple[1], Chapter 28 Then Sangyä Yeshe and the other ngagpas of Tibet asked༔ “Guru, since you do not intend to stay but to go to India༔ what should the Tibetan ngagpas of future generations do?”༔ The Master spoke༔. “You ngagpas of Tibet who have entered the Secret…
Lama Christian's Dharma World (English Language Version) 