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10 Paramitas

• The Ten Paramitas – actions which are free from the crimp of duality, which arise spontaneously from the non-dual state.

22 female disciples

• Mélong Za Rinchen Tso – she hung her white robes on the rays of the sun and danced naked in the mountains.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

25 mahasiddhas of Chhimphu

• Mélong Za Rinchen Tso – she hung her white robes on the rays of the sun and danced naked in the mountains.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

8 female heart disciples

• Mélong Za Rinchen Tso – she hung her white robes on the rays of the sun and danced naked in the mountains.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

A’a

• A’a – the symbol of the sphere of visionary appearance

Adultery

• The five Owl Precepts – contain the profound inner meaning of the five precepts commonly found within the Sutras, and as such provide an extraordinary base for approaching Dzogchen.
• Tralam-mé – is the mode in which people accidentally rhyme with each other.

Air burial

• Ngak’phang gÇodpa – photographed during ‘air-burial’ rites.

Air element

• Düd’jom Lineage Tree – wisdom which does not seek to manipulate phenomena in order to experience a contrived dualistic adaptation of reality.

A’jam Rinpoche

• Ngakpa A’jam Rinpoche – a yogi of the Longchen Nying-thig lineage.

A-Kyong Düd’dül Dorje

• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – the Aro gTér tradition was to wear the gZi bead on its own as a symbol of the function of the protectors.
• 2005 craft retreat – the nine pronged dorje that tops the handle is characteristic of Aro gTér vajra weapons.
• 2005 craft retreat – the nine pronged dorje that tops the handle is characteristic of Aro gTér vajra weapons.
• 2005 craft retreat – the practitioner impales his or her own neurosis in order to liberate the basic fear of the non dual state.
• A-Kyong Düd’dül Dorje – was extraordinarily skilled in making phurbas in metal and wood, as well as bone, ivory, and other materials.
• Aro Yeshé – the bell and vajra depict him as being the heir of ’a-Shul Pema Legden.
• Aro Yeshé – the meteorite iron phurba was originally made for ’a-Shul Pema Legden by his friend A-Kyong Düd’dül Dorje.
• Aro Yeshé – the skull damaru given to him by Khandro Yeshé Dzü’drül, the sister of A-Kyong Düd’dül Dorje.
• Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö – is the mistress of Wisdom-chaos, yeshé ’cholwa.

A-Kyong phurba

• A-kyong Phurba – takes its form from The Nine Enriching Phurbas of Ngak’chang A-kyong Düd’dül Dorje.

Albino

• Aro Yeshé – wearing his hair in the thor-tshug style.

Amulets

• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – making these amulets was one of the ritual practices he would have performed for the Gar.

Anger

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part III: the basis of compassion is realising that samsara does not work.

Ani

• Geshé Tekchog – was exceptionally down to earth and seemed to have a keen understanding of Western life.
• Getsulma Bumchung – lives in permanent semi-open retreat in Tso Pema where she has a retreat cave.

Animal-headed dakas/dakinis

• Ga-phong Dongma – is a yidam of the Aro gTér who is invoked as a means of emotional and mental healing.

A’pho Rinpoche

• A’pho Rinpoche – a great ngak’phang Lama of the Drukpa Kagyüd School.
• A’pho Rinpoche – wearing formal empowerment robes and the hat of the Drukpa Kagyüd School.
• Kushog Jampal – organised the Confederate Sanghas of Aro pilgrimage to Lahaul, Spiti, Zanskar, and Ladhak in 1992.

Appeal

• Drala Jong – the Aro Buddhist tradition wishes to establish a permanent centre in Britain.

Appliqué

• Khyungchen Aro Lingma applique – we had the joy of practising in the fully refurbished shrine room with the applique hanging on the main wall.
• Padmasambhava applique – appliqué thangkas were traditional in Tibet.
• Padmasambhava applique – dorje and phurba are also fabric.
• Padmasambhava applique – in 1994 the first appliqué thangka of Padmasambhava was created.
• Padmasambhava applique – in 2006 it was given a little renovation.
• Padmasambhava applique – in the form of Guru Nang-srid Zilngön.
• Padmasambhava applique – sewing the form of Padmasambhava onto the new backing and frame.
• Padmasambhava applique – the khatvangha.
• Padmasambhava applique – the new face.
• Padmasambhava applique – the skull bowl and phurba.
• Padmasambhava applique – worthwhile projects such as the creation of tantric art like appliqués.
• Yeshé Tsogyel applique – finishing the appliqué with a real sense of accomplishment.

Apprentice retreat

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen – apprentice retreat.

Aro Yeshé

• A-yé Khandro – was fond of dogs.
• A-yé Khandro –was regarded as epitomising the Mind transmission of Aro Lingma.

Aro Gar

• A-shé Khandro – one of the two Sang-yums of Aro Yeshé.
• A-shé Khandro – performed a motherly rôle to Aro Yeshé and her sister A-yé Khandro
• A-shé Khandro – wears the Dzogchen blue chuba or gown.
• A-yé Khandro – the younger of the two sisters who were the sangyums of Aro Yeshé.
• Sangha expedition – the landscape echoes images of the original Aro Gar in Tibet that arose in my mind from Ngak’chang Rinpoche’s description.

Aro gTér

• Aro gTér – is a cycle of teachings revealed by Aro Lingma and is based entirely in the three Inner Tantras.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – was the name she received from Yeshé Tsogyel.
• Nine Bardos – in order to have some apprehension of what death is, one has to die.

Aro information

• Aro gTér – is a cycle of teachings revealed by Aro Lingma and is based entirely in the three Inner Tantras.
• Drala Jong – the Aro Buddhist tradition wishes to establish a permanent centre in Britain.
• Sister sites – details of the Aro Buddhism websites.

Aro introduction

• Aro gTér – is a cycle of teachings revealed by Aro Lingma and is based entirely in the three Inner Tantras.

Aro Khalding Tsang

• Aro Khalding Tsang – the Aro Lingma applique hangs on the main wall.
• Khalding Tsang shrineroom – re-painting of the shrineroom.
• Khalding Tsang shrineroom – we painted the picture rail gold, a task that had not been completed when the shrine room was first created.

Aro Lineage

• ’a-Shul Pema Legden – is portrayed as much older than he would have been at the time of his first meeting with Khyungchen Aro Lingma.
• ’a-Shul Pema Legden – was the gTér scribe and visionary artist of Khalden Lingpa.
• A-shé Khandro – one of the two Sang-yums of Aro Yeshé.
• A-shé Khandro – performed a motherly rôle to Aro Yeshé and her sister A-yé Khandro
• A-shé Khandro – swathed in the red, white and blue striped shawl of the gö-kar chang-lo’i de.
• A-shé Khandro – wears the Dzogchen blue chuba or gown.
• A-yé Khandro – the younger of the two sisters who were the sangyums of Aro Yeshé.
• Aro History Thangka – depicts the meeting of Aro Lingma (as Khandro Yeshé Rema) with ’a-Shul Pema Legden.
• Aro History Thangka – depicts the meeting of Aro Lingma (as Khandro Yeshé Rema) with ’a-Shul Pema Legden.
• Aro Yeshé – the son and only child of the Nyingma gTérton Khyungchen Aro Lingma.
• Chö-ying Nyima ’ö-Zér – as the consort of Rinchen Gyaltsen Rinpoche she had received many empowerments and details of practice.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – discovered twenty-three volumes of gTérma, and other gTérma of different types.
• Jomo Chhi’mèd Pema – was mainly regarded as an eccentric goat herder with powers of healing and weather prediction.
• Khandro Chenmo Yeshé Tsogyel – her gaze is at once soft and penetrating; compassionate yet playfully wrathful.
• Khandro Rig’dzin Takmo – was one of the ‘Five Dakini Mothers’ of Aro Yeshé.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – a fine thangka.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – drawing.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – holds a vajra spear.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – in her belt is a vajra hatchet.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – one of the Five Adoptive Mothers.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – was accomplished in wrathful practices.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – wears a leopard skin shamthab.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – wears a mélong and gZi stone.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – wears a mélong and gZi stone.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – wears a mélong and gZi stone.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – wears a mélong and gZi stone.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – wears a mélong and gZi stone.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – the red sash at her waist denotes the practice of gTumo.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – was a pure-vision gTértön, a discoverer of spiritual treasures.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – was the name she received from Yeshé Tsogyel.
• Monmo Tashi Chhi’dren – is shown descending like a thunderbolt form the skies, wielding two phurbas.
• Mother Essence Lineage – Aro Lingma made a long drawn out hiss with her lips drawn up into wrathful aspect, as if she were performing a Tsa-lung breathing exercise.
• Mother Essence Lineage – glossary.
• Mother Essence Lineage – in the Mother Essence Lineage Jomo Menmo is regarded as the incarnation of Ma-gÇig Labdrön.
• Mother Essence Lineage – in the Nyingma tradition every male ngak’phang Lama is perceived as Padmasambhava by his disciples and his sangyum is perceived as Yeshé Tsogyel.
• Mother Essence Lineage – when Pema ’ö-Zér was in her late teens, her aunt Jomo Chhi’mèd Pema left the house and never returned.
• Mother Essence Lineage – Yeshé Tsogyel is the greatest inspiration and role model for women.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen – the harmonious and happy relationship of Ngak’chang Rinpoche Khandro Déchen is both an inspiration and example to their apprentices.
• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – made four special ngakrus that he gave to Aro Yeshé on the instruction of Aro Lingma.
• Rang-rig Togden – crafted the drum from five male skulls and five female skulls. The skulls were riveted together as five lobes linked by other sections of skull.
• Rang-rig Togden – iron was the metal upon which ngak’phang practice was grounded.
• Rang-rig Togden – was a gÇod-pa when he met Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér.

Aro Lingma

• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – the Aro gTér tradition was to wear the gZi bead on its own as a symbol of the function of the protectors.
• ’a-Shul Pema Legden – is portrayed as much older than he would have been at the time of his first meeting with Khyungchen Aro Lingma.
• ’a-Shul Pema Legden – was the gTér scribe and visionary artist of Khalden Lingpa.
• A-Kyong Düd’dül Dorje – was extraordinarily skilled in making phurbas in metal and wood, as well as bone, ivory, and other materials.
• A-shé Khandro – performed a motherly rôle to Aro Yeshé and her sister A-yé Khandro
• A-shé Khandro – swathed in the red, white and blue striped shawl of the gö-kar chang-lo’i de.
• A-yé Khandro – the younger of the two sisters who were the sangyums of Aro Yeshé.
• A-yé Khandro – was fond of dogs.
• A-yé Khandro –was regarded as epitomising the Mind transmission of Aro Lingma.
• Aro History Thangka – depicts the meeting of Aro Lingma (as Khandro Yeshé Rema) with ’a-Shul Pema Legden.
• Aro Yeshé – although it is called the ‘peaceful empowerment shawl’ it was also used for Dzogchen transmission.
• Aro Yeshé – the bell and vajra depict him as being the heir of ’a-Shul Pema Legden.
• Aro Yeshé – the meteorite iron phurba was originally made for ’a-Shul Pema Legden by his friend A-Kyong Düd’dül Dorje.
• Aro Yeshé – the son and only child of the Nyingma gTérton Khyungchen Aro Lingma.
• Aro Yeshé – wearing his hair in the thor-tshug style.
• Aro Yeshé – wearing the gomtag he was bequeathed by his mother and Tsa-wa’i Lama, Khyungchen Aro Lingma.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – discovered twenty-three volumes of gTérma, and other gTérma of different types.
• Dzogchen Garuda – Khyungchen Aro Lingma means The Great Lady Garuda who tastes the Primordial A.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – a great number of eagles appeared in the sky at her birth.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – close up of figure.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – close up of figure.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – close-up of figure.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – face.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – face.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – figure.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – figure.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – gomtag.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – gomtag.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – gZi.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – line drawing.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – mélong.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – mélong.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – mudra.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – received several cycles of practice directly from Yeshé Tsogyel, the female Buddha and consort of Padmasambhava.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – statue front view.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – statue side view.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – the red sash at her waist denotes the practice of gTumo.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – was a pure-vision gTértön, a discoverer of spiritual treasures.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – was the name she received from Yeshé Tsogyel.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma appliqué – the appliqué thangka will be carried to retreats and places where teachings are given, as an inspirational image.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma appliqué – the intensity and inspiration of the experience is heightened in this setting.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma applique – craft as practice is an ancient aspect of the gö-kar chang-lo’i dé.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma applique – the craft retreat is a wondrously joyful opportunity to be intensely and passionately present.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma applique – the craft retreat is a wondrously joyful opportunity to be intensely and passionately present.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma applique – we had the joy of practising in the fully refurbished shrine room with the applique hanging on the main wall.
• Mother Essence Lineage – Aro Lingma made a long drawn out hiss with her lips drawn up into wrathful aspect, as if she were performing a Tsa-lung breathing exercise.
• Nine Bardos – in order to have some apprehension of what death is, one has to die.

Aro tülku

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – is known particularly for his presentation of Dzogchen sem-dé and the Khandro Pawo Nyi-da Mélong Gyüd

Aro Tradition

• Mother Essence Lineage – in the Nyingma tradition every male ngak’phang Lama is perceived as Padmasambhava by his disciples and his sangyum is perceived as Yeshé Tsogyel.

Aro Yeshé

• ’a-Shul Pema Legden – is portrayed as much older than he would have been at the time of his first meeting with Khyungchen Aro Lingma.
• A-shé Khandro – one of the two Sang-yums of Aro Yeshé.
• A-shé Khandro – performed a motherly rôle to Aro Yeshé and her sister A-yé Khandro
• A-shé Khandro – wears the Dzogchen blue chuba or gown.
• A-yé Khandro – the younger of the two sisters who were the sangyums of Aro Yeshé.
• Aro Yeshé – although it is called the ‘peaceful empowerment shawl’ it was also used for Dzogchen transmission.
• Aro Yeshé – depicted with his dorje and drilbu, the implements of method and wisdom.
• Aro Yeshé – shown here in the Dzogchen posture sometimes known as ‘mind in relaxation’ and sometimes as ‘mind resting in comfort and ease’.
• Aro Yeshé – sits on a tiger skin in the tradition of Aro Lingma.
• Aro Yeshé – the bell and vajra depict him as being the heir of ’a-Shul Pema Legden.
• Aro Yeshé – the meteorite iron phurba was originally made for ’a-Shul Pema Legden by his friend A-Kyong Düd’dül Dorje.
• Aro Yeshé – the skull damaru given to him by Khandro Yeshé Dzü’drül, the sister of A-Kyong Düd’dül Dorje.
• Aro Yeshé – the son and only child of the Nyingma gTérton Khyungchen Aro Lingma.
• Aro Yeshé – wearing his hair in the thor-tshug style.
• Aro Yeshé – wearing the gomtag he was bequeathed by his mother and Tsa-wa’i Lama, Khyungchen Aro Lingma.
• Aro Yeshé statue – made by Rabi Raj Shakya.
• Aro Yeshé statue – the figure fits onto a base.
• Aro Yeshé statue – the son and principal disciple of Aro Lingma.
• Aro Yeshé statue – wears his hair in a top knot on the top of his head in the thor-tshug style.
• Chö-ying Nyima ’ö-Zér – as the consort of Rinchen Gyaltsen Rinpoche she had received many empowerments and details of practice.
• Khandro Shardröl – she became a wandering yogini in the region of Golok where she met Khyungchen Aro Lingma and became her disciple.
• Mother Essence Lineage – Aro Lingma made a long drawn out hiss with her lips drawn up into wrathful aspect, as if she were performing a Tsa-lung breathing exercise.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche interviewed by Ngakma Yeshé – ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

Aro yidams

• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – a form of Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel in union manifesting as the yidam of compassion.
• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – a form of Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel in union manifesting as the yidam of compassion.
• Ögyen Dzambhala – carries the mongoose.
• Ögyen Dzambhala – in the foreground of the thangka are five gTérbums.
• Ögyen Dzambhala – stands aloft a montain of jewels.
• Ögyen Dzambhala – the five-coloured garuda flies from the tip of a golden vajra.
• Ögyen Garuda – is Padmakara in the form of the immense space eagle who is born fully enlightened and in full flight.
• Ögyen Jampalyang – devours all attempts to validate unkindness or concretise non-dual intelligence.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – Ögyen Chenrézigs and Yeshé Tsogyel each hold a dorje.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – Ögyen Chenrézigs and Yeshé Tsogyel each hold a dorje.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the conch shell has many symbolic meanings.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the faces.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the figures close up.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the figures.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the red and white of the hat reflects the symbology of male and female.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – Yeshé Tsogyel wears lapis lazuli ornaments.
• Black Ögyen Jampalyang – the obsidian mélong he holds in his upper left hand is ornamented by the five-fold reality flag of Khyungchen Aro Lingma.
• Blue Seng-gé Dongma – wears the wrathful five-skull crown.
• Dorje Tröllö – the master of Wisdom-chaos.
• Dorje Tröllö – the Wisdom-chaos manifestation of the Padmasambhava.
• Dzambhala – a powerful testament to the real nature of wealth as the transcendence of the ‘pure/impure dichotomy’.
• Ga-phong Dongma – inhabits the dark, like an impenetrable shadow of terror in which all minions of delusion perish in the immutable gloom of her presence.
• Ga-phong Dongma – is a yidam of the Aro gTér who is invoked as a means of emotional and mental healing.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – crushes every narrow emaciated endeavour to violate the burgeoning belly of Dharma.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – holds the nine-pronged flaying knife.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – in her left hand she holds the colossal skull bowl.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – is the most voluptuous and energetic.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – she displays the magical energy of the natural state.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – the green lion headed dakini.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – the most voluptuous and energetic of the Seng-gé Dongma yidams.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – the naked corpulent magical mother.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – wears a profusely beaded human bone skirt, draped over her gargantuan, commanding thighs.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – ‘The Corpulent Red Lioness of Maniacal Mutilation’, or ‘The Obsessed Obese Mistress of Magical Mastery’.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – in terms of the three kayas she is Kuntuzangmo, the wisdom ground of being.
• Seng-gé Dradog – the roar of the vajra master in his terrific environment.
• White Seng-gé Dongma – inexplicably injures misconceptions.
• Yellow Seng-gé Dongma – miraculously overawes misconceptions.

arobuddhism.org

• Sister sites – details of the Aro Buddhism websites.

Arrow

• Ögyen Jampalyang – devours all attempts to validate unkindness or concretise non-dual intelligence.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – conches.

A-shé Khandro

• A-shé Khandro – one of the two Sang-yums of Aro Yeshé.
• A-shé Khandro – performed a motherly rôle to Aro Yeshé and her sister A-yé Khandro
• A-shé Khandro – sits on a lotus on sun and moon discs showing that her form is that of a yidam.
• A-shé Khandro – swathed in the red, white and blue striped shawl of the gö-kar chang-lo’i de.
• A-shé Khandro – the idea of offerings on a thangka or on a shrine concerns ‘making a connection’.
• A-shé Khandro – the wide open eyes are typical of the expression of a Dzogchen master and portray relaxed presence which is at once vast and infinitesimally subtle.
• A-shé Khandro – wears one of the three gomtags which were handed down from Jomo Chhi’mèd Pema to Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér to Aro Lingma.
• A-shé Khandro – wears the Dzogchen blue chuba or gown.
• A-yé Khandro – had a way of looking at people which put them into a non-conceptual state.
• A-yé Khandro – the younger of the two sisters who were the sangyums of Aro Yeshé.
• A-yé Khandro – was fond of dogs.
• A-yé Khandro –was regarded as epitomising the Mind transmission of Aro Lingma.
• Aro Yeshé – the son and only child of the Nyingma gTérton Khyungchen Aro Lingma.

A-shong Rig’dzin Gyalmo

• Khandro Shardröl – held a family tradition related to the bird-headed dakinis, which she had received from her mother.

’a-Shul Pema Legden

• ’a-Shul Pema Legden – is portrayed as much older than he would have been at the time of his first meeting with Khyungchen Aro Lingma.
• ’a-Shul Pema Legden – was the gTér scribe and visionary artist of Khalden Lingpa.
• A-Kyong Düd’dül Dorje – was extraordinarily skilled in making phurbas in metal and wood, as well as bone, ivory, and other materials.
• Aro History Thangka – depicts the meeting of Aro Lingma (as Khandro Yeshé Rema) with ’a-Shul Pema Legden.
• Aro Yeshé – the bell and vajra depict him as being the heir of ’a-Shul Pema Legden.
• Aro Yeshé – wearing his hair in the thor-tshug style.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – biography
• Dro’phang Lingpa – discovered twenty-three volumes of gTérma, and other gTérma of different types.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – was the name she received from Yeshé Tsogyel.
• Mother Essence Lineage – Aro Lingma made a long drawn out hiss with her lips drawn up into wrathful aspect, as if she were performing a Tsa-lung breathing exercise.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – is known particularly for his presentation of Dzogchen sem-dé and the Khandro Pawo Nyi-da Mélong Gyüd
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche interviewed by Ngakma Yeshé – ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

Aspiration

• The Ten Paramitas – actions which are free from the crimp of duality, which arise spontaneously from the non-dual state.

Ati Yoga

• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Attraction

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche interviewed by Ngakma Yeshé – ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

Autobiography

• Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche – autobiography

Aversion

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche interviewed by Ngakma Yeshé – ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

Awareness being

• Empowerment and guru yoga – in that moment ‘your’ mind and the Mind of the Lama are not separate; there is only Mind.
• Refuge – we seek protection from our own conceptual minds: from our compulsion to split reality into dualistic view; from our addiction to conditioned responses rooted in preconception.

A-yé Khandro

• A-shé Khandro – one of the two Sang-yums of Aro Yeshé.
• A-shé Khandro – performed a motherly rôle to Aro Yeshé and her sister A-yé Khandro
• A-shé Khandro – wears the Dzogchen blue chuba or gown.
• A-yé Khandro – close up of her posture.
• A-yé Khandro – had a way of looking at people which put them into a non-conceptual state.
• A-yé Khandro – her face expresses the four da.
• A-yé Khandro – is shown in the posture of one of a number of Dzogchen long-dé practices.
• A-yé Khandro – stepping into activity for the benefit of everyone and everything everywhere.
• A-yé Khandro – the image needs to be inspiring.
• A-yé Khandro – the younger of the two sisters who were the sangyums of Aro Yeshé.
• A-yé Khandro – was fond of dogs.
• A-yé Khandro –was regarded as epitomising the Mind transmission of Aro Lingma.
• Aro Yeshé – the son and only child of the Nyingma gTérton Khyungchen Aro Lingma.

Ballistics

• …and the art of ballistics – there is a moment there that you have to find.

Bar-ché Dorje

• Naljorpa Bar-ché – has a great natural ability for the physical yogas and vajra dance.

Bardo

• Lama’i Naljor – authenticates the relationship between Teacher and student.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – a key part of the ordination ceremony within the Aro lineage is empowerment with the implements of a tantrika.
• Nine Bardos – in order to have some apprehension of what death is, one has to die.

Bardo Thödrol

• Nine Bardos – in order to have some apprehension of what death is, one has to die.

Bear tribe

• Sun Bear – continued throughout his life to learn from his dreams and visions as well as from Native teachers.

Begtsé

• Begtsé offerings – a practitioner of this protector could own such an offering thangka.

Biography

• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – biography
• Khamtrül Yeshé Dorje Rinpoche – biography
• Khandro Déchen – biography.
• Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche – biography
• Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoche – biography
• Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche – autobiography
• Naljorpa Bar-ché – has a great natural ability for the physical yogas and vajra dance.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – is known particularly for his presentation of Dzogchen sem-dé and the Khandro Pawo Nyi-da Mélong Gyüd
• Ngala ’ö-Dzin Tridral – my mother was always kind; I think this was one of the greatest influences in my upbringing.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – years later that I realised I had been receiving oral transmission of Dzogchen from him in answer to most of my questions about practice.
• Ngala Nor’dzin and Ngala ’ö-Dzin – joint biography

Craig yr Aderyn

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – sits on Bird Rock at the conclusion of a teaching and transmission of Dzogchen Men-ngag-dé.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen – walk to the peak of Bird Rock where they sing the Seven-Line Song of Padmasambhava to the gTérma tune called Flight of the Vulture.
• Sangha expedition – Craig-yr-Aderyn (Bird Rock) is now a place of pilgrimage, as the place where Khandro Déchen danced and received ordination.

Blessing

• gTérbum – almost seemed to start to hum as Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen performed the rite and scattered rice over them.
• gTérbum – it was an extraordinarily powerful sight to see the completed gTérbum displayed altogether like that for the first and only time.

Blue Seng-gé Dongma

• Blue Seng-gé Dongma – wears the wrathful five-skull crown.

Bodhicitta

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part I: however you are is the perfect basis from where you travel.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part II: the word bodhicitta is much larger than the word compassion.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part III: the basis of compassion is realising that samsara does not work.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part IV: it is important to be able to accept oneself as one actually is.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part IX: with a greater subtlety of connection, there is a wider dispersal of appreciation.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part V: they can be different because there are different methods.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part VI: there are many different perspectives on what is required.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part VII: the teacher is a manifestation—through personality display—of many different things..
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part VIII: there are many things within Tantra that are reflections of human life; but they have been appropriated through wisdom and compassion.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part X: this is the refuge of no-refuge; it is complete.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part XI: seven-line song is a complete practice in itself.
• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.
• Kindness – we know what it means to be kind.
• Ngöndro – the Dzogchen view of Tantric ngöndro.
• Questions with Ngak’chang Rinpoche – the Nature of Tantra & Bodhicitta.

Bodhisattvabuddhayana

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part IV: it is important to be able to accept oneself as one actually is.
• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.
• Questions with Ngak’chang Rinpoche – Beyond Bodhisattvabuddhayana.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Bön

• Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche – is a Bön Lama whom Ngak’chang Rinpoche met in 1988 in Devon, England.

Bone apron

• Ru rGyan – human bone cemetery ornaments are worn on various occasions, but mainly within Tantric dance.

Bone neckpiece

• Ru rGyan – this tabard style is the female equivalent to the crossed chest piece worn by yogis.

Bongtrül Rinpoche

• Bongtrül Rinpoche – entered Lho Lungkar Gompa where he received teachings on Dzogchen and especially Dzogchen Tögal.

Boredom

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche, Khandro Déchen and Robert – Ngak’chang Rinpoche explained to Robert that boredom is only experienced by people who are boring.

Bow

• Ögyen Jampalyang – devours all attempts to validate unkindness or concretise non-dual intelligence.

Buddha

• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.

Buddha karmas

• A-kyong Phurba – takes its form from The Nine Enriching Phurbas of Ngak’chang A-kyong Düd’dül Dorje.

Buddhism

• Aro gTér – is a cycle of teachings revealed by Aro Lingma and is based entirely in the three Inner Tantras.
• Dr Greenberg interviews Ngak’chang Rinpoche – rebirth is a beneficial working hypothesis.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche interviewed by Ngakma Yeshé – ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

Buddhism in the West

• Tharchin Rinpoche – letter to the editor of tricycle.

Cadair Idris

• Sangha expedition – Craig-yr-Aderyn (Bird Rock) is now a place of pilgrimage, as the place where Khandro Déchen danced and received ordination.
• Sangha expedition – it was also intended to end the nine day retreat with the ascent of the mountain, ‘Cadair Idris’.
• Sangha expedition – that preparedness is, in itself a very powerful catalyst of spiritual unfolding.
• Sangha expedition – the beautiful melody of this mantra reverberated around the mountain ridge.
• Sangha expedition – the gentle movement of the water offered an ideal opportunity for practising integration with the moving element of water.
• Sangha expedition – the lakes look so inviting after a hard walk on a hot day.
• Sangha expedition – the landscape echoes images of the original Aro Gar in Tibet that arose in my mind from Ngak’chang Rinpoche’s description.
• Sangha expedition – we were happy to set up our tents at the campsite at the foot of Cadair Idris.

Calligraphy

• A’a – the symbol of the sphere of visionary appearance
• Ho – is the courageous pronouncement of the hopelessness which is beyond fear
• Hri – is the unification of the three spheres of being.
• Hung – the seed syllable of Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel.
• Hung – the syllable portrayed in the colours of the elements.
• Hung – the symbol of the sphere of realised manifestation.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – there is no tradition of spontaneous calligraphy in Tibet as there was in China and Japan.
• Om – the symbol of emptiness

Calligraphy circle

• Calligraphy circle – the starting point for a calligraphy..

Celebration

• Ngala ’ö-Dzin – the celebration is a joyous event in which one's personal boundaries are challenged through performing.

Celibacy

• Tralam-mé – we have established that our teaching disciples will also be entirely, joyously, and unreservedly monogamous.

gÇerdrol

• Dzogchen – non-dual realisation depends upon discovering as real that which was beginninglessly there: the primordial base.

Chag’düd Rinpoche

• Chag’düd Rinpoche – had given an empowerment of phowa, the rite of transference of consciousness.
• Chag’düd Rinpoche – is wearing the Dorje Zahorma hat of his tradition and the red and white striped shawl of the ngak’phang tradition.
• Chag’düd Rinpoche – Ngak’chang Rinpoche first met HE Chag’düd Tulku Rinpoche in Britain in the Summer of 1985.
• Chag’düd Rinpoche – played many rôles once he escaped Tibet, not only as a spiritual guide but also as an administrator with various duties dealing with Nyingma refugee settlements.
• Chag’düd Rinpoche – while still young he experienced the nature of Mind and found it easy to leave behind mundane concerns.
• Jig’mèd Trom-gé Rinpoche – regularly leads nyung-ne retreats, which involve fasting, prostrations and offerings to Chenrezigs.

Chagdar Rinpoche

• Chagdar Rinpoche – was respected as a siddha of considerable repute, and had attained the siddhi of flight.

Chagpa Dorje

• Dispelling the Darkness of Doubt – a spontaneously arising song revealing the symbolic nature of the three secrets of the gö-kar chang-lo’i dé

Chang

• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – was the incarnation of Khalden Lingpa, a great gTérton of the turn of the 19th and 20th century.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – wearing the lineage crown of the Khordong tradition.

Changchub sem

• Kindness – we know what it means to be kind.

Changchub-sem

• Questions with Ngak’chang Rinpoche – the Nature of Tantra & Bodhicitta.

Chant

• Chant & Yogic Song – in Tantric dön-pa the words are used as a guide to visualisation.
• Inner & Outer Dimensions of Sound – music at these assemblies would range between spoken recitation, and forms which are increasingly musical.
• Inner & Outer Dimensions of Sound – solo singing was performed in the context of both transmission and of inspirational song.

Char-gÇodpa

• Tröma Nakmo – this image is a tsak-li, a miniature thangka painting used to confer empowerment.

Charisma

• Tralam-mé – is the mode in which people accidentally rhyme with each other.

Charnel ground

• A’pho Rinpoche – a great ngak’phang Lama of the Drukpa Kagyüd School.
• Ngak’phang gÇodpa – photographed during ‘air-burial’ rites.

Charok Crown

• Charok Crown – used during empowerment ceremonies for the practices of Za Rahula, the Raven Headed Dakini and the Raven Headed Mamo.

Chatral Rinpoche

• Chatral Rinpoche – holder of the Düd’jom gTér lineage.
• Chatral Rinpoche – wearing a special form of the Dorje Zahorma hat which is particular to his tradition.
• Chatral Rinpoche – wish path.

Chenrezigs

• Chenrezigs – inspires practitioners to engage in kindness-view and kindness-action.

Cherdrol

• gÇerdrol

Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche

• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin – at Southerndown Beach in South Wales in the Spring of 1984.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – was the incarnation of Khalden Lingpa, a great gTérton of the turn of the 19th and 20th century.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – always mentioned his teachers and their importance in his life.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – biography
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – gave a series of teachings and empowerments on the Yorkshire Moors.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – gave a teaching on Dzogchen men-ngag-dé in which he took the imagery of his oral transmission from the nature of the ocean and its waves.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – gave teachings on gÇod.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – gave the empowerments of Tröma Nakmo, Seng-gé Dongma, and Dorje Tröllö
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – had been known for his magical abilities and power over the weather;
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – he then proceeded to place them in a pattern on the hat.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – is shown wearing the conch earrings of the gö-kar chang-lo and an ivory takdröl.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – received many empowerments from Rig’dzin Chenpo Nyam-né Dorje and many other Lamas.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – swift rebirth wish path
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – The ’Khordong Lotus Hat.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – the apprentices were fortunate to have the rare opportunity to spend time with him in a relaxed and informal manner.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – the fourth incarnation of Nuden Dorje Dro’phang Lingpa Tröllö Tsal.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – the Mahasiddha’s Carefree laughter.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – there were myriads of him as phenomena that he commanded effortlessly.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – took Daniel’s hand, and spoke very gently to him.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – was one of the most important Nyingma Masters of the 20th century
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – was one of the most important Nyingma Masters of the 20th century.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – wearing the lineage crown of the Khordong tradition.
• Dorje Zahorma hat – made for the empowerments he was to give to the sangha.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – discovered twenty-three volumes of gTérma, and other gTérma of different types.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – the Ögyen Pèd-zha is particular to his lineage of Khordong.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – wearing Nyingma empowerment shawls.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche interviewed by Ngakma Yeshé – ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
• Ngak’phang gÇodpa – photographed during ‘air-burial’ rites.
• Presenting a Takdröl – ‘Everyone here has seen me do this!’.
• Presenting a Takdröl – Ngak’chang Rinpoche offered this takdröl back to Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche.
• Presenting a Takdröl – one takdröl was given to Ngak’chang Rinpoche on two different occasions.
• Presenting a Takdröl – the fact that I wore a takdröl seemed upsetting to some.
• Student teacher reflection – the Lama will allow you to access your enlightened nature by nudging you.
• Teaching in Frankfurt – the organisers seemed unable to comprehend the natural protocol and sincere etiquette between master and disciple.

Chö

• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.

Chö-ying Nyima ’ö-Zér

• Chö-ying Nyima ’ö-Zér – as the consort of Rinchen Gyaltsen Rinpoche she had received many empowerments and details of practice.
• Chö-ying Nyima ’ö-Zér – close up of face.
• Chö-ying Nyima ’ö-Zér – close up of figure.
• Chö-ying Nyima ’ö-Zér – close up of figure.
• Chö-ying Nyima ’ö-Zér – figure.
• Chö-ying Nyima ’ö-Zér – her father taught his daughter the science of astrology according to both the Chinese and Tibetan systems.

Chod

• gÇod

Chod drum

• gÇod drum

Chodpa

• gÇodpa

Chog-zhag

• Aro Yeshé – the son and only child of the Nyingma gTérton Khyungchen Aro Lingma.
• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.
• Dzogchen – these methods are secret, not because they are dangerous, but because the power of transmission would be jeopardised if they were given to people who could not comprehend them.

Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

• Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche – an appreciation of his language.
• Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche – military or martial appearance is a glorious offense to the politically correct.
• Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche – the eleventh incarnation in a lineage of great masters beginning with the mahasiddha Trungpa Kunga Gyaltsen.
• Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche – was one of the most outstanding Tibetan Vajrayana Masters to teach in the West.
• The Great 16th Karmapa – sent Rig’dzin Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Akong Tulku Rinpoche to Britain in 1967 where they established Samyé Ling.

Chö’gyür Lingpa

• gTértön – the Lama pictured is a discover of sa gTér or ‘earth treasure’.

Chökyi Wangchuk Rinpoche

• Chökyi Wangchuk Rinpoche – a Ngakpa Lama and an incarnation from the family clan of gTérton Ratna Lingpa.

Chuba

• A-shé Khandro – wears the Dzogchen blue chuba or gown.

Clarity

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part III: the basis of compassion is realising that samsara does not work.

gÇod

• gÇod thangka – wears a mélong and gZi stone.
• Ma-gÇig Labdrön – her mind left her body through the crown of her head as a rainbow, and disappeared into the vastness of space.
• Ma-gÇig Labdrön – the children and disciples of Ma-gÇig Labdrön all integrated these teachings into their hearts.
• Ma-gÇig Labdrön – the Indians declared her an incarnation of the Great Mother, and invited her to India.
• Ma-gÇig Labdrön – was the great Tibetan yogini who was the originator of the practice of gCod.
• Padampa Sang-gye – the unusual colour of his body is the combination of a dark skin dusted with cremation ash.
• Phuntsog Tulku – is a ngak’phang Lama and gTértön who presides over the Drigung Phuntsog Chöling Gompa in Wien (Vienna).
• Tröma Nakmo Gar’cham – gÇod is not a practice of Dharma we can apply within the cushioned comfort in our ever-so-commodious living rooms.

gÇod drum

• Ma-gÇig Labdrön – gÇod damaru
• Naljorpa Rangdröl Dorje – has become an extremely skilled drum maker.
• Rang-rig Togden – crafted the drum from five male skulls and five female skulls. The skulls were riveted together as five lobes linked by other sections of skull.
• Rang-rig Togden – the bell and gÇod drum are used extensively to accompany yogic song.
• Rang-rig Togden – was a Tamdrin (Hayagriva) master who was considered by Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér, to be a body emanation of Thangtong Gyalpo.

gÇodpa

• gÇodpa – the tousled mats of his hair are bound up on his head in the ralpa style in which matted strands of hair are also left to hang loose down his shoulders.
• gCodpa – close up.
• gCodpa – wears the tod-kheb waistcoat and gomthag characteristic of the ngak’phang naljorpa tradition.
• gCodpa – without fear for their own corporeal existence and thus able to bring comfort and support to others in times of crisis.
• Ngak’phang gÇodpa – photographed during ‘air-burial’ rites.
• Rang-rig Togden – was a Tamdrin (Hayagriva) master who was considered by Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér, to be a body emanation of Thangtong Gyalpo.
• Rang-rig Togden – wearing a blue chuba trimmed with the skins of tigers and leopards.

Commitment

• Ngöndro – maybe an alternative translation could be preparation, or method of establishing the experiential ground for practice.
• Questions with Ngak’chang Rinpoche – Commitments / Damtsig.

Compassion

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part I: however you are is the perfect basis from where you travel.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part II: the word bodhicitta is much larger than the word compassion.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part III: the basis of compassion is realising that samsara does not work.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part IV: it is important to be able to accept oneself as one actually is.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part IX: with a greater subtlety of connection, there is a wider dispersal of appreciation.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part V: they can be different because there are different methods.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part VI: there are many different perspectives on what is required.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part VII: the teacher is a manifestation—through personality display—of many different things..
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part VIII: there are many things within Tantra that are reflections of human life; but they have been appropriated through wisdom and compassion.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part X: this is the refuge of no-refuge; it is complete.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part XI: seven-line song is a complete practice in itself.
• Kindness – is where we start.
• Kindness – we know what it means to be kind.
• Questions with Ngak’chang Rinpoche – Compassion.

Conch

• Conch – the sound of liberation
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – conches.

Consciousness

• Dr Greenberg interviews Ngak’chang Rinpoche – rebirth is a beneficial working hypothesis.

Continuity

• Dr Greenberg interviews Ngak’chang Rinpoche – rebirth is a beneficial working hypothesis.

Costume

• Lineage and Costume – it can be an inspiration just to wear the costume of the lineage and know that you are a representative.

Cuckoo of Awareness

• Khandro Chenmo Yeshé Tsogyel – wears a blue chuba – symbolic of the colour of the Rigpa’i Kujug, ‘the cuckoo of Awareness’.

Cult

• The Vajra Master – when it actually came to the point of having to live Vajrayana, this proved impossible.

Cymbals

• Three unknown ngakpas – wearing the Dorje Zahorma hats of Nyingma Lamas, and the red, white, and blue striped shawls of the gö-kar chang-lo’ide.

Düd’jom Lingpa

• Düd’jom Lineage Tree – one with the power to establish the teachings of Vajrayana in the world.
• Düd’jom Lineage Tree – one would visualise one’s Root Lama as the central figure’s presence display, personality display and life circumstances display.
• Düd’jom Lineage Tree – wisdom which does not seek to manipulate phenomena in order to experience a contrived dualistic adaptation of reality.

Da

• A-yé Khandro – her face expresses the four da.
• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.

Da-da

• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – conches.

Dakini

• Khandro

Dam ngag

• Essential Characteristics of Vajrayana – vajra command.

Damaru

• Ivory Damaru – inseparability of emptiness and form.
• Ivory Damaru – the appended cho-phen or reality flag is red, white, and blue in colour.
• Ivory Damaru – with a braided chöphen.
• Rang-rig Togden – crafted the drum from five male skulls and five female skulls. The skulls were riveted together as five lobes linked by other sections of skull.

Damtsig

• Essential Characteristics of Vajrayana – vajra command.
• Essential Characteristics of Vajrayana – vajra commitment
• Establishing Vajra Commitment in the West – allowing one’s rationale to be challenged is the whole terrible truth of vajra commitment.
• Ngöndro – maybe an alternative translation could be preparation, or method of establishing the experiential ground for practice.
• Questions with Ngak’chang Rinpoche – Commitments / Damtsig.
• The Vajra Master – when it actually came to the point of having to live Vajrayana, this proved impossible.
• Vajra Masters – may be wrathful, but their ‘wrathfulness’ is never peevish, irritable, surly, petulant, or aggressively impatient.

Dance

• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – was the incarnation of Khalden Lingpa, a great gTérton of the turn of the 19th and 20th century.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – phurba dance.
• Nyima ’ö-Zér Gar’cham – on that occasion Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche represented Padmasambhava.
• Ordination Gar’cham – celebration of her vajra commitment with a gar’cham of Khyungchen Aro Lingma.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the air element phurba impales the neurosis of paranoia and anxiety.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the costume is relatively simple: a black skirt and black vest.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the dance of the water element phurba impales the neuroses connected with anger and aggression.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the dancers grip the phurbas in the mudra called Butadamara mudra, demon-dispelling mudra.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the fire element phurba impales the neuroses connected with obsession.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the phur-gon dancer makes the ‘stabbing motion’ which impales dualistic neurosis.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the phurba gar’cham is performed with free-flowing hair in the yogic style of Phod-ka Ling-nge.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the phurbas carried by the phur-gon have black silk sashes and these dancers dance first, last, and between each of the elemental dances.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the phurbas follow each other like swooping birds, leading with their heads rather than their blades.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the three-edged dagger of emptiness is sometimes called ‘the ego slaying dagger’.
• Phurba Gar’cham – this photograph was taken at eleven minutes past eleven on the eleventh of August 1999 at the time of the full solar eclipse.
• Tröma Nakmo Gar’cham – gÇod is not a practice of Dharma we can apply within the cushioned comfort in our ever-so-commodious living rooms.
• Tröma Nakmo Gar’cham – is performed precisely, decisively and swiftly.

Dang

• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – send a profusion of spectral patterns throughout the realms of dualistic delusion in order to liberate beings from their self-created suffering.
• A-shé Khandro – the idea of offerings on a thangka or on a shrine concerns ‘making a connection’.
• Dzogchen – non-dual realisation depends upon discovering as real that which was beginninglessly there: the primordial base.
• Dzogchen Garuda – Khyungchen Aro Lingma means The Great Lady Garuda who tastes the Primordial A.

Daniel (son of Ngala Nor’dzin & Ngala ’ö-Dzin)

• At Alton Towers – it was fascinating and illuminating to see how easily my perception was tricked.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – took Daniel’s hand, and spoke very gently to him.
• Daniel – and Richard were blessed by Ngak’chang Rinpoche when they were babies, and given the names Mikyö Dorje and Sem-nyid Dorje.
• Lopon Ögyen Rinpoche – composed the Aro gTér Lineage invocation which is recited at the beginning of retreats.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – is seen with Daniel and Richard at a retreat when they were quite young.
• Ngala Nor’dzin and Ngala ’ö-Dzin – the largest upstairs bedroom of their home has been furbished and decorated in the style of a traditional Tibetan shrine room.

Dawa Chödak Rinpoche

• Dawa Chödak Rinpoche – is mostly known for the Dorje Yudrönma mélong divination.

Dawa Ngödrüp

• Chö-ying Nyima ’ö-Zér – as the consort of Rinchen Gyaltsen Rinpoche she had received many empowerments and details of practice.
• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – detail of his table.
• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – had a prominent nose, so the children used to tease him a little about his rather odd appearance.
• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – his practice revolved around the healing arts and would have included ritual practice as well as the administration of herbal medicine.
• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – made four special ngakrus that he gave to Aro Yeshé on the instruction of Aro Lingma.
• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – making these amulets was one of the ritual practices he would have performed for the Gar.
• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – ngakru.
• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – they camped together in the high mountain valleys and taught the three children about herbs.
• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – was a practitioner of Ögyen Menlha.
• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – was an expert at observing and understanding the nature and properties of healing herbs.
• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – was the husband and spiritual consort of one of the Five Dakini Mothers of Aro Yeshé.
• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – wore an ivory ring in his hair that had been given to him by Aro Yeshé.
• Relaxing into Practice – interview with Ngala Nor’dzin.

Dawa Rinpoche

• Tulku Dawa Rinpoche – was one of the close disciples of Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche.

Death

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche interviewed by Ngakma Yeshé – ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
• Ngondro – each of the sets of foundation practices can be seen as encompassing the whole path.
• Nine Bardos – in order to have some apprehension of what death is, one has to die.

Deer

• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – deer are shy by nature, and their presence in a landscape represents a dimension where fear is unknown.
• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – male deer.

Demeanour

• Khandro Chenmo Yeshé Tsogyel – is shown wearing the royal golden ornaments of the Princess of Karchen.

Developmental psychology

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part VIII: there are many things within Tantra that are reflections of human life; but they have been appropriated through wisdom and compassion.

Devotion

• Devotion – although this text was presented to Western students studying sutra, with no knowledge of tantra and vajra relationship, this is a tantric text, teaching on vajra relationship.
• Essential characteristics of Vajrayana – like having no resistance to anything combined with a strong attraction toward that person.
• Nyingma Long-life Wish-paths – awareness-poems for the cultivation of the perfect appreciation of devotion.
• Questions with Ngak’chang Rinpoche – devotion as emptiness in Tantra.

Dharma

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part I: however you are is the perfect basis from where you travel.
• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.

Digpa ratsa

• Scorpion – everyone and everything is nothing other than the energy of the non-dual state.

Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoche

• Buddha nature – chö-ku is thus the original nature of Mind rather than a phenomenon produced by causes and circumstances.
• Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoche – long life wish path.
• Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoche – biography
• Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoche – was one of Ngak’chang Rinpoche–s five ngak’phang Tsawa’i Lamas.
• Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoche – wears the Ögyen Pèd-zha, the ‘Lotus Crown of Padmakara’.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche interviewed by Ngakma Yeshé – ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

Diligence

• The Ten Paramitas – actions which are free from the crimp of duality, which arise spontaneously from the non-dual state.

Discipline

• The Ten Paramitas – actions which are free from the crimp of duality, which arise spontaneously from the non-dual state.

Dissatisfaction

• Ngondro – each of the sets of foundation practices can be seen as encompassing the whole path.
• Refuge – we seek protection from our own conceptual minds: from our compulsion to split reality into dualistic view; from our addiction to conditioned responses rooted in preconception.

DoKhyentse Yeshé Dorje

• DoKhyentse Yeshé Dorje – this is the Traktung or wrathful manifestation of Jampalyang.
• Khandro Shardröl – was the incarnation of Khandro Losèl Drölma, the sister of DoKhyentse Yeshé Dorje.

Dombi-Heruka

• Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche – the eleventh incarnation in a lineage of great masters beginning with the mahasiddha Trungpa Kunga Gyaltsen.

Dön pa

• Chant & Yogic Song – in Tantric dön-pa the words are used as a guide to visualisation.
• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.

Dorje

• Aro Yeshé – depicted with his dorje and drilbu, the implements of method and wisdom.
• Aro Yeshé – the bell and vajra depict him as being the heir of ’a-Shul Pema Legden.
• Crossed Vajras – air element.
• Crossed Vajras – earth element.
• Crossed Vajras – fire element.
• Crossed Vajras – space element.
• Crossed Vajras – water element.
• Dorje & drilbu – the primary symbolic tools of compassion and wisdom
• Yeshé Tsogyel applique – a small dorje was cut in half to remove some of its mass, so that it was not too heavy for the appliqué.

Dorje Chang

• Dorje Chang – the ‘Holder of the Vajra’; the name of the Primordial Buddha according to Mahamudra expression.

Dorje Gyalpo

• Jomo Menmo – her stepmother required her to work excessively, carrying wood and herding the yaks and dris.

Dorje Legpa

• Dorje Legpa – blood.
• Dorje Legpa – crags and terrifying heights are the dangers faced by the tantrika, and Dorje Legpa is a helper to practitioners when their dam-tsig is at risk.
• Dorje Legpa – detail of the snowlion that he rides in this form.
• Dorje Legpa – drawing by Khandro Déchen.
• Dorje Legpa – face.
• Dorje Legpa – heart.
• Dorje Legpa – his feet are naked and he wears his hair in a yogi’s topknot wrapped around a nine-prong vajra.
• Dorje Legpa – this form has three heads with which he roars in menace in order to subdue the minions of attraction, aversion and indifference.
• Dorje Legpa – vajra.
• Dorje Legpa – was oathbound by Padmasambhava to protect Dharma.
• Garwa’i Nagpo Damchen – often has the accoutrements of a blacksmith.

Dorje Lopön

• Devotion – although this text was presented to Western students studying sutra, with no knowledge of tantra and vajra relationship, this is a tantric text, teaching on vajra relationship.
• Establishing Vajra Commitment in the West – allowing one’s rationale to be challenged is the whole terrible truth of vajra commitment.
• Vajra Masters – may be wrathful, but their ‘wrathfulness’ is never peevish, irritable, surly, petulant, or aggressively impatient.

Dorje Phagmo

• Jomo Menmo – she experienced a dream of clarity in which she received a profound vision.

Dorje Phurba

• Dorje Phurba – obliterates the minions of aggression by plunging the self-existent dagger of non-duality into the heart of hatred.
• Dorje Phurba – holds a wrathful nine-pronged nam-chak phurba.
• Dorje Phurba – the formidable, flaming, ‘Glaring Malachite Devil’.
• Dorje Phurba – they wear the six human bone cemetery ornaments resplendent with thunderbolt nails.
• Dorje Phurba – Vajrakilaya.
• Dorje Phurba – Vajrakilaya.
• Dorje Phurba – Yeshé Tsogyel destroys the minions of peevish irritation.
• Dorje Phurba – Yeshé Tsogyel destroys the minions of peevish irritation.
• Garuda – is grasping a snake and biting through it.

Dorje Shin-je-shed

• Yamataka – Dorje Shin-je-shed is the one who destroys the concept of death as being ‘separate from birth’.

Dorje Tröllö

• Dorje Tröllö – close.
• Dorje Tröllö – face close up.
• Dorje Tröllö – face of tigress.
• Dorje Tröllö – face.
• Dorje Tröllö – his terrifying complexion is dark maroon: the colour of dried blood.
• Dorje Tröllö – is carried like a hurricane through the space of existence and non-existence, on the immeasurable tigress of passionate space.
• Dorje Tröllö – is the Wisdom-chaos manifestation of Guru Rinpoche, the Second Buddha.
• Dorje Tröllö – skull offerings with leopard skin.
• Dorje Tröllö – skull offerings with tiger skin.
• Dorje Tröllö – the master of crazy wisdom.
• Dorje Tröllö – the master of Wisdom-chaos.
• Dorje Tröllö – the thunderbolt catalyst, who destroys pious pretences and sanctimonious institutionalisation.
• Dorje Tröllö – the Wisdom-chaos manifestation of the Padmasambhava.
• Dorje Tröllö – this is a beautifully painted thangka with great attention given to the tiger and to the ocean of blood over which Dorje Tröllö rides.
• Dorje Tröllö – this portrayal of Dorje Tröllö emphasises the manifestation of Guru Rinpoche as tantric yogi.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – discovered twenty-three volumes of gTérma, and other gTérma of different types.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – this image is unusual inasmuch as it portrays a Lama in visionary form.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche told Ralzhig Pema Legden, that after his passing, Ngak’chang Rinpoche would manifest Wisdom-chaos.

Dorje tsig dün

• Chant & Yogic Song – in Tantric dön-pa the words are used as a guide to visualisation.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part XI: seven-line song is a complete practice in itself.
• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• Lama’i Naljor – authenticates the relationship between Teacher and student.

Dorje Zahorma hat

• Chag’düd Rinpoche – is wearing the Dorje Zahorma hat of his tradition and the red and white striped shawl of the ngak’phang tradition.
• Dorje Zahorma hat – made for the empowerments he was to give to the sangha.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – is wearing the Dorje Zarhorma hat worn by Lamas of the Nyingma Tradition.
• Ngala Nor’dzin and Ngala ’ö-Dzin – wang means transmission through the power of symbol…
• Sangha 1991 – all Nyingma Lamas wear Lotus-hats of similar shape, based on the crown of the King of Zahor.

Drala Jong

• Drala Jong – the Aro Buddhist tradition wishes to establish a permanent centre in Britain.

Dramyen

• Khandro Shardröl – dramyen

Dratsang

• Repkong Ngakpas – those in the West who have studied Tibetan spiritual culture will be aware of the way in which children are raised as monks and nuns – but maybe not of the way in which the same applies to ngakpas and ngakmas.
• Senior Repkong Ngakpas – Ngak’chang Rinpoche’s love for the tradition of the white skirt and long braided hair is quite uncontainable.

Dream yoga

• Dream yoga – it is important that we use that part of our lives.
• Nine Bardos – in order to have some apprehension of what death is, one has to die.
• Questions with Ngak’chang Rinpoche – dream yoga.

Drigung Khandro

• Drigung Khandro – historic photograph.
• Drigung Khandro – is an incarnation of Yeshé Tsogyel within the Drigung Kagyüd School of Tibetan Buddhism.
• Drigung Khandro – lives in Tibet at a retreat place where she presides as the Lama of ninety yoginis.

Drilbu

• Aro Yeshé – depicted with his dorje and drilbu, the implements of method and wisdom.
• Aro Yeshé – the bell and vajra depict him as being the heir of ’a-Shul Pema Legden.
• Dorje & drilbu – the primary symbolic tools of compassion and wisdom
• Ngakma Shardröl Du-nyam Wangmo – practising gÇod.
• Ngakma Shardröl Du-nyam Wangmo – the undecorated nine prong bell was the type used within the Aro Gar in Southern Tibet.
• Rang-rig Togden – iron was the metal upon which ngak’phang practice was grounded.
• Rang-rig Togden – the bell and gÇod drum are used extensively to accompany yogic song.

Dro’phang Lingpa

• Dro’phang Lingpa – discovered twenty-three volumes of gTérma, and other gTérma of different types.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – here we see a powerful example of the way in which tranquillity and energy-stillness and change-compassion and ferocity compose a single visual statement.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – self-existent power simply radiates.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – the tiger is the symbol of unrestrained ferocity.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – the Ögyen Pèd-zha is particular to his lineage of Khordong.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – the nine prong vajra handles symbolise the activity of the phurba throughout the nine skies.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – the tigress is wisdom and the phurba is method.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – this image is unusual inasmuch as it portrays a Lama in visionary form.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – to wield the phurba is to proclaim that the death of one’s illusions is an ever-present possibility.

Drong’dul Gyalpo

• Drong’dul Gyalpo – was a renowned exorcist, and it was said that he once protected a family of nomads from the charge of a Drong—by standing in its path, and bringing it to a halt with his gaze.

Drukpa Kagyüd

• Shakya Shri – was initially the cook at a Drukpa Kagyüd Gompa.
• Sonam Zangpo Rinpoche – declined to live in the palace and take the official position of Chögyal.

Drukpa Künlegs

• Drukpa Künlegs – is an important figure in the transmission of the mahasiddha tradition in Tibet.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Keith Dowman – spent a day with apprentices giving teaching on the subject of Dzogchen men-ngag-dé.
• The nature of Refuge – Drukpa Künlegs said I’ll teach you a refuge recitation which you must recite whenever you think of me.

Drupchen

• Sangchen Dorje Rinpoche – lived mainly in Sikkim but wandered throughout the Himalayan region practising in caves and small out-of-the-way gompas.

Drupthob Tashi Rinpoche

• Khamtrül Yeshé Dorje Rinpoche – biography

Düd’jom

• Düd’jom Lineage Tree – one with the power to establish the teachings of Vajrayana in the world.
• Düd’jom Lineage Tree – one would visualise one’s Root Lama as the central figure’s presence display, personality display and life circumstances display.
• Düd’jom Lineage Tree – Padmasambhava is free from any mark or sign of contrivance.
• Düd’jom Lineage Tree – wisdom which does not seek to manipulate phenomena in order to experience a contrived dualistic adaptation of reality.
• Thrin-lé Norbu Rinpoche – is the great Siddha-scholar of the Nyingma Tradition, and a pre-eminent vajra master of the Nyingma lineage.

Düd’jom Lineage Tree

• Düd’jom Lineage Tree – one with the power to establish the teachings of Vajrayana in the world.
• Düd’jom Lineage Tree – one would visualise one’s Root Lama as the central figure’s presence display, personality display and life circumstances display.
• Düd’jom Lineage Tree – Padmasambhava is free from any mark or sign of contrivance.
• Düd’jom Lineage Tree – wisdom which does not seek to manipulate phenomena in order to experience a contrived dualistic adaptation of reality.

Düd’jom Lingpa

• Düd’jom Lineage Tree – Padmasambhava is free from any mark or sign of contrivance.
• Thrin-lé Norbu Rinpoche – is the great Siddha-scholar of the Nyingma Tradition, and a pre-eminent vajra master of the Nyingma lineage.

Düd’jom Rinpoche

• Düd’jom Rinpoche – long life wish path.
• Düd’jom Yang-tsé Tulku – the pinnacle incarnation of Düd’jom Rinpoche.
• Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche – 1904-1988.
• Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche – biography
• Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche – Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje.
• Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche – the Great Grandfather of the Ngak’phang Sangha.
• Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche – the incarnation of Düd’jom Lingpa
• Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche – Yangsrid Tulku.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche interviewed by Ngakma Yeshé – ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

Düd’jom Yangsrid Tulku

• Düd’jom Yangsrid Tulku – long life wish path.

Düd’jom Yang-tsé Tulku

• Düd’jom Yang-tsé Tulku – the pinnacle incarnation of Düd’jom Rinpoche.

Düdtsi

• Loden Chogtsé – is the Emperor manifestation who describes power in terms of its unseen source.

Dukka

• The certain Lama – if you have a vehicle which has emptiness at its base, the teaching which proceeds from that is not going to be intellectually communicable unless you have had the experience of emptiness.

Dung-thung

• Vajra weapon – the short spear or short lance is associated with a group of vajra weapons which are used by horseback warriors.

Dungchen

• Dungchen – always appear in pairs as their low, roaring call is supposed to resemble the sound of dragons mating.

Dur Khrod Gyed

• Rang-rig Togden – crafted the drum from five male skulls and five female skulls. The skulls were riveted together as five lobes linked by other sections of skull.

Dza Paltrül Rinpoche

• Dzogchen – striking the Essence in Three Incisive Indications
• My Advice to Myself – projects never end, they proliferate like ripples in water, so just for once let go of your ridiculousness and sit.
• Ngakpa Sherab Dorje Rinpoche – was a Lama who presided over a small clan and many of his disciples herded yak with him.

Dzambhala

• Ögyen Dzambhala – carries the mongoose.
• Ögyen Dzambhala – in the foreground of the thangka are five gTérbums.
• Ögyen Dzambhala – stands aloft a montain of jewels.
• Ögyen Dzambhala – the five-coloured garuda flies from the tip of a golden vajra.
• Dzambhala – a powerful testament to the real nature of wealth as the transcendence of the ‘pure/impure dichotomy’.
• Dzambhala – close up of full thangka.
• Dzambhala – embodies the power of wealth to benefit beings.
• Dzambhala – the face close up.
• Dzambhala – the figure close up.
• Dzambhala – the figure.
• Dzambhala – wearing the ‘breast-plate armour’ of the ‘earth and sky yung-drungs’.

Dzog-rim

• Pride & Prejudice – otherness holds no fear for those who practise according to the principle of transformation.

Dzogchen

• A-shé Khandro – sits on a lotus on sun and moon discs showing that her form is that of a yidam.
• A-shé Khandro – wears the Dzogchen blue chuba or gown.
• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• Dzogchen & Tantra – there are simply practitioners who may practise Dzogchen as part of their repertoire of practices.
• Dzogchen – non-dual realisation depends upon discovering as real that which was beginninglessly there: the primordial base.
• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.
• Dzogchen – striking the Essence in Three Incisive Indications
• Dzogchen – these methods are secret, not because they are dangerous, but because the power of transmission would be jeopardised if they were given to people who could not comprehend them.
• Dzogchen long-dé – the primal energy exercises of Tibetan Dzogchen.
• Heart Jewel of the Fortunate – my view is as vast as the sky, but my actions are finer than flour.
• Lama’i Naljor – authenticates the relationship between Teacher and student.
• Ngöndro – the Dzogchen view of Tantric ngöndro.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche interviewed by Ngakma Yeshé – ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
• Ngala Nor’dzin and Ngala ’ö-Dzin – after giving transmission of ‘Shintu Mélong Zabmo’.
• Ngondro – each of the sets of foundation practices can be seen as encompassing the whole path.
• Nyingma Long-life Wish-paths – awareness-poems for the cultivation of the perfect appreciation of devotion.
• Refuge – we seek protection from our own conceptual minds: from our compulsion to split reality into dualistic view; from our addiction to conditioned responses rooted in preconception.
• The Four Noble Truths & the Eightfold Path – a fundamental Sutric teaching, that can open out in great depth and subtlety in terms of each of the nine yanas.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Dzogchen A

• Dzogchen A – the primordial syllable.

Dzogchen gardang

• Chant & Yogic Song – in Tantric dön-pa the words are used as a guide to visualisation.
• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• Inner & Outer Dimensions of Sound – music at these assemblies would range between spoken recitation, and forms which are increasingly musical.
• Inner & Outer Dimensions of Sound – solo singing was performed in the context of both transmission and of inspirational song.

Dzogchen Garuda

• Dzogchen Garuda – Khyungchen Aro Lingma means The Great Lady Garuda who tastes the Primordial A.

Dzogchen Master

• Aro Yeshé – shown here in the Dzogchen posture sometimes known as ‘mind in relaxation’ and sometimes as ‘mind resting in comfort and ease’.
• Ngakpa Sherab Dorje Rinpoche – was a Lama who presided over a small clan and many of his disciples herded yak with him.
• Yatung Tulku Chöying Nyima Rinpoche – was a Dzogchen master of the Nyingma Tradition and a family man whose sons and daughters became accomplished yogis and yoginis.

Dzogchen transmission

• Ngala Nor’dzin and Ngala ’ö-Dzin with Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen – social interaction has always been an important aspect of the Lama’s relationship with their apprentice.

Dzogchen transmission shawl

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen – wearing the lotus hats of the Nyingma yogic lineage of Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche.

Dzogchen yogini

• Khandro Chenmo Yeshé Tsogyel – her gaze is at once soft and penetrating; compassionate yet playfully wrathful.

Dzü’drül Pamo

• ’a-Shul Pema Legden – is portrayed as much older than he would have been at the time of his first meeting with Khyungchen Aro Lingma.
• Naljorma Dzü’drül – to live the full-blooded life of a tantrika is my guiding principle.

Ego

• Karma – the personal police state.

Eight charnel grounds

• Rang-rig Togden – crafted the drum from five male skulls and five female skulls. The skulls were riveted together as five lobes linked by other sections of skull.

Eight manifestations

• Dorje Chang – the ‘Holder of the Vajra’; the name of the Primordial Buddha according to Mahamudra expression.
• Dorje Tröllö – is the Wisdom-chaos manifestation of Guru Rinpoche, the Second Buddha.
• Loden Chogtsé – is the Emperor manifestation who describes power in terms of its unseen source.
• Nyima ’ö-Zér – drawing by Khandro Déchen.
• Nyima ’ö-Zér – is the archetypal yogi whose finger stops the sun in its tracks so that all time is frozen, and with it all dualistic strategies.
• Nyima ’ö-Zér Gar’cham – on that occasion Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche represented Padmasambhava.
• Pema Gyalpo – is the ‘Lotus Prince’, the youthful manifestation who appears spontaneously born just as enlightenment is spontaneously born.
• Pema Jung-né – the Tantric Scholar.
• Seng-gé Dradog – crusher of the mikhas of anger and paranoia.
• Seng-gé Dradog – is a powerful means of obliterating mikha.
• Seng-gé Dradog – the inspiration of Seng-gé Dradog comes to the fore like an earthquake.
• Seng-gé Dradog – the Lama with the voice of a lion.
• Seng-gé Dradog – the lotus arising from the ocean of blood.
• Seng-gé Dradog – the roar of the vajra master in his terrific environment.
• Seng-gé Dradog – the Tantric Buddha in the form of Seng-gé Dradog is the manifestation who quells ‘mika’ the voice of dualistic distortion.
• Seng-gé Dradog – wearing the human and snow lion hides.
• Shakya Seng-gé – the manifestation who embodies the teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha.
• Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö – is the mistress of Wisdom-chaos, yeshé ’cholwa.

Eightfold Path

• The certain Lama – if you have a vehicle which has emptiness at its base, the teaching which proceeds from that is not going to be intellectually communicable unless you have had the experience of emptiness.
• The Four Noble Truths & the Eightfold Path – a fundamental Sutric teaching, that can open out in great depth and subtlety in terms of each of the nine yanas.

Ekajati

• Ekajati – protects the practitioner against harms inflicted by others.
• Ekajati – the cemetery ornaments in this thangka are beautifully portrayed in great detail, showing the cho-khors at the wrists, ankles, and chest.
• Ekajati – wields a human-corpse club with which she smashes dualistic clinging with its own form.
• Ma-za-dor-sum – Mamo Ekajati is the non-dual queen, the most inportant of the Ma Za Dor Sum .

Electro-encephalograph

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – at the 1986 International Conference of the British Psychological Society, at which he was one of the major invited speakers.

Elemental pulses

• Ngala Nor’dzin – having trained in homœopathy, reflexology and hypnotherapy, it was a natural progression for her to begin practising pulse diagnosis.

Elements

• 2005 craft retreat – the tormas that were made on the craft retreat are representations of the elements.
• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• Dream yoga – it is important that we use that part of our lives.
• Dzambhala – close up of full thangka.
• Dzambhala – the face close up.
• Dzambhala – the figure close up.
• Dzambhala – the figure.
• Dzambhala – wearing the ‘breast-plate armour’ of the ‘earth and sky yung-drungs’.
• Embracing Emotions – Tantra sees us as being symbols of ourselves: colourful energetic of vibrant free energies that are utterly real.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – composed of threads of wool or silk which are the colours of the five elements: blue, green, red, white, and yellow.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – derives from the ancillary Mahayoga section of the Aro gTér.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – derives from the ancillary Mahayoga section of the Aro gTér.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – derives from the ancillary Mahayoga section of the Aro gTér.
• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – making these amulets was one of the ritual practices he would have performed for the Gar.
• Rang-rig Togden – is shown with a mélong braided into his beard as a continual reminder of his ‘vows of vision’.
• The six realms – hot blooded kindness is what roots us in this precious human rebirth.

Embracing emotions

• Bloodlust – you become the emotion completely, or it becomes you.
• Embracing Emotions – Tantra sees us as being symbols of ourselves: colourful energetic of vibrant free energies that are utterly real.

Emotion

• Bloodlust – you become the emotion completely, or it becomes you.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part III: the basis of compassion is realising that samsara does not work.

Emperor

• Loden Chogtsé – is the Emperor manifestation who describes power in terms of its unseen source.

Empowerment

• Empowerment and guru yoga – in that moment ‘your’ mind and the Mind of the Lama are not separate; there is only Mind.
• Lama’i Naljor – authenticates the relationship between Teacher and student.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – wrathful empowerment.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche interviewed by Ngakma Yeshé – ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
• Ngakma Shardröl – a marvellous guide to students of Vajrayana who have travelled to Bodha and Yang-lé-shöd.
• Ngala Nor’dzin and Ngala ’ö-Dzin – wang means transmission through the power of symbol…
• Ralzhig Pema Legden & Ngakma Shardröl – empowerment ceremony.
• The Bristol Talks – a yidam is a visual description of our own enlightened state, as well as a method of reaching, understanding and experiencing that state.

Empowerment horn

• Ngakru – empowerment horn 1
• Ngakru – empowerment horn 2

Empowerment robes

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – empowerment robes and takdröl.

Empowerment shawl

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – wearing Nyingma empowerment shawls.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – this shawl was given to Ngak’chang Rinpoche in 1988 by Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche.

Emptiness

• Bloodlust – you become the emotion completely, or it becomes you.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part II: the word bodhicitta is much larger than the word compassion.
• Questions with Ngak’chang Rinpoche – devotion as emptiness in Tantra.

Emptiness quality of form

• Student teacher reflection – the Lama will allow you to access your enlightened nature by nudging you.

Enthusiasm

• The Ten Paramitas – actions which are free from the crimp of duality, which arise spontaneously from the non-dual state.

Exorcism

• Ga-phong Dongma – has dominion over the physical sickness caused by mental aberration.

Exorcist

• Khamtrül Yeshé Dorje Rinpoche – was a ngakpa, mainly known as an exorcist, Weather maker, and Mahayoga ritual expert.
• Tröma Nakmo – this image is a tsak-li, a miniature thangka painting used to confer empowerment.

Expedition

• 2005 craft retreat – Richard left the 111 tormas at intervals across the long and arduous crossing of Cadair Idris and the visits to the three lakes.
• 2005 craft retreat – Richard left the 111 tormas at intervals across the long and arduous crossing of Cadair Idris and the visits to the three lakes.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen – walk to the peak of Bird Rock where they sing the Seven-Line Song of Padmasambhava to the gTérma tune called Flight of the Vulture.
• Sangha expedition – Craig-yr-Aderyn (Bird Rock) is now a place of pilgrimage, as the place where Khandro Déchen danced and received ordination.
• Sangha expedition – it was also intended to end the nine day retreat with the ascent of the mountain, ‘Cadair Idris’.
• Sangha expedition – that preparedness is, in itself a very powerful catalyst of spiritual unfolding.
• Sangha expedition – the beautiful melody of this mantra reverberated around the mountain ridge.
• Sangha expedition – the gentle movement of the water offered an ideal opportunity for practising integration with the moving element of water.
• Sangha expedition – the lakes look so inviting after a hard walk on a hot day.
• Sangha expedition – the landscape echoes images of the original Aro Gar in Tibet that arose in my mind from Ngak’chang Rinpoche’s description.
• Sangha expedition – we were happy to set up our tents at the campsite at the foot of Cadair Idris.

Faith

• Dr Greenberg interviews Ngak’chang Rinpoche – rebirth is a beneficial working hypothesis.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche interviewed by Ngakma Yeshé – ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

Family practice

• 2005 craft retreat – it is delightful to have a family group as part of the sangha.
• 2005 craft retreat – Richard made eight tormas of various sizes, plus one hundred and eleven tiny tormas.
• At Alton Towers – it was fascinating and illuminating to see how easily my perception was tricked.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – took Daniel’s hand, and spoke very gently to him.
• Daniel – and Richard were blessed by Ngak’chang Rinpoche when they were babies, and given the names Mikyö Dorje and Sem-nyid Dorje.
• Family Practice – the play of children was never seen as an interruption or as a distraction from practice.
• gTérbum – teaching Buddhism to children requires a degree of personal honesty and natural simplicity which can only come from a lifetime of committed practice.
• Kushog Jampal – organised the Confederate Sanghas of Aro pilgrimage to Lahaul, Spiti, Zanskar, and Ladhak in 1992.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Robert – Robert enjoys sitting on Rinpoche’s lap when he is working, especially when he has his laptop computer open.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche, Khandro Déchen and Robert – Ngak’chang Rinpoche explained to Robert that boredom is only experienced by people who are boring.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche, Khandro Déchen and Robert – Robert has always taken a keen interest in making things along with apprentices in the craft environment.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche, Khandro Déchen and Robert – Robert is wearing a set of robes which were given to him by Gyaltsen Rinpoche.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – is seen with Daniel and Richard at a retreat when they were quite young.
• Ngala Nor’dzin and Ngala ’ö-Dzin – the largest upstairs bedroom of their home has been furbished and decorated in the style of a traditional Tibetan shrine room.
• Ræchel – in 2003 Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen took her to meet Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche and Jomo Sam’phel for the first time.
• Rang-rig Togden – sits upon a tiger skin in the manner of many of the mahasiddhas in the ancient Indian tradition.
• Relaxing into Practice – interview with Ngala Nor’dzin.
• Robert – is holding the bell and vajra given him by Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche and Jomo Sam’phel and wearing the costume presented to him by Gyaltsen Rinpoche and Khandro Tsering.

Female Buddha

• Khandro Chenmo Yeshé Tsogyel – her equality with Padmasambhava in the Aro gTér is displayed through her adoption of the identical physical position of Padmasambhava.
• Khandro Chenmo Yeshé Tsogyel – her gaze is at once soft and penetrating; compassionate yet playfully wrathful.
• Khandro Chenmo Yeshé Tsogyel – the greatest inspiration and rôle model for women, in terms of Tibetan Buddhism, is the enlightened yogini Yeshé Tsogyel.

Fierce playfulness

• Tigers – the male and female tigers of the Aro gTér lineage

Fire ceremony

• Fire ceremony ladle – used to pour melted butter or oil.
• Khandro Déchen – presides over the clothes-burning ceremony.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – composed of threads of wool or silk which are the colours of the five elements: blue, green, red, white, and yellow.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – fire ceremony.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – fire ceremony.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen – on the beach near Whale Rock after the fire ceremony which concluded the 1997 ordination retreat.

Fire element

• Phurba Gar’cham – the fire element phurba impales the neuroses connected with obsession.

Firearms

• Aro Yeshé – the meteorite iron phurba was originally made for ’a-Shul Pema Legden by his friend A-Kyong Düd’dül Dorje.

Five certainties

• The certain Lama – if you have a vehicle which has emptiness at its base, the teaching which proceeds from that is not going to be intellectually communicable unless you have had the experience of emptiness.

Five dakini mothers

• Chö-ying Nyima ’ö-Zér – as the consort of Rinchen Gyaltsen Rinpoche she had received many empowerments and details of practice.
• Khandro Rig’dzin Takmo – was one of the ‘Five Dakini Mothers’ of Aro Yeshé.
• Khandro Shardröl – she became a wandering yogini in the region of Golok where she met Khyungchen Aro Lingma and became her disciple.
• Khandro Shardröl Rinchen Wangmo – was the incarnation of Khandro Losèl Drölma, the sister of DoKhyentsé Yeshé Dorje.
• Khandro Shardröl Rinchen Wangmo’ – held a family tradition concerning birds which she had received from her mother.

Five mikas

• Seng-gé Dradog – the inspiration of Seng-gé Dradog comes to the fore like an earthquake.
• Seng-gé Dradog – the Tantric Buddha in the form of Seng-gé Dradog is the manifestation who quells ‘mika’ the voice of dualistic distortion.

Five precepts

• The five Owl Precepts – contain the profound inner meaning of the five precepts commonly found within the Sutras, and as such provide an extraordinary base for approaching Dzogchen.

Five sister protectors

• Tseringma – is the lady who protects ones longevity in terms of non-dual awareness.

Focusing in space

• Dzogchen long-dé – the primal energy exercises of Tibetan Dzogchen.

Form

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part II: the word bodhicitta is much larger than the word compassion.

Form quality of emptiness

• Student teacher reflection – the Lama will allow you to access your enlightened nature by nudging you.

Four thoughts

• Ngöndro – the Dzogchen view of Tantric ngöndro.

Four denials

• Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö – In this detail, we can make out Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö’s skull crown, her halo of smoke and flame, and the bone bead ornaments she wears.

Four naljors

• …and the art of ballistics – there is a moment there that you have to find.
• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.
• Dzogchen – these methods are secret, not because they are dangerous, but because the power of transmission would be jeopardised if they were given to people who could not comprehend them.
• Four Naljors – this is the ngöndro of Dzogchen sem-dé.
• Ngöndro – maybe an alternative translation could be preparation, or method of establishing the experiential ground for practice.
• Ngondro – each of the sets of foundation practices can be seen as encompassing the whole path.

Four Noble Truths

• The certain Lama – if you have a vehicle which has emptiness at its base, the teaching which proceeds from that is not going to be intellectually communicable unless you have had the experience of emptiness.
• The Four Noble Truths & the Eightfold Path – a fundamental Sutric teaching, that can open out in great depth and subtlety in terms of each of the nine yanas.

Four protector animals

• Tiger – one of the four protector animals of Tibet
• Tigers – the male and female tigers of the Aro gTér lineage

Four thoughts

• Ngondro – each of the sets of foundation practices can be seen as encompassing the whole path.

Fresco

• gTértön – the Lama pictured is a discover of sa gTér or ‘earth treasure’.

gÇig

• gÇig – the number one.

Gö-kar chang-lo’i dé

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part I: however you are is the perfect basis from where you travel.

Ga-phong Dongma

• Ga-phong Dongma – biting her lower lip in display of indestructible rage
• Ga-phong Dongma – carrying the elephant hide vajra noose
• Ga-phong Dongma – close up of figure
• Ga-phong Dongma – clutching the crocodile hide vajra whip
• Ga-phong Dongma – functions in terms of what is hidden both in terms of realisation and confusion.
• Ga-phong Dongma – has dominion over the physical sickness caused by mental aberration.
• Ga-phong Dongma – holding the khatvanga
• Ga-phong Dongma – inhabits the dark, like an impenetrable shadow of terror in which all minions of delusion perish in the immutable gloom of her presence.
• Ga-phong Dongma – is a yidam of the Aro gTér who is invoked as a means of emotional and mental healing.
• Ga-phong Dongma – the raven-headed trines of the khatvanga
• Ga-phong Dongma – wielding the coral phurba
• Ga-phong Dongma – wielding the vajra hammer
• Ga-phong Dongma – yung-drung chest ornament

Garab Dorje

• Dzogchen – non-dual realisation depends upon discovering as real that which was beginninglessly there: the primordial base.
• Dzogchen – striking the Essence in Three Incisive Indications
• Dzogchen – these methods are secret, not because they are dangerous, but because the power of transmission would be jeopardised if they were given to people who could not comprehend them.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Gar’cham

• A-kyong Phurba – takes its form from The Nine Enriching Phurbas of Ngak’chang A-kyong Düd’dül Dorje.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – was the incarnation of Khalden Lingpa, a great gTérton of the turn of the 19th and 20th century.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – phurba dance.
• Nyima ’ö-Zér Gar’cham – on that occasion Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche represented Padmasambhava.
• Ordination Gar’cham – celebration of her vajra commitment with a gar’cham of Khyungchen Aro Lingma.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the air element phurba impales the neurosis of paranoia and anxiety.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the costume is relatively simple: a black skirt and black vest.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the dance of the water element phurba impales the neuroses connected with anger and aggression.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the dancers grip the phurbas in the mudra called Butadamara mudra, demon-dispelling mudra.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the fire element phurba impales the neuroses connected with obsession.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the phur-gon dancer makes the ‘stabbing motion’ which impales dualistic neurosis.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the phurba gar’cham is performed with free-flowing hair in the yogic style of Phod-ka Ling-nge.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the phurbas carried by the phur-gon have black silk sashes and these dancers dance first, last, and between each of the elemental dances.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the phurbas follow each other like swooping birds, leading with their heads rather than their blades.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the three-edged dagger of emptiness is sometimes called ‘the ego slaying dagger’.
• Phurba Gar’cham – this photograph was taken at eleven minutes past eleven on the eleventh of August 1999 at the time of the full solar eclipse.
• Tröma Nakmo Gar’cham – gÇod is not a practice of Dharma we can apply within the cushioned comfort in our ever-so-commodious living rooms.
• Tröma Nakmo Gar’cham – is performed precisely, decisively and swiftly.

Garuda

• Ögyen Dzambhala – the five-coloured garuda flies from the tip of a golden vajra.
• Dzogchen Garuda – Khyungchen Aro Lingma means The Great Lady Garuda who tastes the Primordial A.
• Garuda – is grasping a snake and biting through it.

Garwa’i Nagpo Damchen

• Garwa’i Nagpo Damchen – often has the accoutrements of a blacksmith.

Gegen Khyentsé Rinpoche

• Dr Greenberg interviews Ngak’chang Rinpoche – rebirth is a beneficial working hypothesis.

Gélug Lama

• Geshé Damchö – Ngala Nordzin and Ngala o-Dzin received their first refuge names from Geshé Damchö Yonten.
• Geshé Tekchog – was exceptionally down to earth and seemed to have a keen understanding of Western life.
• HH Song Rinpoche – went to Lhasa when he was eleven years old to study at Shar-tse where he became renowned as irrefutable in debate.
• Khensur Yeshé Thubten Rinpoche – gave teachings on Lam Rim, the Graduated Path to Enlightenment.
• Lama Yeshé – was a warm and welcoming Lama.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Geshé Damchö – promote open-mindedness with regard to the widest scope of the teachings in order to foster a real understanding in students.
• Pema Gyaltsen Rinpoche – had an extraordinary quality of presence, power, and calm, which made us feel a little over-awed.
• Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche – one of the things I remember most clearly about his visit was the joyful affection between him, his attendants and Geshé Damchö.

Generosity

• The Ten Paramitas – actions which are free from the crimp of duality, which arise spontaneously from the non-dual state.

Geshé Damchö Yonten

• Geshé Damchö – Ngala Nordzin and Ngala o-Dzin received their first refuge names from Geshé Damchö Yonten.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Geshé Damchö – promote open-mindedness with regard to the widest scope of the teachings in order to foster a real understanding in students.

Geshé Tekchog

• Geshé Tekchog – was exceptionally down to earth and seemed to have a keen understanding of Western life.

Getsulma Bumchung

• Getsulma Bumchung – lives in permanent semi-open retreat in Tso Pema where she has a retreat cave.

Ge-wa’i-she-nyen

• Devotion – although this text was presented to Western students studying sutra, with no knowledge of tantra and vajra relationship, this is a tantric text, teaching on vajra relationship.

Ghanta

• Drilbu

Glossary

• Mother Essence Lineage – glossary.

Gö-kar chang-lo

• A’pho Rinpoche – a great ngak’phang Lama of the Drukpa Kagyüd School.
• A-Kyong Düd’dül Dorje – was extraordinarily skilled in making phurbas in metal and wood, as well as bone, ivory, and other materials.
• Aro gTér – is a cycle of teachings revealed by Aro Lingma and is based entirely in the three Inner Tantras.
• Chökyi Wangchuk Rinpoche – a Ngakpa Lama and an incarnation from the family clan of gTérton Ratna Lingpa.
• Craft retreat – a wonderful mixture of formality and informality, intensity and relaxation.
• Dispelling the Darkness of Doubt – a spontaneously arising song revealing the symbolic nature of the three secrets of the gö-kar chang-lo’i dé
• Dro’phang Lingpa – discovered twenty-three volumes of gTérma, and other gTérma of different types.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – to wield the phurba is to proclaim that the death of one’s illusions is an ever-present possibility.
• Drukpa Künlegs – is an important figure in the transmission of the mahasiddha tradition in Tibet.
• Golok Ngakpa – the pe-cha style takdrol is characteristic of Lamas in the Longchen Nying-thig lineage.
• History of Lhundrüp Tobgyé Ling – five Lamas made a vow that one of us would start a school to preserve the teachings and yogic practices of the Nyingma gö kar chang lo lineage.
• Kham naljorpa – wearing the ri-chö zha, a simple form of the Dorje Zahorma hat of the Nyingma tradition.
• Khandro Déchen – wearing the Ögyen Pèdzha, the lotus crown worn by Nyingma lineage holders.
• Lineage and Costume – it can be an inspiration just to wear the costume of the lineage and know that you are a representative.
• Marpa – he holds a text in his lap to indicate that he is a translator.
• Mother Essence Lineage – in the Nyingma tradition every male ngak’phang Lama is perceived as Padmasambhava by his disciples and his sangyum is perceived as Yeshé Tsogyel.
• Mother Essence Lineage – Yeshé Tsogyel is the greatest inspiration and role model for women.
• Ngak’phang gÇodpa – photographed during ‘air-burial’ rites.
• Ngak’phang Lamas – takdröl means ‘liberation on wearing’ and signifies the Lama’s completion of the first two ‘Lama Cycles’.
• Ngakma Shardröl Du-nyam Wangmo – embodies the Buddhadharma in the gracious form of a woman during a time when women are searching for their inner creative expression, and men are searching for their inner feminine wisdom.
• Ngakpa A’jam Rinpoche – a yogi of the Longchen Nying-thig lineage.
• Ngakpa Seng-gé Dorje – was a disciple of Ngala Sherab Dorje Rinpoche a gö-kar chang-lo Lama from Golok.
• Ngala Nor’dzin and Ngala ’ö-Dzin – are a fine and solid example of how working family life can be successfully integrated with practice.
• Rang-rig Togden – sits upon a tiger skin in the manner of many of the mahasiddhas in the ancient Indian tradition.
• Repkong Ngakpas – those in the West who have studied Tibetan spiritual culture will be aware of the way in which children are raised as monks and nuns – but maybe not of the way in which the same applies to ngakpas and ngakmas.
• Senior Repkong Ngakpas – Ngak’chang Rinpoche’s love for the tradition of the white skirt and long braided hair is quite uncontainable.
• The Gö-kar chang-lo – this traditional Tibetan mural shows that the gö-kar chang-lo’i dé were not merely ‘lay practitioners’.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.
• Three unknown ngakpas – wearing the Dorje Zahorma hats of Nyingma Lamas, and the red, white, and blue striped shawls of the gö-kar chang-lo’ide.
• Vajra Father and Vajra Mother – Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche commented on many aspects of the gö-kar chang-lo appearance.

God realm

• The escalator of emptiness – merely being human does not make my rebirth a ‘precious human rebirth’.
• The six realms – hot blooded kindness is what roots us in this precious human rebirth.

Gompa

• Three unknown ngakpas – wearing the Dorje Zahorma hats of Nyingma Lamas, and the red, white, and blue striped shawls of the gö-kar chang-lo’ide.

Gomtag

• A-shé Khandro – wears one of the three gomtags which were handed down from Jomo Chhi’mèd Pema to Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér to Aro Lingma.
• Aro Yeshé – wearing the gomtag he was bequeathed by his mother and Tsa-wa’i Lama, Khyungchen Aro Lingma.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – gomtag.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – gomtag.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen – on the beach near Whale Rock after the fire ceremony which concluded the 1997 ordination retreat.

Gong-gyap Rinpoche

• Chagdar Rinpoche – was respected as a siddha of considerable repute, and had attained the siddhi of flight.

Graduated Path

• Khensur Yeshé Thubten Rinpoche – gave teachings on Lam Rim, the Graduated Path to Enlightenment.

Green Seng-gé Dongma

• Green Seng-gé Dongma – crushes every narrow emaciated endeavour to violate the burgeoning belly of Dharma.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – holds the nine-pronged flaying knife.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – in her left hand she holds the colossal skull bowl.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – is the most voluptuous and energetic.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – she displays the magical energy of the natural state.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – the green lion headed dakini.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – the most voluptuous and energetic of the Seng-gé Dongma yidams.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – the naked corpulent magical mother.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – wears a profusely beaded human bone skirt, draped over her gargantuan, commanding thighs.

Gri-gug

• Green Seng-gé Dongma – holds the nine-pronged flaying knife.
• Gri-gug – flaying knife.
• Gri-gug – is a symbol often associated with the khandromas, the sky-dancing sources of inspiration – but it is also held by male forms such as Ögyen Khyungpo (Udiyana Garuda) who holds a gri-gug in the talons of each foot.
• Gri-gug – the flaying knife (gri gug – hooked-knife) is a curved, crescent-shaped or hooked knife with a vajra handle.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – gri-gug.
• Tröma Nakmo Gar’cham – is performed precisely, decisively and swiftly.

Guru Chö-wang

• Jomo Menmo – her everyday life causes the innate enlightenment of others to sparkle through the fabrications of their dualistic conditioning.
• Jomo Menmo – she met many yogis who gained powerful realisations simply by meeting her.
• Jomo Menmo – the famous female gTértön called ‘The Lady Demoness’
• Mother Essence Lineage – in the Mother Essence Lineage Jomo Menmo is regarded as the incarnation of Ma-gÇig Labdrön.

Guru Rinpoche

• Padmasambhava – Guru Rinpoche, the lotus-born Buddha.
• Padmasambhava – subdued all the negative forces which had caused obstacles to the establishment of the teachings and founded the two sanghas: the red sangha of monks and nuns, and the go-kar chang-lo’i dé, the white sangha or ngak’phang sangha of ngakpas and ngakmas, naljorpas and naljormas.
• Padmasambhava – the expression of Padmasambhava in this statue, with his immeasurably kind, piercing gaze is one which makes this image of the Vajra Guru a great inspiration to the Confederate Sanghas of Aro and their Lineage-holders.
• Padmasambhava – the Lotus-born.
• Padmasambhava – the Lotus-born.
• Padmasambhava – the Tantric Buddha.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Guru yoga

• Empowerment and guru yoga – in that moment ‘your’ mind and the Mind of the Lama are not separate; there is only Mind.
• Ngondro – each of the sets of foundation practices can be seen as encompassing the whole path.

Gyaltsen Rinpoche

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Gyaltsen Rinpoche – sitting in the garden situated near the Great Self-arisen Chörten.
• Tsogyel Ge’phel Jong – one of the most powerful pilgrimage places associated with Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel.
• Yang-lé-shöd Lamas – the Lamas and practitioner retreatants of Tsogyel Gé’phel Jong are a wonderful example of the lineage of Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel.

Gyalwa Thöndup

• Ma-gÇig Labdrön – the children and disciples of Ma-gÇig Labdrön all integrated these teachings into their hearts.

Gyu-lü

• Dream yoga – it is important that we use that part of our lives.

Gyuto monks

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – with one of the monks from the Gyuto Tantric College was taken in 1978 when Ngak’chang Rinpoche had completed a long retreat.

Hair vows

• Ngak’phang Lamas – takdröl means ‘liberation on wearing’ and signifies the Lama’s completion of the first two ‘Lama Cycles’.

Heart Jewel

• Heart Jewel of the Fortunate – my view is as vast as the sky, but my actions are finer than flour.

Heart Sutra

• Ngöndro – the Dzogchen view of Tantric ngöndro.
• The Four Noble Truths & the Eightfold Path – a fundamental Sutric teaching, that can open out in great depth and subtlety in terms of each of the nine yanas.

Hell realm

• The escalator of emptiness – merely being human does not make my rebirth a ‘precious human rebirth’.
• The six realms – hot blooded kindness is what roots us in this precious human rebirth.

Herbalist

• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – his practice revolved around the healing arts and would have included ritual practice as well as the administration of herbal medicine.

Hidden land

• Asura Cave – hand-print of Padmasambhava.
• History of Lhundrüp Tobgyé Ling – five Lamas made a vow that one of us would start a school to preserve the teachings and yogic practices of the Nyingma gö kar chang lo lineage.
• Mahakala – photograph.
• Montana mountain – Shaped like the Dorje Zahorma hat of Padmasambhava, it resembles many such peaks in the Himalayas.
• Ngala ’ö-Dzin Tridral – the relationship with the horses grew for each apprentice through tending to their own the horse each day.
• Yang-lé-shöd – although one can make the journey, the ‘hidden land’ remains hidden to those who cannot experience it.
• Yang-lé-shöd – is the sacred place where Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel manifested as Dorje Phurba and Dorje Phagmo: the thunderbolt nail and the thunderbolt sow.
• Zanskar Mountain – on the site of one of the eight great charnel grounds.

Hinayana

• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.

History

• Dzogchen – these methods are secret, not because they are dangerous, but because the power of transmission would be jeopardised if they were given to people who could not comprehend them.
• Tantric Ordination – when Padmasambhava came to Tibet, King Tri-song Détsen expected to meet him as an equal, but came face to face with his own inadequacy immediately.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Ho

• Ho – is the courageous pronouncement of the hopelessness which is beyond fear

Homoeopathy

• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – was an expert at observing and understanding the nature and properties of healing herbs.

Hopi

• The Great 16th Karmapa – gave many transmissions at Rumtek and many statues of Buddhas and Mahasiddhas were completed.

Horseriding

• Craft retreat – a wonderful mixture of formality and informality, intensity and relaxation.
• Ngala ’ö-Dzin Tridral – the relationship with the horses grew for each apprentice through tending to their own the horse each day.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – it is useful to discover that we can be enriched by unexpected experiences such as cantering on a horse when we only expected to walk or trot.

How to help

• Drala Jong – the Aro Buddhist tradition wishes to establish a permanent centre in Britain.

Hri

• Hri – is the unification of the three spheres of being.

Human bone

• Aro Yeshé – the skull damaru given to him by Khandro Yeshé Dzü’drül, the sister of A-Kyong Düd’dül Dorje.

Human realm

• The escalator of emptiness – merely being human does not make my rebirth a ‘precious human rebirth’.
• The six realms – hot blooded kindness is what roots us in this precious human rebirth.

Hung

• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• Hung – the seed syllable of Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel.
• Hung – the syllable portrayed in the colours of the elements.
• Hung – the symbol of the sphere of realised manifestation.

Hungry ghost

• The escalator of emptiness – merely being human does not make my rebirth a ‘precious human rebirth’.
• The six realms – hot blooded kindness is what roots us in this precious human rebirth.

Impermanence

• Ngondro – each of the sets of foundation practices can be seen as encompassing the whole path.
• The certain Lama – if you have a vehicle which has emptiness at its base, the teaching which proceeds from that is not going to be intellectually communicable unless you have had the experience of emptiness.

Implement

• A-kyong Phurba – takes its form from The Nine Enriching Phurbas of Ngak’chang A-kyong Düd’dül Dorje.
• Aro Tröllö Phurba – this phurba is a weapon associated with Dorje Tröllö and therefore shows the single face of this yidam.
• Bronze Phurba – the knotted design above and below the central lotus patterns of the handle are the unending knots which represent ‘the continuity of Vajrayana’.
• Conch – the sound of liberation
• Dorje & drilbu – the primary symbolic tools of compassion and wisdom
• Dungchen – always appear in pairs as their low, roaring call is supposed to resemble the sound of dragons mating.
• Gri-gug – flaying knife.
• Gri-gug – is a symbol often associated with the khandromas, the sky-dancing sources of inspiration – but it is also held by male forms such as Ögyen Khyungpo (Udiyana Garuda) who holds a gri-gug in the talons of each foot.
• Gri-gug – the flaying knife (gri gug – hooked-knife) is a curved, crescent-shaped or hooked knife with a vajra handle.
• Iron Phurba – when phurbas are authenticated for practice, their handles (which portray the three faces of Dorje Phurba) are very rarely seen by anyone apart from the practitioner.
• Ivory Damaru – inseparability of emptiness and form.
• Ivory Damaru – the appended cho-phen or reality flag is red, white, and blue in colour.
• Ivory Damaru – with a braided chöphen.
• Kanglings – McCleod Ganj, 1975.
• Khatvangha – this khatvangha is of the type which usually ornaments large statues.
• Ngakru – empowerment horn 1
• Ngakru – empowerment horn 2
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – conches.
• Ru rGyan – human bone cemetery ornaments are worn on various occasions, but mainly within Tantric dance.
• Ru rGyan – this tabard style is the female equivalent to the crossed chest piece worn by yogis.
• Torma stand – intended for traveling.
• Tröllö Phurba – has a blade and ‘spine’ made of meteorite iron.
• Vajra weapon – blackened iron phurba with li-serpo faces of Dorje Phurba.
• Vajra weapon – the short spear or short lance is associated with a group of vajra weapons which are used by horseback warriors.
• Vajra weapon – the thunderbolt noose is one of the implements of the Vajrayana which are made from a wide variety of materials according to the exact manner in which they destroy duality.
• Vajra weapon – vajra club.
• Vajra weapon – vajra hook.
• Vajra weapon – Vajra pike.
• Vajra weapon – Vajra Scimitar.
• Vajra weapon – Vajra Spear.
• Vajra weapon – Vajra staff.
• Vajra weapon – Vajra Sword.
• Vajra weapon – Vajra Trident.

Incarnation

• Dr Greenberg interviews Ngak’chang Rinpoche – rebirth is a beneficial working hypothesis.

Indifference

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche interviewed by Ngakma Yeshé – ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

Initiation

• Lama’i Naljor – authenticates the relationship between Teacher and student.

Inner method

• Dispelling the Darkness of Doubt – a spontaneously arising song revealing the symbolic nature of the three secrets of the gö-kar chang-lo’i dé

Inner Tantra

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part IX: with a greater subtlety of connection, there is a wider dispersal of appreciation.

Inspiration

• Questions with Ngak’chang Rinpoche – Inspiration & Practice.

Instrument

• Conch – the sound of liberation
• Dorje & drilbu – the primary symbolic tools of compassion and wisdom
• Dungchen – always appear in pairs as their low, roaring call is supposed to resemble the sound of dragons mating.
• Inner & Outer Dimensions of Sound – music at these assemblies would range between spoken recitation, and forms which are increasingly musical.
• Inner & Outer Dimensions of Sound – solo singing was performed in the context of both transmission and of inspirational song.
• Ivory Damaru – inseparability of emptiness and form.
• Ivory Damaru – the appended cho-phen or reality flag is red, white, and blue in colour.
• Ivory Damaru – with a braided chöphen.
• Kanglings – McCleod Ganj, 1975.
• Khandro Shardröl – dramyen
• Rang-rig Togden – crafted the drum from five male skulls and five female skulls. The skulls were riveted together as five lobes linked by other sections of skull.
• Rang-rig Togden – iron was the metal upon which ngak’phang practice was grounded.
• Rang-rig Togden – the bell and gÇod drum are used extensively to accompany yogic song.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – conches.

Integration with the moving elements

• Dzogchen long-dé – the primal energy exercises of Tibetan Dzogchen.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Interview

• Ngala ’ö-Dzin Tridral – I could only be described as a Lama by somebody who felt I fulfilled that rôle in their life.
• Relaxing into Practice – interview with Ngala Nor’dzin.

Intoxication

• The five Owl Precepts – contain the profound inner meaning of the five precepts commonly found within the Sutras, and as such provide an extraordinary base for approaching Dzogchen.

Iron

• Rang-rig Togden – iron was the metal upon which ngak’phang practice was grounded.

Iron phurba

• Iron Phurba – when phurbas are authenticated for practice, their handles (which portray the three faces of Dorje Phurba) are very rarely seen by anyone apart from the practitioner.

Ivory ring

• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – wore an ivory ring in his hair that had been given to him by Aro Yeshé.

Jampalyang

• DoKhyentse Yeshé Dorje – this is the Traktung or wrathful manifestation of Jampalyang.

Jamyang Kongtrül

• Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche – the eleventh incarnation in a lineage of great masters beginning with the mahasiddha Trungpa Kunga Gyaltsen.

Je Tsongkhapa

• DoKhyentse Yeshé Dorje – this is the Traktung or wrathful manifestation of Jampalyang.

Je-trul Rinpoche

• Je-trul Rinpoche – is engaged in making gTormas: three dimensional symbols of one’s connection with the yidam in terms of Mahayoga.

Jealous God

• The escalator of emptiness – merely being human does not make my rebirth a ‘precious human rebirth’.

Jig’mèd Lingpa

• DoKhyentse Yeshé Dorje – this is the Traktung or wrathful manifestation of Jampalyang.

Jig’mèd Trom-gé Rinpoche

• Jig’mèd Trom-gé Rinpoche – regularly leads nyung-ne retreats, which involve fasting, prostrations and offerings to Chenrezigs.

Jig’med Phuntsog Rinpoche

• Jig’med Phuntsog Rinpoche – was a phurba master who could make his phurba fly.

Jig’drel Yeshé Dorje

• Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche – biography

Jin-pa

• The Ten Paramitas – actions which are free from the crimp of duality, which arise spontaneously from the non-dual state.

Jinsreg

• Fire ceremony ladle – used to pour melted butter or oil.
• Khandro Déchen – presides over the clothes-burning ceremony.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – composed of threads of wool or silk which are the colours of the five elements: blue, green, red, white, and yellow.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – fire ceremony.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – fire ceremony.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen – on the beach near Whale Rock after the fire ceremony which concluded the 1997 ordination retreat.

Jomo Chhi’mèd Pema

• Jomo Chhi’mèd Pema – was mainly regarded as an eccentric goat herder with powers of healing and weather prediction.
• Mother Essence Lineage – when Pema ’ö-Zér was in her late teens, her aunt Jomo Chhi’mèd Pema left the house and never returned.

Jomo Chö-ku

• Jomo Chö-ku Wangmo – is an extremely modest and kind person, and a dedicated practitioner.
• Lopon Ögyen Rinpoche – composed the Aro gTér Lineage invocation which is recited at the beginning of retreats.

Jomo Menmo

• Jomo Menmo – close up
• Jomo Menmo – face
• Jomo Menmo – her everyday life causes the innate enlightenment of others to sparkle through the fabrications of their dualistic conditioning.
• Jomo Menmo – her stepmother required her to work excessively, carrying wood and herding the yaks and dris.
• Jomo Menmo – my activity emanation will appear in Tsang, and she will be known as Jomo Menmo.
• Jomo Menmo – she experienced a dream of clarity in which she received a profound vision.
• Jomo Menmo – she met many yogis who gained powerful realisations simply by meeting her.
• Jomo Menmo – she sang teaching songs as the natural expression of her conversation, and performed vajra-dance as the natural expression of her deportment.
• Jomo Menmo – the famous female gTértön called ‘The Lady Demoness’
• Jomo Menmo – two drums connected and used as a single instrument represent the inseparability of emptiness and form.
• Mother Essence Lineage – in the Mother Essence Lineage Jomo Menmo is regarded as the incarnation of Ma-gÇig Labdrön.

Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér

• Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér – an extraordinary capacity to cut through confusion in a simple and direct manner.
• Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér – phurba detail.
• Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér – tiger detail.
• Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér – tiger face detail.
• Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér – was an incarnation of Tashi Chhidren, the consort of Padmasambhava who manifests as the tiger in the image of Dorje Tröllö.
• Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér – was primarily a Dzogchen long-dé master, but she was also an accomplished phurba master.
• Mother Essence Lineage – when Pema ’ö-Zér was in her late teens, her aunt Jomo Chhi’mèd Pema left the house and never returned.

Jomo Sam’phel

• Jomo Sam’phel – confided that she practised Padmasambhava by day and Yeshé Tsogyel by night.
• Jomo Sam’phel – is one of the most precious human beings in the world.
• Jomo Sam’phel – reclining with her drilbu (ritual bell; ghanta) and her personal texts.
• Jomo Sam’phel – views Khandro Déchen as the daughter she never had.
• Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche & Jomo Sam’phel – wisdom-display and method-display as a living transmission of realisation.
• Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche & Jomo Sam’phel – performing spontaneous folk dances and folk songs of Kham.
• Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche and Jomo Sam’phel – long life wish path.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.
• Tsogyel Ge’phel Jong – is a place where a group of Nyingma yogis and yoginis live and practice in permanent semi-open retreat.
• Tsogyel Ge’phel Jong – one of the most powerful pilgrimage places associated with Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel.
• Vajra Father and Vajra Mother – Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche commented on many aspects of the gö-kar chang-lo appearance.

Joyous

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche interviewed by Ngakma Yeshé – ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

Joyous shawl

• Aro Yeshé – although it is called the ‘peaceful empowerment shawl’ it was also used for Dzogchen transmission.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen – wearing the ‘joyous’ lineage shawls.

Kagyüd

• A’pho Rinpoche – a great ngak’phang Lama of the Drukpa Kagyüd School.
• A’pho Rinpoche – wearing formal empowerment robes and the hat of the Drukpa Kagyüd School.
• Bongtrül Rinpoche – entered Lho Lungkar Gompa where he received teachings on Dzogchen and especially Dzogchen Tögal.
• Karma Ling – Lama Lödrö and Lama Thubten were the resident Lamas at the centre at that time.
• Milarépa – is a forefather of the Kagyüd schools.

Kangling

• Kanglings – McCleod Ganj, 1975.

Karma

• Dzogchen – these methods are secret, not because they are dangerous, but because the power of transmission would be jeopardised if they were given to people who could not comprehend them.
• Karma – the personal police state.
• Ngondro – each of the sets of foundation practices can be seen as encompassing the whole path.
• The six realms – hot blooded kindness is what roots us in this precious human rebirth.

Karma Ling

• Karma Ling – Lama Lödrö and Lama Thubten were the resident Lamas at the centre at that time.

Karmapa

• The Great 16th Karmapa – for three days the region around his heart remained warm, but had no medical explanation for the phenomenon.
• The Great 16th Karmapa – gave many transmissions at Rumtek and many statues of Buddhas and Mahasiddhas were completed.
• The Great 16th Karmapa – his corporeal form dissolved within his mother’s womb, as if she had never been pregnant.
• The Great 16th Karmapa – sent Rig’dzin Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Akong Tulku Rinpoche to Britain in 1967 where they established Samyé Ling.

Kayas

• Bloodlust – you become the emotion completely, or it becomes you.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part VI: there are many different perspectives on what is required.
• Kayas – a method by which we can approach an understanding of nonduality.
• Lama’i Naljor – authenticates the relationship between Teacher and student.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche interviewed by Ngakma Yeshé – ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
• The Bristol Talks – a yidam is a visual description of our own enlightened state, as well as a method of reaching, understanding and experiencing that state.

Keith Dowman

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Keith Dowman – spent a day with apprentices giving teaching on the subject of Dzogchen men-ngag-dé.

Khalden Lingpa

• ’a-Shul Pema Legden – is portrayed as much older than he would have been at the time of his first meeting with Khyungchen Aro Lingma.
• ’a-Shul Pema Legden – was the gTér scribe and visionary artist of Khalden Lingpa.
• Aro History Thangka – depicts the meeting of Aro Lingma (as Khandro Yeshé Rema) with ’a-Shul Pema Legden.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – was the incarnation of Khalden Lingpa, a great gTérton of the turn of the 19th and 20th century.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – biography
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – wearing the lineage crown of the Khordong tradition.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – discovered twenty-three volumes of gTérma, and other gTérma of different types.
• Mother Essence Lineage – Aro Lingma made a long drawn out hiss with her lips drawn up into wrathful aspect, as if she were performing a Tsa-lung breathing exercise.

Khandro

• A-yé Khandro – the younger of the two sisters who were the sangyums of Aro Yeshé.
• Crow headed khandro – is holding a skull bowl and a sword.
• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• Honey On The Razor’s Edge – we can only immerse ourselves in the efflorescence of our sense fields, and learn directly from the energy of what we are in relation to our lovers.
• Ma-gÇig Labdrön – her mind left her body through the crown of her head as a rainbow, and disappeared into the vastness of space.
• Ma-gÇig Labdrön – the children and disciples of Ma-gÇig Labdrön all integrated these teachings into their hearts.
• Ma-gÇig Labdrön – the Indians declared her an incarnation of the Great Mother, and invited her to India.
• Ma-gÇig Labdrön – was the great Tibetan yogini who was the originator of the practice of gCod.
• Raven headed khandro – in this image the khandro is a yidam.
• Raven headed khandro – is holding a skull bowl and a grigug.
• Vulture headed khandro – is holding a skull bowl.

Khandro Déchen

• A-yé Khandro – stepping into activity for the benefit of everyone and everything everywhere.
• Khandro Déchen – an example of what it is to ‘live the view’.
• Khandro Déchen – graduation portrait.

Khandro Losèl Drölma

• Khandro Shardröl – was the incarnation of Khandro Losèl Drölma, the sister of DoKhyentse Yeshé Dorje.
• Khandro Shardröl Rinchen Wangmo’ – held a family tradition concerning birds which she had received from her mother.

Khandro Nyima

• Lödrö Rinpoche, Khandro Nyima – photograph

Khandro/pawo

• Refuge – we seek protection from our own conceptual minds: from our compulsion to split reality into dualistic view; from our addiction to conditioned responses rooted in preconception.

Khandro Pawo Nyi-da Mélong Gyüd

• Ngala Nor’dzin and Ngala ’ö-Dzin – take each other as teachers, and find their relationship of great significance in their practice.
• Ngala Nor’dzin and Ngala ’ö-Dzin – teaching couples offer practitioners a wonderful opportunity to grasp and experience the realised meanings of teachings.
• Tralam-mé – we have established that our teaching disciples will also be entirely, joyously, and unreservedly monogamous.

Khandro Rig’dzin Takmo

• Khandro Rig’dzin Takmo – was one of the ‘Five Dakini Mothers’ of Aro Yeshé.

Khandro script

• Dakini cypher – seeing this script our consciousness is ‘seeded’ with the cause of our eventual liberation
• Khandro script – is not a language that is readable.

Khandro Shardröl Rinchen Wangmo

• Khandro Shardröl – began to make journeys up into the mountains to spend some of each summer with her mother, and at these times she learnt a great deal about practice.
• Khandro Shardröl – dramyen
• Khandro Shardröl – held a family tradition related to the bird-headed dakinis, which she had received from her mother.
• Khandro Shardröl – mélong.
• Khandro Shardröl – she became a wandering yogini in the region of Golok where she met Khyungchen Aro Lingma and became her disciple.
• Khandro Shardröl – was the incarnation of Khandro Losèl Drölma, the sister of DoKhyentse Yeshé Dorje.
• Khandro Shardröl Rinchen Wangmo – was the incarnation of Khandro Losèl Drölma, the sister of DoKhyentsé Yeshé Dorje.
• Khandro Shardröl Rinchen Wangmo’ – held a family tradition concerning birds which she had received from her mother.

Khandro Ten’dzin Drölkar

• Khandro Ten’dzin Drölkar – is an extraordinary yogini who lives in Yang-lé-shöd, Nepal.
• Khandro Ten’dzin Drölkar – is one of the great yoginis of the Nyingma tradition.
• Khandro Ten’dzin Drölkar – received the entire cycle of the Mindrol Ling Southern gTérma.
• Mother Essence Lineage – Aro Lingma made a long drawn out hiss with her lips drawn up into wrathful aspect, as if she were performing a Tsa-lung breathing exercise.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche, Khandro Déchen and Khandro Ten’dzin Drölkar – made a pilgrimage to Tso Pema with Gyaltsen Rinpoche.

Khandro Yeshé Rema

• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – was the name she received from Yeshé Tsogyel.

Khatvangha

• Ga-phong Dongma – holding the khatvanga
• Ga-phong Dongma – the raven-headed trines of the khatvanga
• Khatvangha – this khatvangha is of the type which usually ornaments large statues.
• Nyima ’ö-Zér – is the archetypal yogi whose finger stops the sun in its tracks so that all time is frozen, and with it all dualistic strategies.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – the lapis lazuli khatvangha trident which menaces all dualistic dalliances.
• Yeshé Tsogyel applique – the khatvanga has eight sides which represent the Noble Eightfold path and the eight classes of protectors.

Khenpo Rinpoche

• Karma Ling – Lama Lödrö and Lama Thubten were the resident Lamas at the centre at that time.

Khordong

• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – was the incarnation of Khalden Lingpa, a great gTérton of the turn of the 19th and 20th century.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – wearing the lineage crown of the Khordong tradition.
• Dorje Tröllö – this is a beautifully painted thangka with great attention given to the tiger and to the ocean of blood over which Dorje Tröllö rides.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – the Ögyen Pèd-zha is particular to his lineage of Khordong.

Khordong Gompa

• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – biography

Khyechung Lotsa

• Dro’phang Lingpa – discovered twenty-three volumes of gTérma, and other gTérma of different types.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Khyungchen-ling

• Jomo Menmo – she experienced a dream of clarity in which she received a profound vision.

Khyungpo Naljor

• Niguma – attained rainbow body and received transmission directly from long-ku (Sambhogakaya) through the visionary appearance of Dorje Chang.

Killing

• The five Owl Precepts – contain the profound inner meaning of the five precepts commonly found within the Sutras, and as such provide an extraordinary base for approaching Dzogchen.

Kindness

• Kindness – is where we start.
• Kindness – we know what it means to be kind.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche interviewed by Ngakma Yeshé – ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

Knowledge

• The Ten Paramitas – actions which are free from the crimp of duality, which arise spontaneously from the non-dual state.

Konchog Rinpoche

• Konchog Rinpoche – 1978

Kum nye

• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.
• Dzogchen long-dé – the primal energy exercises of Tibetan Dzogchen.
• Khandro Déchen – watches a group of apprentices engaged in Phurba Dance.
• Naljorpa Bar-ché – has a great natural ability for the physical yogas and vajra dance.
• Naljorpa Bar-ché – has a natural affinity for sKu-mNyé practice.
• Naljorpa Rangdröl Dorje – has become an extremely skilled drum maker.
• sKu-mNyé – Ngak’chang Rinpoche demonstrates Dancing Garuda.
• Tiger – one of the four protector animals of Tibet

Kumar Lama

• Chenrezigs – inspires practitioners to engage in kindness-view and kindness-action.
• Drukpa Künlegs – is an important figure in the transmission of the mahasiddha tradition in Tibet.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – was the name she received from Yeshé Tsogyel.
• Kumar Lama – is a master thangka painter whose artistry has been praised by many Nyingma Lamas.
• Tseringma – is the lady who protects ones longevity in terms of non-dual awareness.

sKu-mNyé

• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.
• Dzogchen long-dé – the primal energy exercises of Tibetan Dzogchen.
• Khandro Déchen – watches a group of apprentices engaged in Phurba Dance.
• Naljorpa Bar-ché – has a great natural ability for the physical yogas and vajra dance.
• Naljorpa Bar-ché – has a natural affinity for sKu-mNyé practice.
• Naljorpa Rangdröl Dorje – has become an extremely skilled drum maker.
• sKu-mNyé – Ngak’chang Rinpoche demonstrates Dancing Garuda.
• Tiger – one of the four protector animals of Tibet

sKu-mNyé Teachers

• sKu-mNyé Teachers – At Pema Osel Ling, 2001

Kuntuzangmo

• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – in terms of the three kayas she is Kuntuzangmo, the wisdom ground of being.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – the shocking presence of the immanence of liberation
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Kuntuzangpo

• Chökyi Wangchuk Rinpoche – a Ngakpa Lama and an incarnation from the family clan of gTérton Ratna Lingpa.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Künzang Dorje Rinpoche

• Künzang Dorje Rinpoche – drawing by Khandro Déchen.
• Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche & Jomo Sam’phel – wisdom-display and method-display as a living transmission of realisation.
• Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche & Jomo Sam’phel – performing spontaneous folk dances and folk songs of Kham.
• Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche – is one of the greatest living masters of rTsa rLung.
• Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche – is revered as a highly realised Dzogchen yogi, teacher of rTsa-rLung, and master of karmamudra.
• Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche – performing spontaneous folk dances and folk songs of Kham.
• Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche and Jomo Sam’phel – long life wish path.
• Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche and Ngak’chang Rinpoche – the importance of ‘direct essential practice’ for those following a Dzogchen lineage.
• Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche – autobiography
• Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche – wearing the ngak’phang lotus hat.
• Nyima ’ö-Zér Gar’cham – on that occasion Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche represented Padmasambhava.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.
• Tsogyel Ge’phel Jong – is a place where a group of Nyingma yogis and yoginis live and practice in permanent semi-open retreat.
• Tsogyel Ge’phel Jong – one of the most powerful pilgrimage places associated with Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel.
• Vajra Father and Vajra Mother – Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche commented on many aspects of the gö-kar chang-lo appearance.

Kurukulla

• Kurukulla – transforms dualistic desire into non-dual desire through her unbridled vajra lust.

Kushog Jampal

• Kushog Jampal – organised the Confederate Sanghas of Aro pilgrimage to Lahaul, Spiti, Zanskar, and Ladhak in 1992.

Kusum Lingpa

• Kusum Lingpa – his incarnation line begins with Chamtrül Yu-la’i Tob-kyir, one of the thirty chief warriors of Ling Gesar.

Kyé-rim

• Pride & Prejudice – otherness holds no fear for those who practise according to the principle of transformation.

Kyab

• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.

Kyil’khor

• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• Ngöndro – the Dzogchen view of Tantric ngöndro.
• The certain Lama – if you have a vehicle which has emptiness at its base, the teaching which proceeds from that is not going to be intellectually communicable unless you have had the experience of emptiness.

Ladle

• Fire ceremony ladle – used to pour melted butter or oil.

Lam Rim

• Khensur Yeshé Thubten Rinpoche – gave teachings on Lam Rim, the Graduated Path to Enlightenment.

Lama

• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• Refuge – we seek protection from our own conceptual minds: from our compulsion to split reality into dualistic view; from our addiction to conditioned responses rooted in preconception.

Lama Konchog Rinpoche

• Nyima ’ö-Zér Gar’cham – on that occasion Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche represented Padmasambhava.

Lama Yeshé

• Lama Yeshé – was a warm and welcoming Lama.

Lama’i Naljor

• Chant & Yogic Song – in Tantric dön-pa the words are used as a guide to visualisation.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part IX: with a greater subtlety of connection, there is a wider dispersal of appreciation.

Lama’i naljor

• Empowerment and guru yoga – in that moment ‘your’ mind and the Mind of the Lama are not separate; there is only Mind.
• Lama’i Naljor – authenticates the relationship between Teacher and student.
• Ngöndro – the Dzogchen view of Tantric ngöndro.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen – practising the Lama’i Naljor of MagÇig Labdrön.
• Ngala Nor’dzin and Ngala ’ö-Dzin – practising the Lama’i Naljor of Ma-gÇig Labdrön.
• Ngondro – each of the sets of foundation practices can be seen as encompassing the whole path.
• The Bristol Talks – a yidam is a visual description of our own enlightened state, as well as a method of reaching, understanding and experiencing that state.

Language

• The Tower of Song – the meaning can start to suggest itself.

Lerab Lingpa

• Sonam Gyaltsen – his two yards of hair coiled up as the crowning ornament of his siddhis.

Letter

• Tharchin Rinpoche – letter to the editor of tricycle.

Lha-thong

• …and the art of ballistics – there is a moment there that you have to find.
• Four Naljors – this is the ngöndro of Dzogchen sem-dé.

Lhundrüp

• Four Naljors – this is the ngöndro of Dzogchen sem-dé.

Lhundrüp Tobgyé Ling

• History of Lhundrüp Tobgyé Ling – five Lamas made a vow that one of us would start a school to preserve the teachings and yogic practices of the Nyingma gö kar chang lo lineage.

Life circumstances display

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part VII: the teacher is a manifestation—through personality display—of many different things..
• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.

Lineage

• Lineage and Costume – it can be an inspiration just to wear the costume of the lineage and know that you are a representative.
• Nine Bardos – in order to have some apprehension of what death is, one has to die.

Lineage shawl

• Khandro Déchen – wearing the Ögyen Pèdzha, the lotus crown worn by Nyingma lineage holders.
• Khandro Déchen – wears the Aro gTér lineage shawl.

Ling Gésar

• Ling Gésar – the Tibetan spiritual warrior-hero.
• Ling Gésar – the Tibetan spiritual warrior-hero.
• Ling-tsang Gyalpo – an incarnation of Ling Gesar, the ancient Tibet spritual warrior-hero who gave battle to the demonic forces of negativity.
• Naljorpa Bar-ché – has a great natural ability for the physical yogas and vajra dance.

Ling Gesar

• Kusum Lingpa – his incarnation line begins with Chamtrül Yu-la’i Tob-kyir, one of the thirty chief warriors of Ling Gesar.

Lingtsang Gyalpo

• Ling-tsang Gyalpo – an incarnation of Ling Gesar, the ancient Tibet spritual warrior-hero who gave battle to the demonic forces of negativity.
• Lingtsang Gyalpo – close up.
• Lingtsang Gyalpo – phurba hat worn by Ling-tsang Gyalpo
• Lingtsang Gyalpo – was known both for his overwhelming kindness, and for his siddhis in connection with the practice of Dorje Phurba.

Lion

• Seng-gé Dradog – the Lama with the voice of a lion.

Llyn Cadair

• Sangha expedition – the lakes look so inviting after a hard walk on a hot day.

Llyn Cau

• Sangha expedition – the beautiful melody of this mantra reverberated around the mountain ridge.

Llyn Gafr

• Sangha expedition – the gentle movement of the water offered an ideal opportunity for practising integration with the moving element of water.

Lo-tog nam-zhi

• Ngöndro – the Dzogchen view of Tantric ngöndro.
• Ngondro – each of the sets of foundation practices can be seen as encompassing the whole path.

Loden Chogtsé

• Loden Chogtsé – is the Emperor manifestation who describes power in terms of its unseen source.

Lödrö Rabjé

• Karma Ling – Lama Lödrö and Lama Thubten were the resident Lamas at the centre at that time.

Lödrö Rinpoche

• Lödrö Rinpoche – is a master of Tantric orchestral.
• Lödrö Rinpoche, Khandro Nyima – photograph
• Lödrö Rinpoche, Nyida Wangmo – belong to a special category of Nyingma practitioners who manifest the outer form of the monastic tradition (in the case of Lödrö Rinpoche) without adhering to its celibate form.
• Tsogyel Ge’phel Jong – is a place where a group of Nyingma yogis and yoginis live and practice in permanent semi-open retreat.
• Tsogyel Ge’phel Jong – one of the most powerful pilgrimage places associated with Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel.
• Yang-lé-shöd Lamas – the Lamas and practitioner retreatants of Tsogyel Gé’phel Jong are a wonderful example of the lineage of Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel.

Long life

• Chatral Rinpoche – wish path.
• Düd’jom Rinpoche – long life wish path.
• Düd’jom Yangsrid Tulku – long life wish path.
• Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoche – long life wish path.
• Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche and Jomo Sam’phel – long life wish path.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen – long life wish paths.
• Nyingma Long-life Wish-paths – awareness-poems for the cultivation of the perfect appreciation of devotion.
• Tharchin Rinpoche – long life wish path

Long life protectoress

• Tseringma – is the lady who protects ones longevity in terms of non-dual awareness.

Long-dé

• A-yé Khandro – is shown in the posture of one of a number of Dzogchen long-dé practices.
• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.
• Dzogchen long-dé – the primal energy exercises of Tibetan Dzogchen.
• Four Naljors – this is the ngöndro of Dzogchen sem-dé.
• Rang-rig Togden – is shown with a mélong braided into his beard as a continual reminder of his ‘vows of vision’.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Longchen Rabjam

• Dzogchen – striking the Essence in Three Incisive Indications

Longchen Rabjampa

• DoKhyentse Yeshé Dorje – this is the Traktung or wrathful manifestation of Jampalyang.

Longchenpa

• Heart Jewel of the Fortunate – my view is as vast as the sky, but my actions are finer than flour.

Loose hair

• A-shé Khandro – one of the two Sang-yums of Aro Yeshé.
• A-shé Khandro – wears one of the three gomtags which were handed down from Jomo Chhi’mèd Pema to Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér to Aro Lingma.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Lopön Ögyen Rinpoche

• Lopon Ögyen Rinpoche – was born and raised in the far-northeast Amdo region of Tibet.

Lopön Ögyen Tanzin Rinpoche

• Jomo Chö-ku Wangmo – is an extremely modest and kind person, and a dedicated practitioner.
• Lopon Ögyen Rinpoche – composed the Aro gTér Lineage invocation which is recited at the beginning of retreats.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche, Khandro Déchen and Ögyen Tanzin Rinpoche – presented her with the yidam’s peaceful silver ankle ornaments, and insisted on attaching them himself as an expression of devotion.
• Ngak’phang Lamas – takdröl means ‘liberation on wearing’ and signifies the Lama’s completion of the first two ‘Lama Cycles’.

Lotus

• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.

Lotus born

• Pema Gyalpo – is the ‘Lotus Prince’, the youthful manifestation who appears spontaneously born just as enlightenment is spontaneously born.

Lotus hat

• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – The ’Khordong Lotus Hat.
• Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche – wearing the ngak’phang lotus hat.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen – wearing the hats particular to the gö-kar chang-lo tradition of Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen – wearing the lotus hats of the Nyingma yogic lineage of Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche.
• Nyingma ngakpa – practising a Za Rahula rite.

Lotus symbol

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – is wearing the Dorje Zarhorma hat worn by Lamas of the Nyingma Tradition.

rLung

• Ngondro – each of the sets of foundation practices can be seen as encompassing the whole path.

Lying

• The five Owl Precepts – contain the profound inner meaning of the five precepts commonly found within the Sutras, and as such provide an extraordinary base for approaching Dzogchen.

Ma-gÇig Labdrön

• Chant & Yogic Song – in Tantric dön-pa the words are used as a guide to visualisation.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – biography
• Lama’i Naljor – authenticates the relationship between Teacher and student.
• Ma-gÇig Labdrön – gÇod damaru
• Ma-gÇig Labdrön – her mind left her body through the crown of her head as a rainbow, and disappeared into the vastness of space.
• Ma-gÇig Labdrön – the children and disciples of Ma-gÇig Labdrön all integrated these teachings into their hearts.
• Ma-gÇig Labdrön – the Indians declared her an incarnation of the Great Mother, and invited her to India.
• Ma-gÇig Labdrön – was the great Tibetan yogini who was the originator of the practice of gCod.
• Mother Essence Lineage – in the Mother Essence Lineage Jomo Menmo is regarded as the incarnation of Ma-gÇig Labdrön.
• Padampa Sang-gye – the unusual colour of his body is the combination of a dark skin dusted with cremation ash.

Maha Ati

• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.

Mahakala

• Mahakala – photograph.

Mahasiddha

• Dro’phang Lingpa – discovered twenty-three volumes of gTérma, and other gTérma of different types.
• Mélong Za Rinchen Tso – she hung her white robes on the rays of the sun and danced naked in the mountains.
• Questions with Ngak’chang Rinpoche – the Nature of Tantra & the Mahasiddha Tradition.
• Sangchen Dorje Rinpoche – lived mainly in Sikkim but wandered throughout the Himalayan region practising in caves and small out-of-the-way gompas.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Mahayana

• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.

Mahayoga

• Khamtrül Yeshé Dorje Rinpoche – biography
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – derives from the ancillary Mahayoga section of the Aro gTér.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – derives from the ancillary Mahayoga section of the Aro gTér.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – derives from the ancillary Mahayoga section of the Aro gTér.

Mandala

• Ngöndro – the Dzogchen view of Tantric ngöndro.
• The certain Lama – if you have a vehicle which has emptiness at its base, the teaching which proceeds from that is not going to be intellectually communicable unless you have had the experience of emptiness.

Mandala offerings

• Ngondro – each of the sets of foundation practices can be seen as encompassing the whole path.

Mandarava

• Dorje Chang – the ‘Holder of the Vajra’; the name of the Primordial Buddha according to Mahamudra expression.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Manjushri

• Jampalyang

Mantra

• Chant & Yogic Song – in Tantric dön-pa the words are used as a guide to visualisation.
• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• Dzogchen & Tantra – there are simply practitioners who may practise Dzogchen as part of their repertoire of practices.
• Tantric Ordination – when Padmasambhava came to Tibet, King Tri-song Détsen expected to meet him as an equal, but came face to face with his own inadequacy immediately.

Marpa

• Kindness – we know what it means to be kind.
• Marpa – he holds a text in his lap to indicate that he is a translator.
• Marpa – they lived real down-to-earth lives. But they were also ngak’phang Lamas.

Ma-za-dor-sum

• Ma-za-dor-sum – he three great protectors are depicted in a wild and rugged setting, surrounded by wisdom fire.
• Ma-za-dor-sum – Mamo Ekajati is the non-dual queen, the most inportant of the Ma Za Dor Sum .

McLeod Ganj

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – Western Dharma students would sometimes take me out for dinner, having first plied me with many questions concerning Vajrayana.

Medicine horn

• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – made four special ngakrus that he gave to Aro Yeshé on the instruction of Aro Lingma.
• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – ngakru.
• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – was the husband and spiritual consort of one of the Five Dakini Mothers of Aro Yeshé.

Medicine maker

• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – his practice revolved around the healing arts and would have included ritual practice as well as the administration of herbal medicine.
• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – made four special ngakrus that he gave to Aro Yeshé on the instruction of Aro Lingma.
• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – they camped together in the high mountain valleys and taught the three children about herbs.
• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – was a practitioner of Ögyen Menlha.
• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – was an expert at observing and understanding the nature and properties of healing herbs.

Meditation

• Buddha nature – chö-ku is thus the original nature of Mind rather than a phenomenon produced by causes and circumstances.

Mélong

• Black Ögyen Jampalyang – the obsidian mélong he holds in his upper left hand is ornamented by the five-fold reality flag of Khyungchen Aro Lingma.
• Buddha nature – chö-ku is thus the original nature of Mind rather than a phenomenon produced by causes and circumstances.
• Dzogchen – non-dual realisation depends upon discovering as real that which was beginninglessly there: the primordial base.
• Khandro Shardröl – mélong.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – mélong.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – mélong.
• Loden Chogtsé – is the Emperor manifestation who describes power in terms of its unseen source.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – at the 1986 International Conference of the British Psychological Society, at which he was one of the major invited speakers.
• Rang-rig Togden – is shown with a mélong braided into his beard as a continual reminder of his ‘vows of vision’.

Mélong Za Rinchen Tso

• Mélong Za Rinchen Tso – mistress of the jewel-mirror lake.
• Mélong Za Rinchen Tso – she hung her white robes on the rays of the sun and danced naked in the mountains.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Men-ngag-dé

• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.
• Dzogchen – these methods are secret, not because they are dangerous, but because the power of transmission would be jeopardised if they were given to people who could not comprehend them.
• Four Naljors – this is the ngöndro of Dzogchen sem-dé.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Method

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part I: however you are is the perfect basis from where you travel.
• Dr Greenberg interviews Ngak’chang Rinpoche – rebirth is a beneficial working hypothesis.
• Questions with Ngak’chang Rinpoche – how we apprehend practice.
• The Ten Paramitas – actions which are free from the crimp of duality, which arise spontaneously from the non-dual state.

Method and wisdom

• Aro Yeshé – depicted with his dorje and drilbu, the implements of method and wisdom.

Method display

• Honey On The Razor’s Edge – we can only immerse ourselves in the efflorescence of our sense fields, and learn directly from the energy of what we are in relation to our lovers.

Métsal Wangmo

• Ngakma Métsal – it makes me extremely happy to be ordained into the gö-kar chang-lo’i de, and to be one of Khandro Déchen Tsedrup Rolpa’i Yeshé’s thangka painting students.

Mi-gewa’i semjung

• Seng-gé Dradog – the Tantric Buddha in the form of Seng-gé Dradog is the manifestation who quells ‘mika’ the voice of dualistic distortion.

Milam

• Dream yoga – it is important that we use that part of our lives.

Milarépa

• A’pho Rinpoche – a great ngak’phang Lama of the Drukpa Kagyüd School.
• Kindness – we know what it means to be kind.
• Milarépa – is a forefather of the Kagyüd schools.

Mind

• Dr Greenberg interviews Ngak’chang Rinpoche – rebirth is a beneficial working hypothesis.

Mindfulness

• Questions with Ngak’chang Rinpoche – Inspiration & Practice.

Mindroling

• Minling Trichen Rinpoche – his daughters are now following the traditions of their predecessors.
• Minling Trichen Rinpoche – there were three sets of Mindroling which he had to memorise, and recite by heart in front of the general assembly.
• Minling Trichen Rinpoche – we practise mainly the La-dzog Thug-sum.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Miniature

• Tröma Nakmo – this image is a tsak-li, a miniature thangka painting used to confer empowerment.

Minling Trichen Rinpoche

• Minling Trichen Rinpoche – his daughters are now following the traditions of their predecessors.
• Minling Trichen Rinpoche – there were three sets of Mindroling which he had to memorise, and recite by heart in front of the general assembly.
• Minling Trichen Rinpoche – we practise mainly the La-dzog Thug-sum.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Mirror

• Mélong

Mi–thogpa

• Bloodlust – you become the emotion completely, or it becomes you.

Monism

• Bloodlust – you become the emotion completely, or it becomes you.

Mönlam

• The Ten Paramitas – actions which are free from the crimp of duality, which arise spontaneously from the non-dual state.

Montana

• Ngala ’ö-Dzin Tridral – the relationship with the horses grew for each apprentice through tending to their own the horse each day.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – it is useful to discover that we can be enriched by unexpected experiences such as cantering on a horse when we only expected to walk or trot.

Montana mountain

• Montana mountain – Shaped like the Dorje Zahorma hat of Padmasambhava, it resembles many such peaks in the Himalayas.

Morality

• Karma – the personal police state.

Mother Essence Lineage

• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – was the name she received from Yeshé Tsogyel.
• Mother Essence Lineage – Aro Lingma made a long drawn out hiss with her lips drawn up into wrathful aspect, as if she were performing a Tsa-lung breathing exercise.
• Mother Essence Lineage – glossary.
• Mother Essence Lineage – in the Mother Essence Lineage Jomo Menmo is regarded as the incarnation of Ma-gÇig Labdrön.
• Mother Essence Lineage – in the Nyingma tradition every male ngak’phang Lama is perceived as Padmasambhava by his disciples and his sangyum is perceived as Yeshé Tsogyel.
• Mother Essence Lineage – when Pema ’ö-Zér was in her late teens, her aunt Jomo Chhi’mèd Pema left the house and never returned.
• Mother Essence Lineage – Yeshé Tsogyel is the greatest inspiration and role model for women.

Motivation

• Questions with Ngak’chang Rinpoche – how we apprehend practice.

Mountain hat

• Kham naljorpa – wearing the ri-chö zha, a simple form of the Dorje Zahorma hat of the Nyingma tradition.

Mudra

• Dro’phang Lingpa – the tigress is wisdom and the phurba is method.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – mudra.

Mural

• gTértön – the Lama pictured is a discover of sa gTér or ‘earth treasure’.
• The Gö-kar chang-lo – this traditional Tibetan mural shows that the gö-kar chang-lo’i dé were not merely ‘lay practitioners’.

Naljorma

• gCodpa – wears the tod-kheb waistcoat and gomthag characteristic of the ngak’phang naljorpa tradition.
• Jomo Sam’phel – views Khandro Déchen as the daughter she never had.
• Khandro Ten’dzin Drölkar – is an extraordinary yogini who lives in Yang-lé-shöd, Nepal.
• Naljorma Dzü’drül – to live the full-blooded life of a tantrika is my guiding principle.
• Ordination Gar’cham – celebration of her vajra commitment with a gar’cham of Khyungchen Aro Lingma.

Naljorpa

• Dispelling the Darkness of Doubt – a spontaneously arising song revealing the symbolic nature of the three secrets of the gö-kar chang-lo’i dé
• Kham naljorpa – wearing the ri-chö zha, a simple form of the Dorje Zahorma hat of the Nyingma tradition.
• Ngak’phang Naljorpa – wears the naljorpa’s chuba coat and shirt and carries his uncut hair in the ralpa chang lo yogic style.

Naljorpa Rangdröl Dorje

• Naljorpa Rangdröl Dorje – has become an extremely skilled drum maker.

Nam’gyur

• Khandro Chenmo Yeshé Tsogyel – is shown wearing the royal golden ornaments of the Princess of Karchen.

Namkha

• Fire ceremony ladle – used to pour melted butter or oil.
• Namkha – looked like tiglés
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – composed of threads of wool or silk which are the colours of the five elements: blue, green, red, white, and yellow.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – cube-shaped namkha.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – derives from the ancillary Mahayoga section of the Aro gTér.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – derives from the ancillary Mahayoga section of the Aro gTér.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – derives from the ancillary Mahayoga section of the Aro gTér.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – large namkha.
• Ngala ’ö-Dzin Tridral – playing rolmo during a fire ceremony at Pennant Valley in North Wales.

Namkha Artè

• Young Yogi – with the roaring of the waterfall behind me and the vast sky which opened out in front of me it was an ideal place.

Namkha’i Norbu Rinpoche

• Namkha’i Norbu Rinpoche – playing rolmo during the protector rites of Dorje Legpa.
• Namkha’i Norbu Rinpoche – studied with many great Lamas including A-yo Khandro Dorje Paldron.

Narcissism

• Student teacher reflection – the Lama will allow you to access your enlightened nature by nudging you.

Nature of Mind

• …and the art of ballistics – there is a moment there that you have to find.
• Buddha nature – chö-ku is thus the original nature of Mind rather than a phenomenon produced by causes and circumstances.
• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• Dzogchen long-dé – the primal energy exercises of Tibetan Dzogchen.
• Heart Jewel of the Fortunate – my view is as vast as the sky, but my actions are finer than flour.
• Ngöndro – the Dzogchen view of Tantric ngöndro.

Ngagyür Lhundrüp Tobgyé Ling

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche, Khandro Déchen and Ögyen Tanzin Rinpoche – presented her with the yidam’s peaceful silver ankle ornaments, and insisted on attaching them himself as an expression of devotion.

Ngagyur Lhundrup Tobgye Ling

• Lhundrüp Tobgyé Ling

Ngak

• Tantric Ordination – when Padmasambhava came to Tibet, King Tri-song Détsen expected to meet him as an equal, but came face to face with his own inadequacy immediately.

Ngak-srung Ral gÇigma

• Ekajati – protects the practitioner against harms inflicted by others.
• Ekajati – the cemetery ornaments in this thangka are beautifully portrayed in great detail, showing the cho-khors at the wrists, ankles, and chest.
• Ekajati – wields a human-corpse club with which she smashes dualistic clinging with its own form.

Ngak’chang Rinpoche

• Aro Yeshé – wearing his hair in the thor-tshug style.
• Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche – an appreciation of his language.
• Young Yogi – with the roaring of the waterfall behind me and the vast sky which opened out in front of me it was an ideal place.

Ngakchung

• Ngala Nor’dzin – an expression of devotion and commitment, but without the full Vajrayana vows and full damtsig with the Vajra Master.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – this style of novice ordination was briefly employed by the lineage as a transitional phase.

Ngakma

• Dro’phang Lingpa – to wield the phurba is to proclaim that the death of one’s illusions is an ever-present possibility.
• Ngakma Yang’dzom – her father was a yogi who integrated his retreats into his working life whilst herding the family’s yak and dri in remote areas.
• Tantric Ordination – when Padmasambhava came to Tibet, King Tri-song Détsen expected to meet him as an equal, but came face to face with his own inadequacy immediately.

Ngakpa

• A’pho Rinpoche – a great ngak’phang Lama of the Drukpa Kagyüd School.
• A’pho Rinpoche – wearing formal empowerment robes and the hat of the Drukpa Kagyüd School.
• Chökyi Wangchuk Rinpoche – a Ngakpa Lama and an incarnation from the family clan of gTérton Ratna Lingpa.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – to wield the phurba is to proclaim that the death of one’s illusions is an ever-present possibility.
• Drong’dul Gyalpo – was a renowned exorcist, and it was said that he once protected a family of nomads from the charge of a Drong—by standing in its path, and bringing it to a halt with his gaze.
• gCodpa – without fear for their own corporeal existence and thus able to bring comfort and support to others in times of crisis.
• Golok Ngakpa – the pe-cha style takdrol is characteristic of Lamas in the Longchen Nying-thig lineage.
• Khamtrül Yeshé Dorje Rinpoche – biography
• Ling-tsang Gyalpo – an incarnation of Ling Gesar, the ancient Tibet spritual warrior-hero who gave battle to the demonic forces of negativity.
• Ngakpa A’jam Rinpoche – a yogi of the Longchen Nying-thig lineage.
• Ngakpa Seng-gé Dorje – was a disciple of Ngala Sherab Dorje Rinpoche a gö-kar chang-lo Lama from Golok.
• Nyingma ngakpa – practising a Za Rahula rite.
• Repkong Ngakpas – those in the West who have studied Tibetan spiritual culture will be aware of the way in which children are raised as monks and nuns – but maybe not of the way in which the same applies to ngakpas and ngakmas.
• Senior Repkong Ngakpas – Ngak’chang Rinpoche’s love for the tradition of the white skirt and long braided hair is quite uncontainable.
• Tantric Ordination – when Padmasambhava came to Tibet, King Tri-song Détsen expected to meet him as an equal, but came face to face with his own inadequacy immediately.
• The Gö-kar chang-lo – this traditional Tibetan mural shows that the gö-kar chang-lo’i dé were not merely ‘lay practitioners’.
• Three unknown ngakpas – wearing the Dorje Zahorma hats of Nyingma Lamas, and the red, white, and blue striped shawls of the gö-kar chang-lo’ide.
• Village Ngakpa – the term ‘village ngakpa’ is often used in a derogatory manner when scholars are attempting to define the gö-kar chang-lo’i de.

Ngak’phang

• Dispelling the Darkness of Doubt – a spontaneously arising song revealing the symbolic nature of the three secrets of the gö-kar chang-lo’i dé
• Ngak’phang – the suggestion has been made that ngak’phang means ‘to throw away mantra’.
• Ngak’phang Naljorpa – wears the naljorpa’s chuba coat and shirt and carries his uncut hair in the ralpa chang lo yogic style.
• Tantric Ordination – when Padmasambhava came to Tibet, King Tri-song Détsen expected to meet him as an equal, but came face to face with his own inadequacy immediately.

Ngak’phang Dratsang

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche, Khandro Déchen and Ögyen Tanzin Rinpoche – presented her with the yidam’s peaceful silver ankle ornaments, and insisted on attaching them himself as an expression of devotion.

Ngakru

• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – made four special ngakrus that he gave to Aro Yeshé on the instruction of Aro Lingma.
• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – ngakru.
• Ngakpa Dawa Ngödrüp – was the husband and spiritual consort of one of the Five Dakini Mothers of Aro Yeshé.
• Ngakru – empowerment horn 1
• Ngakru – empowerment horn 2

Ngöndro

• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.
• Dzogchen – these methods are secret, not because they are dangerous, but because the power of transmission would be jeopardised if they were given to people who could not comprehend them.
• Ngöndro – maybe an alternative translation could be preparation, or method of establishing the experiential ground for practice.
• Ngöndro – the Dzogchen view of Tantric ngöndro.
• Ngondro – each of the sets of foundation practices can be seen as encompassing the whole path.

Nigu Chö-drug

• Niguma – attained rainbow body and received transmission directly from long-ku (Sambhogakaya) through the visionary appearance of Dorje Chang.
• Nine Bardos – in order to have some apprehension of what death is, one has to die.

Niguma

• Niguma – attained rainbow body and received transmission directly from long-ku (Sambhogakaya) through the visionary appearance of Dorje Chang.

Nine bardos

• Nine Bardos – in order to have some apprehension of what death is, one has to die.

Nine yanas

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part I: however you are is the perfect basis from where you travel.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part II: the word bodhicitta is much larger than the word compassion.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part III: the basis of compassion is realising that samsara does not work.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part IV: it is important to be able to accept oneself as one actually is.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part IX: with a greater subtlety of connection, there is a wider dispersal of appreciation.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part V: they can be different because there are different methods.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part VI: there are many different perspectives on what is required.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part VII: the teacher is a manifestation—through personality display—of many different things..
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part VIII: there are many things within Tantra that are reflections of human life; but they have been appropriated through wisdom and compassion.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part X: this is the refuge of no-refuge; it is complete.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part XI: seven-line song is a complete practice in itself.

Nine-pronged

• Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö – In this detail, we can make out Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö’s skull crown, her halo of smoke and flame, and the bone bead ornaments she wears.

Nirmanakaya display

• Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche – military or martial appearance is a glorious offense to the politically correct.

Nirvana

• Heart Jewel of the Fortunate – my view is as vast as the sky, but my actions are finer than flour.

Nonduality

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part II: the word bodhicitta is much larger than the word compassion.

Nor’dzin Rangjung Pamo

• Khamtrül Yeshé Dorje Rinpoche – he seemed particularly delighted to see me and always waved and was most friendly.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – has much to offer to people in the West.

Nor’kyong Chenpo

• Ögyen Dzambhala – carries the mongoose.
• Ögyen Dzambhala – in the foreground of the thangka are five gTérbums.
• Ögyen Dzambhala – stands aloft a montain of jewels.
• Ögyen Dzambhala – the five-coloured garuda flies from the tip of a golden vajra.
• Dzambhala – a powerful testament to the real nature of wealth as the transcendence of the ‘pure/impure dichotomy’.
• Dzambhala – close up of full thangka.
• Dzambhala – the face close up.
• Dzambhala – the figure close up.
• Dzambhala – the figure.
• Dzambhala – wearing the ‘breast-plate armour’ of the ‘earth and sky yung-drungs’.

Nuden Dorje

• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – biography

nyi

• nyi – the number two.

Nyi-mèd

• Four Naljors – this is the ngöndro of Dzogchen sem-dé.

Nyida Wangmo

• Lödrö Rinpoche, Nyida Wangmo – belong to a special category of Nyingma practitioners who manifest the outer form of the monastic tradition (in the case of Lödrö Rinpoche) without adhering to its celibate form.
• Tsogyel Ge’phel Jong – one of the most powerful pilgrimage places associated with Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel.

Nyima ’ö-Zér

• Nyima ’ö-Zér – drawing by Khandro Déchen.
• Nyima ’ö-Zér – is the archetypal yogi whose finger stops the sun in its tracks so that all time is frozen, and with it all dualistic strategies.
• Nyima ’ö-Zér Gar’cham – on that occasion Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche represented Padmasambhava.

Nyingma

• Bloodlust – you become the emotion completely, or it becomes you.
• Bongtrül Rinpoche – entered Lho Lungkar Gompa where he received teachings on Dzogchen and especially Dzogchen Tögal.
• Chag’düd Rinpoche – had given an empowerment of phowa, the rite of transference of consciousness.
• Chag’düd Rinpoche – played many rôles once he escaped Tibet, not only as a spiritual guide but also as an administrator with various duties dealing with Nyingma refugee settlements.
• Chatral Rinpoche – holder of the Düd’jom gTér lineage.
• Chatral Rinpoche – wearing a special form of the Dorje Zahorma hat which is particular to his tradition.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part I: however you are is the perfect basis from where you travel.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part IX: with a greater subtlety of connection, there is a wider dispersal of appreciation.
• Dawa Chödak Rinpoche – is mostly known for the Dorje Yudrönma mélong divination.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – discovered twenty-three volumes of gTérma, and other gTérma of different types.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – the tiger is the symbol of unrestrained ferocity.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – the Ögyen Pèd-zha is particular to his lineage of Khordong.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – the nine prong vajra handles symbolise the activity of the phurba throughout the nine skies.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – the tigress is wisdom and the phurba is method.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – this image is unusual inasmuch as it portrays a Lama in visionary form.
• Family Practice – the play of children was never seen as an interruption or as a distraction from practice.
• gTérchen Karma Rinpoche – discovered numerous sa gTérs.
• Jig’mèd Trom-gé Rinpoche – regularly leads nyung-ne retreats, which involve fasting, prostrations and offerings to Chenrezigs.
• Jig’med Phuntsog Rinpoche – was a phurba master who could make his phurba fly.
• Jomo Chö-ku Wangmo – is an extremely modest and kind person, and a dedicated practitioner.
• Kusum Lingpa – his incarnation line begins with Chamtrül Yu-la’i Tob-kyir, one of the thirty chief warriors of Ling Gesar.
• Lama Tharchin Rinpoche – Tharchin Rinpoche had a wonderful way with children and always enjoyed their presence in both formal and informal situations.
• Ling-tsang Gyalpo – an incarnation of Ling Gesar, the ancient Tibet spritual warrior-hero who gave battle to the demonic forces of negativity.
• Lopon Ögyen Rinpoche – composed the Aro gTér Lineage invocation which is recited at the beginning of retreats.
• Lopon Ögyen Rinpoche – was born and raised in the far-northeast Amdo region of Tibet.
• Minling Trichen Rinpoche – his daughters are now following the traditions of their predecessors.
• Minling Trichen Rinpoche – there were three sets of Mindroling which he had to memorise, and recite by heart in front of the general assembly.
• Minling Trichen Rinpoche – we practise mainly the La-dzog Thug-sum.
• Mother Essence Lineage – Yeshé Tsogyel is the greatest inspiration and role model for women.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – wearing Nyingma empowerment shawls.
• Ngakpa A’jam Rinpoche – a yogi of the Longchen Nying-thig lineage.
• Sangchen Dorje Rinpoche – lived mainly in Sikkim but wandered throughout the Himalayan region practising in caves and small out-of-the-way gompas.
• Sonam Zangpo Rinpoche – declined to live in the palace and take the official position of Chögyal.
• Tharchin Rinpoche – children are drawn to him and relate with him immediately.
• Tharchin Rinpoche – gave teachings on the Seven Line Song of Padmasambhava according to the commentary of Mipham Rinpoche.
• Tharchin Rinpoche – is a Dzogchen master of Vajrayana Buddhism.
• Tharchin Rinpoche – letter to the editor of tricycle.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.
• Three unknown ngakpas – wearing the Dorje Zahorma hats of Nyingma Lamas, and the red, white, and blue striped shawls of the gö-kar chang-lo’ide.
• Tulku Dawa Rinpoche – was one of the close disciples of Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche.
• Zonga Thongyal – is a devout practitioner who still lives in McCleod Ganj, but is pictured here on a pilgrimage to Bodhgaya.

’ö-Dzin Tridral Dorje

• Ngala ’ö-Dzin – is highly intelligent and has an excellent memory.

Offerings

• A-shé Khandro – the idea of offerings on a thangka or on a shrine concerns ‘making a connection’.
• Begtsé offerings – a practitioner of this protector could own such an offering thangka.
• Chenrezigs – inspires practitioners to engage in kindness-view and kindness-action.
• Offering bowls – can be set up in the morning and taken down in the evening.
• Offering bowls – making an offering expresses that we are there with good intent, and have make an effort, and offer a symbol of our connection.
• Offering bowls – many practices contain a verse of these eight offerings.
• Offering bowls – ritual practice is not emphasised in the Aro Lineage.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – offerings.

Ögyen

• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.

Ögyen Chenrezigs

• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – a form of Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel in union manifesting as the yidam of compassion.
• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – deer are shy by nature, and their presence in a landscape represents a dimension where fear is unknown.
• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – male deer.
• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – send a profusion of spectral patterns throughout the realms of dualistic delusion in order to liberate beings from their self-created suffering.
• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – the Aro gTér tradition was to wear the gZi bead on its own as a symbol of the function of the protectors.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – Ögyen Chenrézigs and Yeshé Tsogyel each hold a dorje.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – Ögyen Chenrézigs and Yeshé Tsogyel each hold a dorje.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the conch shell has many symbolic meanings.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the faces.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the figures close up.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the figures.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the red and white of the hat reflects the symbology of male and female.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – Yeshé Tsogyel wears lapis lazuli ornaments.

Ögyen Dzambala

• Ögyen Dzambhala – carries the mongoose.
• Ögyen Dzambhala – in the foreground of the thangka are five gTérbums.
• Ögyen Dzambhala – stands aloft a montain of jewels.
• Ögyen Dzambhala – the five-coloured garuda flies from the tip of a golden vajra.
• Dzambhala – a powerful testament to the real nature of wealth as the transcendence of the ‘pure/impure dichotomy’.

Ögyen Garuda

• Ögyen Garuda – is Padmakara in the form of the immense space eagle who is born fully enlightened and in full flight.

Ögyen Jampalyang

• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – a form of Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel in union manifesting as the yidam of compassion.
• Ögyen Jampalyang – devours all attempts to validate unkindness or concretise non-dual intelligence.
• Black Ögyen Jampalyang – the obsidian mélong he holds in his upper left hand is ornamented by the five-fold reality flag of Khyungchen Aro Lingma.

Ögyen Manjushri

• Ögyen Jampalyang – devours all attempts to validate unkindness or concretise non-dual intelligence.
• Black Ögyen Jampalyang – the obsidian mélong he holds in his upper left hand is ornamented by the five-fold reality flag of Khyungchen Aro Lingma.

Ögyen Pèdzha

• Düd’jom Lineage Tree – Padmasambhava is free from any mark or sign of contrivance.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – the Ögyen Pèd-zha is particular to his lineage of Khordong.
• Khandro Déchen – wearing the Ögyen Pèdzha, the lotus crown worn by Nyingma lineage holders.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen – gave an unprecedented number of empowerments and transmissions ranging throughout the three inner Tantras.

Ojibwa Medicine Man

• Sun Bear – continued throughout his life to learn from his dreams and visions as well as from Native teachers.

Om

• Om – the symbol of emptiness

One

• gÇig – the number one.

Open retreat

• Sangha – an open retreat early in the evolution of the UK sangha.

Openness

• The Ten Paramitas – actions which are free from the crimp of duality, which arise spontaneously from the non-dual state.

Ordained

• Naljorma Dzü’drül – to live the full-blooded life of a tantrika is my guiding principle.
• Naljorma Rin’dzin – is utterly reliable and works extremely hard on all sangha projects.
• Naljorma Thrinlé Khandro – I soon began to feel that Vajrayana imagery and painting was something that I wanted to pursue with far greater seriousness than anything I had attempted before.
• Naljorpa Bar-ché – has a great natural ability for the physical yogas and vajra dance.
• Naljorpa Rangdröl Dorje – has become an extremely skilled drum maker.
• Ngakma Métsal – it makes me extremely happy to be ordained into the gö-kar chang-lo’i de, and to be one of Khandro Déchen Tsedrup Rolpa’i Yeshé’s thangka painting students.
• Ngakma Pema Zangmo – these days when I have difficulties with painting, I remember to paint from my heart and to paint without concept.
• Ngakma Shardröl – a marvellous guide to students of Vajrayana who have travelled to Bodha and Yang-lé-shöd.
• Ngakpa Zhal’mèd – has dedicated much time and effort in solitary retreat and is an accomplished practitioner.
• Ralzhig Pema Legden & Ngakma Shardröl – empowerment ceremony.
• sKu-mNyé Teachers – At Pema Osel Ling, 2001

Ordination

• Khandro Déchen – presides over the clothes-burning ceremony.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – a key part of the ordination ceremony within the Aro lineage is empowerment with the implements of a tantrika.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – an expression of devotion and commitment, but without the full Vajrayana vows and full damtsig with the Vajra Master.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – at that time I was at a loss as to how to express the sense of devotion I felt and my need for a spiritual direction.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – at that time the meaning and importance of ngak’phang ordination was little understood.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – on the occasion of Ngakma Shardröl’s ordination.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – sits in front of Ngak’chang Rinpoche receiving empowerment into ordination as a Ngakma.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – this style of novice ordination was briefly employed by the lineage as a transitional phase.
• Ordination Gar’cham – celebration of her vajra commitment with a gar’cham of Khyungchen Aro Lingma.
• Padmasambhava applique – in the form of Guru Nang-srid Zilngön.
• Tantric Ordination – when Padmasambhava came to Tibet, King Tri-song Détsen expected to meet him as an equal, but came face to face with his own inadequacy immediately.

Ornaments

• Dispelling the Darkness of Doubt – a spontaneously arising song revealing the symbolic nature of the three secrets of the gö-kar chang-lo’i dé

Ösel

• Dream yoga – it is important that we use that part of our lives.

Outer method

• Dispelling the Darkness of Doubt – a spontaneously arising song revealing the symbolic nature of the three secrets of the gö-kar chang-lo’i dé

Owl

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche holding an owl – they both seemed to be grinning at each other.

Owl precepts

• The five Owl Precepts – contain the profound inner meaning of the five precepts commonly found within the Sutras, and as such provide an extraordinary base for approaching Dzogchen.

Owl-headed dakini

• ’ug gDongma – her white plumage is the radiant rainbow-window on the nine skies

Owl-headed Dakini

• ’ug gDongma – is the mysterious æthereal apparitional owl-headed dakini
• ’ug gDongma – mercurial visage

Padampa Sang-gye

• Padampa Sang-gye – the unusual colour of his body is the combination of a dark skin dusted with cremation ash.

Padma Paltsum

• Jomo Menmo – her stepmother required her to work excessively, carrying wood and herding the yaks and dris.

Padmasambhava

• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – a form of Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel in union manifesting as the yidam of compassion.
• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – a form of Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel in union manifesting as the yidam of compassion.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – Ögyen Chenrézigs and Yeshé Tsogyel each hold a dorje.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – Ögyen Chenrézigs and Yeshé Tsogyel each hold a dorje.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the conch shell has many symbolic meanings.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the faces.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the figures close up.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the figures.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the red and white of the hat reflects the symbology of male and female.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – Yeshé Tsogyel wears lapis lazuli ornaments.
• Chant & Yogic Song – in Tantric dön-pa the words are used as a guide to visualisation.
• Düd’jom Lineage Tree – one with the power to establish the teachings of Vajrayana in the world.
• Düd’jom Lineage Tree – one would visualise one’s Root Lama as the central figure’s presence display, personality display and life circumstances display.
• Dorje Chang – the ‘Holder of the Vajra’; the name of the Primordial Buddha according to Mahamudra expression.
• Dorje Tröllö – is the Wisdom-chaos manifestation of Guru Rinpoche, the Second Buddha.
• Dorje Tröllö – the thunderbolt catalyst, who destroys pious pretences and sanctimonious institutionalisation.
• Dorje Tröllö – the Wisdom-chaos manifestation of the Padmasambhava.
• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• Jomo Menmo – her everyday life causes the innate enlightenment of others to sparkle through the fabrications of their dualistic conditioning.
• Jomo Menmo – she experienced a dream of clarity in which she received a profound vision.
• Loden Chogtsé – is the Emperor manifestation who describes power in terms of its unseen source.
• Nyima ’ö-Zér – drawing by Khandro Déchen.
• Nyima ’ö-Zér – is the archetypal yogi whose finger stops the sun in its tracks so that all time is frozen, and with it all dualistic strategies.
• Padmasambhava – Guru Rinpoche, the lotus-born Buddha.
• Padmasambhava – is the Lotus Born Tantric Buddha who established Vajrayana Buddhism in Tibet in the 9th century upon the invitation of Chogyal Trisong Detsen.
• Padmasambhava – subdued all the negative forces which had caused obstacles to the establishment of the teachings and founded the two sanghas: the red sangha of monks and nuns, and the go-kar chang-lo’i dé, the white sangha or ngak’phang sangha of ngakpas and ngakmas, naljorpas and naljormas.
• Padmasambhava – the expression of Padmasambhava in this statue, with his immeasurably kind, piercing gaze is one which makes this image of the Vajra Guru a great inspiration to the Confederate Sanghas of Aro and their Lineage-holders.
• Padmasambhava – the Lotus-born.
• Padmasambhava – the Lotus-born.
• Padmasambhava – the Tantric Buddha.
• Padmasambhava applique – appliqué thangkas were traditional in Tibet.
• Padmasambhava applique – dorje and phurba are also fabric.
• Padmasambhava applique – in 1994 the first appliqué thangka of Padmasambhava was created.
• Padmasambhava applique – in 2006 it was given a little renovation.
• Padmasambhava applique – in the form of Guru Nang-srid Zilngön.
• Padmasambhava applique – sewing the form of Padmasambhava onto the new backing and frame.
• Padmasambhava applique – the khatvangha.
• Padmasambhava applique – the new face.
• Padmasambhava applique – the skull bowl and phurba.
• Padmasambhava applique – worthwhile projects such as the creation of tantric art like appliqués.
• Pema Gyalpo – is the ‘Lotus Prince’, the youthful manifestation who appears spontaneously born just as enlightenment is spontaneously born.
• Pema Jung-né – the Tantric Scholar.
• Seng-gé Dradog – crusher of the mikhas of anger and paranoia.
• Seng-gé Dradog – is a powerful means of obliterating mikha.
• Seng-gé Dradog – the inspiration of Seng-gé Dradog comes to the fore like an earthquake.
• Seng-gé Dradog – the Lama with the voice of a lion.
• Seng-gé Dradog – the lotus arising from the ocean of blood.
• Seng-gé Dradog – the roar of the vajra master in his terrific environment.
• Seng-gé Dradog – the Tantric Buddha in the form of Seng-gé Dradog is the manifestation who quells ‘mika’ the voice of dualistic distortion.
• Seng-gé Dradog – wearing the human and snow lion hides.
• Shakya Seng-gé – the manifestation who embodies the teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Padmasambhava handprint

• Asura Cave – hand-print of Padmasambhava.

Pag Mipham Gonpo

• Dzogchen – these methods are secret, not because they are dangerous, but because the power of transmission would be jeopardised if they were given to people who could not comprehend them.

Pamo

• A-shé Khandro – one of the two Sang-yums of Aro Yeshé.

Papa Ten’dzin

• The nature of Refuge – Drukpa Künlegs said I’ll teach you a refuge recitation which you must recite whenever you think of me.

Patience

• The Ten Paramitas – actions which are free from the crimp of duality, which arise spontaneously from the non-dual state.

Pawo

• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• Honey On The Razor’s Edge – we can only immerse ourselves in the efflorescence of our sense fields, and learn directly from the energy of what we are in relation to our lovers.

Peaceful

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche interviewed by Ngakma Yeshé – ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

Peaceful Ornaments

• Peaceful Ornaments – the phurba-shaped end-beads, from a 1960’s chandelier, were discovered in a box at the back of the warehouse.
• Peaceful Ornaments – the phurba-shaped end-beads, from a 1960’s chandelier, were discovered in a box at the back of the warehouse.
• Peaceful Ornaments – the phurba-shaped end-beads, from a 1960’s chandelier, were discovered in a box at the back of the warehouse.

Peaceful shawl

• Aro Yeshé – although it is called the ‘peaceful empowerment shawl’ it was also used for Dzogchen transmission.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen – wearing the ‘joyous’ lineage shawls.

Pearl ornaments

• ’ug gDongma – her white plumage is the radiant rainbow-window on the nine skies
• ’ug gDongma – is the mysterious æthereal apparitional owl-headed dakini

Pema Gyalpo

• Pema Gyalpo – is the ‘Lotus Prince’, the youthful manifestation who appears spontaneously born just as enlightenment is spontaneously born.

Pema Gyaltsen Rinpoche

• Pema Gyaltsen Rinpoche – had an extraordinary quality of presence, power, and calm, which made us feel a little over-awed.

Pema Jung-né

• Pema Jung-né – the Tantric Scholar.

Pema Zangmo

• A-yé Khandro – the image needs to be inspiring.
• Ngakma Pema Zangmo – these days when I have difficulties with painting, I remember to paint from my heart and to paint without concept.

Pemakö

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche, Khandro Déchen and Ögyen Tanzin Rinpoche – presented her with the yidam’s peaceful silver ankle ornaments, and insisted on attaching them himself as an expression of devotion.

Personality display

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part VII: the teacher is a manifestation—through personality display—of many different things..
• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• Student teacher reflection – the Lama will allow you to access your enlightened nature by nudging you.

’phang

• Ngak’phang – the suggestion has been made that ngak’phang means ‘to throw away mantra’.

Phodka Ling-nge

• A-shé Khandro – one of the two Sang-yums of Aro Yeshé.
• A-shé Khandro – wears one of the three gomtags which were handed down from Jomo Chhi’mèd Pema to Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér to Aro Lingma.
• Khandro Déchen – wearing the Ögyen Pèdzha, the lotus crown worn by Nyingma lineage holders.

Phuntsog Tobden

• Khandro Shardröl – held a family tradition related to the bird-headed dakinis, which she had received from her mother.

Phuntsog Tulku

• Phuntsog Tulku – is a ngak’phang Lama and gTértön who presides over the Drigung Phuntsog Chöling Gompa in Wien (Vienna).

Phur-gon

• The Phur-gon – the one who establishes the space in which Dorje Phurba will dance the vajra steps which annihilate anger in all its forms.

Phurba

• 2005 craft retreat – Ngak’chang Rinpoche was keen that we made a phurba as this is a tradition in the Aro lineage.
• 2005 craft retreat – the nine pronged dorje that tops the handle is characteristic of Aro gTér vajra weapons.
• 2005 craft retreat – the nine pronged dorje that tops the handle is characteristic of Aro gTér vajra weapons.
• 2005 craft retreat – the practitioner impales his or her own neurosis in order to liberate the basic fear of the non dual state.
• A-Kyong Düd’dül Dorje – was extraordinarily skilled in making phurbas in metal and wood, as well as bone, ivory, and other materials.
• A-kyong Phurba – takes its form from The Nine Enriching Phurbas of Ngak’chang A-kyong Düd’dül Dorje.
• Aro Lineage monumental phurba – a means of protecting and authenticating the environment for the practice of Dzogchen.
• Aro Lineage monumental phurba – a means of protecting and authenticating the environment for the practice of Dzogchen.
• Aro Lineage monumental phurba – assembly and installation.
• Aro Lineage monumental phurba – final work to the phurba and its base.
• Aro Lineage monumental phurba – Khandro Déchen drawing.
• Aro Lineage monumental phurba – preparatory steel work.
• Aro Lineage monumental phurba – setting up the haft.
• Aro Lineage monumental phurba – setting up the lotus & vajra.
• Aro Lineage monumental phurba – the foundations were excavated on the first day of the retreat.
• Aro Lineage monumental phurba – the grinding work was quite extreme.
• Aro Lineage monumental phurba – the trial run of setting the blades into the base.
• Aro Lineage monumental phurba – the triangular phurba base.
• Aro Lineage monumental phurba – they finished off the edges of the blades, welding them tightly and grinding the welds neatly.
• Aro Lineage monumental phurba – three octahedrons formed a column of over 4 foot in height.
• Aro Lineage monumental phurba –precise and detailed plans were drawn up.
• Aro Tröllö Phurba – this phurba is a weapon associated with Dorje Tröllö and therefore shows the single face of this yidam.
• Aro Yeshé – the meteorite iron phurba was originally made for ’a-Shul Pema Legden by his friend A-Kyong Düd’dül Dorje.
• Bronze Phurba – the knotted design above and below the central lotus patterns of the handle are the unending knots which represent ‘the continuity of Vajrayana’.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – the nine prong vajra handles symbolise the activity of the phurba throughout the nine skies.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – the tigress is wisdom and the phurba is method.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – to wield the phurba is to proclaim that the death of one’s illusions is an ever-present possibility.
• Ga-phong Dongma – wielding the coral phurba
• Iron Phurba – when phurbas are authenticated for practice, their handles (which portray the three faces of Dorje Phurba) are very rarely seen by anyone apart from the practitioner.
• Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér – phurba detail.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – phurba dance.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the air element phurba impales the neurosis of paranoia and anxiety.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the costume is relatively simple: a black skirt and black vest.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the dance of the water element phurba impales the neuroses connected with anger and aggression.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the dancers grip the phurbas in the mudra called Butadamara mudra, demon-dispelling mudra.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the fire element phurba impales the neuroses connected with obsession.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the phur-gon dancer makes the ‘stabbing motion’ which impales dualistic neurosis.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the phurba gar’cham is performed with free-flowing hair in the yogic style of Phod-ka Ling-nge.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the phurbas carried by the phur-gon have black silk sashes and these dancers dance first, last, and between each of the elemental dances.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the phurbas follow each other like swooping birds, leading with their heads rather than their blades.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the three-edged dagger of emptiness is sometimes called ‘the ego slaying dagger’.
• Phurba Gar’cham – this photograph was taken at eleven minutes past eleven on the eleventh of August 1999 at the time of the full solar eclipse.
• Tröllö Phurba – has a blade and ‘spine’ made of meteorite iron.
• Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö – In this detail, we can make out Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö’s skull crown, her halo of smoke and flame, and the bone bead ornaments she wears.
• Vajra weapon – blackened iron phurba with li-serpo faces of Dorje Phurba.
• Yeshé Tsogyel applique – Tantric yogis and yoginis wear vajra weapons in the belt of their shamthab.

Phurba gar’cham

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – phurba dance.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the air element phurba impales the neurosis of paranoia and anxiety.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the costume is relatively simple: a black skirt and black vest.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the dance of the water element phurba impales the neuroses connected with anger and aggression.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the dancers grip the phurbas in the mudra called Butadamara mudra, demon-dispelling mudra.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the fire element phurba impales the neuroses connected with obsession.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the phur-gon dancer makes the ‘stabbing motion’ which impales dualistic neurosis.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the phurba gar’cham is performed with free-flowing hair in the yogic style of Phod-ka Ling-nge.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the phurbas carried by the phur-gon have black silk sashes and these dancers dance first, last, and between each of the elemental dances.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the phurbas follow each other like swooping birds, leading with their heads rather than their blades.
• Phurba Gar’cham – the three-edged dagger of emptiness is sometimes called ‘the ego slaying dagger’.
• Phurba Gar’cham – this photograph was taken at eleven minutes past eleven on the eleventh of August 1999 at the time of the full solar eclipse.

Phurba hat

• Lingtsang Gyalpo – phurba hat worn by Ling-tsang Gyalpo
• Lingtsang Gyalpo – was known both for his overwhelming kindness, and for his siddhis in connection with the practice of Dorje Phurba.

Phurba master

• A-Kyong Düd’dül Dorje – was extraordinarily skilled in making phurbas in metal and wood, as well as bone, ivory, and other materials.
• Drong’dul Gyalpo – was a renowned exorcist, and it was said that he once protected a family of nomads from the charge of a Drong—by standing in its path, and bringing it to a halt with his gaze.
• Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér – was primarily a Dzogchen long-dé master, but she was also an accomplished phurba master.
• Ling-tsang Gyalpo – an incarnation of Ling Gesar, the ancient Tibet spritual warrior-hero who gave battle to the demonic forces of negativity.

Picnic

• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin – at Southerndown Beach in South Wales in the Spring of 1984.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – gave the empowerments of Tröma Nakmo, Seng-gé Dongma, and Dorje Tröllö
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – had been known for his magical abilities and power over the weather;

Pilgrimage

• A’pho Rinpoche – a great ngak’phang Lama of the Drukpa Kagyüd School.

Poetic turbulence

• Tralam-mé – is the mode in which people accidentally rhyme with each other.

Posture

• Aro Yeshé – shown here in the Dzogchen posture sometimes known as ‘mind in relaxation’ and sometimes as ‘mind resting in comfort and ease’.

Power

• Dro’phang Lingpa – self-existent power simply radiates.

Pratyékabuddhayana

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part IV: it is important to be able to accept oneself as one actually is.
• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Prayer wheel

• Yatung Tulku Chöying Nyima Rinpoche – was a Dzogchen master of the Nyingma Tradition and a family man whose sons and daughters became accomplished yogis and yoginis.

Precepts

• The five Owl Precepts – contain the profound inner meaning of the five precepts commonly found within the Sutras, and as such provide an extraordinary base for approaching Dzogchen.
• Tralam-mé – we have established that our teaching disciples will also be entirely, joyously, and unreservedly monogamous.

Prejudice

• Pride & Prejudice – otherness holds no fear for those who practise according to the principle of transformation.

Presence display

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part VII: the teacher is a manifestation—through personality display—of many different things..
• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.

Pride

• Pride & Prejudice – otherness holds no fear for those who practise according to the principle of transformation.

Princess of Karchen

• Khandro Chenmo Yeshé Tsogyel – is shown wearing the royal golden ornaments of the Princess of Karchen.

Prostrations

• Ngondro – each of the sets of foundation practices can be seen as encompassing the whole path.

Protector

• Ögyen Dzambhala – carries the mongoose.
• Ögyen Dzambhala – in the foreground of the thangka are five gTérbums.
• Ögyen Dzambhala – stands aloft a montain of jewels.
• Ögyen Dzambhala – the five-coloured garuda flies from the tip of a golden vajra.
• Begtsé offerings – a practitioner of this protector could own such an offering thangka.
• Düd’jom Lineage Tree – one would visualise one’s Root Lama as the central figure’s presence display, personality display and life circumstances display.
• Dorje Legpa – blood.
• Dorje Legpa – crags and terrifying heights are the dangers faced by the tantrika, and Dorje Legpa is a helper to practitioners when their dam-tsig is at risk.
• Dorje Legpa – detail of the snowlion that he rides in this form.
• Dorje Legpa – drawing by Khandro Déchen.
• Dorje Legpa – face.
• Dorje Legpa – heart.
• Dorje Legpa – his feet are naked and he wears his hair in a yogi’s topknot wrapped around a nine-prong vajra.
• Dorje Legpa – this form has three heads with which he roars in menace in order to subdue the minions of attraction, aversion and indifference.
• Dorje Legpa – vajra.
• Dzambhala – a powerful testament to the real nature of wealth as the transcendence of the ‘pure/impure dichotomy’.
• Dzambhala – close up of full thangka.
• Dzambhala – embodies the power of wealth to benefit beings.
• Dzambhala – the face close up.
• Dzambhala – the figure close up.
• Dzambhala – the figure.
• Dzambhala – wearing the ‘breast-plate armour’ of the ‘earth and sky yung-drungs’.
• Ekajati – protects the practitioner against harms inflicted by others.
• Ekajati – the cemetery ornaments in this thangka are beautifully portrayed in great detail, showing the cho-khors at the wrists, ankles, and chest.
• Ekajati – wields a human-corpse club with which she smashes dualistic clinging with its own form.
• Garwa’i Nagpo Damchen – often has the accoutrements of a blacksmith.
• Ma-za-dor-sum – he three great protectors are depicted in a wild and rugged setting, surrounded by wisdom fire.
• Ma-za-dor-sum – Mamo Ekajati is the non-dual queen, the most inportant of the Ma Za Dor Sum .
• Nyingma ngakpa – practising a Za Rahula rite.
• Protector thangka animals – in Tibet animals enabled life to function.
• Protector thangka animals – represent the power and greatness of the protector.
• Rahula minion – here the idea is not based on fear or the neurotic need to make every situation safe.
• Scorpion – everyone and everything is nothing other than the energy of the non-dual state.
• The Phur-gon – the one who establishes the space in which Dorje Phurba will dance the vajra steps which annihilate anger in all its forms.
• Za Rahula – drawing by Ngakma Déwang Pamo.
• Za Rahula – is depicted here emerging from a violent landscape amidst mountains which boil an ocean of blood.
• Za Rahula – is the protector who seizes the sun and the moon and eclipses planets.
• Za Rahula – the ‘giver of constant trouble’ is a friend to all those practitioners who value constant trouble if they are in danger of breaking their vows.

Protector flag

• Mika flag – a Manjushri wisdom sword arises from the central lotus.
• Mika flag – dorjes in the elemental colours.
• Mika flag – protection against malicious gossip, slander and vituperate invective.
• Mika flag – the second part has many eyes.
• Mika flag – the third section displays the syllable ‘kha’.
• Mika flag – the Tibet text of protection.

Psychological conference

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen – in the earlier phase of Rinpoche’s teaching he frequently accepted invitations to teach at psychological conferences.

Psychology

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part I: however you are is the perfect basis from where you travel.

Pulse diagnosis

• Ngala Nor’dzin – having trained in homœopathy, reflexology and hypnotherapy, it was a natural progression for her to begin practising pulse diagnosis.

Purification

• Ngöndro – the Dzogchen view of Tantric ngöndro.

Purification mantra

• Ngondro – each of the sets of foundation practices can be seen as encompassing the whole path.

Ræchel (daughter of Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen)

• Ræchel – in 2003 Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen took her to meet Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche and Jomo Sam’phel for the first time.

Rahula

• Rahula minion – here the idea is not based on fear or the neurotic need to make every situation safe.
• Za Rahula – drawing by Ngakma Déwang Pamo.
• Za Rahula – is depicted here emerging from a violent landscape amidst mountains which boil an ocean of blood.
• Za Rahula – is the protector who seizes the sun and the moon and eclipses planets.
• Za Rahula – the ‘giver of constant trouble’ is a friend to all those practitioners who value constant trouble if they are in danger of breaking their vows.

Rahula minion

• Rahula minion – here the idea is not based on fear or the neurotic need to make every situation safe.

Rang-rig Togden

• Mother Essence Lineage – when Pema ’ö-Zér was in her late teens, her aunt Jomo Chhi’mèd Pema left the house and never returned.
• Rang-rig Togden – crafted the drum from five male skulls and five female skulls. The skulls were riveted together as five lobes linked by other sections of skull.
• Rang-rig Togden – iron was the metal upon which ngak’phang practice was grounded.
• Rang-rig Togden – is shown with a mélong braided into his beard as a continual reminder of his ‘vows of vision’.
• Rang-rig Togden – sits upon a tiger skin in the manner of many of the mahasiddhas in the ancient Indian tradition.
• Rang-rig Togden – the bell and gÇod drum are used extensively to accompany yogic song.
• Rang-rig Togden – was a gÇod-pa when he met Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér.
• Rang-rig Togden – was a Tamdrin (Hayagriva) master who was considered by Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér, to be a body emanation of Thangtong Gyalpo.
• Rang-rig Togden – wearing a blue chuba trimmed with the skins of tigers and leopards.

Rangdröl

• Dzogchen – non-dual realisation depends upon discovering as real that which was beginninglessly there: the primordial base.

Rangjung Rigpa’i Dorje

• The Great 16th Karmapa – for three days the region around his heart remained warm, but had no medical explanation for the phenomenon.
• The Great 16th Karmapa – gave many transmissions at Rumtek and many statues of Buddhas and Mahasiddhas were completed.
• The Great 16th Karmapa – his corporeal form dissolved within his mother’s womb, as if she had never been pregnant.
• The Great 16th Karmapa – sent Rig’dzin Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Akong Tulku Rinpoche to Britain in 1967 where they established Samyé Ling.

Raven

• Ga-phong Dongma – the raven-headed trines of the khatvanga

Razor Lady

• Tröma Nakmo – she soars through the Cho-nyid devouring the malice of conceited vow breakage, drinking the blood of vow-breakers with lustful reserve.

Rebirth

• Dr Greenberg interviews Ngak’chang Rinpoche – rebirth is a beneficial working hypothesis.

Red robes

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – with one of the monks from the Gyuto Tantric College was taken in 1978 when Ngak’chang Rinpoche had completed a long retreat.

Red sangha

• Tantric Ordination – when Padmasambhava came to Tibet, King Tri-song Détsen expected to meet him as an equal, but came face to face with his own inadequacy immediately.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Red Seng-gé Dongma

• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – ‘The Corpulent Red Lioness of Maniacal Mutilation’, or ‘The Obsessed Obese Mistress of Magical Mastery’.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – conches.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – gri-gug.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – her burgeoning copper hair flies upward.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – in my left hand I hold the colossal skull bowl symbol, in which surfeited gluttony.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – in terms of the three kayas she is Kuntuzangmo, the wisdom ground of being.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – offerings.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – skull bowl.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – the flickering of emptiness and form.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – the lapis lazuli khatvangha trident which menaces all dualistic dalliances.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – the shocking presence of the immanence of liberation
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – the volcanic glare of her flame-coloured body.

Refuge

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part X: this is the refuge of no-refuge; it is complete.
• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• Ngöndro – the Dzogchen view of Tantric ngöndro.
• Refuge – we seek protection from our own conceptual minds: from our compulsion to split reality into dualistic view; from our addiction to conditioned responses rooted in preconception.
• The nature of Refuge – Drukpa Künlegs said I’ll teach you a refuge recitation which you must recite whenever you think of me.

Réjung Rinpoche

• Réjung Rinpoche – they met by chance on the Confederate Sanghas of Aro pilgrimage, and recognised each other as Lamas of the gö-kar chang-lo’ide.

Relationship

• Tralam-mé – we have established that our teaching disciples will also be entirely, joyously, and unreservedly monogamous.

Repkong

• Repkong Ngakpas – those in the West who have studied Tibetan spiritual culture will be aware of the way in which children are raised as monks and nuns – but maybe not of the way in which the same applies to ngakpas and ngakmas.
• Senior Repkong Ngakpas – Ngak’chang Rinpoche’s love for the tradition of the white skirt and long braided hair is quite uncontainable.

Retreat

• Khandro Déchen – watches a group of apprentices engaged in Phurba Dance.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – with one of the monks from the Gyuto Tantric College was taken in 1978 when Ngak’chang Rinpoche had completed a long retreat.

Ri-chö zha

• Kham naljorpa – wearing the ri-chö zha, a simple form of the Dorje Zahorma hat of the Nyingma tradition.

Richard (son of Ngala Nor’dzin & Ngala ’ö-Dzin)

• 2005 craft retreat – Richard left the 111 tormas at intervals across the long and arduous crossing of Cadair Idris and the visits to the three lakes.
• 2005 craft retreat – Richard left the 111 tormas at intervals across the long and arduous crossing of Cadair Idris and the visits to the three lakes.
• 2005 craft retreat – Richard made eight tormas of various sizes, plus one hundred and eleven tiny tormas.
• At Alton Towers – it was fascinating and illuminating to see how easily my perception was tricked.
• gTérbum – teaching Buddhism to children requires a degree of personal honesty and natural simplicity which can only come from a lifetime of committed practice.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – having trained in homœopathy, reflexology and hypnotherapy, it was a natural progression for her to begin practising pulse diagnosis.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – is seen with Daniel and Richard at a retreat when they were quite young.
• Ngala Nor’dzin and Ngala ’ö-Dzin – the largest upstairs bedroom of their home has been furbished and decorated in the style of a traditional Tibetan shrine room.

Rig’dzin Künzang Tobden Wangpo

• Dispelling the Darkness of Doubt – a spontaneously arising song revealing the symbolic nature of the three secrets of the gö-kar chang-lo’i dé

Rigpa

• Buddha nature – chö-ku is thus the original nature of Mind rather than a phenomenon produced by causes and circumstances.
• Dzogchen long-dé – the primal energy exercises of Tibetan Dzogchen.
• Essential Characteristics of Vajrayana – vajra commitment
• Ngöndro – the Dzogchen view of Tantric ngöndro.

Rigpa’i Kujug

• Khandro Chenmo Yeshé Tsogyel – wears a blue chuba – symbolic of the colour of the Rigpa’i Kujug, ‘the cuckoo of Awareness’.

Ri’med

• Kyabjé Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoche – biography
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Geshé Damchö – promote open-mindedness with regard to the widest scope of the teachings in order to foster a real understanding in students.

Rin’dzin Pamo

• Khyungchen Aro Lingma appliqué – the intensity and inspiration of the experience is heightened in this setting.
• Naljorma Rin’dzin – is utterly reliable and works extremely hard on all sangha projects.

Rinchen Gyaltsen Rinpoche

• Chö-ying Nyima ’ö-Zér – as the consort of Rinchen Gyaltsen Rinpoche she had received many empowerments and details of practice.

Robert (son of Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen)

• Lama Tharchin Rinpoche – Tharchin Rinpoche had a wonderful way with children and always enjoyed their presence in both formal and informal situations.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Robert – Robert enjoys sitting on Rinpoche’s lap when he is working, especially when he has his laptop computer open.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche, Khandro Déchen and Robert – Ngak’chang Rinpoche explained to Robert that boredom is only experienced by people who are boring.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche, Khandro Déchen and Robert – Robert has always taken a keen interest in making things along with apprentices in the craft environment.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche, Khandro Déchen and Robert – Robert is wearing a set of robes which were given to him by Gyaltsen Rinpoche.
• Robert – is holding the bell and vajra given him by Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche and Jomo Sam’phel and wearing the costume presented to him by Gyaltsen Rinpoche and Khandro Tsering.
• Tharchin Rinpoche – children are drawn to him and relate with him immediately.

Robes

• Dispelling the Darkness of Doubt – a spontaneously arising song revealing the symbolic nature of the three secrets of the gö-kar chang-lo’i dé
• Ngala Nor’dzin and Ngala ’ö-Dzin – wang means transmission through the power of symbol…

Rolmo

• Three unknown ngakpas – wearing the Dorje Zahorma hats of Nyingma Lamas, and the red, white, and blue striped shawls of the gö-kar chang-lo’ide.

Rolpa

• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – send a profusion of spectral patterns throughout the realms of dualistic delusion in order to liberate beings from their self-created suffering.
• A-shé Khandro – the idea of offerings on a thangka or on a shrine concerns ‘making a connection’.
• Dzogchen – non-dual realisation depends upon discovering as real that which was beginninglessly there: the primordial base.
• Dzogchen Garuda – Khyungchen Aro Lingma means The Great Lady Garuda who tastes the Primordial A.

Rolpa’i tro

• Tigers – the male and female tigers of the Aro gTér lineage

Ru-gyan

• Ga-phong Dongma – is a yidam of the Aro gTér who is invoked as a means of emotional and mental healing.
• Peaceful Ornaments – the phurba-shaped end-beads, from a 1960’s chandelier, were discovered in a box at the back of the warehouse.
• Peaceful Ornaments – the phurba-shaped end-beads, from a 1960’s chandelier, were discovered in a box at the back of the warehouse.
• Peaceful Ornaments – the phurba-shaped end-beads, from a 1960’s chandelier, were discovered in a box at the back of the warehouse.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – the volcanic glare of her flame-coloured body.
• Ru rGyan – human bone cemetery ornaments are worn on various occasions, but mainly within Tantric dance.
• Ru rGyan – this tabard style is the female equivalent to the crossed chest piece worn by yogis.
• Trom – is the wrathful seed syllable of the Garuda.

Rudra

• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.

Sakya Pandita

• DoKhyentse Yeshé Dorje – this is the Traktung or wrathful manifestation of Jampalyang.

Samantabhadri

• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – in terms of the three kayas she is Kuntuzangmo, the wisdom ground of being.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – the shocking presence of the immanence of liberation

Samaya

• Essential Characteristics of Vajrayana – vajra command.
• Essential Characteristics of Vajrayana – vajra commitment
• Establishing Vajra Commitment in the West – allowing one’s rationale to be challenged is the whole terrible truth of vajra commitment.
• Ngöndro – maybe an alternative translation could be preparation, or method of establishing the experiential ground for practice.
• Vajra Masters – may be wrathful, but their ‘wrathfulness’ is never peevish, irritable, surly, petulant, or aggressively impatient.

Samsara

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part III: the basis of compassion is realising that samsara does not work.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part III: the basis of compassion is realising that samsara does not work.
• Heart Jewel of the Fortunate – my view is as vast as the sky, but my actions are finer than flour.
• Questions with Ngak’chang Rinpoche – samsara.
• The six realms – hot blooded kindness is what roots us in this precious human rebirth.

Samten

• The Ten Paramitas – actions which are free from the crimp of duality, which arise spontaneously from the non-dual state.

Sang-yum

• A-shé Khandro – one of the two Sang-yums of Aro Yeshé.
• A-shé Khandro – performed a motherly rôle to Aro Yeshé and her sister A-yé Khandro
• A-shé Khandro – wears the Dzogchen blue chuba or gown.

Sangchen Dorje Rinpoche

• Sangchen Dorje Rinpoche – lived mainly in Sikkim but wandered throughout the Himalayan region practising in caves and small out-of-the-way gompas.

Sangha

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part I: however you are is the perfect basis from where you travel.
• Craft retreat – a wonderful mixture of formality and informality, intensity and relaxation.
• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma applique – the craft retreat is a wondrously joyful opportunity to be intensely and passionately present.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma applique – the craft retreat is a wondrously joyful opportunity to be intensely and passionately present.
• Sangha – an open retreat early in the evolution of the UK sangha.
• Sangha 1991 – all Nyingma Lamas wear Lotus-hats of similar shape, based on the crown of the King of Zahor.
• Tantric Ordination – when Padmasambhava came to Tibet, King Tri-song Détsen expected to meet him as an equal, but came face to face with his own inadequacy immediately.
• Yeshé Tsogyel applique – practitioners take artistic involvement and expression as being central to their lives.
• Yeshé Tsogyel applique – practitioners take artistic involvement and expression as being central to their lives.
• Yeshé Tsogyel applique – she evolved, organically and became present while we were working.

Scholar

• Pema Jung-né – the Tantric Scholar.

School

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part I: however you are is the perfect basis from where you travel.

Schools of Buddhism

• Pema Gyaltsen Rinpoche – had an extraordinary quality of presence, power, and calm, which made us feel a little over-awed.

Scorpion

• Rahula minion – here the idea is not based on fear or the neurotic need to make every situation safe.
• Scorpion – everyone and everything is nothing other than the energy of the non-dual state.
• Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö – each of the scorpions’ legs contain five segments, representing the five distorted tendencies and their corresponding wisdom qualities.
• Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö – In this detail, we can make out Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö’s skull crown, her halo of smoke and flame, and the bone bead ornaments she wears.

Sé Rinpoche

• A’pho Rinpoche – a great ngak’phang Lama of the Drukpa Kagyüd School.

Secret method

• Dispelling the Darkness of Doubt – a spontaneously arising song revealing the symbolic nature of the three secrets of the gö-kar chang-lo’i dé

Seed syllable

• Trom – is the wrathful seed syllable of the Garuda.
• Trom – the most advanced exercise to be undertaken before students begin work with the forms of Lamas, yidams, and protectors.

Sem-dé

• …and the art of ballistics – there is a moment there that you have to find.
• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.
• Dzogchen – these methods are secret, not because they are dangerous, but because the power of transmission would be jeopardised if they were given to people who could not comprehend them.
• Four Naljors – this is the ngöndro of Dzogchen sem-dé.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Sem-nyid

• Dzogchen long-dé – the primal energy exercises of Tibetan Dzogchen.

Sem-nyid Dorje Rinpoche

• Togden Sem-nyid Dorje Rinpoche – is a Togden, a profound practitioner of rTsa rLung who lives at Tashi Jong in Himachal Pradesh, Northern India.

Seng-gé Dongmar

• Blue Seng-gé Dongma – wears the wrathful five-skull crown.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – crushes every narrow emaciated endeavour to violate the burgeoning belly of Dharma.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – holds the nine-pronged flaying knife.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – in her left hand she holds the colossal skull bowl.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – is the most voluptuous and energetic.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – she displays the magical energy of the natural state.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – the green lion headed dakini.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – the most voluptuous and energetic of the Seng-gé Dongma yidams.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – the naked corpulent magical mother.
• Green Seng-gé Dongma – wears a profusely beaded human bone skirt, draped over her gargantuan, commanding thighs.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – ‘The Corpulent Red Lioness of Maniacal Mutilation’, or ‘The Obsessed Obese Mistress of Magical Mastery’.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – conches.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – gri-gug.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – her burgeoning copper hair flies upward.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – in my left hand I hold the colossal skull bowl symbol, in which surfeited gluttony.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – in terms of the three kayas she is Kuntuzangmo, the wisdom ground of being.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – offerings.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – skull bowl.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – the flickering of emptiness and form.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – the lapis lazuli khatvangha trident which menaces all dualistic dalliances.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – the shocking presence of the immanence of liberation
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – the volcanic glare of her flame-coloured body.
• White Seng-gé Dongma – inexplicably injures misconceptions.
• Yellow Seng-gé Dongma – miraculously overawes misconceptions.

Seng-gé Dorje

• Ngakpa Seng-gé Dorje – was a disciple of Ngala Sherab Dorje Rinpoche a gö-kar chang-lo Lama from Golok.

Seng-gé Dradog

• Seng-gé Dradog – crusher of the mikhas of anger and paranoia.
• Seng-gé Dradog – is a powerful means of obliterating mikha.
• Seng-gé Dradog – the inspiration of Seng-gé Dradog comes to the fore like an earthquake.
• Seng-gé Dradog – the Lama with the voice of a lion.
• Seng-gé Dradog – the lotus arising from the ocean of blood.
• Seng-gé Dradog – the roar of the vajra master in his terrific environment.
• Seng-gé Dradog – the Tantric Buddha in the form of Seng-gé Dradog is the manifestation who quells ‘mika’ the voice of dualistic distortion.
• Seng-gé Dradog – wearing the human and snow lion hides.

Serkong Rinpoche

• Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche – one of the things I remember most clearly about his visit was the joyful affection between him, his attendants and Geshé Damchö.

Sexual misconduct

• The five Owl Precepts – contain the profound inner meaning of the five precepts commonly found within the Sutras, and as such provide an extraordinary base for approaching Dzogchen.

Shakya Seng-gé

• Shakya Seng-gé – the manifestation who embodies the teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha.

Shakya Shri

• A’pho Rinpoche – a great ngak’phang Lama of the Drukpa Kagyüd School.
• A’pho Rinpoche – wearing formal empowerment robes and the hat of the Drukpa Kagyüd School.
• Shakya Shri – was initially the cook at a Drukpa Kagyüd Gompa.

Shakyamuni

• Shakya Seng-gé – the manifestation who embodies the teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha.

Shakyamuni Buddha

• Questions with Ngak’chang Rinpoche – Shakyamuni Buddha.

Shamthab

• Lineage and Costume – it can be an inspiration just to wear the costume of the lineage and know that you are a representative.

Shardröl

• Dzogchen – non-dual realisation depends upon discovering as real that which was beginninglessly there: the primordial base.

Shardröl Du-nyam Wangmo

• Ngakma Shardröl Du-nyam Wangmo – is a Lama whose heart is wide open, spacious, and kind.
• Ngakma Shardröl Du-nyam Wangmo – practising gÇod.
• Ngakma Shardröl Du-nyam Wangmo – the undecorated nine prong bell was the type used within the Aro Gar in Southern Tibet.

Shariputra

• Dro’phang Lingpa – discovered twenty-three volumes of gTérma, and other gTérma of different types.

Shawl

• A-shé Khandro – swathed in the red, white and blue striped shawl of the gö-kar chang-lo’i de.
• Aro Yeshé – although it is called the ‘peaceful empowerment shawl’ it was also used for Dzogchen transmission.

Shérab

• The Ten Paramitas – actions which are free from the crimp of duality, which arise spontaneously from the non-dual state.

Sherab Dorje Rinpoche

• Ngakpa Sherab Dorje Rinpoche – was a Lama who presided over a small clan and many of his disciples herded yak with him.

Shi-nè

• …and the art of ballistics – there is a moment there that you have to find.
• Four Naljors – this is the ngöndro of Dzogchen sem-dé.
• Questions with Ngak’chang Rinpoche – Compassion.

Shintu Mélong Zabmo

• Ngala Nor’dzin and Ngala ’ö-Dzin – after giving transmission of ‘Shintu Mélong Zabmo’.

Shravakabuddhayana

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part IV: it is important to be able to accept oneself as one actually is.
• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Shri Simha

• Bongtrül Rinpoche – entered Lho Lungkar Gompa where he received teachings on Dzogchen and especially Dzogchen Tögal.

Shrineroom

• Aro Khalding Tsang – the Aro Lingma applique hangs on the main wall.
• Craft retreat – a wonderful mixture of formality and informality, intensity and relaxation.
• Khalding Tsang shrineroom – re-painting of the shrineroom.
• Khalding Tsang shrineroom – we painted the picture rail gold, a task that had not been completed when the shrine room was first created.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – shrineroom.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – shrineroom.
• Ngala Nor’dzin and Ngala ’ö-Dzin – the largest upstairs bedroom of their home has been furbished and decorated in the style of a traditional Tibetan shrine room.

Siddhi

• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Sil-nyen

• Three unknown ngakpas – wearing the Dorje Zahorma hats of Nyingma Lamas, and the red, white, and blue striped shawls of the gö-kar chang-lo’ide.

Sister sites

• Sister sites – details of the Aro Buddhism websites.

Six realms

• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• Ngondro – each of the sets of foundation practices can be seen as encompassing the whole path.
• The escalator of emptiness – merely being human does not make my rebirth a ‘precious human rebirth’.
• The six realms – hot blooded kindness is what roots us in this precious human rebirth.

Six yogas

• Niguma – attained rainbow body and received transmission directly from long-ku (Sambhogakaya) through the visionary appearance of Dorje Chang.

Six Yogas of Niguma

• Nine Bardos – in order to have some apprehension of what death is, one has to die.

Sixth Dala’i Lama

• ’a-Shul Pema Legden – is portrayed as much older than he would have been at the time of his first meeting with Khyungchen Aro Lingma.
• ’a-Shul Pema Legden – was the gTér scribe and visionary artist of Khalden Lingpa.

Skull bowl

• Green Seng-gé Dongma – in her left hand she holds the colossal skull bowl.
• Pema Jung-né – the Tantric Scholar.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – in my left hand I hold the colossal skull bowl symbol, in which surfeited gluttony.
• Red Seng-gé Dongmar – skull bowl.
• Yeshé Tsogyel applique – the skull bowl symbolises the transformed emotions and wisdom.

Skull crown

• Nyima ’ö-Zér – is the archetypal yogi whose finger stops the sun in its tracks so that all time is frozen, and with it all dualistic strategies.

Skull damaru

• Aro Yeshé – the skull damaru given to him by Khandro Yeshé Dzü’drül, the sister of A-Kyong Düd’dül Dorje.
• Jomo Menmo – two drums connected and used as a single instrument represent the inseparability of emptiness and form.

Sky Direct practice

• Young Yogi – with the roaring of the waterfall behind me and the vast sky which opened out in front of me it was an ideal place.

Sky weaving

• Namkha – looked like tiglés
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – composed of threads of wool or silk which are the colours of the five elements: blue, green, red, white, and yellow.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – cube-shaped namkha.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – derives from the ancillary Mahayoga section of the Aro gTér.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – derives from the ancillary Mahayoga section of the Aro gTér.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – derives from the ancillary Mahayoga section of the Aro gTér.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – large namkha.

Sociopathy

• Tralam-mé – is the mode in which people accidentally rhyme with each other.

Sonam Gyaltsen

• Jig’med Phuntsog Rinpoche – was a phurba master who could make his phurba fly.
• Sonam Gyaltsen – his two yards of hair coiled up as the crowning ornament of his siddhis.

Sonam Zangpo Rinpoche

• Sonam Zangpo Rinpoche – declined to live in the palace and take the official position of Chögyal.

Song Rinpoche

• HH Song Rinpoche – went to Lhasa when he was eleven years old to study at Shar-tse where he became renowned as irrefutable in debate.

Southerndown

• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin – at Southerndown Beach in South Wales in the Spring of 1984.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – gave a teaching on Dzogchen men-ngag-dé in which he took the imagery of his oral transmission from the nature of the ocean and its waves.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – gave the empowerments of Tröma Nakmo, Seng-gé Dongma, and Dorje Tröllö
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – had been known for his magical abilities and power over the weather;

Space eagle

• Ögyen Garuda – is Padmakara in the form of the immense space eagle who is born fully enlightened and in full flight.

Spiritual friend

• Devotion – although this text was presented to Western students studying sutra, with no knowledge of tantra and vajra relationship, this is a tantric text, teaching on vajra relationship.

Statue

• Aro Yeshé statue – made by Rabi Raj Shakya.
• Aro Yeshé statue – the figure fits onto a base.
• Aro Yeshé statue – the son and principal disciple of Aro Lingma.
• Aro Yeshé statue – wears his hair in a top knot on the top of his head in the thor-tshug style.
• Dorje Tröllö – the thunderbolt catalyst, who destroys pious pretences and sanctimonious institutionalisation.
• Dzambhala – embodies the power of wealth to benefit beings.
• Khandro Chenmo Yeshé Tsogyel – her equality with Padmasambhava in the Aro gTér is displayed through her adoption of the identical physical position of Padmasambhava.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – statue front view.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – statue side view.
• Kurukulla – transforms dualistic desire into non-dual desire through her unbridled vajra lust.
• Mélong Za Rinchen Tso – mistress of the jewel-mirror lake.
• Mélong Za Rinchen Tso – she hung her white robes on the rays of the sun and danced naked in the mountains.
• Padmasambhava – subdued all the negative forces which had caused obstacles to the establishment of the teachings and founded the two sanghas: the red sangha of monks and nuns, and the go-kar chang-lo’i dé, the white sangha or ngak’phang sangha of ngakpas and ngakmas, naljorpas and naljormas.
• Padmasambhava – the expression of Padmasambhava in this statue, with his immeasurably kind, piercing gaze is one which makes this image of the Vajra Guru a great inspiration to the Confederate Sanghas of Aro and their Lineage-holders.
• Tsogyel Garuda – is shown crushing a kLu demon.
• Za Rahula – is the protector who seizes the sun and the moon and eclipses planets.

Stealing

• The five Owl Precepts – contain the profound inner meaning of the five precepts commonly found within the Sutras, and as such provide an extraordinary base for approaching Dzogchen.

Sum

• Sum – the number three.

Sun Bear

• Sun Bear – continued throughout his life to learn from his dreams and visions as well as from Native teachers.

Sutra

• Ngondro – each of the sets of foundation practices can be seen as encompassing the whole path.
• Questions with Ngak’chang Rinpoche – Beyond Bodhisattvabuddhayana.
• Tralam-mé – we have established that our teaching disciples will also be entirely, joyously, and unreservedly monogamous.

Sutrayana

• The certain Lama – if you have a vehicle which has emptiness at its base, the teaching which proceeds from that is not going to be intellectually communicable unless you have had the experience of emptiness.

Swift rebirth

• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – swift rebirth wish path

Swift Resumption of Emanation Body

• Thrinley Norbu Rinpoche – Swift Resumption of Emanation Body.

Symbol

• Dr Greenberg interviews Ngak’chang Rinpoche – rebirth is a beneficial working hypothesis.

Symbolism

• Dispelling the Darkness of Doubt – a spontaneously arising song revealing the symbolic nature of the three secrets of the gö-kar chang-lo’i dé
• Symbolism – symbols become apparent in this visionary world.
• The Bristol Talks – a yidam is a visual description of our own enlightened state, as well as a method of reaching, understanding and experiencing that state.

Takdröl

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – wearing Nyingma empowerment shawls.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – empowerment robes and takdröl.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – this shawl was given to Ngak’chang Rinpoche in 1988 by Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen – wearing the hats particular to the gö-kar chang-lo tradition of Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche.
• Ngakpa Seng-gé Dorje – was a disciple of Ngala Sherab Dorje Rinpoche a gö-kar chang-lo Lama from Golok.
• Presenting a Takdröl – ‘Everyone here has seen me do this!’.
• Presenting a Takdröl – Ngak’chang Rinpoche offered this takdröl back to Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche.
• Presenting a Takdröl – one takdröl was given to Ngak’chang Rinpoche on two different occasions.
• Presenting a Takdröl – the fact that I wore a takdröl seemed upsetting to some.
• Takdröl – a sacred relic of the Khordong tradition.
• Takdröl – liberation on wearing.
• Takdröl – means ‘liberation on wearing’ and signifies the Lama’s completion of the first two ‘Lama Cycles’.

Tamdrin

• Red Tamdrin – Lord of horses, supreme commander of the cavalry which dispels the minions of puritanical institutionalised aggression.

Tantra

• Bloodlust – you become the emotion completely, or it becomes you.
• Devotion – although this text was presented to Western students studying sutra, with no knowledge of tantra and vajra relationship, this is a tantric text, teaching on vajra relationship.
• Dzogchen & Tantra – there are simply practitioners who may practise Dzogchen as part of their repertoire of practices.
• Dzogchen – non-dual realisation depends upon discovering as real that which was beginninglessly there: the primordial base.
• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.
• Embracing Emotions – Tantra sees us as being symbols of ourselves: colourful energetic of vibrant free energies that are utterly real.
• Essential characteristics of Vajrayana – like having no resistance to anything combined with a strong attraction toward that person.
• Essential Characteristics of Vajrayana – vajra commitment
• Establishing Vajra Commitment in the West – allowing one’s rationale to be challenged is the whole terrible truth of vajra commitment.
• Honey On The Razor’s Edge – we can only immerse ourselves in the efflorescence of our sense fields, and learn directly from the energy of what we are in relation to our lovers.
• Kindness – is where we start.
• Kindness – we know what it means to be kind.
• Lama’i Naljor – authenticates the relationship between Teacher and student.
• Ngöndro – maybe an alternative translation could be preparation, or method of establishing the experiential ground for practice.
• Ngondro – each of the sets of foundation practices can be seen as encompassing the whole path.
• Questions with Ngak’chang Rinpoche – Beyond Bodhisattvabuddhayana.
• Questions with Ngak’chang Rinpoche – devotion as emptiness in Tantra.
• Refuge – we seek protection from our own conceptual minds: from our compulsion to split reality into dualistic view; from our addiction to conditioned responses rooted in preconception.
• Student teacher reflection – the Lama will allow you to access your enlightened nature by nudging you.
• Tantric Ordination – when Padmasambhava came to Tibet, King Tri-song Détsen expected to meet him as an equal, but came face to face with his own inadequacy immediately.
• The art of thangka midwifery – I attempt in my painting to portray the translucency of the visionary dimension as faithfully as I can.
• Tralam-mé – we have established that our teaching disciples will also be entirely, joyously, and unreservedly monogamous.
• Vajra Masters – may be wrathful, but their ‘wrathfulness’ is never peevish, irritable, surly, petulant, or aggressively impatient.

Tantric Buddha

• Padmasambhava – Guru Rinpoche, the lotus-born Buddha.
• Padmasambhava – is the Lotus Born Tantric Buddha who established Vajrayana Buddhism in Tibet in the 9th century upon the invitation of Chogyal Trisong Detsen.
• Padmasambhava – subdued all the negative forces which had caused obstacles to the establishment of the teachings and founded the two sanghas: the red sangha of monks and nuns, and the go-kar chang-lo’i dé, the white sangha or ngak’phang sangha of ngakpas and ngakmas, naljorpas and naljormas.
• Padmasambhava – the expression of Padmasambhava in this statue, with his immeasurably kind, piercing gaze is one which makes this image of the Vajra Guru a great inspiration to the Confederate Sanghas of Aro and their Lineage-holders.
• Padmasambhava – the Lotus-born.
• Padmasambhava – the Lotus-born.
• Padmasambhava – the Tantric Buddha.

Tantric empowerment

• The Bristol Talks – a yidam is a visual description of our own enlightened state, as well as a method of reaching, understanding and experiencing that state.

Tantric ngöndro

• Dzogchen – these methods are secret, not because they are dangerous, but because the power of transmission would be jeopardised if they were given to people who could not comprehend them.
• Ngondro – each of the sets of foundation practices can be seen as encompassing the whole path.

Tantrika

• Aro Yeshé – shown here in the Dzogchen posture sometimes known as ‘mind in relaxation’ and sometimes as ‘mind resting in comfort and ease’.
• Yeshé Tsogyel applique – Tantric yogis and yoginis wear vajra weapons in the belt of their shamthab.

Tashi Chhi’dren

• Aro Yeshé – sits on a tiger skin in the tradition of Aro Lingma.
• Dorje Tröllö – the thunderbolt catalyst, who destroys pious pretences and sanctimonious institutionalisation.
• Dorje Tröllö – the Wisdom-chaos manifestation of the Padmasambhava.
• Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér – was primarily a Dzogchen long-dé master, but she was also an accomplished phurba master.
• Monmo Tashi Chhi’dren – is shown descending like a thunderbolt form the skies, wielding two phurbas.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Tashi Wang-gyal

• Togden Tashi Wang-gyal – wears his hair in one of the various Togden, or matted-hair styles of the gö-kar chang-lo.

Teacher-student reflection

• Student teacher reflection – the Lama will allow you to access your enlightened nature by nudging you.

Teacher-student relationship

• Essential characteristics of Vajrayana – like having no resistance to anything combined with a strong attraction toward that person.
• Marpa – he holds a text in his lap to indicate that he is a translator.
• Milarépa – is a forefather of the Kagyüd schools.
• Ngala Nor’dzin and Ngala ’ö-Dzin with Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen – social interaction has always been an important aspect of the Lama’s relationship with their apprentice.
• The Bristol Talks – a yidam is a visual description of our own enlightened state, as well as a method of reaching, understanding and experiencing that state.
• The certain Lama – if you have a vehicle which has emptiness at its base, the teaching which proceeds from that is not going to be intellectually communicable unless you have had the experience of emptiness.

Teaching couples

• Mother Essence Lineage – in the Nyingma tradition every male ngak’phang Lama is perceived as Padmasambhava by his disciples and his sangyum is perceived as Yeshé Tsogyel.

Teng’ar

• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – send a profusion of spectral patterns throughout the realms of dualistic delusion in order to liberate beings from their self-created suffering.

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

• Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche – is a Bön Lama whom Ngak’chang Rinpoche met in 1988 in Devon, England.

gTér scribe

• ’a-Shul Pema Legden – is portrayed as much older than he would have been at the time of his first meeting with Khyungchen Aro Lingma.
• gTér scribe

gTérbum

• Ögyen Dzambhala – in the foreground of the thangka are five gTérbums.
• gTérbum
• gTérbum – almost seemed to start to hum as Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen performed the rite and scattered rice over them.
• gTérbum – it was an extraordinarily powerful sight to see the completed gTérbum displayed altogether like that for the first and only time.
• gTérbum – may they purify and pacify the pollution of the outer and inner elements.
• gTérbum – may they purify and pacify the pollution of the outer and inner elements.
• gTérbum – once the precious substances had been wedged into the clay, it was rolled into balls.
• gTérbum – recognisable and unknown ingredients were sliced, shredded, ground, snipped, filed, pulverised and torn into the smallest form they could be rendered, and then all mixed together.
• gTérbum – suddenly frantic activity would be required because the moulds had to be poured out or casts removed.
• gTérbum – teaching Buddhism to children requires a degree of personal honesty and natural simplicity which can only come from a lifetime of committed practice.
• gTérbum – the clay balls made a wonderful musical chiming noise as they rattled into the vases.
• gTérbum – the decoration was to include representations of the elements and the syllable dzam with an emphasis on the colours yellow and blue.
• gTérbum – the next stage of the process was to glaze the bisque-fired vases, to turn them into shiny white pots.
• gTérbum – the schedule of the retreat revolved around the needs of the gTérbum.
• gTérbum – the team had to estimate the volume of clay required to make sufficient clay balls to fill a Treasure Vase.
• gTérbum – the Treasure Vase is an ancient remedy for removing the suffering of all beings in times of degeneration.
• gTérbum – the working moulds were quite large.
• gTérbum – Thrinlé Khandro produced exquisite designs to decorate the sides and the lid of the Treasure Vases.
• gTérbum – will provide invaluable inspiration and act as a source of revitalisation and enrichment throughout the spaces of the elements.
• gTérbum – with the project complete the team destroyed the moulds and the spare undecorated or imperfect vases.

Terchen Karma Rinpoche

• gTérchen Karma Rinpoche
• gTérchen Karma Rinpoche – discovered numerous sa gTérs.

Terma

• gTérma
• gTértön – the Lama pictured is a discover of sa gTér or ‘earth treasure’.
• Padmasambhava – is the Lotus Born Tantric Buddha who established Vajrayana Buddhism in Tibet in the 9th century upon the invitation of Chogyal Trisong Detsen.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

gTértön

• gTérchen Karma Rinpoche – discovered numerous sa gTérs.
• gTértön
• gTértön – the Lama pictured is a discover of sa gTér or ‘earth treasure’.
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – was the name she received from Yeshé Tsogyel.
• Ling-tsang Gyalpo – an incarnation of Ling Gesar, the ancient Tibet spritual warrior-hero who gave battle to the demonic forces of negativity.
• Sonam Gyaltsen – his two yards of hair coiled up as the crowning ornament of his siddhis.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Thab

• The Ten Paramitas – actions which are free from the crimp of duality, which arise spontaneously from the non-dual state.

Thangka painting

• A-yé Khandro – the image needs to be inspiring.
• Khandro Déchen – thangka painting.
• Kumar Lama – is a master thangka painter whose artistry has been praised by many Nyingma Lamas.
• Naljorma Dzü’drül – to live the full-blooded life of a tantrika is my guiding principle.
• Naljorma Thrinlé Khandro – I soon began to feel that Vajrayana imagery and painting was something that I wanted to pursue with far greater seriousness than anything I had attempted before.
• Ngakma Métsal – it makes me extremely happy to be ordained into the gö-kar chang-lo’i de, and to be one of Khandro Déchen Tsedrup Rolpa’i Yeshé’s thangka painting students.
• Ngakma Pema Zangmo – these days when I have difficulties with painting, I remember to paint from my heart and to paint without concept.
• The art of thangka midwifery – I attempt in my painting to portray the translucency of the visionary dimension as faithfully as I can.
• Trom – the most advanced exercise to be undertaken before students begin work with the forms of Lamas, yidams, and protectors.

Thangka painting student

• Naljorma Dzü’drül – to live the full-blooded life of a tantrika is my guiding principle.
• Naljorma Thrinlé Khandro – I soon began to feel that Vajrayana imagery and painting was something that I wanted to pursue with far greater seriousness than anything I had attempted before.
• Ngakma Métsal – it makes me extremely happy to be ordained into the gö-kar chang-lo’i de, and to be one of Khandro Déchen Tsedrup Rolpa’i Yeshé’s thangka painting students.
• Ngakma Pema Zangmo – these days when I have difficulties with painting, I remember to paint from my heart and to paint without concept.

Thangtong Gyalpo

• Rang-rig Togden – was a Tamdrin (Hayagriva) master who was considered by Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér, to be a body emanation of Thangtong Gyalpo.

Tharchin Rinpoche

• gTérbum – the Treasure Vase is an ancient remedy for removing the suffering of all beings in times of degeneration.
• Lama Tharchin Rinpoche – Tharchin Rinpoche had a wonderful way with children and always enjoyed their presence in both formal and informal situations.
• Tharchin Rinpoche – children are drawn to him and relate with him immediately.
• Tharchin Rinpoche – gave teachings on the Seven Line Song of Padmasambhava according to the commentary of Mipham Rinpoche.
• Tharchin Rinpoche – is a Dzogchen master of Vajrayana Buddhism.
• Tharchin Rinpoche – letter to the editor of tricycle.
• Tharchin Rinpoche – long life wish path

Thegpa

• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.

Theravada

• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.

Thig-lé

• Ngondro – each of the sets of foundation practices can be seen as encompassing the whole path.

Thor-tshug

• Aro Yeshé – wearing his hair in the thor-tshug style.

Thread cross

• Namkha – looked like tiglés
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – composed of threads of wool or silk which are the colours of the five elements: blue, green, red, white, and yellow.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – cube-shaped namkha.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – derives from the ancillary Mahayoga section of the Aro gTér.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – derives from the ancillary Mahayoga section of the Aro gTér.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – derives from the ancillary Mahayoga section of the Aro gTér.
• Namkha (sky-weaving) – large namkha.
• Ngala ’ö-Dzin Tridral – playing rolmo during a fire ceremony at Pennant Valley in North Wales.

Three

• Sum – the number three.

Three terrible oaths

• Dorje Tröllö – the master of crazy wisdom.

Thrin-lé Norbu Rinpoche

• Tharchin Rinpoche – letter to the editor of tricycle.

Thrinlé Khandro

• A-shé Khandro – performed a motherly rôle to Aro Yeshé and her sister A-yé Khandro
• Naljorma Thrinlé Khandro – I soon began to feel that Vajrayana imagery and painting was something that I wanted to pursue with far greater seriousness than anything I had attempted before.

Thrinley Norbu Rinpoche

• Thrin-lé Norbu Rinpoche – is the great Siddha-scholar of the Nyingma Tradition, and a pre-eminent vajra master of the Nyingma lineage.
• Thrinley Norbu Rinpoche – Swift Resumption of Emanation Body.

Thubten Namgyal

• Karma Ling – Lama Lödrö and Lama Thubten were the resident Lamas at the centre at that time.

Thubten Gyatso

• Gélong Thubten Gyatso – the first part of the retreat had been intensive teachings into ‘The Mind and its Functions’.

Thubten Rinpoche

• Tulku Thubten Rinpoche – told Ngak’chang Rinpoche about the Tibetan saying (advice given concerning Goloks by people from Lhasa).

Tibetan Book of the Dead

• Nine Bardos – in order to have some apprehension of what death is, one has to die.

Tibetan etymology

• Ngak’phang – the suggestion has been made that ngak’phang means ‘to throw away mantra’.

Tig-lé

• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.

Tiger

• Aro Yeshé – sits on a tiger skin in the tradition of Aro Lingma.
• Dorje Tröllö – is carried like a hurricane through the space of existence and non-existence, on the immeasurable tigress of passionate space.
• Dorje Tröllö – the thunderbolt catalyst, who destroys pious pretences and sanctimonious institutionalisation.
• Dorje Tröllö – the Wisdom-chaos manifestation of the Padmasambhava.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – the tiger is the symbol of unrestrained ferocity.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – the tigress is wisdom and the phurba is method.
• Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér – tiger detail.
• Tiger – one of the four protector animals of Tibet
• Tigers – the male and female tigers of the Aro gTér lineage
• Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö – her appearance displays many aspects of ‘trak-tung’ (blood drinker) appearance.
• Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö – In this detail, we can make out Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö’s skull crown, her halo of smoke and flame, and the bone bead ornaments she wears.

Tigerskin

• Aro Yeshé – sits on a tiger skin in the tradition of Aro Lingma.

Tigress

• Dorje Tröllö – is carried like a hurricane through the space of existence and non-existence, on the immeasurable tigress of passionate space.

Tilopa

• Mahasiddha Tilopa – was entirely politically incorrect from the point of view of Brahmanic society, and Naropa was locked into the Brahmanic paradigm.

To-nga

• Lineage and Costume – it can be an inspiration just to wear the costume of the lineage and know that you are a representative.

Tob

• The Ten Paramitas – actions which are free from the crimp of duality, which arise spontaneously from the non-dual state.

Tobacco

• The iniquity of tobacco – even though Padmasambhava has stated that one should avoid tobacco it will seem like swimming against the current of a river.
• Tobacco – the guide that leads the blind on a false path which ends in a precipice.

Togden

• Family Practice – the play of children was never seen as an interruption or as a distraction from practice.
• Togden Sem-nyid Dorje Rinpoche – is a Togden, a profound practitioner of rTsa rLung who lives at Tashi Jong in Himachal Pradesh, Northern India.
• Togden Tashi Wang-gyal – wears his hair in one of the various Togden, or matted-hair styles of the gö-kar chang-lo.

Tong-len

• Chenrezigs – inspires practitioners to engage in kindness-view and kindness-action.

Torma

• 2005 craft retreat – it is delightful to have a family group as part of the sangha.
• 2005 craft retreat – Richard left the 111 tormas at intervals across the long and arduous crossing of Cadair Idris and the visits to the three lakes.
• 2005 craft retreat – Richard left the 111 tormas at intervals across the long and arduous crossing of Cadair Idris and the visits to the three lakes.
• 2005 craft retreat – Richard made eight tormas of various sizes, plus one hundred and eleven tiny tormas.
• 2005 craft retreat – the tormas that were made on the craft retreat are representations of the elements.
• 2005 craft retreat – this large torma was made in the same manner as the smaller tormas.
• Torma stand – intended for traveling.

Trak-tung appearance

• Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö – her appearance displays many aspects of ‘trak-tung’ (blood drinker) appearance.
• Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö – In this detail, we can make out Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö’s skull crown, her halo of smoke and flame, and the bone bead ornaments she wears.

Tralam-mé

• Tralam-mé – is the mode in which people accidentally rhyme with each other.
• Tralam-mé – we have established that our teaching disciples will also be entirely, joyously, and unreservedly monogamous.

Transmission

• Dzogchen – non-dual realisation depends upon discovering as real that which was beginninglessly there: the primordial base.
• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.
• Empowerment and guru yoga – in that moment ‘your’ mind and the Mind of the Lama are not separate; there is only Mind.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche interviewed by Ngakma Yeshé – ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – teaches with her husband and sang-yab, Ngala ’ö-Dzin Tridral.
• Ngala Nor’dzin and Ngala ’ö-Dzin – after giving transmission of ‘Shintu Mélong Zabmo’.
• Phuntsog Tulku – is a ngak’phang Lama and gTértön who presides over the Drigung Phuntsog Chöling Gompa in Wien (Vienna).

Treasure vase

• gTérbum – almost seemed to start to hum as Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen performed the rite and scattered rice over them.
• gTérbum – it was an extraordinarily powerful sight to see the completed gTérbum displayed altogether like that for the first and only time.
• gTérbum – may they purify and pacify the pollution of the outer and inner elements.
• gTérbum – may they purify and pacify the pollution of the outer and inner elements.
• gTérbum – once the precious substances had been wedged into the clay, it was rolled into balls.
• gTérbum – recognisable and unknown ingredients were sliced, shredded, ground, snipped, filed, pulverised and torn into the smallest form they could be rendered, and then all mixed together.
• gTérbum – suddenly frantic activity would be required because the moulds had to be poured out or casts removed.
• gTérbum – teaching Buddhism to children requires a degree of personal honesty and natural simplicity which can only come from a lifetime of committed practice.
• gTérbum – the clay balls made a wonderful musical chiming noise as they rattled into the vases.
• gTérbum – the decoration was to include representations of the elements and the syllable dzam with an emphasis on the colours yellow and blue.
• gTérbum – the next stage of the process was to glaze the bisque-fired vases, to turn them into shiny white pots.
• gTérbum – the schedule of the retreat revolved around the needs of the gTérbum.
• gTérbum – the team had to estimate the volume of clay required to make sufficient clay balls to fill a Treasure Vase.
• gTérbum – the Treasure Vase is an ancient remedy for removing the suffering of all beings in times of degeneration.
• gTérbum – the working moulds were quite large.
• gTérbum – Thrinlé Khandro produced exquisite designs to decorate the sides and the lid of the Treasure Vases.
• gTérbum – will provide invaluable inspiration and act as a source of revitalisation and enrichment throughout the spaces of the elements.
• gTérbum – with the project complete the team destroyed the moulds and the spare undecorated or imperfect vases.

Trek-chöd

• Dzogchen – non-dual realisation depends upon discovering as real that which was beginninglessly there: the primordial base.
• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.
• Embracing Emotions – Tantra sees us as being symbols of ourselves: colourful energetic of vibrant free energies that are utterly real.

Tröllö phurba

• Aro Tröllö Phurba – this phurba is a weapon associated with Dorje Tröllö and therefore shows the single face of this yidam.
• Tröllö Phurba – has a blade and ‘spine’ made of meteorite iron.

Trom

• Trom – is the wrathful seed syllable of the Garuda.
• Trom – the most advanced exercise to be undertaken before students begin work with the forms of Lamas, yidams, and protectors.

Tröma Nakmo

• gÇodpa – the tousled mats of his hair are bound up on his head in the ralpa style in which matted strands of hair are also left to hang loose down his shoulders.
• Getsulma Bumchung – lives in permanent semi-open retreat in Tso Pema where she has a retreat cave.
• Khamtrül Yeshé Dorje Rinpoche – biography
• Tröma Nakmo – she soars through the Cho-nyid devouring the malice of conceited vow breakage, drinking the blood of vow-breakers with lustful reserve.
• Tröma Nakmo – this image is a tsak-li, a miniature thangka painting used to confer empowerment.
• Tröma Nakmo Gar’cham – gÇod is not a practice of Dharma we can apply within the cushioned comfort in our ever-so-commodious living rooms.
• Tröma Nakmo Gar’cham – is performed precisely, decisively and swiftly.

Trül-khor

• Mother Essence Lineage – Aro Lingma made a long drawn out hiss with her lips drawn up into wrathful aspect, as if she were performing a Tsa-lung breathing exercise.

Trung-ma-sé

• Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche – the eleventh incarnation in a lineage of great masters beginning with the mahasiddha Trungpa Kunga Gyaltsen.

Trungpa Tulku

• Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche – the eleventh incarnation in a lineage of great masters beginning with the mahasiddha Trungpa Kunga Gyaltsen.

Truth

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part I: however you are is the perfect basis from where you travel.
• Dr Greenberg interviews Ngak’chang Rinpoche – rebirth is a beneficial working hypothesis.

Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema

• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – a fine thangka.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – drawing.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – holds a vajra spear.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – in her belt is a vajra hatchet.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – one of the Five Adoptive Mothers.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – was accomplished in wrathful practices.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – wears a leopard skin shamthab.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – wears a mélong and gZi stone.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – wears a mélong and gZi stone.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – wears a mélong and gZi stone.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – wears a mélong and gZi stone.
• Khandro Tsé-wang Gyür’mèd Pema – wears a mélong and gZi stone.

rTsa

• Ngondro – each of the sets of foundation practices can be seen as encompassing the whole path.

rTsa-rLung

• Chant & Yogic Song – in Tantric dön-pa the words are used as a guide to visualisation.
• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• Dzogchen long-dé – the primal energy exercises of Tibetan Dzogchen.
• Refuge – we seek protection from our own conceptual minds: from our compulsion to split reality into dualistic view; from our addiction to conditioned responses rooted in preconception.
• Togden Sem-nyid Dorje Rinpoche – is a Togden, a profound practitioner of rTsa rLung who lives at Tashi Jong in Himachal Pradesh, Northern India.

Tsak-li

• Tröma Nakmo – this image is a tsak-li, a miniature thangka painting used to confer empowerment.

rTsal

• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – send a profusion of spectral patterns throughout the realms of dualistic delusion in order to liberate beings from their self-created suffering.
• A-shé Khandro – the idea of offerings on a thangka or on a shrine concerns ‘making a connection’.
• Dzogchen – non-dual realisation depends upon discovering as real that which was beginninglessly there: the primordial base.
• Dzogchen Garuda – Khyungchen Aro Lingma means The Great Lady Garuda who tastes the Primordial A.

Tse-gu

• Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö – In this detail, we can make out Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö’s skull crown, her halo of smoke and flame, and the bone bead ornaments she wears.

Tsering Wangmo

• Yang-lé-shöd Lamas – the Lamas and practitioner retreatants of Tsogyel Gé’phel Jong are a wonderful example of the lineage of Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel.

Tseringma

• Tseringma – is the lady who protects ones longevity in terms of non-dual awareness.

Tsig sum ne-dek

• …and the art of ballistics – there is a moment there that you have to find.
• Dzogchen – non-dual realisation depends upon discovering as real that which was beginninglessly there: the primordial base.
• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.
• Dzogchen – striking the Essence in Three Incisive Indications
• The Four Noble Truths & the Eightfold Path – a fundamental Sutric teaching, that can open out in great depth and subtlety in terms of each of the nine yanas.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Tso Pema

• Getsulma Bumchung – lives in permanent semi-open retreat in Tso Pema where she has a retreat cave.
• Nyima ’ö-Zér Gar’cham – on that occasion Kyabjé Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche represented Padmasambhava.

Tsog khorlo

• Ngala Nor’dzin and Ngala ’ö-Dzin – tsog.

Tsogyel Garuda

• Tsogyel Garuda – holds two phurbas which she destroys each nuance of dualistic perception in each moment and with each movement.
• Tsogyel Garuda – is shown crushing a kLu demon.

Tsogyel Ge’phel Jong

• Tsogyel Ge’phel Jong – is a place where a group of Nyingma yogis and yoginis live and practice in permanent semi-open retreat.
• Tsogyel Ge’phel Jong – one of the most powerful pilgrimage places associated with Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel.

Tsogyel Khyung

• Dzogchen Garuda – Khyungchen Aro Lingma means The Great Lady Garuda who tastes the Primordial A.
• Tsogyel Garuda – is shown crushing a kLu demon.

Tsogyel Tröllö

• Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö – each of the scorpions’ legs contain five segments, representing the five distorted tendencies and their corresponding wisdom qualities.
• Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö – her appearance displays many aspects of ‘trak-tung’ (blood drinker) appearance.
• Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö – her demeanor blazes rage, but it is the rage that destroys any obstacle to joy and freedom.
• Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö – In this detail, we can make out Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö’s skull crown, her halo of smoke and flame, and the bone bead ornaments she wears.
• Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö – is the mistress of Wisdom-chaos, yeshé ’cholwa.
• Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö – Wisdom-chaos (yeshé ’cholwa) is the style of non-dual activity which cuts through dualistic manipulations in their most subtle forms.

Tsöndrü

• The Ten Paramitas – actions which are free from the crimp of duality, which arise spontaneously from the non-dual state.

Tsultrim

• The Ten Paramitas – actions which are free from the crimp of duality, which arise spontaneously from the non-dual state.

Tsültrim Zangmo

• Geshé Tekchog – was exceptionally down to earth and seemed to have a keen understanding of Western life.
• Khensur Yeshé Thubten Rinpoche – gave teachings on Lam Rim, the Graduated Path to Enlightenment.

two

• nyi – the number two.

Udhiyana

• Dorje Chang – the ‘Holder of the Vajra’; the name of the Primordial Buddha according to Mahamudra expression.

’ug-Dong Khandro Nying Thig mDo

• The five Owl Precepts – contain the profound inner meaning of the five precepts commonly found within the Sutras, and as such provide an extraordinary base for approaching Dzogchen.
• The Four Noble Truths & the Eightfold Path – a fundamental Sutric teaching, that can open out in great depth and subtlety in terms of each of the nine yanas.
• Tralam-mé – we have established that our teaching disciples will also be entirely, joyously, and unreservedly monogamous.

’ug gDongma

• ’ug gDongma – her white plumage is the radiant rainbow-window on the nine skies
• ’ug gDongma – is the mysterious æthereal apparitional owl-headed dakini
• ’ug gDongma – mercurial visage

Uluka-mukha Dakini Sutra

• The Four Noble Truths & the Eightfold Path – a fundamental Sutric teaching, that can open out in great depth and subtlety in terms of each of the nine yanas.
• Tralam-mé – we have established that our teaching disciples will also be entirely, joyously, and unreservedly monogamous.

Unsatisfactoriness

• The certain Lama – if you have a vehicle which has emptiness at its base, the teaching which proceeds from that is not going to be intellectually communicable unless you have had the experience of emptiness.

Vairochana

• Dzogchen – these methods are secret, not because they are dangerous, but because the power of transmission would be jeopardised if they were given to people who could not comprehend them.

Vajra

• Aro Yeshé – depicted with his dorje and drilbu, the implements of method and wisdom.
• Aro Yeshé – the bell and vajra depict him as being the heir of ’a-Shul Pema Legden.
• Crossed Vajras – air element.
• Crossed Vajras – earth element.
• Crossed Vajras – fire element.
• Crossed Vajras – space element.
• Crossed Vajras – water element.
• Dorje & drilbu – the primary symbolic tools of compassion and wisdom
• Yeshé Tsogyel applique – a small dorje was cut in half to remove some of its mass, so that it was not too heavy for the appliqué.

Vajra charya

• Establishing Vajra Commitment in the West – allowing one’s rationale to be challenged is the whole terrible truth of vajra commitment.
• Vajra Masters – may be wrathful, but their ‘wrathfulness’ is never peevish, irritable, surly, petulant, or aggressively impatient.

Vajra club

• Vajra weapon – vajra club.

Vajra commitment

• Essential Characteristics of Vajrayana – vajra command.
• Essential Characteristics of Vajrayana – vajra commitment
• Establishing Vajra Commitment in the West – allowing one’s rationale to be challenged is the whole terrible truth of vajra commitment.
• Ngöndro – maybe an alternative translation could be preparation, or method of establishing the experiential ground for practice.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen – on these walks they often discussed the evolution of apprenticeship and how best to establish a good foundation for the understanding of vajra commitment in the West.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – on the occasion of Ngakma Shardröl’s ordination.
• Student teacher reflection – the Lama will allow you to access your enlightened nature by nudging you.
• The Vajra Master – when it actually came to the point of having to live Vajrayana, this proved impossible.
• Vajra Masters – may be wrathful, but their ‘wrathfulness’ is never peevish, irritable, surly, petulant, or aggressively impatient.

Vajra crown

• Dro’phang Lingpa – the Ögyen Pèd-zha is particular to his lineage of Khordong.
• Khandro Déchen – wearing the Ögyen Pèdzha, the lotus crown worn by Nyingma lineage holders.

Vajra Crown ceremony

• The Great 16th Karmapa – gave many transmissions at Rumtek and many statues of Buddhas and Mahasiddhas were completed.
• The Great 16th Karmapa – his corporeal form dissolved within his mother’s womb, as if she had never been pregnant.

Vajra dagger

• Vajra weapon – the short spear or short lance is associated with a group of vajra weapons which are used by horseback warriors.

Vajra dance

• A-kyong Phurba – takes its form from The Nine Enriching Phurbas of Ngak’chang A-kyong Düd’dül Dorje.

Vajra hammer

• Ga-phong Dongma – wielding the vajra hammer

Vajra hell

• Essential Characteristics of Vajrayana – vajra command.

Vajra hook

• Vajra weapon – vajra hook.

Vajra lance

• Vajra weapon – the short spear or short lance is associated with a group of vajra weapons which are used by horseback warriors.

Vajra Master

• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part VI: there are many different perspectives on what is required.
• Compassion & the Nine Yanas – part VII: the teacher is a manifestation—through personality display—of many different things..
• Devotion – although this text was presented to Western students studying sutra, with no knowledge of tantra and vajra relationship, this is a tantric text, teaching on vajra relationship.
• Essential Characteristics of Vajrayana – vajra commitment
• Establishing Vajra Commitment in the West – allowing one’s rationale to be challenged is the whole terrible truth of vajra commitment.
• Mahasiddha Tilopa – was entirely politically incorrect from the point of view of Brahmanic society, and Naropa was locked into the Brahmanic paradigm.
• Marpa – he holds a text in his lap to indicate that he is a translator.
• Ngöndro – maybe an alternative translation could be preparation, or method of establishing the experiential ground for practice.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen – on these walks they often discussed the evolution of apprenticeship and how best to establish a good foundation for the understanding of vajra commitment in the West.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – an expression of devotion and commitment, but without the full Vajrayana vows and full damtsig with the Vajra Master.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – this style of novice ordination was briefly employed by the lineage as a transitional phase.
• Nyingma Long-life Wish-paths – awareness-poems for the cultivation of the perfect appreciation of devotion.
• Student teacher reflection – the Lama will allow you to access your enlightened nature by nudging you.
• The certain Lama – if you have a vehicle which has emptiness at its base, the teaching which proceeds from that is not going to be intellectually communicable unless you have had the experience of emptiness.
• The Vajra Master – when it actually came to the point of having to live Vajrayana, this proved impossible.
• Vajra Masters – may be wrathful, but their ‘wrathfulness’ is never peevish, irritable, surly, petulant, or aggressively impatient.

Vajra noose

• Ga-phong Dongma – carrying the elephant hide vajra noose
• Vajra weapon – the thunderbolt noose is one of the implements of the Vajrayana which are made from a wide variety of materials according to the exact manner in which they destroy duality.

Vajra orchestra

• Three unknown ngakpas – wearing the Dorje Zahorma hats of Nyingma Lamas, and the red, white, and blue striped shawls of the gö-kar chang-lo’ide.

Vajra pike

• Vajra weapon – Vajra pike.

Vajra pride

• Pride & Prejudice – otherness holds no fear for those who practise according to the principle of transformation.

Vajra relationship

• Devotion – although this text was presented to Western students studying sutra, with no knowledge of tantra and vajra relationship, this is a tantric text, teaching on vajra relationship.
• Jomo Chö-ku Wangmo – is an extremely modest and kind person, and a dedicated practitioner.
• Ngala Nor’dzin and Ngala ’ö-Dzin – take each other as teachers, and find their relationship of great significance in their practice.
• Ngala Nor’dzin and Ngala ’ö-Dzin – teaching couples offer practitioners a wonderful opportunity to grasp and experience the realised meanings of teachings.
• The Bristol Talks – a yidam is a visual description of our own enlightened state, as well as a method of reaching, understanding and experiencing that state.

Vajra romance

• Honey On The Razor’s Edge – we can only immerse ourselves in the efflorescence of our sense fields, and learn directly from the energy of what we are in relation to our lovers.
• Tralam-mé – we have established that our teaching disciples will also be entirely, joyously, and unreservedly monogamous.

Vajra Scimitar

• Vajra weapon – Vajra Scimitar.

Vajra Spear

• Vajra weapon – Vajra Spear.

Vajra staff

• Vajra weapon – Vajra staff.

Vajra Sword

• Vajra weapon – Vajra Sword.

Vajra Trident

• Vajra weapon – Vajra Trident.

Vajra weapon

• A-kyong Phurba – takes its form from The Nine Enriching Phurbas of Ngak’chang A-kyong Düd’dül Dorje.
• Aro Tröllö Phurba – this phurba is a weapon associated with Dorje Tröllö and therefore shows the single face of this yidam.
• Bronze Phurba – the knotted design above and below the central lotus patterns of the handle are the unending knots which represent ‘the continuity of Vajrayana’.
• Chagdar Rinpoche – was respected as a siddha of considerable repute, and had attained the siddhi of flight.
• Gri-gug – flaying knife.
• Gri-gug – is a symbol often associated with the khandromas, the sky-dancing sources of inspiration – but it is also held by male forms such as Ögyen Khyungpo (Udiyana Garuda) who holds a gri-gug in the talons of each foot.
• Gri-gug – the flaying knife (gri gug – hooked-knife) is a curved, crescent-shaped or hooked knife with a vajra handle.
• Iron Phurba – when phurbas are authenticated for practice, their handles (which portray the three faces of Dorje Phurba) are very rarely seen by anyone apart from the practitioner.
• Khatvangha – this khatvangha is of the type which usually ornaments large statues.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – a key part of the ordination ceremony within the Aro lineage is empowerment with the implements of a tantrika.
• Tröllö Phurba – has a blade and ‘spine’ made of meteorite iron.
• Vajra weapon – blackened iron phurba with li-serpo faces of Dorje Phurba.
• Vajra weapon – the short spear or short lance is associated with a group of vajra weapons which are used by horseback warriors.
• Vajra weapon – the thunderbolt noose is one of the implements of the Vajrayana which are made from a wide variety of materials according to the exact manner in which they destroy duality.
• Vajra weapon – vajra club.
• Vajra weapon – vajra hook.
• Vajra weapon – Vajra pike.
• Vajra weapon – Vajra Scimitar.
• Vajra weapon – Vajra Spear.
• Vajra weapon – Vajra staff.
• Vajra weapon – Vajra Sword.
• Vajra weapon – Vajra Trident.

Vajra whip

• Ga-phong Dongma – clutching the crocodile hide vajra whip

Vajrakilaya

• Dorje Phurba – obliterates the minions of aggression by plunging the self-existent dagger of non-duality into the heart of hatred.
• Dorje Phurba – Vajrakilaya.
• Dorje Phurba – Vajrakilaya.

Vajrayana

• Aro gTér – is a cycle of teachings revealed by Aro Lingma and is based entirely in the three Inner Tantras.
• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• Dr Greenberg interviews Ngak’chang Rinpoche – rebirth is a beneficial working hypothesis.
• Empowerment and guru yoga – in that moment ‘your’ mind and the Mind of the Lama are not separate; there is only Mind.
• Essential characteristics of Vajrayana – like having no resistance to anything combined with a strong attraction toward that person.
• Essential Characteristics of Vajrayana – vajra command.
• Essential Characteristics of Vajrayana – vajra commitment
• Establishing Vajra Commitment in the West – allowing one’s rationale to be challenged is the whole terrible truth of vajra commitment.
• Kindness – we know what it means to be kind.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen – gave an unprecedented number of empowerments and transmissions ranging throughout the three inner Tantras.
• Ngala Nor’dzin – teaches with her husband and sang-yab, Ngala ’ö-Dzin Tridral.
• Nine Bardos – in order to have some apprehension of what death is, one has to die.
• Nyingma Long-life Wish-paths – awareness-poems for the cultivation of the perfect appreciation of devotion.
• Pema Gyaltsen Rinpoche – had an extraordinary quality of presence, power, and calm, which made us feel a little over-awed.
• The Bristol Talks – a yidam is a visual description of our own enlightened state, as well as a method of reaching, understanding and experiencing that state.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.
• The Vajra Master – when it actually came to the point of having to live Vajrayana, this proved impossible.
• Tralam-mé – we have established that our teaching disciples will also be entirely, joyously, and unreservedly monogamous.
• Vajra Masters – may be wrathful, but their ‘wrathfulness’ is never peevish, irritable, surly, petulant, or aggressively impatient.

Vehicles

• Dzogchen & Tantra – there are simply practitioners who may practise Dzogchen as part of their repertoire of practices.
• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Village ngakpa

• Khamtrül Yeshé Dorje Rinpoche – biography
• Village Ngakpa – the term ‘village ngakpa’ is often used in a derogatory manner when scholars are attempting to define the gö-kar chang-lo’i de.

Visualisation

• Questions with Ngak’chang Rinpoche – visualisation.

Vows

• The Vajra Master – when it actually came to the point of having to live Vajrayana, this proved impossible.

Waistcoat

• Lineage and Costume – it can be an inspiration just to wear the costume of the lineage and know that you are a representative.

Wang-gi Lhamo

• Kurukulla – transforms dualistic desire into non-dual desire through her unbridled vajra lust.

Warrior

• Kindness – we know what it means to be kind.

Weather maker

• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin – at Southerndown Beach in South Wales in the Spring of 1984.
• Khamtrül Yeshé Dorje Rinpoche – biography
• Khamtrül Yeshé Dorje Rinpoche – was a ngakpa, mainly known as an exorcist, Weather maker, and Mahayoga ritual expert.
• Tröma Nakmo – this image is a tsak-li, a miniature thangka painting used to confer empowerment.

Weather-making

• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – gave a teaching on Dzogchen men-ngag-dé in which he took the imagery of his oral transmission from the nature of the ocean and its waves.

Wedding blessing

• Khandro Déchen, Ngala Nor’dzin – on the day Ngala Nor’dzin and Ngala ’ö-Dzin were married.

Wheel of life

• The Bristol Talks – a yidam is a visual description of our own enlightened state, as well as a method of reaching, understanding and experiencing that state.

White sangha

• Tantric Ordination – when Padmasambhava came to Tibet, King Tri-song Détsen expected to meet him as an equal, but came face to face with his own inadequacy immediately.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

White Seng-gé Dongma

• White Seng-gé Dongma – inexplicably injures misconceptions.

Wisdom

• The Ten Paramitas – actions which are free from the crimp of duality, which arise spontaneously from the non-dual state.

Wisdom display

• Honey On The Razor’s Edge – we can only immerse ourselves in the efflorescence of our sense fields, and learn directly from the energy of what we are in relation to our lovers.

Wisdom eccentric

• Dispelling the Darkness of Doubt – a spontaneously arising song revealing the symbolic nature of the three secrets of the gö-kar chang-lo’i dé
• gTérchen Karma Rinpoche – discovered numerous sa gTérs.

Wisdom fire

• Trom – the most advanced exercise to be undertaken before students begin work with the forms of Lamas, yidams, and protectors.

Wisdom-chaos

• Dorje Tröllö – is the Wisdom-chaos manifestation of Guru Rinpoche, the Second Buddha.
• Dorje Tröllö – the master of Wisdom-chaos.
• Dorje Tröllö – the thunderbolt catalyst, who destroys pious pretences and sanctimonious institutionalisation.
• Dorje Tröllö – the Wisdom-chaos manifestation of the Padmasambhava.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – the tiger is the symbol of unrestrained ferocity.
• Drukpa Künlegs – is an important figure in the transmission of the mahasiddha tradition in Tibet.
• Dzogchen – non-dual realisation depends upon discovering as real that which was beginninglessly there: the primordial base.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche told Ralzhig Pema Legden, that after his passing, Ngak’chang Rinpoche would manifest Wisdom-chaos.
• Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö – her demeanor blazes rage, but it is the rage that destroys any obstacle to joy and freedom.
• Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö – Wisdom-chaos (yeshé ’cholwa) is the style of non-dual activity which cuts through dualistic manipulations in their most subtle forms.

Wish path

• Chant & Yogic Song – in Tantric dön-pa the words are used as a guide to visualisation.
• Chatral Rinpoche – wish path.
• Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche – swift rebirth wish path
• Düd’jom Rinpoche – long life wish path.
• Düd’jom Yangsrid Tulku – long life wish path.
• Dilgo Khyentsé Rinpoche – long life wish path.
• Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche and Jomo Sam’phel – long life wish path.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche & Khandro Déchen – long life wish paths.
• Nyingma Long-life Wish-paths – awareness-poems for the cultivation of the perfect appreciation of devotion.
• Tharchin Rinpoche – long life wish path
• Thrinley Norbu Rinpoche – Swift Resumption of Emanation Body.

Wish-path khorlos

• Yatung Tulku Chöying Nyima Rinpoche – was a Dzogchen master of the Nyingma Tradition and a family man whose sons and daughters became accomplished yogis and yoginis.

Women Lamas

• Drigung Khandro – historic photograph.
• Drigung Khandro – is an incarnation of Yeshé Tsogyel within the Drigung Kagyüd School of Tibetan Buddhism.
• Drigung Khandro – lives in Tibet at a retreat place where she presides as the Lama of ninety yoginis.
• Jomo Sam’phel – views Khandro Déchen as the daughter she never had.
• Khandro Ten’dzin Drölkar – is an extraordinary yogini who lives in Yang-lé-shöd, Nepal.
• Khandro Ten’dzin Drölkar – is one of the great yoginis of the Nyingma tradition.
• Khandro Ten’dzin Drölkar – received the entire cycle of the Mindrol Ling Southern gTérma.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche, Khandro Déchen and Khandro Ten’dzin Drölkar – made a pilgrimage to Tso Pema with Gyaltsen Rinpoche.

Wrathful

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche interviewed by Ngakma Yeshé – ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

Wrathful empowerment

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – wrathful empowerment.

Wrathful offerings

• A-shé Khandro – the idea of offerings on a thangka or on a shrine concerns ‘making a connection’.

Wrathful shawl

• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen – wearing the ‘joyous’ lineage shawls.

Yab-yum

• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – a form of Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel in union manifesting as the yidam of compassion.
• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – a form of Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel in union manifesting as the yidam of compassion.
• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – deer are shy by nature, and their presence in a landscape represents a dimension where fear is unknown.
• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – male deer.
• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – send a profusion of spectral patterns throughout the realms of dualistic delusion in order to liberate beings from their self-created suffering.
• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – the Aro gTér tradition was to wear the gZi bead on its own as a symbol of the function of the protectors.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – Ögyen Chenrézigs and Yeshé Tsogyel each hold a dorje.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – Ögyen Chenrézigs and Yeshé Tsogyel each hold a dorje.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the conch shell has many symbolic meanings.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the faces.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the figures close up.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the figures.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the red and white of the hat reflects the symbology of male and female.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – Yeshé Tsogyel wears lapis lazuli ornaments.

Yamataka

• Yamataka – Dorje Shin-je-shed is the one who destroys the concept of death as being ‘separate from birth’.

Yana

• Dzogchen & Tantra – there are simply practitioners who may practise Dzogchen as part of their repertoire of practices.
• Dzogchen – Sem-dé requires flashes of rigpa. Long-dé requires moments of rigpa. Men-ngag-dé requires sustained moments of rigpa.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.

Yang

• Chant & Yogic Song – in Tantric dön-pa the words are used as a guide to visualisation.
• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• Inner & Outer Dimensions of Sound – music at these assemblies would range between spoken recitation, and forms which are increasingly musical.
• Inner & Outer Dimensions of Sound – solo singing was performed in the context of both transmission and of inspirational song.

Yang’dzom

• Ngakma Yang’dzom – her father was a yogi who integrated his retreats into his working life whilst herding the family’s yak and dri in remote areas.

Yang-lé-shöd

• Asura Cave – hand-print of Padmasambhava.
• Chökyi Wangchuk Rinpoche – a Ngakpa Lama and an incarnation from the family clan of gTérton Ratna Lingpa.
• Düd’jom Yang-tsé Tulku – the pinnacle incarnation of Düd’jom Rinpoche.
• Jomo Sam’phel – views Khandro Déchen as the daughter she never had.
• Khandro Ten’dzin Drölkar – is an extraordinary yogini who lives in Yang-lé-shöd, Nepal.
• Lödrö Rinpoche – is a master of Tantric orchestral.
• Lödrö Rinpoche, Khandro Nyima – photograph
• Lödrö Rinpoche, Nyida Wangmo – belong to a special category of Nyingma practitioners who manifest the outer form of the monastic tradition (in the case of Lödrö Rinpoche) without adhering to its celibate form.
• Tsogyel Ge’phel Jong – is a place where a group of Nyingma yogis and yoginis live and practice in permanent semi-open retreat.
• Tsogyel Ge’phel Jong – one of the most powerful pilgrimage places associated with Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel.
• Yang-lé-shöd – although one can make the journey, the ‘hidden land’ remains hidden to those who cannot experience it.
• Yang-lé-shöd – is the sacred place where Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel manifested as Dorje Phurba and Dorje Phagmo: the thunderbolt nail and the thunderbolt sow.
• Yang-lé-shöd Lamas – the Lamas and practitioner retreatants of Tsogyel Gé’phel Jong are a wonderful example of the lineage of Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel.

Yantra yoga

• Mother Essence Lineage – Aro Lingma made a long drawn out hiss with her lips drawn up into wrathful aspect, as if she were performing a Tsa-lung breathing exercise.

Yatung Lama

• Yatung Tulku Chöying Nyima Rinpoche – was a Dzogchen master of the Nyingma Tradition and a family man whose sons and daughters became accomplished yogis and yoginis.

Yellow Seng-gé Dongma

• Yellow Seng-gé Dongma – miraculously overawes misconceptions.

Yeshé

• The Ten Paramitas – actions which are free from the crimp of duality, which arise spontaneously from the non-dual state.

Yeshé cholwa

• Dorje Tröllö – is the Wisdom-chaos manifestation of Guru Rinpoche, the Second Buddha.
• Dorje Tröllö – the master of Wisdom-chaos.
• Dorje Tröllö – the thunderbolt catalyst, who destroys pious pretences and sanctimonious institutionalisation.
• Dorje Tröllö – the Wisdom-chaos manifestation of the Padmasambhava.
• Dro’phang Lingpa – the tiger is the symbol of unrestrained ferocity.
• Dzogchen – non-dual realisation depends upon discovering as real that which was beginninglessly there: the primordial base.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche – Chhi’mèd Rig’dzin Rinpoche told Ralzhig Pema Legden, that after his passing, Ngak’chang Rinpoche would manifest Wisdom-chaos.
• Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö – her demeanor blazes rage, but it is the rage that destroys any obstacle to joy and freedom.
• Vajra Mamo Tsogyel Tröllö – Wisdom-chaos (yeshé ’cholwa) is the style of non-dual activity which cuts through dualistic manipulations in their most subtle forms.

Yeshé Dorje Rinpoche

• Khamtrül Yeshé Dorje Rinpoche – biography
• Khamtrül Yeshé Dorje Rinpoche – he seemed particularly delighted to see me and always waved and was most friendly.
• Khamtrül Yeshé Dorje Rinpoche – was a ngakpa, mainly known as an exorcist, Weather maker, and Mahayoga ritual expert.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche interviewed by Ngakma Yeshé – ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
• Ngakpa Seng-gé Dorje – was a disciple of Ngala Sherab Dorje Rinpoche a gö-kar chang-lo Lama from Golok.
• Tröma Nakmo – this image is a tsak-li, a miniature thangka painting used to confer empowerment.

Yeshé Dzü’drül

• Aro Yeshé – the skull damaru given to him by Khandro Yeshé Dzü’drül, the sister of A-Kyong Düd’dül Dorje.

Yeshé Thubten Rinpoche

• Khensur Yeshé Thubten Rinpoche – gave teachings on Lam Rim, the Graduated Path to Enlightenment.

Yeshé Tsogyel

• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – a form of Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel in union manifesting as the yidam of compassion.
• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – a form of Padmasambhava and Yeshé Tsogyel in union manifesting as the yidam of compassion.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – Ögyen Chenrézigs and Yeshé Tsogyel each hold a dorje.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – Ögyen Chenrézigs and Yeshé Tsogyel each hold a dorje.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the conch shell has many symbolic meanings.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the faces.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the figures close up.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the figures.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – the red and white of the hat reflects the symbology of male and female.
• Black Ögyen Chenrézigs – Yeshé Tsogyel wears lapis lazuli ornaments.
• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• Jomo Menmo – she experienced a dream of clarity in which she received a profound vision.
• Khandro Chenmo Yeshé Tsogyel – close up of face.
• Khandro Chenmo Yeshé Tsogyel – close up of figure.
• Khandro Chenmo Yeshé Tsogyel – figure.
• Khandro Chenmo Yeshé Tsogyel – her equality with Padmasambhava in the Aro gTér is displayed through her adoption of the identical physical position of Padmasambhava.
• Khandro Chenmo Yeshé Tsogyel – her gaze is at once soft and penetrating; compassionate yet playfully wrathful.
• Khandro Chenmo Yeshé Tsogyel – is shown wearing the royal golden ornaments of the Princess of Karchen.
• Khandro Chenmo Yeshé Tsogyel – the greatest inspiration and rôle model for women, in terms of Tibetan Buddhism, is the enlightened yogini Yeshé Tsogyel.
• Khandro Chenmo Yeshé Tsogyel – wears a blue chuba – symbolic of the colour of the Rigpa’i Kujug, ‘the cuckoo of Awareness’.
• Mother Essence Lineage – in the Mother Essence Lineage Jomo Menmo is regarded as the incarnation of Ma-gÇig Labdrön.
• Mother Essence Lineage – Yeshé Tsogyel is the greatest inspiration and role model for women.
• The Nyingma Tradition – originates from Buddha Padmasambhava, who came to Tibet in the year 817 AD at the request of Chögyal Trisong Détsen.
• Yeshé Tsogyel applique – a small dorje was cut in half to remove some of its mass, so that it was not too heavy for the appliqué.
• Yeshé Tsogyel applique – finishing the appliqué with a real sense of accomplishment.
• Yeshé Tsogyel applique – practitioners take artistic involvement and expression as being central to their lives.
• Yeshé Tsogyel applique – practitioners take artistic involvement and expression as being central to their lives.
• Yeshé Tsogyel applique – she evolved, organically and became present while we were working.
• Yeshé Tsogyel applique – Tantric yogis and yoginis wear vajra weapons in the belt of their shamthab.
• Yeshé Tsogyel applique – the face had been embroidered in Nepal to Ngak’chang Rinpoche’s specific design.
• Yeshé Tsogyel applique – the khatvanga has eight sides which represent the Noble Eightfold path and the eight classes of protectors.
• Yeshé Tsogyel applique – the skull bowl symbolises the transformed emotions and wisdom.

Yidag

• The escalator of emptiness – merely being human does not make my rebirth a ‘precious human rebirth’.

Yidam

• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• Empowerment and guru yoga – in that moment ‘your’ mind and the Mind of the Lama are not separate; there is only Mind.
• Pride & Prejudice – otherness holds no fear for those who practise according to the principle of transformation.
• Refuge – we seek protection from our own conceptual minds: from our compulsion to split reality into dualistic view; from our addiction to conditioned responses rooted in preconception.
• The Bristol Talks – a yidam is a visual description of our own enlightened state, as well as a method of reaching, understanding and experiencing that state.

Yogi

• Chagdar Rinpoche – was respected as a siddha of considerable repute, and had attained the siddhi of flight.
• Family Practice – the play of children was never seen as an interruption or as a distraction from practice.
• gÇodpa – the tousled mats of his hair are bound up on his head in the ralpa style in which matted strands of hair are also left to hang loose down his shoulders.
• Ngakpa A’jam Rinpoche – a yogi of the Longchen Nying-thig lineage.
• Nyima ’ö-Zér – drawing by Khandro Déchen.
• Nyima ’ö-Zér – is the archetypal yogi whose finger stops the sun in its tracks so that all time is frozen, and with it all dualistic strategies.
• Yeshé Tsogyel applique – Tantric yogis and yoginis wear vajra weapons in the belt of their shamthab.
• Young Yogi – with the roaring of the waterfall behind me and the vast sky which opened out in front of me it was an ideal place.

Yogic dress

• Dispelling the Darkness of Doubt – a spontaneously arising song revealing the symbolic nature of the three secrets of the gö-kar chang-lo’i dé

Yogic hairstyles

• A-shé Khandro – one of the two Sang-yums of Aro Yeshé.
• A-shé Khandro – wears one of the three gomtags which were handed down from Jomo Chhi’mèd Pema to Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér to Aro Lingma.
• Aro Yeshé – wearing his hair in the thor-tshug style.
• Dispelling the Darkness of Doubt – a spontaneously arising song revealing the symbolic nature of the three secrets of the gö-kar chang-lo’i dé
• Sangchen Dorje Rinpoche – lived mainly in Sikkim but wandered throughout the Himalayan region practising in caves and small out-of-the-way gompas.
• The Gö-kar chang-lo – this traditional Tibetan mural shows that the gö-kar chang-lo’i dé were not merely ‘lay practitioners’.
• Togden Sem-nyid Dorje Rinpoche – is a Togden, a profound practitioner of rTsa rLung who lives at Tashi Jong in Himachal Pradesh, Northern India.
• Togden Tashi Wang-gyal – wears his hair in one of the various Togden, or matted-hair styles of the gö-kar chang-lo.

Yogic song

• Chant & Yogic Song – in Tantric dön-pa the words are used as a guide to visualisation.
• Dorje Tsigdun – is based on Hung as the seed syllable of Padmasambhava.
• Inner & Outer Dimensions of Sound – music at these assemblies would range between spoken recitation, and forms which are increasingly musical.
• Inner & Outer Dimensions of Sound – solo singing was performed in the context of both transmission and of inspirational song.
• The Bristol Talks – a yidam is a visual description of our own enlightened state, as well as a method of reaching, understanding and experiencing that state.

Yogini

• A-shé Khandro – one of the two Sang-yums of Aro Yeshé.
• A-shé Khandro – performed a motherly rôle to Aro Yeshé and her sister A-yé Khandro
• A-shé Khandro – sits on a lotus on sun and moon discs showing that her form is that of a yidam.
• A-shé Khandro – wears one of the three gomtags which were handed down from Jomo Chhi’mèd Pema to Jomo Pema ’ö-Zér to Aro Lingma.
• A-shé Khandro – wears the Dzogchen blue chuba or gown.
• Khandro Ten’dzin Drölkar – is one of the great yoginis of the Nyingma tradition.
• Khandro Ten’dzin Drölkar – received the entire cycle of the Mindrol Ling Southern gTérma.

Yung-drung

• Black Ögyen Jampalyang – the obsidian mélong he holds in his upper left hand is ornamented by the five-fold reality flag of Khyungchen Aro Lingma.
• Dzambhala – close up of full thangka.
• Dzambhala – the face close up.
• Dzambhala – the figure close up.
• Dzambhala – the figure.
• Dzambhala – wearing the ‘breast-plate armour’ of the ‘earth and sky yung-drungs’.
• Ga-phong Dongma – functions in terms of what is hidden both in terms of realisation and confusion.
• Ga-phong Dongma – yung-drung chest ornament

Yungdrung

• ’ug gDongma – her white plumage is the radiant rainbow-window on the nine skies
• ’ug gDongma – is the mysterious æthereal apparitional owl-headed dakini

Za Rahula

• Nyingma ngakpa – practising a Za Rahula rite.
• Rahula minion – here the idea is not based on fear or the neurotic need to make every situation safe.
• Za Rahula – drawing by Ngakma Déwang Pamo.
• Za Rahula – is depicted here emerging from a violent landscape amidst mountains which boil an ocean of blood.
• Za Rahula – is the protector who seizes the sun and the moon and eclipses planets.
• Za Rahula – the ‘giver of constant trouble’ is a friend to all those practitioners who value constant trouble if they are in danger of breaking their vows.

Zanskar

• Zanskar Mountain – on the site of one of the eight great charnel grounds.

Zen

• Lineage and Costume – it can be an inspiration just to wear the costume of the lineage and know that you are a representative.

Zhal’mèd Yé-rig

• Khyungchen Aro Lingma applique – craft as practice is an ancient aspect of the gö-kar chang-lo’i dé.
• Ngakpa Zhal’mèd – has dedicated much time and effort in solitary retreat and is an accomplished practitioner.

Zhi-je

• Padampa Sang-gye – the unusual colour of his body is the combination of a dark skin dusted with cremation ash.

Zhig-po

• gTérchen Karma Rinpoche – discovered numerous sa gTérs.

gZi

• Ögyen Chenrezigs Yab-yum – the Aro gTér tradition was to wear the gZi bead on its own as a symbol of the function of the protectors.
• A-Kyong Düd’dül Dorje – was extraordinarily skilled in making phurbas in metal and wood, as well as bone, ivory, and other materials.
• gZi
• Khyungchen Aro Lingma – gZi.
• Ngak’chang Rinpoche and Khandro Déchen – the harmonious and happy relationship of Ngak’chang Rinpoche Khandro Déchen is both an inspiration and example to their apprentices.

Zilngön Lingpa

• Dro’phang Lingpa – discovered twenty-three volumes of gTérma, and other gTérma of different types.

Zonga Thongyal

• Zonga Thongyal – is a devout practitioner who still lives in McCleod Ganj, but is pictured here on a pilgrimage to Bodhgaya.

Zopa

• The Ten Paramitas – actions which are free from the crimp of duality, which arise spontaneously from the non-dual state.

Zor-phud hairstyle

• Golok Ngakpa – the pe-cha style takdrol is characteristic of Lamas in the Longchen Nying-thig lineage.