
Chod Tsok, Gaden Nyengyu
In this video, Zawa Tulku Rinpoche is performing Chod Tsok. The Chod offers us a method to forcefully cut off the source of our most undesirable negativities—self-cherishing and ego-grasping. In this book the translators have rendered into English both the Chod texts and its commentary given by His Holiness, the late Kyabje Zong Rinpoche. Kyabje…

Offerings by Panchen Otrul Rinpoche
Offerings are the formal religious expression of the fundamental Buddhist virtue of giving. The perfection of giving, dana-paramita in Sanskrit, is first of the six or ten perfections. It encompasses every kind of generosity, whether it involves a gift to those higher than ourselves, such as deities in the merit field, or the poor or…

Tsongkhapa Parinirvana Day – Prayers in Shar Gaden
Monks in Shar Gaden, offering Ghanachakra Tsok on Lama Tsongkhapa’s Parinirvana day.

Lama Chopa Sadhana
Taking Refuge DE-CHEN NGANG-LAE RANG-NYI LA-MA-LHA, From a state of Great Bliss I manifest as a Guru-Yidam. GANG-DER SAEL-WAE KU-LAE WOE-ZER-TSOk From my transparent body, a profusion of light-rays CHOk-CHUR TrOE-PAE NOE-CHUE JIN-LAP-PAE, Radiates to the ten directions, blessing the beings and their environment…