Episodes
དེ་དག་ཀུན་ཀྱང་ཆོས་བརྒྱད་ཀྱི། ། རྟོག་པའི་དྲི་མས་མ་སྦགས་ཤིང༌།  །
ཆོས་ཀུན་སྒྱུ་མར་ཤེས་པའི་བློས། ། ཞེན་མེད་འཆིང་བ་ལས་གྲོལ་ཤོག ། May all this remain undefiled By the stains of the eight mundane concerns; And may I, recognizing all things as illusion, Devoid of clinging, be released from bondage. …. A highly-revered text from the Mahayana Lojong (mind training) tradition. These instructions offer essential practices for cultivating the awakening mind of compassion, wisdom, and love. Composed...
Published 10/25/22
Published 10/25/22
Eight Verses for Training the Mind - Verse 4-7 A highly-revered text from the Mahayana Lojong (mind training) tradition. These instructions offer essential practices for cultivating the awakening mind of compassion, wisdom, and love. Composed  by  the  Tibetan Buddhist  Master  Langri  Tangpa  (1054-1123),  Eight  Verses  for  Training  the  Mind  is  a  highly-revered  text  from  the  Mahayana  Lojong  (mind  training)  tradition.  These  instructions  offer  essential  practices  for...
Published 10/25/22
སྤྱོད་ལམ་ཀུན་ཏུ་རང་རྒྱུད་ལ། ། རྟོག་ཅིང་ཉོན་མོངས་སྐྱེས་མ་ཐག ། བདག་གཞན་མ་རུངས་བྱེད་པས་ན། ། བཙན་ཐབས་གདོང་ནས་བཟློག་པར་ཤོག ། In all my deeds may I probe into my mind And as soon as mental and emotional afflictions arise As they endanger myself and others May I strongly confront them and avert them. …. A highly-revered text from the Mahayana Lojong (mind training) tradition. These instructions offer essential practices for cultivating the awakening mind of compassion, wisdom, and love. Composed...
Published 10/25/22
གང་དུ་སུ་དང་འགྲོགས་པའི་ཚེ། ། བདག་ཉིད་ཀུན་ལས་དམན་བལྟ་ཞིང༌། ། གཞན་ལ་བསམ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཡིས། ། མཆོག་ཏུ་གཅེས་པར་འཛིན་པར་ཤོག ། Whenever I interact with someone
May I view myself as the lowest amongst all And, from the very depths of my heart
Respectfully hold others as superior …. A highly-revered text from the Mahayana Lojong (mind training) tradition. These instructions offer essential practices for cultivating the awakening mind of compassion, wisdom, and love. Composed  by  the  Tibetan Buddhist...
Published 10/13/22
༄༅། །བློ་སྦྱོང་ཚིགས་བརྒྱད་མ་བཞུགས་སོ། ། Eight Verses for Training the Mind - Verse 1 བདག་ནི་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ། ། ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུ་ལས་ལྷག་པའི། ། དོན་མཆོག་སྒྲུབ་པའི་བསམ་པ་ཡིས། ། རྟག་ཏུ་གཅེས་པར་འཛིན་པར་ཤོག ། With a determination to achieve the highest aimFor the benefit of all sentient beings Which surpasses even the wish-fulfilling gem, May I hold them dear at all times. …. A highly-revered text from the Mahayana Lojong (mind training) tradition. These instructions offer essential...
Published 10/09/22
༄༅། །བློ་སྦྱོང་ཚིགས་བརྒྱད་མ་བཞུགས་སོ། ། Eight Verses for Training the Mind by Geshe Langri Thangpa A highly-revered text from the Mahayana Lojong (mind training) tradition. These instructions offer essential practices for cultivating the awakening mind of compassion, wisdom, and love. Composed by the Tibetan Buddhist Master Langri Thangpa (1054-1123), Eight Verses for Training the Mind is a highly-revered text from the Mahayana Lojong (mind training) tradition. These instructions offer...
Published 10/08/22
༄༅། །རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ་བཞུགས་སོ། ། | 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘆-𝗦𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲  𝗕𝗼𝗱𝗵𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘃𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗚𝘆𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲𝐲 𝗧𝐡𝗼𝗸𝗺𝗲 𝐒𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗽𝗼  31-37 Stanzas The teachings of the thirty-seven practices of all the Boddhisattvas by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.  This episode covers 31 to 37 verses from the 37 Practices of all the Boddhisattvas by Gyalsey Thokme Sangpo. … Gyalsey Thokme Sangpo composed: A Commentary on the Seven-point Mind-training (blo sbyong don bdun ma’i khrid yig), the Thirty-seven Practices...
Published 09/13/22
༄༅། །རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ་བཞུགས་སོ། ། | 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘆-𝗦𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲  𝗕𝗼𝗱𝗵𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘃𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗚𝘆𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲𝐲 𝗧𝐡𝗼𝗸𝗺𝗲 𝐒𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗽𝗼  21-30 Stanzas The teachings of the thirty-seven practices of all the Boddhisattvas by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.  This episode covers 21 to 30 verses from the 37 Practices of all the Boddhisattvas by Gyalsey Thokme Sangpo. … Gyalsey Thokme Sangpo composed: A Commentary on the Seven-point Mind-training (blo sbyong don bdun ma’i khrid yig), the Thirty-seven Practices...
Published 09/05/22
༄༅། །རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ་བཞུགས་སོ། ། | 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘆-𝗦𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲  𝗕𝗼𝗱𝗵𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘃𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗚𝘆𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲𝐲 𝗧𝐡𝗼𝗸𝗺𝗲 𝐒𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗽𝗼  11-20 Stanzas The teachings of the thirty-seven practices of all the Boddhisattvas by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.  This episode covers 11 to 20 verses from the 37 Practices of all the Boddhisattvas by Gyalsey Thokme Sangpo. … Gyalsey Thokme Sangpo composed: A Commentary on the Seven-point Mind-training (blo sbyong don bdun ma’i khrid yig), the Thirty-seven Practices...
Published 08/27/22
༄༅། །རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ་བཞུགས་སོ། ། | 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘆-𝗦𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲  𝗕𝗼𝗱𝗵𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘃𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗚𝘆𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲𝐲 𝗧𝐡𝗼𝗸𝗺𝗲 𝐒𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗽𝗼  1-10 verses The teachings of the thirty-seven practices of all the Boddhisattvas by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.  This episode covers 1 to 10 verses from the 37 Practices of all the Boddhisattvas by Gyalsey Thokme Sangpo. … Gyalsey Thokme Sangpo composed: A Commentary on the Seven-point Mind-training (blo sbyong don bdun ma’i khrid yig), the Thirty-seven Practices of...
Published 08/15/22
21 Praises to Tara Chanted by Lama Tenzin Sangpo and Ani Choying Drolma  Tara (སྒྲོལ་མ,  Dölma), also known as Jetsun Dölma appears as a female bodhisattva in  Mahayana Buddhism, and as a female Buddha in Vajrayana Buddhism. She is known as the “mother of liberation”, and represents the virtues of  success in work and achievements. Tārā is a meditation deity revered by practitioners of the Tibetan branch of Vajrayana Buddhism to develop  certain inner qualities and to understand outer, inner...
Published 08/10/22
Gyun Chak Sumpa and Sherab Nyingpo by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama | Kundun Yeshi Norbu Let's start a day with the blessing of Kundun Yeshi Norbu and reciting a Homage to Shakyamuni Buddha and ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོ།  ། | The Heart Sūtra or Sherab Nyingpo The Heart Sūtra or Sherap Nyingpo  (ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོ་) is one of the most popular Buddhist sūtra and certainly among the most widely used and chanted sutra-s in Tibet. Its full title in Sanskrit is Bhagavatīprajñāpāramitāhṛdaya and in Tibetan...
Published 08/06/22
Dechen Mönlam | བདེ་ཅན་སྨོན་ལམ། | Dewachen Monlam | བདེ་སྨོན། | thongdrol.org Dechen Mönlam (བདེ་ཅན་སྨོན་ལམ་) is one of the most  commonly recited aspirational prayers in Tibet and Himalaya. Originally  composed by Karma Chakmé in eastern Tibet in the 17th century, this  prayer deals with rebirth in the pure realm of Sukhāvatī (བདེ་བ་ཅན་),  where the Buddha Amitabha is believed to reside. It belongs to the  category of prayers recited to seek rebirth in Buddha realms that are  considered...
Published 08/02/22
Sangchö Mönlam | བཟང་སྤྱོད་སྨོན་ལམ། | The King of Aspiration Prayers | Zangchö Mönlam ༄༅།  །འཕགས་པ་བཟང་པོ་སྤྱོད་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་བཞུགས།The King of  Aspiration Prayers: Samantabhadra’s “Aspiration to Good Actions”  (Zangchö Mönlam) from the Gaṇḍavyūha chapter of the Avataṃsaka sutra. ….. Sangchö Mönlam | བཟང་སྤྱོད་སྨོན་ལམ། | The King of Aspiration Prayers | Zangchö Mönlam | thongdrol.org … Note:  This century old sacred prayer is compiled with text and audio for the  sole use and...
Published 08/02/22
Sampa Lhundrup | བསམ་པ་ལྷུན་གྲུབ།| The Supplication Spontaneous Fulfillment of Wishes | Guru Rinpoche Sampa  Lhundrupma (Tib. བསམ་པ་ལྷུན་གྲུབ་མ་།,) The Prayer to Guru Rinpoche That  Spontaneously Fulfills All Wishes, is a prayer that forms the seventh  chapter of Le’u Dünma. It was given to the prince Mutri Tsenpo, the King  of Gungthang, and son of King Trisong Detsen, by Padmasambhava as he  was leaving for the land of the rakshasa ogres in the southwest. In this  prayer, thirteen...
Published 08/02/22
His Holiness the Great 14th Dalai Lama | His Holiness the Panchen Lama | His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa | His Holiness the Sakya Gongma Trichen Rinpoche . ༈ གསོལ་བ་འདེབས་སོ་བླ་མ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།། Solwa debso lama rinpoché Precious guru, | supplicate you. གདུང་བས་འབོད་དོ་དྲིན་ཅན་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྗེ། ། Dung we boddo drinchen cho kyi jé Kind lord of dharma, | call to you longingly. སྐལ་མེད་བདག་ལ་རེ་ས་ཁྱོད་ལས་མེད། ། Kalmé dag la resa kyolée mé Unfortunate though | am, | have no other hope but...
Published 08/02/22
Sangchö Mönlam | བཟང་སྤྱོད་སྨོན་ལམ། | The King of Aspiration Prayers | Zangchö Mönlam ༄༅།  །འཕགས་པ་བཟང་པོ་སྤྱོད་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ་གྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་བཞུགས།The King of  Aspiration Prayers: Samantabhadra’s “Aspiration to Good Actions”  (Zangchö Mönlam) from the Gaṇḍavyūha chapter of the Avataṃsaka sutra. ….. Sangchö Mönlam | བཟང་སྤྱོད་སྨོན་ལམ། | The King of Aspiration Prayers | Zangchö Mönlam | thongdrol.org … Note:  This century old sacred prayer is compiled with text and audio for the  sole use and...
Published 08/02/22
Barche Lamsel བར་ཆད་ལམ་སེལ་བཞུགས༔ Guru Rinpoche | Gyalwang Karmapa | thongdrol.org ༃ གསོལ་འདེབས་བར་ཆད་ལམ་སེལ་བཞུགས༔ The Supplication Clearing the Path of Obstacles - Guru Rinpoche    ཨོཾ་ཨཱཿཧཱུྃ་བཛྲ་གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྃ༔ ཆོས་སྐུ་སྣང་བ་མཐའ་ཡས་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས༔  ལོངས་སྐུ་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོ་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས༔  སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་པདྨ་འབྱུང་གནས་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས༔  ....  Note: This century old sacred prayer is compiled with text and audio for the sole use and benefit of people. It is not meant for any commercial...
Published 08/02/22
།ལྟུང་བཤགས།  Tungshak | His Holiness the Dalai Lama | Confession of Downfalls  Sutra  of the Three Heaps (ཕུང་པོ་གསུམ་པའི་མདོ་) also known as the The  Bodhisattva’s Confession of Downfalls or Confession of Downfalls (Tung  Shak), a method of purifying transgressions of vows and downfalls of the  bodhisattva vow by invoking thirty-five buddhas of confession. Origin  of the Sutra A group of thirty-five monks who had taken the bodhisattva  vow and had accidentally caused the death of a child...
Published 08/02/22
Marme Monlam | མར་མེ་སྨོན་ལམ། | The Light Prayer | Gyalwang Karmapa | thongdrol.org "May the bowl of this lamp become equal to the outer ring of this world realm of the great Three Thousands. May its stem be the size of the King of Mountains, Mount Meru. May its oil fill the surrounding oceans. In number, may a hundred million appear before each and every buddha. May its light dispel all the darkness of ignorance from the Peak of Existence to the Incessant Hell and illuminate all the Pure...
Published 08/02/22
༄༅། །བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་སྙིང་པོ། ། The Sūtra of the Heart of Transcendent Wisdom by Gyalwang Karmapa ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོ།  ། | The Heart Sūtra or Sherab Nyingpo The Heart Sūtra or Sherap Nyingpo  (ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོ་) is one of the most popular Buddhist sūtra and  certainly among the most widely used and chanted sutra-s in Tibet. Its  full title in Sanskrit is Bhagavatīprajñāpāramitāhṛdaya and in Tibetan  བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ which translates as...
Published 08/02/22
༄༅། །སྒྲོལ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་གཅིག་གིས་བསྟོད་པ་ཕན་ཡོན་དང་བཅས་པ། The Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage, and the Excellent Benefits of Reciting the Praise Tara  (སྒྲོལ་མ, Dölma), also known as Jetsun Dölma appears as a female  bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism, and as a female Buddha in Vajrayana  Buddhism. She is known as the “mother of liberation”, and represents the  virtues of success in work and achievements. Tārā is a meditation deity  revered by practitioners of the...
Published 08/02/22
Dechen Mönlam | བདེ་ཅན་སྨོན་ལམ། | Dewachen Monlam | བདེ་སྨོན། | thongdrol.org  Dechen Mönlam (བདེ་ཅན་སྨོན་ལམ་) is one of the most commonly recited aspirational prayers in Tibet and Himalaya. Originally composed by Karma Chakmé in eastern Tibet in the 17th century, this prayer deals with rebirth in the pure realm of Sukhāvatī (བདེ་བ་ཅན་), where the Buddha Amitabha is believed to reside. It belongs to the category of prayers recited to seek rebirth in Buddha realms that are considered...
Published 08/02/22
Sherab Nyingpo Teaching by Geshe Lobsang Dawa The Heart Sūtra or Sherab Nyingpo (ཤེས་རབ་སྙིང་པོ་) is perhaps the most popular Buddhist sūtra and certainly the sūtra most widely used and chanted in Tibet. Its full title in Sanskrit is Bhagavatīprajñāpāramitāhṛdaya and in Tibetan བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་མ་ཤེས་རབ་ཀྱི་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པའི་སྙིང་པོ་ which translates as 'The Heart of the Blessed Perfection of Wisdom.' The followers of Mahāyāna Buddhism consider it as a sacred literature which falls within the...
Published 10/11/21