The Video Series
Responding to the yearning of his students, Rinpoche has generously agreed
to begin a monthly series of special dharma teachings on video for distribution
to his many heart friends. Rinpoche uses this opportunity to offer precise
instruction for the view, meditation, and action of many of the most important
practices of our lineage. Through this series, students now have an opportunity
to build a library of teachings, which Rinpoche considers vital to our
ongoing practice.
The core teachings are edited into a 1-2 hour-long monthly video, recorded
on high quality tape, and packaged for addition to our Dharma libraries.
Through Rinpoche's kindness and generosity, we now have a monthly opportunity
to make an auspicious connection with Rinpoche's retreat, to support
his ongoing wisdom activity through our sponsorship, and to build a library
of very special Dharma teachings. Please don't miss this auspicious and
important opportunity.
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Below are the current list of past series all of which are still available,
though some not on DVD:
Series 18: Advice for Meditators
Friends of Lama Tharchin Rinpoché, Series 18:
Maha Guru, Yeshé Tsogyal’s Prayer to Guru Rinpoché as He Left Tibet
As Guru Rinpoché was leaving Tibet for the cannibal island of Ngayab Ling, Yeshé Tsogyal recited this prayer to him. Her last direct prayer is profound and full of the blessings of her longing. Although ultimately Guru Rinpoché and Yeshé Tsogyal have no separation, on a relative historical level, these were her last words uttered with very intense and powerful intention and aspiration.
The prayer was revealed as a dharma treasure by the tertön Pema Lingpa in fifth century Tibet. All Nyingma practitioners and followers of Guru Rinpoché and Yeshé Tsogyal recite this prayer. His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoché recited this prayer at the end of each sadhana session. Prayer is a very important part of our practice. We are trying to accomplish enlightenment in this lifetime. But if we don’t completely reach the result based on our own ability, making prayers of aspiration forms a connection to continue our goal after this lifetime, in the bardo, and throughout future lifetimes – it has that great power. Prayer connects us with the blessings of the deity. Through the accumulation of merit and wisdom by making prayers of aspiration, sooner or later our goals reach fruition.
The prayer is available in the Vajrayana Foundation Additional Prayers, available through Dharma Treasures Bookstore (info@dharmatreasures.com or 831.761.6274).
Two DVDs, Cost: $66
Series 17: Advice for Meditators
Two DVDs, Cost: $66
Series 16: Concise Tsok Offering, Ying Kyi Bhendhar, Teaching 1 (January 2008)
This short but incredibly profound tsok offering verse arose as a treasure from the enlightened mind of His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoché, beginning with the terma’s symbolic proof of dakini script. As he says in the colophon to the treasure,
This was written by myself, the one known as Jigdral Yeshé Dorjé, from a deluded vision I had when I was 33 years old, in the 1st month, the 17th day of the Fire Rat Year. After the evening that the Dzogchen practitioner, Trulshik Dorjé, did hundreds of tsok fulfillments of the dakini for my health, in the early morning, I had a dream and heard a woman reciting these words clearly, and when I awoke, I remembered them. Later that day, there was an auspicious sign that I had recovered from my sickness.
This tsok offering is unlike any regular tantrayana tsok. It belongs to the highest Clear Light vehicle, which is related to the result, fully awakened buddhahood. The vehicle of Clear Light brings this result to the path in order to make it manifest. Through practicing this tsok offering, we can purify our habit of believing in material phenomena as real. Those of the greatest capacity already know that all phenomena are the display of awareness (rigpa). For those who believe in the reality of apparent phenomena, this practice can purify this delusion into the dharmakaya, pure, stainless great emptiness. Through this practice, we can go beyond our ordinary dualistic mind to inconceivable wisdom mind where all phenomena naturally appear as the three kayas. This practice is more powerful than any done through mental creation’s effort. Because this practice is related to Clear Light wisdom, effortless, beyond mind, one moment of recognition of awareness is equal to doing one eon of practice with mental creation and effort.
Source: “Concise Tsok Offering (Ying Kyi Bhendhar)” by Kyabjé Dudjom Rinpoche, Dudjom Sung Bum, Volume MA (no.16), page 107. Bero Jeydren Publications, Vajrayana Foundation, 2002/07.
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Series 15: Dharma Protectors
Teachings by Lama Tharchin
Rinpoche
Dharma protectors (dharmapalas) include both wisdom beings as well as those on the path of dharma. Their job is to protect practitioners from obstacles and to aid us on the path in order to bring about good experience and realization. While we practice making offerings to the dharma protectors, our main offering is keeping pure samaya. We request that the protectors outwardly remove all external obstacles, inwardly purify the five afflictive emotions into the five wisdoms, and secretly remove obstacles to receiving the ordinary and extraordinary spiritual accomplishments in order to attain fully enlightened buddhahood for the benefit of all beings. Lama Tharchin Rinpoche will teach on several of the main dharmapala practices commonly done in the Dudjom Tersar tradition.
Teaching 1: Damchen Chyi-tor (released May 2007)
Source: “The Coalesced Essence of the Daily Torma Offering to the Three Roots and the Oath-Bound Ones (Concise Damchen Chyi-tor)”; Dudjom Sung Bum Volume Ma (16), p.109-115
Teaching 2: Concise Offerings to Lhachen, Shenpa, Ekajati, Rahula and Dorje Lekpa (released June 2007)
Source: “Concise Supplications to Lhachen and Nöjin Shenmar”; Dudjom Sung Bum Volume Tsa (17), p.431.5-431.6 and “A Concise Prayer-Offering to Ekajati, Rahula and Dorje Lekpa”; Dudjom Sung Bum Volume Tsa (17), p.428.6-430.1
Teaching 3: Phurba Protectors (released July 2007)
Source: “A Concise Prayer Offering to the Vajrakilaya Guardians (Phur-Sung Sol-Chö Gyun Khyer)”; Dudjom Sung Bum Volume Ba (15), p.531
Teaching 4: Drekpa Dé Gyay (released August 2007)
Source: “Offering Prayer to the Eight Classes of Drekpa (Drekpa Dé Gyay)”; Dudjom Sung Bum Volume Ba (15), p.221-222
Teaching 5: Lion-Faced Dakini (release September 2007)
Source: Seng Dong T’hal-Deb (Lion-Faced Dakini Daily Practice with Hand Clapping); Dudjom Sung Bum Volume Tsha (18), p.304.5-305.4
Teaching 6: Ekajati (release October 2007)
Source: "Essential Torma Offering to the Mamo, Protectress of Mantra, Ekajati" from the Dudjom Sung Bum, Volume Ma (16), p.117-119
Teaching 7: Ekajati, part 2 (release November 2007)
Teaching 8: Dharma Protectors recited by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche (release December 2007)
Series 15 can be purchased when completed in December. If you wish to subscribe now and obtain all shipped DVDs from the current release, please give us a call. (831) 480-5943
The texts from this series (except for Ekajati*) are available in "Dharma Protectors Daily Practices" from HH Dudjom Rinpoche, Bero Jeydren Publications, Vajrayana Foundation. Corralitos, CA: August 2007. They can also be found in the long dharmapalas text "Dharma Protectors" by Bero Jeydren Publications. *Ekajati can be found in the Yeshe Tsogyal Khandro T'huk-T'hik Sadhana & Tsok published by Bero Jeydren Publications, as well as through Lama Yeshe Wangmo at jnanasukha.org.
Series 14: T’hröma Nagmo Nay Dren (Death Ceremony)
Teachings by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche
Release date: beginning December 2006
A Nay Dren is a ceremony to help people who have died and
are wandering in the bardo. It involves using symbols, seed syllables,
name plaques and so on, that serve as supports to draw in the dead person’s
consciousness that is wandering in samsara. The ceremony includes sections
giving dharma teachings, empowerment, making offerings, showing the path,
and finally transferring their consciousness into the pure land. This
extremely profound Nay Dren in particular is connected with T’hröma
Nagmo, the heart essence of Dudjom Lingpa’s treasure cycles. It
comes from Dudjom Lingpa’s treasure “Chö Nyid Nam Khai
Long Dzöd (The Treasury of the Vast Expanse of the Space of Dharmata)”.
Teachings I & II are based on the extensive practice
text from Dudjom Lingpa’s T’hröma Volume p.375-392: “chos
nyid nam mkha’i klong mdzod las / tshe ‘das rjes ‘dzin
gnas lung khrus lung bzhugs so” (“From the Treasury of the
Vast Expanse of the Space of Dharmata, A Ritual of Purification to Care
for Those Who Have Passed Away, Guiding Them to a Pure Land”).
This text has not yet been translated.
5 DVDs, $165
Nay Dren Pema
Dab Druk” or “6-Petalled
Lotus for Nay Dren Ceremony”
This is an image of the
6-petalled lotus that’s used in
the Nay Dren (Death Ceremony). It’s
called a “Nay Dren Pema Dab Druk” or “6-Petalled
Lotus for Nay Dren Ceremony”).
The artist is Kumar Lama. We have 10x10
laminated image for $20 (it can be used
again and again).
Artist: Kumar Lama
Photo, $20.00 (~10"X10")
Nay Dren Tsen-Jyang
(Death Ceremony Name Plaque)
The Tsen-Jyang is used
in death ceremonies, such as the T’hroma
Nay Dren (from Series 14) to symbolize
the person who has died. It is burned
aiding them in liberation and protection
from the suffering of samsara.
Artist: Kumar Lama
Photo, $8.00
Series 13 :
T’hröma Nagmo Fire & Water Offerings – Mé-Chöd,
Nol-Sang, Drib-Sang, Sur-Chöd, and Concise & Extensive Chu-Jin
Teachings by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche
This series of teachings comes from Dudjom Lingpa’s
treasure teachings “Chö Nyid Nam Khai Long Dzöd (The
Treasury of the Vast Expanse of the Sky of Dharmata)”, T’hröma
Nagmo cycle. Teaching 1 has the Mé-Chöd, which is a short
version of the jin-sek fire offering, involving visualization of the
mandala of wisdom deities. The four activities (peaceful, expanding,
magnetizing, and wrathful) can be performed according to your needs and
desires – they are all contained within this concise and easy to
perform offering.
Teaching 2 includes the Nol-Sang, which purifies defilements
or pollution of our energy caused by various impure circumstances. It
also includes the Drib-Sang to clear away impurities related to our environment,
as well as the Sur-Chöd. It is an offering to the four guests (the
guests of reverence – the Triple Gems; the guests of noble qualities – the
protectors; the guests of compassion – the six types of beings;
and the guests to whom we owe karmic debt – the obstructers) ,
in particular a food offering for those who have died and are wandering
in the bardo.
Teaching 3 has the concise and extensive water offerings
(chu jin) from the T’hröma cycle. Like the Sur-Chöd,
it is an offering to the 4 guests and a special offering to the wealth
deity Black Dzambhala in order to remove suffering of poverty and gain
the blessings of wealth. The concise version has been translated and
is very easy to perform.
Teaching 4: In addition to teaching from the texts, Lama
Tharchin Rinpoche performs several of the ceremonies so we can learn
the melodies and actually see each step of how they are set up and performed.
In the future, Rinpoche also hopes to teach on the longer
versions of jin-sek and sang offerings, and many others contained within
this T’hröma Nagmo cycle.
Text for Fire Offerings: “Spontaneously Accomplished
Enlightened Activity: Fire Offering of the Dakini T’hröma
Nagmo” by Dudjom Lingpa (Bero Jeydren Publications, 2000)
Texts for Water Offerings: T’hroma Cycle: Extensive
p.465-472 (“chos nyid nam mkha’i klong mdzod las: chu sbyin
bdud rtsi kun khyab bzhugs so”) – not translated; & Concise
p.473-474 (“chos nyid nam mkha’i klong mdzod las: chu sbyin
bdud rtsi’i gter mdzod bzhugs so”/ “From the Expansive
Treasure of the Space of the Nature of Phenomena: The Treasure Trove
of Nectar Water Offering”)
4 DVDs, $132
Series 12: Green Tara
Green Tara, teachings by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche
on Dudjom Lingpa's Prayer that confers protection from all fear
"After his death, Dudjom Lingpa appeared to his
son Ter-say Dorje Dradul in a vision and gave him this Green Tara practice.
It is extremely profound and powerful, yet very easy to practice and
accumulate. It offers protection from all of our fear and suffering,
whether immediate or long-term. Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche always did this
practice and very often gave it to his monastery and drubdra as well
as to many other students. So I thought it would be very special for
us to do."
Lama Tharchin Rinpoche
Text: The Eightfold Profound Essence: a concise ritual
of the Tara Mandala from "The Treasury of the Sky-Expanse of Reality" by
Dudjom Lingpa (Bero Jeydren Publications, March 2006; translated by Ngawang
Zangpo). This text accompanies the DVD
This is a single disc teaching
1 DVD, $33
Series 11: Throma Nagmo
Series 11, which started in Dec. is on T'hrö-Chung
(Short T'hröma Sadhana & Tsok)
6 DVDs, $198
Pema Karpo (White Lotus): A Commentary on the Seven
Line Prayer by Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche
13-14 hours, $216
Series 10: Teaching on Dudjom Lingpa's Throma Ngondro
6 discs,$198
Series 9: The Feasts of Chöd
T’hröma Nakmo practice contains the complete
path of Dzogchen (the pinnacle of Buddhist teachings). One of T’hröma’s
practices is the Feasts of Chöd.
Chöd, developed by the Tibetan Dakini Machig Labdrön,
cuts through unwanted circumstances, afflictive emotions, and dualistic
clinging. This practice was revealed directly to Dudjom Lingpa in a vision
from Machig Labdrön herself.
Chöd removes obstacles, both short-term in this life
and those hindering our ultimate enlightenment. It carries incredible
healing powers and accumulates merit and wisdom in a vast and potent
way. Merely making a connection to the practice will bring great short-
and long-term benefit.
Lama Tharchin Rinpoche teaches from “A Commentary
on the Stages of Visualization for the Four Feasts of the Profound
Practice of Chöd, called ‘An Ornament of the Great Mother’s
Wisdom’” by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche. Lama Tharchin
Rinpoche trained in the practices of T’hröma Nakmo directly
with His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, the incarnation of Dudjom Lingpa.
4 DVDs, $132
A 2 DVD set with Lama Tharchin Rinpoche singing the Four Feasts
and the Short Feast of T’hröma Nakmo is also available
from Friends of Lama Tharchin Rinpoche. It is a compliment
to Series 9 and is not part of the subscription.
$25 for set
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Future series will include teachings on the T’hröma
Ngöndro, the Short and Medium-Length T’hröma Sadhana & Tsok,
the T’hröma Nol-Sang (a burnt offering that purifies any kind
of negative energy), T’hröma Sang-Chöd (smoke offering),
many other branches of the T’hröma cycle related to healing,
and others, as well as recordings of Rinpoche singing the practices.
Series 8: Dream Yoga: A commentary
on Karma Lingpa's 'Self Liberation in the Dream State'
4 DVDs, $132
Series 7: A Heartfelt Longing Melody of Faith: A Prayer
to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal by Lama Tharchin Rinpoche (2 Teachings)
(2004)
Lama Tharchin Rinpoche provides commentary to a prayer he wrote to the
Wisdom Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal. The prayer is related to the gradual path
of Khandro T’huk-T’hik, the mind treasure of His Holiness
Dudjom Rinpoche. It is based on the preliminary practices and the four
yogas of the main practice that comprise the complete path of Vajrayana:
the Common Yoga of Form (Mahayoga); the Profound Yoga of Mantra and the
Special Yoga of Great Exaltation (Anuyoga); and the Ultimate Yoga of
Wisdom (Atiyoga, Great Perfection). Through this prayer, we develop the
aspiration and auspicious connections to recognize our own true nature
and attain enlightenment in this lifetime or in the bardo, the intermediate
state after death.
$66
Series 6
Khandro T'huk-T'hik: Sadhana and Ritual
This series will explain the Sadhana word for word, give
instruction for set up of shrine, music, chopon activities, and other
ritual matters. He will perform the entire Sadhana on tape. In this way
he will ensure that any practitioner who wishes to do this practice will
have total instruction on every facet. Even if one never intends to do
in-depth practice, there is a wealth of knowledge which is incidental
in his explanations of the ritual that will deepen one's understanding
of what is happening on so many different levels during the Sadhana.
( Every wonder what a Torma really signifies? You'll get the answers
to this and many more of your question in this series.)
10 Tapes/DVDs $330
Series 5
The Wish-Fulfilling Source of Attainments:
A Commentary on the Two Stages of “The Profound Path of the Dakini’s
Heart Essence”
By His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche
Rinpoche has requested that anyone who wishes these should obtain all
of the videos as it is a complete teaching. There are five discs that
make up this series.
5 DVDs, $165
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**For those subscribers who bought this on VHS beofre it was available
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Series 4
Ri Chod
His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche's Mountain Retreat 6 Tapes,
12 Hrs, $192
Series 3
Jewel Ship
A commentary on Longchenpa's text
Translation available as You Are the Eyes of the World.
12 videos $384
Series 2
Ornament of the Wisdom Mind of Kuntuzangpo
This was the second series of Heart Theachings sent to subscribers from
march 2001 to September 2001. 12 Hours of teachings on 6 video tapes.
$192.00 including tax and shipping.
Series 1
Calling the Lama From Afar
This was the first series of Heart Theachings sent to subscribers from
October 2000 to March 2001. 7 Hours of teachings on 6 video tapes. $192.00
including tax and shipping.
The Three Words that Strike the Vital Essence:
The Final Words of Garab Dorje.
This is the teaching given at the Thanksgiving Reatreat
2003. Ngawang Zangpo translating.
10 DVDs, $240
Pema Karpo (White Lotus): A Commentary on the Seven
Line Prayer by Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche
13-14 hours, $216
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