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📚 We published 30 translations in February, incl. texts by Chögyal Pakpa Lodrö Gyaltsen, Longchen Rabjam, Jigme Lingpa, Yukhok Chatralwa Chöying Rangdrol, Khenchen Ngawang Palzang, Jokyab Pema Trinlé Nyingpo, Nyoshul Khenpo Jamyang Dorje & Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche.
🎉 Happy Year of the Fire Horse!
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས། །ཨ་མ་བག་བྲོ་སྐུ་ཁམས་བཟང་། །
གཏན་དུ་བདེ་བ་འཐོབ་པར་ཤོག །གཏན་དུ་བདེ་བ་འཐོབ་པར་ཤོག །
"With abundant auspiciousness, well-being & excellence,
May you have good health & positive spirits.
May you find lasting happiness!
May you find lasting happiness!"
🔔 NEW: In Praise of the Sacred Yak by Chögyal Pakpa Lodrö Gyaltsen (1235–1280)
☸️ A short poem in praise of the most iconic animal of the Tibetan plateau.
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👨🏼💻 Translated and introduced by Lowell Cook
🔔 NEW TRANSLATION: The Precious Torch: A History of the ‘Looks Like Me’ Statue of Omniscient Longchenpa
by Nyoshul Khenpo (1932–1999)
☸️ A short text written in Hong Kong following the author's commissioning of 1025 portrait statues of Longchen Rabjam in 1992
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Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdral Yeshe Dorje (1904–1987)
🔔 NEW PUBLICATION: The Alchemy of the Siddhas: Direct Instructions on How to Practise the Mountain Retreat Teachings, Explained in a Manner That is Easy to Understand
by Dudjom Rinpoche (1904–1987)
🔗 www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-mast...
🧑🏻💻 Translated by Rigpa Translations
Tibetan master Dudjom Lingpa (1835–1903)
🔔 NEW: Meditation Advice to the Nun Chötso
by Dudjom Lingpa (1835–1903)
☸️ Verses of profound, nuanced advice on meditation, addressed to a nun named Chötso, will be of relevance and benefit to any longtime meditator.
🔗 www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-mast...
Translated by Ringu Tulku & Holly Gayley
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🧑🏻💻 We also made the site fully functional in Tibetan, improved our Calendar Conversion tool, and added a new introduction to the Mārīcī topic.
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www.lotsawahouse.org/Static/tools...
www.lotsawahouse.org/topics/maric...
Detail from a painting by Drugu Choegyal Rinpoche overlaid with monthly totals for translations into various languages.
📚 We published 25 translations in November, incl. texts by Longchen Rabjam, Drikung Rinchen Puntsok, Do Khyentse Yeshe Dorje, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, Mipham Rinpoche, Tertön Sogyal Lerab Lingpa, Khenchen Ngawang Palzang, Dudjom Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, and Khandro Tāre Lhamo.
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✍🏻 We also added new introductions to the Avalokiteśvara and Pilgrimage topics.
❝ And we added 14 pages of popular quotations from the Words of the Buddha, Tripiṭakamāla, Padmasambhava, Saraha, Tilopa, Milarepa, Gampopa, Machik Labdrön, Longchen Rabjam, Sakya Paṇḍita, and Mipham Rinpoche.
📚 We published 20 new translations on the site in October. This included texts by Longchen Rabjam (1308–1364), Jigme Lingpa (1730–1798), Guru Tashi (b. 18th C.), Tertön Sogyal Lerab Lingpa (1856–1926), the Fifteenth Karmapa, Khakhyab Dorje (1871–1922), and Khenchen Ngawang Palzang (1879–1941).
🔔 NEW TRANSLATION: The Great Perfection: Directly Seeing the Natural State
by Jigme Lingpa (1730–1798)
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👨🏼💻 Translated by Sean Price
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❝ And added 27 pages of quotations from the Words of the Buddha, Asaṅga/Maitreyanātha, Atiśa Dīpaṃkara, Bhāviveka, Candragomin, Candrakīrti, Dharmakīrti, Garab Dorje, Jñānagarbha, Kamalaśīla, Milarepa, Nāgārjuna, Ngok Loden Sherab, Padmasambhava, Sakya Paṇḍita, Śāntarakṣita, Saraha, and Vasubandhu.
🎤 We published interviews with Erik Pema Kunsang, Lama Chökyi Nyima, Peter Alan Roberts and Sangye Khandro.
✍🏻 We also added a new introductions to the Abecedarian and Thirteen Major Texts topics.
Detail from a painting by Drugu Choegyal Rinpoche overlaid with this month's text totals
📚 We published 32 translations in September, incl. texts by Longchen Rabjam, Jetsün Mingyur Paldrön, Jigme Lingpa, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, the Third Dodrupchen, Jigme Tenpe Nyima, the Fifteenth Karmapa, Khakhyap Dorje, Khenchen Ngawang Palzang, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, and Khenpo Gangshar.
A revised and updated Compendium of Quotations, featuring popular quotations from the Words of the Buddha and many great Indian and Tibetan masters:
www.lotsawahouse.org/topics/quota...
(This is a work in progress. Look out for more updates as we add more quotations in the coming weeks.)
Interviews with four pioneering translators—Erik Pema Kunsang, Lama Chökyi Nyima, Peter Alan Roberts and Sangye Khandro—that were conducted between 2003 and 2004:
www.lotsawahouse.org/resources/in...
TODAY is our 21st anniversary! 🎉
To mark this occasion, we are transferring some of the resources that were previously hosted on our former sister site, Lotsāwa School.
Goddesses dancing and playing instruments in a tsok feast celebration
🔔 NEW TRANSLATION
The Sun Illuminating the Wisdom of Empty Awareness
Clarifications on the Hidden Meaning of “The Song of the Feast”
by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910–1991)
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Translated by Samye Translations (Stefan Mang & Lowell Cook)
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✍🏻 We also added a new introduction to Guru Padmasambhava topic.
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