འཁྲུལ་ཞིག་བློ་གྲོས་སམ། གཡུང་དྲུང་རྒྱལ་པོ། Stéphane Arguillère

Guru Dorjé Drolö To get back to the beginning of this series, click here . A friend of mine, who was reading the original French version of these memories and who was once a Buddhist himself before turning away (more or less) from this path, expressed...

1.1.3.31. Klong chen rab ’byams confers for the first time the consecrations of the Bi ma snying thig (1338) and obtains the texts of the mKha’ ’gro snying thig It was on the occasion of the first time when Klong chen rab ’byams gave the consecrations...

Source of the illustration: http://khordong-byangter.blogspot.fr/2016/06/tomorrow-15th-day-of-4th-tibetan-month.html To get back to the beginning of this series, click here . A reader noted in the previous episode Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche’s very blunt...

[Click here to get back to the beginning of this series.] 1.1.3.29. Ku ma rā dza and the Quintessence of Vimalamitra 1.1.3.29.1. The life of Ku ma rā dza (1266-1343) The main sources on the life of this master are as follows: (1) Rig ’dzin chen po Ku...

To get back to the beginning of this series, click here . Today, rather than giving the continuation of the “walk to the Gongpa zangthal,” I would like to report, in bulk, some “sayings” of Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche, most of which, as far as I remember,...

1.1.3.27. The departure of gSang phu In the biographies of Klong chen rab ’byams, what comes after the inventory of studies is the episode of the departure from gSang phu. If it is accepted that it was in 1332 that the author left this monastery, it is...

Source of the illustration: http://www.khordong-byangter.org/teaching.html Previous chapter: click here . To get back to the beginning of this series, click here . There is a lot to be said for my trip to India and Nepal in 1992-93; basically, it was...

1.1.3.25. mThing ma Sangs rgyas grags ’od One would know nothing about this master if sMyo shul mkhan po did not point out in passing (p. 259) that the teachings he gave to Klong chen rab ’byams were at least partly based on the gter chos of Nyang ral...

Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche with Tülku Thondup. - Source of the illustration] The previous chapter is here . To get back to the first beginning of this series, click here . I had reached the point where, having (spring 1992) passed the «agrégation» [French...

[To read all this series from the beginning, please click here .] 1.1.3.22. Khro phu pa In view of all the occurrences of this name “Khro phu pa” in the Deb ther sngon po, it appears that there were three main ones: (1) one active in the early 13th century...