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« Louange alphabétique » à la Mère Suprême Sipè Gyalmo, protectrice de la religion Bön
Photo : © Christophe Moulin ཀ་ Ô Corps de Réalité primordialement pur, exempt de proliférations discursives, Ô Mère Elément Réel, ཁ་ Où que je me rende en ce pays neigeux du Tibet afin d’y implanter ག L’enseignement du Bön, toi, Mère Suprême, Reine de...
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Qu’est-ce que le Texte explicatif des points-clefs, lampe secrète ?
Rigdzin Gödem, l'« inventeur » (gter ston) du Gongpa Zangthal – Illustration empruntée aux Œuvres complètes de Tülku Tsullo. Qu’est-ce que le Texte explicatif des points-clefs, lampe secrète ? C’est un texte d’une vingtaine de pages qui se trouve au vol....
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Premières lignes de la Vie de Rigdzin Pema Trinley
Premières pages de la Vie de Rigdzin Pema Trinley Dans la Chronique des Trésors du Nord (Byang gter chos ’byung) ༄༅། ། རིག་འཛིན་ཆེན་པོ་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་བཞི་པ་བློ་བཟང་པདྨ་འཕྲིན་ལས། རིག་འཛིན་རྒོད་ལྡེམ་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་བཞི་པ་ Le quatrième de la guirlande de corps du Grand...
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Unimaginative visionaries
The — Buddhist — Nyingmapas (rNying ma pa) and the Bonpos (who do not identify themself as Buddhists in a narrow sense) have in common a set of doctrines and practices called Dzogchen (rDzogs chen). Though there exists such a common denomination, the...
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un passage du Sûtra de la Splendeur Immaculée (mDo dri med gzi brjid, texte canonique de la religion Bön).
gShen chen Klu dga’ Le petit passage traduit est tiré du chapitre sur la discipline monastique (drang srong theg pa), d’après l’édition de Snellgrove (The Nine Ways of Bon, Prajña Press, Boulder, 1980), p. 166 et suivantes. རང་བཞིན་གྱིས་ནི་སྤྱོད་ཚུལ་ལ།...
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DEUXIÈME PARTIE DE L'EXPLICATION DU TEXTE EXPLICATIF DES POINTS CLEFS (GONGPA ZANGTHAL)
Thèmes : fin de la purification de la parole ; la purification de l'esprit ; les abandons à l'état naturel. Pour voir la vidéo, cliquer ici . Code secret: 3.jArmri . Cette vidéo est la deuxième partie d'un exposé sur le Texte explicatif des points-clefs,...
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A short synthetic catalog of the 63-vol. Compilation of the Northern Treasures (བྱང་གཏེར་ཕྱོགས་སྒྲིགས།)
For those who are curious to know what is there in the 63-vol of the "Jangter Compilation" (བྱང་གཏེར་ཕྱོགས་སྒྲིགས།, 2015), here is a short synthetic catalog that I had to prepare for an academic research projet. This long-awaited publication has no equivalent...
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Suite de l'explication du Texte explicatif des points-clefs, lampe secrète (vidéo n° 3)
Thèmes : fin des pratiques préliminaires du Dzogchen ; transition vers les instructions de la partie principale. Remarques sur l'ordre général des pratiques préliminaires dans les différents manuels de pratique du Gongpa Zangthal. Pour voir la vidéo,...
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A Biography of Klong chen rab ’byams (4)
[To return to the beginning of this biographical series, click here ] 1.1.3. The life of Klong chen rab ’byams 1.1.3.1. His family, his early childhood and his past lives He was born in the village of sTod grong, in the Grwa valley of the g.Yo-ru region,...
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A Biography of Klong chen rab ’byams (8)
[To return to the beginning of this biographical series, click here ] 1.1.3.10. gZhon nu rgyal po, sometimes confused with Ku ma rā dza sMyo shul mkhan po adds that Klong chen rab ’byams studied under the master gZhon nu rgyal po, which is confirmed by...
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Memories about Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche (English version), 2
To get back to the start of this series, please click here . After a vague overview of the situation of Buddhism in France at the end of the 1980s, let's come back to Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche and how I got to know him. Guy Serre, mentioned in the previous...
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Longchen Rabjam’s doctrine (3) [adapted from Profusion de la Vaste Sphère (Peeters, 2007)]
To get back to the beginning of this series about Klong chen pa's doctrine, click here . 2.1.2. General nature of Klong chen rab ’byams’ system Klong chen rab ’byams’ system, like that of all the great philosophers of Tibet, combines many features borrowed...
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Longchen Rabjam’s doctrine (5) [adapted from Profusion de la Vaste Sphère (Peeters, 2007)]
To get back to the beginning of this series about Klong chen pa's doctrine, click here . 2.1.3. A system of systems This dimension of hierarchical tiering of doctrines exists within Klong chen pa’s work. But here again, we must be careful not to take...
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Longchen Rabjam’s doctrine (6) [adapted from Profusion de la Vaste Sphère (Peeters, 2007)]
To get back to the beginning of this series about Klong chen pa's doctrine, click here . 2.2. The two realities, the absolute and the knowledge of the absolute 2.2.1. Summary of the distinction between the doctrines of Klong chen rab ’byams and Dol po...
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Longchen Rabjam’s doctrine (7) [adapted from Profusion de la Vaste Sphère (Peeters, 2007)]
To get back to the beginning of this series about Klong chen pa's doctrine, click here . ***2.2.2. The two realities in the idealist system according to ’Ju Mi pham, or the absolute as anirreducible residue There is no need to go into the details of the...
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Longchen Rabjam’s doctrine (4) [adapted from Profusion de la Vaste Sphère (Peeters, 2007)]
To get back to the beginning of this series about Klong chen pa's doctrine, click here . Having made this clarification, one has guarded against two ruinous pitfalls: either the idea that Klong chen rab ’byams would seek to flatten the Great Completeness...
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Longchen Rabjam’s doctrine (8) [adapted from Profusion de la Vaste Sphère (Peeters, 2007)]
To get back to the beginning of this series about Klong chen pa's doctrine, click here . 2.2.2.3. The paratantra, absolute or superficial? – The existence of a “remainder” or partial (nyi tshe ba) emptiness Let us return to the presentation given by Mi...
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Longchen Rabjam’s doctrine (9) [adapted from Profusion de la Vaste Sphère (Peeters, 2007)]
To get back to the beginning of this series about Klong chen pa's doctrine, click here . “This is, in short,] the system of the ‘vast’ [1] Path, [whose presentation] is elegant (mdzes pa) and correct in this [idealistic] system [2] . Therefore, the scriptures...
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Summary of the biography of Khordong Choktrül Gyume Dorje (1887-1967)
There is a 10 pages biography of him in the large (880 p. or so) history of the Jangter. It says, roughly, that he was born in 1887 and died in 1967. He was an emanation of Gyalwa Chok Yang. The texts gathers prophecies about him as usual. It is Tertön...
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Première séance du séminaire de philosophie comparée avec Frédéric Nef
Pensée tibétaine et métaphysique analytique : Moi, identité, personne. [Première séance] Séminaire organisé par l'IFRAE (Institut de Recherche sur l'Asie de l'Est). Les séances auront lieu le jeudi de 15h à 17h, aux dates suivantes : 18/03 ; 25/03 ; 01/04...
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Un aperçu de la méditation selon le Lam rim chen mo de Tsong kha pa Blo bzang grags pa (1357-1419)
QU’EST-CE QUE LE LAM RIM CHEN MO OU LAM RIM CHE BA ? Un traité composé en 1402, qui s’inscrit dans un genre très abondamment représenté dans l’histoire littéraire tibétaine antérieure et postérieure : celui des itinéraires spirituels . Sur ce genre et...
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A Biography of Klong chen rab ’byams (11)
[To return to the beginning of this biographical series, click here ] 1.1.3.15.3. gZhon nu rdo rje is also a vehicle for the transmission of the Tantra of the king creator of all things (Kun byed rgyal po) The Lo rgyus rin chen phreng ba (p. 70) does...
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A Biography of Klong chen rab ’byams (10)
[To return to the beginning of this biographical series, click here ] 1.1.3.14. gZhon nu rdo rje 1.1.3.14.1 Teachings received from this master The mThong ba don ldan reports that he spent six years studying at gSang phu, which brings us to 1332. It is...
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Continuation of my memories of Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche, #8
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...
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Continuation of my memories of Chhimed Rigdzin Rinpoche, #9
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...