Lack of Credentials
Excerpted from The Way of Basic Sanity, A Brief Overview of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche's Perspective on Sutric Buddhism
The Three Yana Journey
While in Halifax to confer the Vajrayogini abhisheka in June 2024, Ringu Tulku Rinpoche very generously offered this public talk for all who are practicing or interested in the buddhadharma.
Suddenly Without Warning
This book is about love and it is about grief. It is about being a parent and it is about losing a child “suddenly and without warning.”
Remembering Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
Our beloved guide, Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, left his physical body behind on June 22, 2024. As with all great teachers, his passing has magnified his presence in the hearts and...
Saraha and Sahaja
In this lecture, Roger Jackson talks about Saraha's songs, with a special focus on his teachings on sahaja – a vital tantric term variously translated as "the coemergent," "the connate," or "the simultaneously arisen."
Father Thomas Keating and Trungpa Rinpoche Talk About Egolessness
This conversation took place during Naropa’s 1983 Christian Buddhist Conference
Midsummer’s Day 1980
A Glimpse of Midsummer's Past
Back to Square One
Art In Everyday Life
Matthieu Ricard on the Anniversary of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche’s Parinirvana
Here is Matthieu Ricard talking about his teacher, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. This video message marks the anniversary of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoches's passing. Thank you to Matthieu Ricard for sharing these inspiring...
Parinirvana Day Message from Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
At dawn on April 4, 2020, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche sent this message
Foreword to The Rain of Wisdom
...the older I get, the more of a Kagyü person I become. -CTR
SEARCHING FOR SHAMBHALA
Where and what is it?
The Flight from Tuting
Sixtieth Anniversary of the Last Leg of the Vidyadhara’s Escape to India
The Teaching on the Indivisible Nature of the Realm of Phenomena
Translated by the Dharmachakra Translation Committee
under the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
The Question of Magic
As far as tantra is concerned, magic is working with the real world on a completely ordinary level. Magic is completely relevant to our world, our life and our path.
On the Mamos, the Dharmapala Principle and Mahakali Vetali
The feminine principle, functions as a force of creating harmony, friendship, and connectedness, in relationships and family, in community, between self and nature, and between mind and body.
The Dön Days
Mark Nowakowski talks about the dön days at the end of the lunar calendar and the annual practice of "Pacifying the Turmoil of the Mamos."
Devotion
Created from Lama Ugyen Shenpen's Home Videos of the Lineage
Shambhala Day Address, Year of the Water Dog, 1982
The Chronicles would like to wish everyone a very cheerful Shambhala Day/Losar and the very best of the Earth Dog year ahead. Tashi Delek to us all!
Western Thangka Painting: An interview with Jack Niland
"If you want to rule a kingdom, you have to have a kingdom, and a kingdom is a culture, and a culture is art." - CTR 1971