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The 9 Dharmapalas of the Yuthok Nyingthik Lineage: Mahakala Shanglon Dorje Dudul and his 8 Retinue Deities 🧵

Today is the day that Shakyamuni transmitted the practices of Kalachakra. These are the highest teachings, and open to all humans. Don't delay! Receive the teachings as quickly as possible and put them into practice.

Thangka(ཐང་ཀ་) Painting. “The final details to be painted in a thangka are the eyes. This is known as ‘opening the eyes’. The thangka is then considered sacred, but it does not become an object of practice until a lama has performed the consecration(Rabné/རབ་གནས་).”

Sky burial in Tibet. Returning the dead body to the nature, the tradition is also rooted in Buddhist ideals of compassion and non-attachment, and Jataka Tales in which the Buddha sacrificed himself to a starving tigress in past life. Vultures are also viewed as manifestations of Dakini birds helping in the smooth soul transitions. Besides, cremation is costly on the Tibetan plateau due to the lack of trees, and burial is highly inconvenient on the rocky soil making sky burial still widespread in rural areas.

A sketch of what Nalanda Mahavihara could have looked like based on the ruins.

Channeling Kublai Khan’s imperial drip for fashion motivation this winter.

one year further from the death of Gautama Buddha one year closer to the birth of Metteyya Bodhisatta hang in there

༄༅། །འབྲུག་པ་ཀུན་ལེགས་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས་པ། དུས་གསུམ་རྒྱལ་བའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྫུ་འཕྲུལ་གར། ། གདུལ་བྱའི་མགོན་དུ་ཤྲཱི་ཧེ་རུ་ཀའི། ། རྣམ་པར་རོལ་པ་གྲུབ་པའི་སྤྱི་མེས་མཆོག ། ཀུན་དགའ་ལེགས་པའི་ཞབས་ལ་གསོལ་བ་འདེབས། ། གཟུང་འཛིན་སྣང་བ་ཆོས་ཉིད་ཀློང་གྲོལ་ནས། ། བླ་མ་ཁྱེད་དང་དབྱེར་མེད་བྱིན་གྱིས་རློབས། ། ཐུབ་བསྟན་ཆོས་འཛིན་གྱི་བཞེད་ངོར་འཁྲུལ་ཞིག་བརྒྱད་མིང་པས་བྲིས།།

24 hours a day, every action we do should be done with bodhicitta, not for ourselves but for others. No matter what action we do, if it’s done with the mind cherishing others it’s a Dharma action, one that will lead us to peerless happiness & lead all others to peerless happiness

The great Rimé master Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö (c. 1893 – 1959)

“Enlightened heart is expansive. It is not territorial, and it does not demand that we gather our own flock of egotistic companions.” Chögyam Trungpa

merry christmas! did you know that “Santa” is a word in Pāli? as a past participle of the verb “sammati” it means “calmed, peaceful.” it’s also the name of one of Atthadassi Buddha’s chief disciples, as well as the name of 4 kings said to be past lives of the elder monk Tissa

“If one does not practice the Dharma, the Dharma will not protect one.” — Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thayé

If you know me, Yeshe Tsogyal, Mistress of samsara and nirvana, You will find me dwelling in the heart of every being. — from Lady of the Lotus Born by Gyalwa Changchub and Namkhai Nyingpo

union of bliss and void impermanence, emptiness, wisdom, not demons, not gods but mirrors they dance through wind and flames where death dissolves

Tibetan word for cat is Shi-mi(ཞི་མི།)