#tsongkhapa

[mahayanapilgrim]

"Sit still where you don't care to be superior or inferior to others."

~ Kodo Sawaki, Zen Master.

[j3ffyang]

Tanning #Buddha, #Gelug #Tibetan, festival for #Tsongkhapa, #Regon area, #Qinghai province 格魯派，曬佛，宗喀巴節日，熱貢青海 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn4MjfnymS_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[onenakedfarmer]

TSONGKHAPA Three Principal Aspects of the Path, Verse 11

For as long as the understanding of appearances —unfailing interdependence— And emptiness —the freedom from all assertions— Appear to be in conflict, for that long There can be no realization of Śākyamuni’s intent.

[buddhasaves]

Reposted from @kecharaforestretreat ❓ WHO IS YOUR YIDAM❓ A yidam is the Buddha who is most compatible with you. When you propitiate your yidam and do his practice, it is the quickest way to gain **VISIBLE RESULTS**. H.E. Tsem Rinpoche advised that all of us can take Lama Tsongkhapa as our yidam / personal meditation deity. If you look closely at Lama Tsongkhapa’s iconography, you’ll see that every part of his body shows how he can help us become better, happier people. 😊 But there are even more benefits to Lama Tsongkhapa’s easy and concise practice 👇 ⚡ Increases life span ⚡ Increases merits ⚡ Increases Dharma realisations ⚡ Increases compassion, wisdom + spiritual power ⚡ Cures physical and mental disabilities ⚡ Cures wind or “lung” diseases ⚡ Cures “drib”, which is caused by certain classes of spirits ⚡ Creates rain for crops ⚡ Controls the weather ⚡ Protects from spirits ⚡ Protects from harm caused by weapons ⚡ Protects from starvation / famine ⚡ Protects from robbers ⚡ Protects from untimely death ⚡ Protects while travelling ⚡ Pacifies negative karma ⚡ Pacifies obstacles ⚡ Pacifies obstacles to growing crops such as insects Of all these benefits, the most important is his ability to INCREASE OUR WISDOM. Wisdom is the antidote to ignorance, which is the root of all our suffering / unhappiness. Therefore we should all aspire to achieve the omniscient wisdom of a Buddha. 👏 👆 DM to get started with Tsongkhapa’s practice + offerings . . . . #buddhism #buddha #tsongkhapa #dharma #buddhist #iconography #learnbuddhism #kechara #healing #depression #peace #innerpeace #meditation #zen #bentong #Malaysia #wisdom #compassion #harmony #karma #prayer #mantra #vajrasecrets #dharmashop #buddhistshop #spiritualshop #buddhashop #tibet #kecharaforestretreat www.tsemrinpoche.com www.dorjeshugden.org https://www.instagram.com/p/CmGmmwyP-Ak/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[talonabraxas]

"True illuminates have no dreams. Dreams are for those who are asleep. True illuminates live in the higher worlds, out of the physical body, in a state of intensified wakefulness without ever dreaming." - Samael Aun Weor

Dream Yoga

The effort to awaken the consciousness in the dream state is called Dream Yoga. This term is most known from the tradition of Tilopa, Naropa, Marpa, and Milarepa, although the tradition of Niguma also includes Dream Yoga. Yoga comes from the Sanskrit word "yug," which means to "reunite" or "yoke together." This is the same as the root of our word religion, the Latin word "religare,"which means "to bind together." What is sought in both cases is the union of our consciousness with its source, but this can only happen when our consciousness is awakened and purified of all that is unclean.

The yogic tradition of Tilopa has been maintained in Tibetan Buddhism for hundreds of years. It is a series of teachings of which dream yoga is a vital part. It has been practiced and taught by all the Dalai Lamas, and such great initiates as Tsongkhapa and Milarepa.

The basic goal of Dream Yoga is to harness the power of the dream state and use it to awaken the consciousness. You can learn more about this by reading scriptures from the tradition.

[fruityyamenrunner]

i did not realise until reading this propagandum from the tibetan government that the infamous Rdorjeshugsidan/Dorje Shugden/Dolgyal/Gyalchen Shugden is an apotheosised version of the 17th century Gelug lama Tulku Drakpa Gyaltsen, who was a student of the Gelugpa founder Je "Leekvale" Tsongkhapa, Drakpa being a rival of the Dalai Lama at the time, who lost the power struggle so much that his incarnation lineage was suppressed. This suppression is presumably turned into repression, and his propitiation in Sith form.

explains a lot rly

[37q]

a conch's voice

kinda crazy... every time i want to do something, im like, would that have killed tyler? i wanted to vagueblog abt something just now but i thought, wow, any traumatized individual could read this as a threat on their life.

skrrrt, strolling down my eerily straight and smooth memory lane.

grand scale i always struggled with my personal impression -- what some would consider a classic audhd fight to be "understood" -- on my social world. perfect transing conditions of course, but no trans person mediates their relationship with "viewability" the same.

2011-2015/16 i was Big blogging as some persona that was abt as "real" as "i" could get. so much tsongkhapa and deleuze and baudraillard and butler yet i was still invested in mapping out who i was and how i wanted to enact that. flying by the seat of her pants as an adolescent / young adult with more self awareness than she could use! after a few too many pints of spilled blood in trying to reconcile the authenticity of those two selves with the oversized feedback loop i dug myself into, i realized the precision was the problem for me.

im very gullible. specifically, when im not working conscientiously i easily lose sight of who i am, my goals, the whole shebang. memory things, dissociation things... for a long time basic low self esteem things. i would much ratherve been someone else, and its easy to type myself into cognitive tension with my past! queen behavior was to distort how i express my feelings for maximum positive engagement and tie their psychological merit to their discursive application in the field.

2016/17 is when my endeavors failure hit me though, and the hobbsons choice was imminent -- (a) aim for total accuracy, put your whole ass out their for it to be minced and composted, blur the lines between your sense of self and your social milieu or (b) disappear, evade semiotic capture, obfuscate the publicity of human connection. razor thin or ocean wide.

2013/14-2016, the size of my voice broadening my audience to unacquainted bad faith or irrational actors, hitting its apex when i was peak suicide risk. i got too tired of broadcasting distant vibrations from a bleeding shell, singing of a depth unfathomable to our context, a stranger to my own ears. i was being so honest, but that truth looked evil in stage lighting.

so 2017-18 i consolidated my digital footprint and pulled back on the accuracy of embodying and expressing my sense of self, concurrent with psychiatric ego death during institutionalized dual recovery programs. i couldnt even think or write directly for a long time after that... weird to say it outright like that but my meds help me be honest with myself. no creation, no outlet, and no intention, but a lot of tripping and falling.

2018-2021/22 i carried myself with a sincere love and detached interpersonal expertise that lent itself to elevated aphorism. connected when i could and wanted to, extended and sought out support, found peers and explored new ways of life. tried my best not to embody anything. left opinions as batter in my brains mixing bowl.

i dont know... this piece became harder to write the closer i got to the baggage of my current habits. and its still so fresh. nobody deserved any of this. i cant compose anymore

the obscuration was the problem this time. too much empty space to project into, and too much exhausted passivity to cut away the embers of delusion. blood, bruises, scars, mourning and grief... rampant suffering over expectations and misunderstandings...

i want to post about nothing. i want to spread my whimsy, and be misunderstood. i want people to connect my meaninglessness to their feelings, and i want them to feel good about their mundane invocation. i want to be furious, i want to be awe-inspired, i want to be giddy! i want to be vague!!!!!! i want to express myself, i want to play and sing, i want to write poetry and stories and essays and rants on my page without sending someone into a spiral about who they think i might be!!!!!!!!!!!! please let us both live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gardenofthefareast]

Tsongkhapa

[lamathanka]

Tsongkhapa is the founder of Gelukpa Sect reforming the new Kadampa tradition. Tsongkhapa himself was also regarded as an incarnation of Bodhisattva Manjushri, therefore sometimes Tsongkhapa is seen with the symbol of Manjushri but with yellow hat.

His original name was Lodoi Dagpa. He is known with the name “Je Rinpochhey” or the “Precious ruler” as his name reflects.

#tsongkhapa #Preciousruler #tibet #kumbum #monastery #tibet #himalayan #buddhism #kadampa #tradition #jerinpoche #lamathankapaintingschool #thangka #thankapainting

[dzgrizzle]

I thought I had lost this photo forever when my previous Facebook account disappeared, but I found it in my Gmail where I had emailed a friend about the event. The photo is my friend John Moulton and I at the teaching event by His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Emory University in October 2013. The teaching was primarily in Tibetan, with an English translator, and it focused on the root text of the Mahamudra by the 1st Panchen Lama, Losang Choekyi Gyaltsen (1570–1662). This was my introduction to that text, although I had studied Buddhism for many years, including Buddhist psychology in grad school. My grad school studies focused on the Buddhist philosopher Tsongkhapa (1357–1419). 

Earlier in October 2013, during the same visit to Emory, His Holiness spoke to a packed auditorium at Gwinnett Center on “The Pillars of Responsible Citizenship in the 21st Century Global Village.” I got to attend that event with several friends.

[mahayanapilgrim]

Thirty-five Confession Buddhas are a common subject depicted in Himalayan Buddhist paintings. There are different iconographic systems for depicting the Thirty-five buddhas. The thangka is system of Shakya Pandita where the 35 Buddhas are depicted with hand gestures only.

The thirty-five buddhas are special confession buddhas.

While they were still bodhisattvas, that made special vows to assist other beings to overcome their negativities. The practice of 35 Confessional Buddhas is one of the best methods to purifv our negative karma and can lead to attainments on the path towards enlightenment. Thirty-five Confession Buddhas are a representation of the purification of Bodhisattva aspiration and moral code of Mahayana Buddhism. These Buddha are the source of purification and we must completely believe in them and take refuge in them to develop Bodhichitta. Everything can be overcome by sincerely reciting the confession prayer and imagining that the Thirty-five Buddhas and all the buddhas of ten directions are really there. It should be done with total faith, devotion, remorse, humility and conviction in wanting to overcome.

[j3ffyang]

Tanning #Buddha, #Gelug #Tibetan, festival for #Tsongkhapa, #Regon area, #Qinghai province 格魯派，曬佛，宗喀巴節日，熱貢青海 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn4MZgVysOs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[nebersgoeast]

Unsere erste Besichtigung das Drepung Monastery. Drepung ist eines der bedeutendsten Klöster der Gelug-Schule und war eines der drei großen so genannten „Staatsklöster“ des früheren Tibet, nicht ganz 10 km westlich von Lhasa gelegen. Drepung wurde 1416 von Jamyang Chöje Trashi Palden – einem Schüler des Tsongkhapa, des Begründers des Gelug-Ordens – gegründet. Es zählt zu den drei Eliteklöstern der Gelugpa. Drepung war Sitz des Dalai-Lamas bis zur Fertigstellung des Potala. Der 5. Dalai-Lama lebte im Hauptpalast des Klosters und verstarb auch dort. Wir besichtigten seine Residenzräume sowie die Grabmäler des 2. und 3. Dalai-Lama. Zur Zeit des 5. Dalai-Lama lebten etwa 10 000 Mönche dort, momentan sind es etwa nur noch 600 Mönche. Drepung war einst das größte und reichste Kloster Tibets und galt als Ausbildungsstätte in verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen, beispielsweise in der tibetischen Medizin.

[buddhasaves]

Zuflucht nehmen & Verbeugungen aus Tsongkhapa von S.E. Tsem Rinpoche #Vo...

[kadampalife]

Who is that little voice in our head?!

I was back at Bear Creek the other day (not that you can go back & step in the same river twice), and it was occurring to me that it never ever stops flowing. It is relentless. I’m no geologist but presumably it has already flown long enough to carve out Bear Creek Canyon, which, trust me, is enormous. Millions of years? Where have you been all these millions of years?! Je Tsongkhapa said that…

[placeoftheclearlight]

With my heart going out with great compassionIn whatever direction the most precious teachingsHave not yet spread, or once spread have declined,May I reveal this treasure of happiness and aid.

 - Lama Tsongkhapa