Sangha Journeys

30/12/2024

This Most Read bio was sponsored by Jnanasukha Foundation. Please support us for the year-end: https://www.give2jnanasukha.org. Thank you.

Dudjom Rinpoche Jigdrel Yeshe Dorje was born in 1904 in Terkong Nang, Pemako, southeastern Tibet. Ling Lama Chojor Gyatso and Puktrul Gyurme Ngedon Wangpo identified him soon after his birth as a reincarnation of their teacher, the prominent treasure revealer Dudjom Lingpa, whose revelations form the basis of the Dudjom Tersar tradition. Dudjom Lingpa had expressed a strong desire to move to Pemako—an isolated and idyllic region on the border of eastern Tibet, Arunachal Pradesh, and Burma. In his final years, Dudjom Lingpa is said to have exhorted his students to move to Pemako, saying that he too would go there.

Chojor Gyatso and Puktrul Gyurme Ngedon Wangpo had learned of Dudjom Lingpa's death while making their way to Pemako, and they committed to identifying his rebirth in the region. In Pemako, they encountered the Seventh Riwoche Jedrung, who had fled to Pemako from Kham to escape invading Qing troops. They inquired about potential candidates and Jedrung Rinpoche told them about the young child, and the three agreed that he was Dudjom Lingpa's rebirth. Jedrung Rinpoche, who would later be an important teacher to Dudjom Rinpoche, composed a long-life prayer naming the child Jigdral Dechen Dorje Drakpo Tsel. For the rest of Dudjom Rinpoche's life, he kept the name Jigdral and added it to the name Yeshe Dorje, which his father had given him.

According to Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal's biography of Dudjom Rinpoche, before Lama Chojor Gyatso and the party from eastern Tibet came to find the young Dudjom, now a toddler, he told his parents to prepare to receive guests. When they arrived, he greeted them warmly by name in his odd accent that had always puzzled the Pemako natives, but which was later explained as a remnant of his previous incarnation's Golok accent.

Fully satisfied with the tulku's qualifications, the two disciples of Dudjom Lingpa presented Khengen Tulku with offerings and a recognition letter sent from Jedrung Rinpoche and formally declared him to be the tulku of Dudjom Lingpa.

Biography made possible through a grant from Jnanasukha Foundation

Learn more in bio by Joseph McClellan
https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Dudjom-Rinpoche/10019

27/12/2024

Our Year-End Fund Drive for "More Wisdom & Action in the Dudjom Nyingma Tradition" is on! Here's What We Do. It's a bit long for social media, but I hope it inspires! Click on the image to offer your support. Thank you.

For twenty-two years, Jnanasukha Foundation has offered the traditional wisdom of the Dudjom Nyingma tradition. The founder, Lama Dechen Wangmo, was enthroned by Repkong Lama Tsedrup Tharchin Rinpoche, whose teachings deeply resonated with Westerners. Since his passing in 2013, his echoing words, "More Please," have inspired her to continue growing the Foundation.
Lama's online presence through Utpala Life (a free private Mighty Network) supports the Sangha through translations, teachings, and practice sessions, while free general downloads are available to the public on the Tsogyal Center website.
Inspired by the great female masters of the past, Lama has published websites about Khandro Yeshe Tsogyal and Tare Lhamo. Deeply grateful to the motherland of Tibet and a firm believer in the value of pilgrimage, since 2009, she has offered annual pilgrimages to central and eastern Tibet through her satellite website, Sangha Journeys.
Over the years, the Foundation has commissioned several pieces of sacred art connected to Dudjom Rinpoche's Khandro Thuktik-Dakini Heart Essence treasure, has supported the murals of Yeshe Tsogyal’s lifestory in Tibet, and commissioned the translation of Drime Kunga's treasure biography of Yeshe Tsogyal, now published in English and German by Shambhala.
The Foundation's grantmaking initiatives include other organizations for Lama Tharchin Rinpoche’s legacy, scholarly biographies of Nyingma masters (including Dudjom Rinpoche) available at the Treasury of Lives, and the development of digital resources for the Nyingma tradition that will be available on the Buddhist Digital Resource Center website and on hard drives that will be distributed in India, Nepal, and Tibet.
Lastly, we also extend direct benefits through supporting monastics and yogins, sponsoring prayers, rituals, and yak life releases in Tibet, and contributing to animal care and sanctuaries in the USA.
Every year-end gift will empower More Wisdom & Action in 2025. Thank you.— Lama Dechen Yeshe Wangmo

Empower Wisdom & Action in the Dudjom Nyingma Tradition in 2025 For twenty-two years, Jnanasukha Foundation has offered the traditional and daily life wisdom of the Dudjom Nyingma tradition. The founder, Lama Dechen Wangmo, was enthroned by Repkong Lama Tsedrup Tharchin Rinpoche, whose teachings dee...

26/10/2024

Today, Sangha Journeys is at Katok in Kham.

24/10/2024

03/08/2024

Now Open! "
Pilgrimage to Nyingma & Dudjom Destinations in Central Tibet. " October 14 - 28, 2024. Since 2009, Sangha Journeys has organized over 20 pilgrimages to Central, Western, and Eastern Tibet. We partner with Woeser Phel in Lhasa to handle your ground arrangements and have Pema Tsering as your expert guide. I’m here to help with your China visa, international travel advice, healthcare tips, and fundraising for your journey. Learn about the pilgrimage destinations on our website

Small Group pilgrimage Oct 14-28 2024

09/07/2024

Sangha Journeys is ready to travel to Tibet this Fall! Interested? If you’re ready, almost ready, or just considering a pilgrimage to Tibet, I would be delighted to discuss it with you. The good weather window is mid-September to mid-November. - https://mailchi.mp/jnanasukha/2024-pilgrimage-launch

13/06/2024

05/05/2024

New Email Channel & Website Pages about Lhasa, Nearby, & Ancient Guge! - https://mailchi.mp/3ad27245c64a/new-email-channel —Peace, Woeser.

18/03/2024

15/02/2024

Thank you, Jnanasukha Foundation donors 😍

Thrilled to share this NEW biography of Dudjom Rinpoche Jidgel Yeshe Dorje

https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Dudjom-Rinpoche/10019

by Dr. Joseph McClellan

Dudjom Rinpoche was born in Pemako, southeastern Tibet. His father was Khengen Tulku, a son of a king of Pemako named Kanam Depa who traced his ancestry back to central Tibetan kings.

Two lamas, Ling Lama Chojor Gyatso and Puktrul Gyurme Ngedon Wangpo identified him as a reincarnation of their teacher, the prominent eastern-Tibetan treasure revealer Dudjom Lingpa (1835–1904), whose revelations form the basis of the Dudjom Tersar tradition. Dudjom Lingpa had, in the last decades of his life, expressed a strong desire to move to Pemako—an isolated and idyllic region on the border of eastern Tibet, Arunachal Pradesh, and Burma—and his hagiographies claim that he discussed his aspiration in a correspondence with a nun there—a daughter of King Kanam Depa named Ani Nangsel. In his final years, Dudjom Lingpa is said to have exhorted his students to move to Pemako, saying that he too would go there.

According to Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal's biography of Dudjom Rinpoche, before Lama Chojor Gyatso and the party from eastern Tibet came to find the young Dudjom, now a toddler, he told his parents to prepare to receive guests. When they arrived, he greeted them warmly by name in his odd accent that had always puzzled the Pemako natives, but which was later explained as a remnant of his previous incarnation's Golok accent.

This peer-reviewed biography was made possible through support of the Jnanasukha Foundation

10/02/2024

Wood Dragon energy is here! Happy Losar! Here's a prayer written by Mipham Rinpoche in the Wood Dragon Year of 1904 to welcome the Wood Dragon:

Hung! By the power of mantras and mudras of the Three Jewels and Three Roots, may all the good omens, abundance, and prosperity of the animate and inanimate universes within existence and quiescence, summoned here and gathered here, expand without ever decreasing.
ཧཱུྂ། མཆོག་གསུམ་རྩ་གསུམ་སྔགས་དང་ཕྱག་བརྒྱའི་མཐུས། ། བརྟན་གཡོ་སྲིད་ཞིའི་ཕྱྭ་གཡང་དགེ་མཚན་ཀུན། ། འདིར་ཁུག་འདིར་བསྡུས་འཕེལ་རྒྱས་མི་ནུབ་པར། ། བདེ་སྐྱིད་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལེགས་ཚོགས་དཔལ་འབར་ཤོག ། ཤིང་འབྲུག་ཟླ༡༠ཚེས་༦ལ་དྷཱིས་སོ།། ༎

06/02/2024

The Wood Dragon is on the way, bringing a year of transformation, growth, and adaptability. Sounds like what the doctor ordered, right?
In preparing for the traditional New Year pujas on Zoom, I’ve been thinking about our times and Guru Rinpoche’s. Although he lived in an intellectually and spiritually fertile time, the political climate was far from peaceful. He encountered considerable hostility and ideological intolerance. But he did not see this negatively as a problem! Recognizing the circumstances to be nothing in themselves, he saw an opportunity to be of great benefit, and the rest is history, lucky for us!
Meditational deities, such as Vajrakilaya and Lake Born Vajra, are an inherent aspect of our subtle bodies and present reality. We're already living in their immediacy. We don’t have to create anything. Only awaken! The trajectory of our life this year will evolve out of this potential.
Please comment here or, better still, email [email protected] to receive the New Year Losar practice schedule and links. Would love to see you and support each other spiritually in welcoming the timely arrival of the Wood Dragon!😀

31/12/2023

We’re in the last moments of fundraising for 2024. If it feels right for you, please send a dana offering (link below). Since 2002, Jnanasukha Foundation has made available the paths of Yeshe Tsogyal and the Dudjom New Treasures and offered grants to kindred organizations. Thank you. https://www.jnanasukha.org