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Chojor Radha the lotsawa

janety410 — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:14:15 GMT

I received the following email from Basia concerning Chojor, the great lotsawa from Woodstock: He died peacefully with his brother on his side. His brother,

Re: The Sangs & the Rgyas

Michael Essex — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:53:56 GMT

I got off on the side track of the verb zum pa. The tshig dzod chen mo gives zum pa- kha rub pa, (right below) but also - mig zum pa, rma kha zum pa, me tog

Re: The Sangs & the Rgyas

Kim Poulsen — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:43:31 GMT

Hi Mike, good points. Your emphasis on the "closed" state is shared by others. While just googling this work I found this by Kelsang Wangmo from a tibetan

Re: The Sangs & the Rgyas

Michael Essex — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:31:04 GMT

ooh, ooh, I forgot the when (translating the na) When understanding completely opens to the objects of knowledge defeating delusion (which is like a) closed

Re: The Sangs & the Rgyas

Michael Essex — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:20:10 GMT

some thoughts: I think we might want to look at the flower metaphor through the first 3 lines: rgyas is blossoming, and zum pa is closed (opposite of open

Re: The Sangs & the Rgyas

Kim Poulsen — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:07:55 GMT

Hi Gabriel, I thought your translation was just fine. I went through the text and made a few notes and a correction to the root text. shes bya la ni blo rnam

Re: The Sangs & the Rgyas

Gabriel Jaeger — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:37:17 GMT

Dear Dan Thanks very much for all the info regarding the term Buddha. Anyway I could read properly as I do not have the Unicode font. Could you send it again

The Sangs and the rGyas

'S Aldridge' — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:01:10 GMT

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The Sangs & the Rgyas

Dan Martin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:48:52 GMT

Dear Gabriele, I don't really have an answer to your question, just to note that at the beginning of the Sgra-sbyor Bam-po Gnyis-pa (Madhyavyutpatti) in the

unknown source of quote from Kunphel's commentary on Boddhisatvachar

Richard — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:46:00 GMT

Hello Gabe... try this: http://www.kunpal.com/bca1comm.pdf In addition to this, at THIS SITE are additional chapters. There is an

unknown source of quote from Kunphel's commentary on Boddhisatvachar

ngawangtemphel — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:49:19 GMT

Dear Dharma friends, Does anyone know from which text (kangyur, tengyur etc)it comes the following quote of Khenpo Kunphel's Boddhisatvacharyavatara: In Khenpo

Re: Vidyadhara Chariot

Richard — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:07:19 GMT

Hello to Dan and all... I've come to believe, or feel anyway...that any reluctance which might have been experienced by buddhas prior to their enlightened

Re: Vidyadhara Chariot

Dan Martin — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:16:53 GMT

Hi all, I think that every reader of both English translations will miss the two anchoring terms in the first two lines: ye-shes and dbyings. Of course,

Re: Vidyadhara Chariot

Richard — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:28:23 GMT

Well, hi to Roger and everyone. First of all...this is only as I've come to hear and understand, so please take it only on face value. But where your own

Re: Vidyadhara Chariot

wrighrp — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:53:26 GMT

(This is alll just my opinion!) It's interesting that neither version translates "thig le" into english - one leaves it as "tigle" (does that rhyme with