Paths and Sadhanas
Natural Radiance
Structured by AR , Lama Sherab Gyatso offers Natural Radiance as a path in the form of one-to-one Dzogchen meditation sessions for those who would like to explore Dzogchen in this way.
AR structured the key teachings of his Dzogchen Nyingthig in a step-by-step manner, covering the stages of:
Mind-instruction: recognising the empty essence and luminous knowing nature of awareness devoid of any artifice, its all-penetrating clarity, and its compassionate resonance
The secret Twenty-One Semdzins of A.dzom Drukpa tradition: Step by step, the practitioner learns the basic the principles of working with the nāḍīs, energies, and bindus of the Subtle Body
Resting in the outer, inner and secret spaces of Awareness: supported by the Song of the Vajra, a song in dakini language from the 17 Tantras, considered the highest Dzogchen text in the A.dzom Drukpa tradition
The principles of Cutting-Through-To-Primordial Purity, with the help of the four Chokzhak, the ways of letting be in simple naturalness
Later, if ready, Leaping over with Spontaneous Presence: awakening to the fruit of the Great Perfection through the visionary path, understanding the four lamps
The space of the natural state does not exist apart from its innate knowing aspect called Awareness. This state discerns itself and distinguishes itself from the conditioned states of the mind. This process begins in a very simple way, by minutely identifying, acknowledging, accepting, integrating and liberating the fundamental emotional dimensions, while discovering their pristine purity within the maṇḍala of the great inexhaustible treasure of our being.
The simile of the mirror is often used in this context in order to illustrate this pristine purity. The surface of a mirror is neither defiled nor affected by the reflections that appear on it.
The practitioner learns to trace thoughts to their natural source, coming to realise that outer and inner natural manifestations merely arise in a condition known as the infinite equality of the natural state.
Structure
The structure of the one-to-one approach is:
One hour of one-to-one meditation together every week, meticulously working together on the practical fundamentals of the path: recognition of the base, the path, and the fruit, the view, the meditation, and the conduct. Days and times are found together flexibly, according to convenience.
Personal daily practice (which can easily be integrated with other practices that one has already committed to)
Ever abiding in the natural state of awareness, including in dreams and deep sleep through AR's very specific dream yoga instructions
Preconditions:
As Dzogchen is our own true nature, there are no preconditions to realise Dzogchen.
Ideally, formally speaking, the practitioner has completed Ngöndro or at least has the sincere wish to complete it, considers our beloved AR their root-Guru or feels a very deep connection to him.
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AR’s Ösel Nyingthig is his own incredible cycle of terma practices that covers the entire path of the Great Perfection. In February 2019, Rinpoche instructed our centre to offer his Ösel Nyingthig as one of our three main practice cycles, alongside his short and long lineages of Jigme Lingpa’s Treasure Cycle known as the Longchen Nyingthig and the Ösel Dorje Sangzöd Treasure Cycle of Adzom Drukpa Drodul Pawo Dorje.
The Ösel Nyingthig consists of a series of practices revealed to AR:
1) Dakini Ngöndro of Yeshe Tsogyal
2) White Tsogyal Accomplishment Sadhana
3) Secret Thröma Ngöndro
4) Secret Thröma Accomplishment Practice
5) Guru Drubthab: The Accomplishment of the Guru
6) The Secret Thröma Chöd
7) The Three Secrets
Practitioners who wish to make this powerful cycle their main Dzogchen practice may please apply by providing a brief description of their practice background and motivation.
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Revealed to Jigme Lingpa as a mind treasure during a visionary retreat, this cycle synthesises the core teachings of earlier Dzogchen lineages, notably the Vima Nyingthig and Khandro Nyingthig, and is deeply inspired by the 14th-century master Longchenpa. It comprises preliminary practices, tantric sādhanas, and profound Dzogchen instructions such as trekchö and tögal (Lhadrub Thigle Gyachen). The Longchen Nyingthig offers a comprehensive path to realisation.
From the Longchen Nyingthig Treasure Cycle, we currently offer the following systematic Dzogchen path:
1) Dzogchen Longchen Nyingthig Ngöndro
2) Phowa: Transference of Consciousness
3) Zhitro: The Highway of the Great Yoga
4) Yumka Queen of Great Bliss: The Innermost Secret Dakini of the Longchen Nyingthig
5) Lhadrub Thigle Gyachen: The Innermost Secret Dzogchen Lama Practice of the Longchen Nyingthig
- This includes the two main practices of the Dzogchen path, known as Cutting through to Primordial Purity and Leaping Over with Spontaneous Presence
6) Supplementary Practices for the Longchen Nyingthig Protectors
Practitioners who wish to make this powerful cycle their main Dzogchen practice may please apply by providing a brief description of their practice background and motivation.
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The revelations of this cycle began occurring to AR on Potu Island. Currently, most practices of the cycle are still being kept secret. Only the following has been opened for the array of students:
Unchanging Equality and Most Excellent Personal Deity
Primordial Awareness:
The Essence Liberating All Beings
The Great Compassionate One (Avalokiteshvara)
Over time, AR will also share the Ngöndro and many other Dzogchen methods from this cycle.
Practitioners who wish to make his Chenrezig their main practice are suggested to accumulate ten million. Those who commit to such an accumulation may also request the precious terma statue that AR had created based on his visions. You may please apply by providing a brief description of your practice background and motivation.
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The revelations of this cycle began occurring to AR at Wutai Shan when he was only twenty-five years old. Currently, most practices of the cycle are still kept secret. Only the following has been opened for the array of students:
From the Great Perfection of Mañjuśrī: The Accomplishment of the Naturally Occurring Awareness Being – The Youthful Mañjuśrī
Over time, AR will also share the Ngöndro and many other Dzogchen methods from this cycle.
Practitioners who wish to make his Mañjuśrī their main practice are suggested to accumulate seven hundred thousand. You may please apply by providing a brief description of your practice background and motivation.
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Revealed to Adzom Drukpa (1842-1924) as a mind treasure, this powerful cycle contains many tantric sādhanas, notably Yidam practices. As AR is one of the main holders of this cycle, we offer several practices from this Dzogchen cycle:
1) Amitabha: The Golden Letters
2) A Sliver of the Most Profound Heart of Droje Drollo: Accomplishment Sadhana
3) Accomplishing Vajrakila, The Sole Hero: Accomplishment Sadhana
4) The Sublime Green Tara: Accomplishment Sadhana
5) The Short Noble Tara Practice
6) Dharmakaya-Phowa: Transference of Consciousness into Rigpa
Practitioners who wish to practise Accomplishment Sadhanas are suggested to diligently do the accumulations suggested in the texts. You may please apply by providing a brief description of your practice background and motivation.
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AR himself being a tertön, he regularly reveals new practices, sadhanas and supplications. Some of these have not been classified into specific Nyingthigs. These include:
1) Dzogchen Shitro: The Peaceful and Wrathful Deities, the Profound Secret Essence of Liberation through Hearing
2) Samantabhadra Heart-Mantra: Revealed by AR on Mount Emei Shan, this is the first mantra of Samantabhadra revealed by a tertön
3) King Gesar: The Supplication to the World of the World
4) The Powerful Wish-Fulfilling Odyana-Jambhala
5) The Spontaneous Fulfilment of All Wishes: An Aspirational Prayer for Difficult Times
6) Guru-Deva-Dakini Mantra
To receive these, you may please apply by providing a brief description of your practice background and motivation.
Tsalung Instructions
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In Dzogchen, the path to liberation is one of direct recognition of the mind’s inherent nature—rigpa—the primordial awareness that is always present but often obscured by habitual patterns and attachments. Dzogchen teachings also include specific practices designed to refine and stabilise this recognition. Among these practices, Tsalung movements are an important component, combining physical postures, breathwork, and subtle energy techniques to awaken and harmonise the energy channels of the body, enhancing the practitioner’s ability to directly experience the nature of mind.
Tsalung refers to the subtle energy system within the body, consisting of tsa (channels), lung (winds or energies), and tigle (drops or essences). These correspond to the flow of vital energies and the subtle channels within the body that, when in balance, support clarity of mind and the recognition of the true nature of reality.
Tsalung practices are closely related to the cultivation of prāṇa, but they also have a unique place within Dzogchen, as they directly support the practitioner's realisation of nondual awareness.
The tsalung movements of the Adzom Drukpa tradition are a way to harmonise the body and mind so that one’s energy system is aligned with the natural, uncontrived flow of awareness.
These practices are not merely about controlling energy or manipulating the body for physical well-being, but about using the body as a means to facilitate the experience of pure awareness.
“Inside the cavity of the five channels glows the radiance of the five lights, from which the pure essence of the five elements arise in the respective organs.“
Availability: To all sincere practitioners.
Natural Radiance of the Path
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With Rinpoche's blessings Lama Sherab Gyatso offers: One-to-one Dzogchen meditation sessions for those who would like to explore Dzogchen in this way.
Rinpoche has asked him to share the key teachings of his Dzogchen Nyingthig in a step-by-step manner, covering the stages of:
semtri: mind-instruction, recognising the essence of consciousness devoid of any artifice
activating the inner bliss-heat cycle and melting the nectar through Vajrayoginī's primordial syllable, supported by Vajra Recitation, working on the nāḍīs of the Subtle Body
resting in the outer, inner and secret spaces of Awareness: supported by the Song of the Vajra
Cutting-through-to-Primordial-Purity, with the help of the four ways of letting things be in their simple naturalness
later, if ready, leaping over through the Great Spontaneity of the Path: awakening to the fruit of the Great Perfection.
The space of the natural state does not exist apart from its innate knowing aspect called Awareness. This state discerns itself and distinguishes itself from the conditioned states of the mind. This process begins in a very simple way, by minutely identifying, acknowledging, accepting, integrating and liberating the fundamental emotional dimensions, while discovering their pristine purity within the maṇḍala of the great inexhaustible treasure of our being.
The simile of the mirror is often used in this context in order to illustrate this pristine purity. The surface of a mirror is neither defiled nor affected by the reflections that appear on it.
The practitioner learns to trace thoughts to their natural source, coming to realise that outer and inner natural manifestations merely arise in a condition known as the infinite equality of the natural state.
Structure
The structure of the one-to-one approach is:
One hour of one-to-one meditation together every week, meticulously working together on the practical fundamentals of the path: recognition of the base, the meditation, the conduct, the view, the four visions, the fruit. Days and times are found together flexibly, according to convenience.
Personal daily practice (which can easily be integrated with other practices that one has already committed to)
Ever abiding in the natural state of awareness, including in dreams and deep sleep through Rinpoche's very specific dream yoga instructions
In case of insurmountable difficulties or life-changing questions (e.g. what Yidam or personal deity to practise, if such a question arises), checking directly with Rinpoche personally on behalf of the Dzogchen practitioner is one of the great blessings of this approach.
Preconditions:As Dzogchen is our own true nature, there are no preconditions to realise Dzogchen.
Ideally, formally speaking, the practitioner has completed Ngöndro or at least has the sincere wish to complete it, considers our beloved Rinpoche their Root-Guru or feels a very deep connection to him.
Dream Yoga
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Dream Yoga is one of the most profound and transformative practices in the Dzogchen tradition. It takes the practitioner beyond the confines of ordinary waking consciousness and into the realm of dreams, where the boundaries between waking and sleeping, reality and illusion, begin to dissolve.
In essence, Dream Yoga is a way of training the mind to maintain awareness and clarity even during the dream state, allowing one to awaken to the true nature of mind and experience liberation in the midst of the dream world.
Rinpoche’s own dream yoga is a smooth and skillful method to integrate practice into the dream state, whence the richness of innumerable signs and experiences assist the practitioner in their unfolding path.
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The Dzogchen Longchen Ngondro was revealed to Jigme Lingpa by a Wisdom Dakini in a vision: She gave him a casket containing five golden scrolls and seven crystal beads. One of the scrolls contained the guide to Longchen Nyinghtig. At the instruction of the Dakini, he completely consumed the golden scrolls and crystal beads, and all the words and meaning of the Longchen Nyingthig terma cycle were awakened in his mind.
“The Universal Base is the natural state of the individual, the source of Samsara and Nirvana, the great ancestor of all Buddhas and sentient beings. Its Essence is free from obscuration and blazes naturally as innate Clarity.“
Availability: To all sincere practitioners who wish to engage in Ngöndro practice, which opens the door to all the precious practices of the Longchen Nyingthig Cycle.
From the Longchen Nyingthig — Ngöndro
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The Excellent Path of Great Bliss from the Treasury of the Luminous Heart Essence is a Dakini Ngondro revealed to AR by Yeshe Tsogyal herself. In the presence of his Guru, he was given a name by Yeshe Tsogyal along with the promise that his monastery would ever serve as an entrance to her pure realm, with rainbows every few days appearing as auspicious signs.
“The Mother represents the Base similar to the blue sky. The Child is one’s awareness blazing unceasingly within this infinite pure sky.“
Availability: To all sincere practitioners who wish to pursue the path of accomplishing the Jnanadakini Yeshe Tsogyal, the Great Mother.
From the Ösel Nyingthig — Dakini Ngöndro
From the Ösel Nyingthig —
Secret Thröma Ngöndro
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AR’s Thröma Cycle begins with the Thröma Ngöndro, a uniquely swift Ngöndro that transports the practitioner to direct realisation of the Primordial Dakini of Space.
“Nights will not be covered by darkness anymore,
The Clear Light will outshine any other lights.”Availability: To sincere practitioners who, upon completing Ngondro, wish to practise Rinpoche’s entire Thröma Cycle consisting of:
- The Thröma Ngöndro
- The Thröma Accomplishment known as the ‘Secret Primordial Wisdom’
- Thröma’s Practice of Severance
‘The Self-Liberation of Ego-Clinging’
- The Perfection of Secret Primordial Wisdom: The Special Instruction on the Exceedingly Secret Thröma
Guru Yoga of
the Vine of Faith
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The Guru Yoga of the Vine of Faith
is an exceptional Guru Yoga, containing all the levels of Dzogchen practice.
It was revealed by ARat Gangri Tökar, the White Skull Mountain, the sacred hermitage where Longchenpa attained enlightenment.
“This is stated from the actual luminous heart of all Buddhas, the luminous nature of all things. This is the teaching of the actual nature of all things. What do we mean by luminous or clear luminosity here? It means that which transcends subject and object.”
- ARAvailability: To all sincere practitioners who wish to engage in Rinpoche’s own Guru Yoga practice.
Samantabhadra Terma
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The Samantabhadra mantra is a unique mantra revealed by AR in the winter upon a plane in the presence of many fortunate students.
Rinpoche received the mantra in a vision in 2016 at Mount Emei when he led four disciples to the golden top. He openly shared the mantra for the first time to a group of practitioners on April 6, 2018.It was revealed to students outside of the Land of Snow for the first time in 2023.
From the Ösel Dorje Sangzöd — Amitabha: The Golden Letters
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‘The Golden Words to find Ultimate Bliss in the Pure Land of Amitabha, Limitless Light’ is a terma of A.dzom Drukpa.
It is especially recited during the Limitless Light Accomplishment at the monastery, during which time numerous auspicious signs occur.
‘The Golden Letters’ is a continuous practice, which, when completely accomplished, transports the practitioner the pure realm of Amitabha at the time of their passing.
From the Dzogchen Jampel Cycle —
Sadhana for Accomplishing the Innate Primordial Wisdom Being: Youthful Manjushri
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The Dzogchen Sadhana for Accomplishing the Innate Wisdom Being Manjushri
was revealed to AR at Mount Wutai Shan.
“To see Awareness in its bare nakedness, realise clearly the Universal Base without obscuration. Having realised this, Awareness takes hold of its natural place.“
Availability: To all sincere practitioners who have completed Ngnödro and who intend to accomplish the sadhana.
From the Ösel Dorje Sangzöd — A Sliver of the Most Profound Heart of Dorje Drollo
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From the Secret Treasury of the Vajra of Clear Light:
A Sliver of the Most Profound Heart of Dorje Drollo, the Vajra of World-Transcending Wrath
This unique sadhana was revealed by A.dzom Drukpa.
Availability: To all who have completed Ngondro. AR has offered a non-elaborate empowerment, which is shared before receiving the Dorje Drollo Sadhana.
From the Ösel Dorje Sangzöd — Accomplishing Vajrakila: The Sole Hero
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From the Treasury of the Vajra of Clear Light:
Accomplishing Vajrakila: The Sole Hero
This sadhana was revealed by A.dzom Drukpa.
Signs of accomplishment are guaranteed to appear.
“In the middle of the swirling conch lake arises the doorway of the sound of the empty expanse.”
Availability: To all sincere practitioners who have completed Ngöndro and who intend to accomplish the sadhana.
Dzogchen Zhitro: The Great Perfection Peaceful and Wrathful Deities, Profound Secret Essence of Liberation Through Hearing
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This extraordinary Zhitro practice was revealed by AR. It is closely linked with the original Zhitro revealed by Karma Lingpa.
The Peaceful and Wrathful Deities known as Zhitro are based on the Mandala of the Secret Womb, the Guhyagarbha.
They represent the basic emotional dimensions as emanations of the Buddha families.
By learning to recognise them as the empty Clear Light essence, the Dzogchenpa liberates the basic emotions into their original clear light dimension.
Rather than a doorway to fear, the period after death thus becomes a portal to liberation.
Availability: Usually, the Zhitro Accomplishment Sadhana is given only after Ngöndro, but with Rinpoche’s kindness it can also be received without Ngöndro upon request.
From the Pema Nyingthig, the Lotus Heart Essence — The Great Compassionate One
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From the Pema Nyingthig: The Great Compassionate One
This Avalokiteshvara Sadhana, revealed along with a terma statue, was revealed to AR as a mind-terma first in 2012. In the years after, further termas related to this Cycle were then revealed to him. It comes with innumerable blessings and the promise of liberation in this life or during the bardo.
Availability: Although the Pema Nyingthig Ngondro would in principle be the prerequisite, in his great compassion, AR has made this infinitely precious sadhana available to all sincere practitioners.
The precious statue is available only to practitioners who pledge to complete 100 million mantras with this sadhana.
From the Ösel Nyingthig —
Secret Thröma’s Practice of Chöd:
The Self-Liberation of Ego-Clinging
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From the Heart-Essence of Luminosity:
Thröma’s Practice of Chöd: The Self-Liberation of Ego
This very powerful Chöd revealed by AR contains a unique combination of traditional Thröma Nagmo chöd, tonglen, Chenrezig, and Prajnaparamita.
Availability: Although generally the sadhana is intended only for practitioners who have completed Ngöndro, in his compassion AR has made it available to all who feel a deep connection to chöd.
“In the pitch blackness of the darkness endowed with rays, you will see luminous citadels bright and clear.“
From the Ösel Dorje Sangzöd —
The Sublime Green Tara Accomplishment Sadhana
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Green like an turquoise emerald, the Noble Tara arises for the benefit of all beings.
A.dzom Drukpa’s Accomplishment Practice of Tara blends Dzogchen with devotion, wisdom with compassion.Availability: To all sincere practitioners.
From the Ösel Dorje Sangzöd —
Short Noble Tara Practice
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The Short Noble Tara practice compiled by Rinpoche blends a well-known verse composed in pure vision by Mipham the Great with the root- and activity-mantra of the Noble Tara.
Availability: To all sincere practitioners.
The Twenty-One Taras
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The Supplication to the Twenty-One Taras is a luminous and heartfelt prayer that invokes the blessings of Tara, the swift and compassionate mother of all Buddhas, in her 21 radiant forms. Each aspect of Tara represents a distinct quality of awakened wisdom and activity, offering protection, guidance, and empowerment for practitioners on the path.
The supplication is not merely a recitation, it is a bridge connecting the heart to Tara’s boundless love and skillful means. As the "Liberator" and embodiment of all-embracing compassion, Tara’s presence is evoked through the rhythmic beauty of this supplication.
Availability: In both Tibetan and the original Sanskrit, to all sincere practitioners.
From the Longchen Nyingthig — Phowa:
The Transference of Consciousness
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AR is considered a Phowa Mahasiddha, a supreme adept at the transference of consciousness.
Known as ‘Buddhahood without Meditation’, the Phowa practice of the Longchen Nyingthig prepares for and accelerates the energetic transference into the pure land of Amitabha, Limitless Light.
Availability: Usually, to practitioners who have completed Ngöndro. Through Rinpoche’s kindness, it can also be given without Ngöndro if requested.
From the Ösel Dorje Sangzöd — Dharmakaya Phowa
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The Dharmakaya Phowa is a short transference practice revealed by A.dzom Drukpa that seals the mind directly into the Dharmakaya, the space of pristine awareness.
It is a wonderfully short practice intended as a daily training of transference and as a Dzogchen practice to rest in the pristine sky-like space of rigpa.
“Here is the lamp of the moment of the bardo, the frontier where delusion and realisation meet.“
Availability: To practitioners who have completed Ngöndro.
The Auspicious Guardian of Sacred Speech: Ekajati
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This powerful supplication to Ekajati, the guardian of the Dzogchen teachings, was revealed by AR.
Availability: Only for practitioners who have completed Ngöndro.
Longchen Nyingthig Protector Prayer
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The Longchen Nyingthig Protector prayer addresses Ekajati, Rahula, and Vajrasadhu as the three main protectors of Dzogpachenpo.
It is usually recited at the end of a practice, especially in the evening, along with making a libation offering.
Availability: To all sincere practitioners.
The Powerful, Wish-Fulfilling Odyana-Jambhala
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The Odyana-Jambhala Supplication & Mantra are a powerful protector practice to secure stability, mental, emotional and external.
Unique to the practice is that it merges the Yellow-Golden Jambhala with Padmasambhava.
Availability: To all sincere practitioners.
The Supplication to the Lord of the World
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The Supplication to the Lord of the World, the Great Lion, The Jewel who Transforms Demons, Lasso of the Play of the Power of Great Bliss addresses King Gesar, Mahakala and Kurukulla — it was revealed by AR in 2024.
Each line of the supplication begins with the word ‘wang’, ‘empowerment’.
Availability: To all sincere practitioners.
Khadiravana-Tara:
The Noble Tara of the Acacia Forest
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In November 2024, the Noble Tara herself appeared to AR in a pure vision and reminded him to remind practitioners to practise her form as Khadiravana-Tara for the annihilation of diseases and other obstacles of the eight concerns.
"Her body is green like a heap of emeralds. She has one face and two arms; her right hand is performing the mudra of supreme generosity; her left hand holds the stem of an extremely full and attractive blue Utpala flower between the ring finger and thumb at her heart centre. She is in the full bloom of the youth; she has a smiling face endowed with wide eyes like the petals of a lotus. She wears upper and lower garments of utterly splendid divine silk. Her sapphire-colored hair is bound at the crown of her head. She is beautiful with head ornaments, earrings, necklaces, sashes, longer crystal necklaces, and golden armlets; she is lovely and radiating light. Flowers adorn her hair in the manner of a crown. She dwells in the Khadiravana pureland, her royal palace in the midst of natural motifs such as trees bearing fruit and flowers. Her two legs are in the half-vajra posture; the right foot is extended, resting on a multi-coloured lotus and moon seat."
Availability: To all sincere practitioners.
From the Ösel Nyingthig — Secret Thröma Ganacaka (Tsok): The Primordial Wisdom Bindu
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The Secret Thröma Ganacakra, or Tsok, is a profound and transformative feast offering within the Thröma Nagmo Cycle, rooted in the highest teachings of Dzogchen. It is much more than a ceremonial gathering: it is an intimate dance of devotion, wisdom, and boundless generosity, through which practitioners directly touch the essence of their primordial nature.
At the heart of this sacred practice lies the single sphere of primordial wisdom. The bindu represents the essence of all phenomena: vast, luminous, and utterly empty. Through the Ganacakra, practitioners embody this realisation, dissolving ordinary perceptions and merging with the infinite expanse of Thröma’s nondual awareness.
“The milk of the lioness should be poured into fortunate chalices.“
Availability: To all practitioners who have completed the Thröma Ngöndro and the Secret Thröma Accomplishment Sadhana.
From the Longchen Nyingthig — Brief Tsok Offering by Jigme Lingpa
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Jigme Lingpa’s Tsok Ganacakra Offering is a short feast merging the essence of devotion into the single, luminous expression of the Great Perfection.
Rooted in his enlightened vision, this tsok is a direct doorway into the heart of Dzogchen. It celebrates the innate purity of all phenomena and the inseparability of appearance and emptiness.
“Objects and Awareness are not separated. They are linked as an inseparable pair.“
Availability: To all sincere practitioners.
The Sang Offering
Radiating Satisfaction throughout Samsara and Nirvana
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The Sang Offering Radiating Satisfaction throughout Samsara and Nirvana is a sacred practice that purifies obscurations, clears obstacles, and transforms the atmosphere.
From the Dzogchen perspective, this Sang is much more than an external offering—it is a dynamic expression of the radiant, self-arising nature of reality as the copper-coloured palace of Padmasambhava.
The Sang offering invokes the palace and retinue of Padmasambhava and all the Dakinis, the luminous, sky-dancing emanations of wisdom.
Through smoke rising into the infinite expanse, the Sang ritual connects the Dzogchenpa’s heart with the boundless compassion and wisdom of the awakened beings.
Availability: To all sincere practitioners.
King of Aspiration Prayers:
Samantabhadra’s Aspiration to Good Actions
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The King of Aspiration Prayers: Samantabhadra’s Aspiration to Good Actions is a masterpiece of universal compassion echoing the infinite vision of the Great Perfection. The aspiration prayer is both a guide and a profound meditation, inspiring Dzogchenpas to align their hearts with the vastness of awakened activity.
Reciting this aspiration prayer is like stepping into a limitless expanse of luminous intention. It is not just a series of aspirations but a poetic unfolding of the Bodhisattva’s path—an endless vow to benefit all beings while recognising the primordial purity and interdependence of all phenomena.
Rinpoche recommends all Dzogchenpas to utilise the King of Aspiration prayers regularly to reinforce their bodhisattva vows and to beautifully bridge the ultimate view of nonduality with the compassionate activities of relative reality.
Availability: To all sincere practitioners.
The Spontaneous Fulfilment of All Wishes: An Aspirational Prayer for Difficult Times
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Spontaneously composed in the spirit of the Great Perfection, this prayer by AR embodies the essence of nonduality: every difficulty is an opportunity to recognise the innate purity and perfection of reality. It is both an invocation of blessings and a declaration of the infinite potential already present within us.
Availability: To all sincere practitioners.
Mantra to Multiply All Virtues
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The Mantra to Multiply All Virtues is a sacred formula that amplifies the positive energy of virtuous actions, prayers, and offerings, generating immense benefit for oneself and all beings. Rooted in the Buddha’s teachings, this mantra embodies the compassionate wish to maximize the merit created through even the smallest virtuous deed, turning them into vast oceans of goodness.
The mantra is recited prior to all practices, so as to align the practitioner with the inexhaustible blessings of the awakened ones.
Availability: To all sincere practitioners
Guru-Deva-Dakini Mantra
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The Guru-Deva-Dakini Mantra invokes the Secret Name of Padmasambhava as Pema Tötreng Tsal, ‘The Powerful Padma with the Skull-Garland’, in the company of the retinue of all the dakinis and dakas.
An ancient prophesy states that in the age of deterioration, when no other names will have the same power, when we call the Acharya Padma by this name he cannot help but respond quickly.
Availability: To all sincere practitioners.
Transmission of the Mantras of Avalokiteshvara, Amitabha, Manjushri, Tara, and Vajrapani
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In the luminous expanse of Dzogchen, the essence of all beings is recognised as the self-arising, inseparable unity of wisdom and compassion: The mantras of Amitabha, the Youthful Manjushri, the Noble Tara, and Vajrapani serve as potent practices that unveil the innate radiance of our primordial nature. Each mantra is a doorway into the heart of the enlightened mind, inviting the Dzogchen practitioner to activate the powerful qualities of compassion, wisdom, protection, and enlightenment.
Availability: To all sincere practitioners.
The Verses of the Eight Noble Auspicious Ones
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The Verses of the Eight Noble Auspicious Ones, composed by the revered Mipham the Great, is a profound supplication that illuminates the radiant qualities of the awakened state. The verses describe the eight auspicious beings—each a noble manifestation of compassion and wisdom—who are embodiments of the essential nature of mind in the Dzogchen tradition. Through these auspicious beings, Mipham invites us to recognise the inherent purity, strength and vastness of our true nature, which is unconditioned and boundless.
Availability: T all sincere practitioners
The Great Blazing Bliss
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Mipham the Great’s The Great Blazing Bliss is a profound masterpiece that illuminates the luminous path of Dzogchen, where the ultimate nature of mind—unobstructed, free, and radiant—is revealed in its purest form. This text, like a blazing bliss-fire of wisdom, awakens the practitioner to the inherent bliss of enlightenment that is neither grasped nor fabricated, but arises spontaneously from the boundless expanse of primordial awareness.
Availability: To all sincere practitioners.
The Cycle of the Day and Night
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The Dzogchen Cycle of the Day and Night is a profound, rhythmic engagement with the natural flow of time and awareness. Rooted in the awareness of the indivisible unity of mind and phenomena, this cycle offers a practical yet profound means to align one's practice with the natural rhythms of the day, cultivating a continuous flow of presence and recognition of rigpa through remembrance of the Lama.
By integrating specific practices during the morning, day, and night, the Dzogchenpa not only maintains the recognition of the natural state but also strengthens their connection to the deep wisdom and compassionate energy that naturally arise when one rests in their true nature.
“In the pathway of the central channel, which is like a sun free from darkness, self-awareness arises in its great primordial purity.”
Availability: To all sincere practitioners who have completed or started Ngöndro.