[From a teaching on Essence of Wisdom: Stages of the Path, Part 6, by Lama Tashi Topgyal. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.] Chenrezig is compassionate emptiness. Chenrezig is not a flesh and blood person who has to sit there for eternity and who has to hold his two arms up. He is the affect of…
Teachings by Lama Tashi Topgyal
In this category we present selected fragments of transcribed teachings by Lama Tashi Topgyal (Lama Tratop).
Because You Care So Much
[From a teaching on Essence of Wisdom: Stage of the Path, Part 6 taught by Lama Tashi Topgyal. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.] There is only one reason to receive authentic vajrayana empowerment, and that is that you care so much about other beings that you are in a hurry to achieve buddhahood for their…
Pure Realms Complete Within Your Own Mind
[From a Teaching on the White Khechari Sadhana, Part 3 of 3, by Lama Tashi Topgyal. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.] …sometimes we talk about a pure realm, for example the celestial realm of Vajrayogini, as though it were an external place—somewhere else; but then in this context we talk about it as something that…