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Milarepa, shown here, is one of the key founding figures for all the kagyu lineages. He made some bad mistakes early in his life, but after taking teachings from Marpa the Translator he spent much of the rest of his life practising in caves in the snowy mountains.
Milarapa's image does not breathe wrath, offers no dreams of world domination, encourages no proselytising - it just speaks of profound, liberating realisation of the nature of mind.
Good info. "Losar" means "New Year," ('Lo' is year, 'sar" is new)- The first month, which is stressed primarily due to the reasons noted below, is also called
It's not so much, but this is what the Drigung center in Gainesville, FL put out: Significance of Losar: In addition to being the start of a new year according
Hello I am curious if anyone has any good links or explanations for Losar, I would like to send to my dharma email list but have not seen much on the web that
As Alex notes, Ms. English's book is academic, and is based specifically on a sadhana which I don't think is in use among any of the Tibetan lineages of VY
Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche has been teaching for over two years now on Machik Lhapdron and she is a manifestation of Vajrayogini. You could either listen listen