Pitch in to Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche’s “most personal and artistic” film yet
The Bhutanese Buddhist teacher and filmmaker, Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, also called Khyentse Norbu, [...]
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“Bless this cyber-space with comfort, bliss, and enlightenment” — A “Prayer for Internet Practice”
A "Prayer for Internet Practice" has made its way to the web -- with its own Facebook page, naturally. "This prayer," the page explains, "was requested of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche to help dharma students surf the waves of attraction and distraction on the Internet and turn them to practice." It's not the first time Rinpoche has addressed the online realm so [...]
Social Media Guidelines for So-Called Vajrayana Practitioners
From the Facebook page of Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse -- author of "Pure, Clear, and Vibrant" -- comes this unique set of social media guidelines. While it's targeted specifically at Vajrayana practitioners, much of it is relevant to Buddhists of all kinds. If you think or believe that you are a student of Vajrayana — whether or not that's true is another matter, but as long [...]
Not for Happiness
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse is one of the truth-tellers of modern Buddhism. The truth he tells us is that if it feels too good, it’s probably not Buddhism. But if you want real transformation, if you want painful honesty and deep, uncomfortable change, then read on. Buddhist practices are techniques we use to tackle our habitual self-cherishing. Each one is designed to attack [...]
Pure, Clear, and Vibrant
Visualization practice sometimes involves traditional symbolism that Westerners have trouble relating to, says Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche. He shows us how we can make the most of this powerful method for transforming perception. The technique of visualization is employed throughout the Vajrayana practices of Tibetan Buddhism. Its use of our imagination makes it quite different [...]
Make the Most of Your Pilgrimage
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche explains how to get the most out of your spiritual journey to India, from generating proper motivation to the most effective practices for accumulating merit and wisdom while visiting Buddhism’s holy sites. The ancient holy sites in India and throughout the Himalayan region have been blessed again and again by buddhas and bodhisattvas throughout the [...]
Spotless from the Start
In order to overcome the five main obstacles facing a bodhisattva, says Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, we must realize that all beings are primordially pure. He presents the essential teachings on buddhanature from Maitreya’s Uttaratantra Shastra. As soon as we talk about a path like Buddhism, we think about its finishing line—some kind of result or goal. But in the Mahayana [...]
What Makes You a Buddhist?
It’s not the clothes you wear, the ceremonies you perform, or the meditation you do, says Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse. It’s not what you eat, how much you drink, or who you have sex with. It’s whether you agree with the four fundamental discoveries the Buddha made under the Bodhi tree, and if you do, you can call yourself a Buddhist. Once, I was seated on a plane in the middle [...]
The Guru and the Great Vastness
For a follower of the Hinayana or Mahayana paths, there are the sutras and the shastras. The sutras contain the direct teachings of Buddha Shakyamuni, whereas the shastras are commentaries composed later by a disciple of the Buddha, such as Nagarjuna. Moreover, there are instructions on how to practice. For instance, many chapters of Shantideva’s Way of the Bodhisattva contain [...]
Life as Cinema
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche uses film as a metaphor for Buddha's teaching about samsara and nirvana. Just suppose that we have been born in a cinema hall. We don't know that what is going on in front of us is just a projection. We don't know that it is just a film, just a movie, and that the events in the movie aren't real, that they have no true existence. Everything we see on [...]
Approaching the Guru
A talk on devotion by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, given in 1996 in Boulder, Colorado at the commemoration of the death of His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. To tell you the truth, I think I am the wrong person to talk about guru devotion, because I don’t have it. This is not because there is any deficiency in my teachers; it is entirely because of something lacking in me. [...]
Buddhism in a Nutshell: The Four Seals of Dharma
”Buddhism is distinguished by four characteristics, or 'seals.' If all these four seals are found in a path or a philosophy, it can be considered the path of the Buddha.” People often ask me: “What is Buddhism in a nutshell?” Or they ask, “What is the particular view or philosophy of Buddhism?” Unfortunately, in the West Buddhism seems to have landed in the religious [...]
The Distortions We Bring To The Study of Buddhism
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse calls on Westerners to acknowledge the distortions we may bring to the study of Buddhism—through our cultural arrogance, the deceit of ego, and simple ignorance. The successful transplant of such a subtle and challenging practice as Buddhism, he says, depends on thorough study and clear recognition of our habitual patterns. Transplanting anything from [...]
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