Category Archives: Teachings by Lama Tashi Topgyal

In this category we present selected fragments of transcribed teachings by Lama Tashi Topgyal (Lama Tratop).

Chenrezig is Compassionate Emptiness

[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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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