Category Archives: Teachings by Lama Tashi Topgyal

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

Recognize the Unity of Your Root Guru and Guru Rinpoche

[From a teaching on White Khechari Practice Instructions, Part 2 of 3 by Lama Tashi Topgyal. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.] We do need to recognize that our root guru and Guru Rinpoche are not two different individuals or two different things. We need to meditate on their inseparability or their unity. And if we […]

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The Medium of Intimacy

[From Ngondro Instructions for Practices in the Termas of Terchen Barway Dorje by Lama Tashi Topgyal. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso.] A key point to understand […] is that your root guru and Guru Rinpoche are responsive to prayer. Do not think that you are praying as a mental exercise with the sole purpose of […]

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Rebirth in Sukhavati Helps Others

[From a Question & Answer period by Lama Tashi Topgyal while in Battle Creek, MI in 2013. Translated by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso. Edited by Matt Willis.] It’s much easier to be reborn in Sukhavati than in any other pure realm. This is because of Buddha Amitabha’s special aspiration that it be so. The fundamental cause […]

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