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Sera Khandro Series

Tibetan Masters Sera Khandro

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Emaho!

Magical emanation of triumphant noble females –

Dewé Dorje – to you I pray!

With your care in this life, future lives and in the bardo,

May our wishes be accomplished according to the Dharma.

Texts by and associated with Sera Khandro Kunzang Dekyong Wangmo (se ra mkha' 'gro kun bzang bde skyong dbang mo, 1892–1940), the famous treasure-revealer:

Advice

This short text in verse offers a clear and concise description of the liberated experience that results from practising the path of the development and completion stages.
Advice Ḍākinī Treasury 30 Apr 2020
A four-line Dzogchen poem in abecedarian form.
Advice Acrostic Ḍākinī Treasury 14 Dec 2022
Two verses of Dzogchen advice composed for Lama Kyab. The first verse is in abecedarian form.
Advice Acrostic Ḍākinī Treasury 15 Dec 2022
Pithy verses of advice on the need to practise the path by letting go of attachment to saṃsāra and, upon the foundation of bodhicitta, meditating intensively in solitude.
Advice Ḍākinī Treasury 19 Apr 2020
Poetic and playful verses on the incredible, seeming paradoxical nature of reality.
Advice Ḍākinī Treasury 15 Dec 2022

Aspiration Prayers

revealed by Sera Khandro
A beautifully evocative prayer of aspiration to be reborn in Tārā's pure realm, known as The Land of Turquoise Leaves (g.yu lo bkod).
Tārā Aspiration Prayers Ḍākinī Treasury 4 Sep 2017
by Dudjom Rinpoche
Dudjom Rinpoche composed this four-line prayer for the spread of the treasure tradition of Sera Khandro (1892–1940) shortly after receiving the transmission from her direct disciple Chatral Sangye Dorje (1913–2015).
Aspiration Prayers 26 Dec 2022

Biography

Sera Khandro composed this verse autobiography, which is suitable for daily recitation, in 1929, two years after completing a longer, more detailed account of her life. As with many other biographical works in the Tibetan tradition, the story is itself a Dharma teaching, demonstrating the importance of following one’s heart, persevering in the face of difficulties, and cultivating complete trust and devotion
Autobiography Ḍākinī Treasury 27 May 2015

Gesar

This short liturgy for offering to Gesar and requesting his assistance was transcribed on the basis of a visionary experience.
Gesar Ḍākinī Treasury 7 Mar 2025
These verses for offering to Gesar and requesting the accomplishment of activity were composed at the request of someone named Wangden.
Gesar Ḍākinī Treasury 28 Apr 2025
A four-line liturgy for offering purificatory incense smoke (sang) to Gesar, which Sera Khandro says she composed out of laziness when accumulating multiple such offerings.
Gesar Sang Offering Ḍākinī Treasury 5 May 2025

Guru Yoga

A simple guru yoga focusing on Sera Khandro as an emanation of Yeshe Tsogyal and invoking her inspiration and blessings to realize the meaning of Dzogchen, the Great Perfection.
Guru Yoga Ngöndro Ḍākinī Treasury 15 Jul 2019
This guru yoga, which Sera Khandro describes as a visionary experience put it into words, is a supplement to the Dharmatā Ḍākinīs' Secret Treasury (Chönyi Khandrö Sangdzö) cycle. It includes many of the standard elements of a preliminary practice (ngöndro) and is structured around the 'Four Dharmas of Gampopa', i.e., turning the mind towards the Dharma, making progress along the path, clarifying confusion, and allowing confusion to dawn as wisdom.
Guru Yoga Ḍākinī Treasury 22 Jul 2019

Introductions

by Chatral Rinpoche
An introduction to the short biography of Sera Khandro (1892–1940) entitled The Excellent Path of Devotion.
Introductions 28 May 2015

Long-Life Prayers

A brief prayer for the longevity of Drimé Özer (1881–1924) and the flourishing of his activity, composed at the request of Sonam Wangchuk.
Long-Life Prayers Ḍākinī Treasury 7 Mar 2025

Prayers

The treasure-revealer Sera Khandro Dekyong Wangmo wrote this short, six-line prayer to herself for the sake of her followers.
Prayers Ḍākinī Treasury 29 May 2015
A prayer for invoking the two supreme deities—noble Avalokiteśvara and the goddess Tārā—and seeking their blessings and assistance on the path.
Tārā Avalokiteśvara Prayers Ḍākinī Treasury 9 Jul 2025
revealed by Sera Khandro
A short, two-verse prayer to noble Tārā in her twenty-one emanations, composed (or revealed) in response to a request from a monk-physican named Samten.
Tārā Prayers Ḍākinī Treasury 8 Jun 2020
A prayer to Sera Khandro's successive incarnations including Red Vetala (Rolang Marmo), Shelkar Dorje Tso, Kunga Buma, and Changchub Chödrön.
Prayers Ḍākinī Treasury 23 Jul 2019
An invocation of Guru Padmasambhava, including his wrathful forms Tötreng Tsal and Dorje Drolö, as a means of protection from threats such as war, famine and disease, which are prevalent in the degenerate age.
Ḍākinī Treasury Prayers 20 May 2025
Sera Khandro—here using the name Kalzang Drönma—tells us that she composed this prayer at the behest of Tulku Drimé Özer. Nevertheless, it is included in her revelation, the Reality Ḍākinīs’ Secret Treasury (Chönyi Khandrö Sangdzö).
Tārā Prayers Ḍākinī Treasury 7 Mar 2025
A prayer invoking Milarepa's inspiration and guidance in order to master the practice and realize the dharmakāya nature within this life or take birth in the paradise of Khecarā and bring benefit to others.
Prayers Ḍākinī Treasury 15 Mar 2024
This prayer to Sera Khandro's successive incarnations is one of several such texts to be found in her collected writings.
Prayers Ḍākinī Treasury 22 Jul 2019

Sādhanas

revealed by Sera Khandro
A simple practice of Sarasvatī including refuge, bodhicitta, deity visualisation, mantra recitation, praise and dedication of merit.
Sarasvatī Sādhanas Termas Ḍākinī Treasury Restricted 13 May 2019
revealed by Sera Khandro
This Dorje Drolö sādhana from Sera Khandro's Dharmatā Ḍākinis' Secret Treasury (chos nyid mkha' 'gro gsang mdzod) cycle includes visualization and mantra recitiation, as well as an additional activity rite.
Dorje Drolö Termas Ḍākinī Treasury Restricted 6 May 2019

Songs

This song of amazement originates in a vision that Sera Khandro had while staying in retreat at Nyimalung in Amdo at the age of twenty-nine. The text is her response to the spirits and demons who appeared to her, asking what she was doing.
Songs and Poems Ḍākinī Treasury 18 May 2015
Sera Khandro

Sera Khandro Kunzang Dekyong Wangmo

Name variants:

Dewé Dorje
Kunzang Chönyi Wangmo
Sukhavajra (Sukha Badzra)
Üza Khandro

Subsequent incarnation(s):

Khandro Tāre Lhamo

Further information:

Treasury of Lives Author Bio
BDRC Author Profile (P742)

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