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ISSN 2753-4812
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Trulshik Rinpoche Series

Tibetan Masters Trulshik Rinpoche

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Manifestation of Vairocana with the power of speech,

And Ananda, who held a treasury of sacred Dharma,

Master of a wealth of inexhaustible intelligence,

Glorious guru, at your feet I pray!

Texts by and about Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche, Ngawang Chökyi Lodrö ('khrul zhig ngag dbang chos kyi blo gros, 1924–2011), one of the teachers of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.

Advice

This pithy advice for a lama about to enter retreat explains the ultimate sense of the Tibetan term tsam (mtshams), which means 'retreat' but also 'boundary' or 'limit'.
Retreat & Solitude Advice 2 Sep 2021
This short instruction on relative and absolute bodhicitta was composed at the request of the English monk Tenzin Jamchen (Sean Price).
Advice Bodhicitta 7 Jun 2018
These four lines of advice that encapsulate the entire path were requested by Tulku Pema Wangyal Rinpoche on behalf of his students.
Advice 5 Jun 2018

Aspiration Prayers

Composed in Lerab Ling, France in 2005 at the request of several translators, led by Tenzin Jamchen (Sean Price) and Chökyi Nyima (Richard Barron), this is a prayer of aspiration to be recited by modern-day lotsāwas.
Aspiration Prayers 4 Jan 2006
A four-line aspiration prayer for the spread of the terma revelations of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910–1991), composed at the request of Lama Jigme of Khawalung Monastery.
Aspiration Prayers 11 Mar 2021
Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche composed this short prayer for the realisation of the ultimate view, meditation and conduct at the request of a devoted student by the name of Changchub Chökyi Drolma.
Aspiration Prayers 6 Sep 2016
A four-line aspiration to realize the nature of Buddha Samantabhadra, which Trulshik Rinpoche composed in La Sonnerie, France, in November, 2001.
Aspiration Prayers 2 Sep 2021

Guru Yoga

Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche composed this simple guru yoga, which focuses upon himself, at the request of Khachö Tsering Palmo while he was bestowing the Nyingma Kama transmissions at Shechen Monastery in Nepal.
Guru Yoga 5 Jun 2018

Long-Life Prayers

by Fourteenth Dalai Lama
His Holiness composed this ten-verse prayer for the longevity of Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche (1924–2011) in 2001 at the request of the master's nephew Ngawang Chöpel Gyatso.
Long-Life Prayers 21 Oct 2021
Kyabje Rinpoche composed this short prayer for the long life of Alak Zenkar Rinpoche at the request of the Rigpa saṅgha in December 2005.
Long-Life Prayers
by Fourteenth Dalai Lama
In this short, four-line prayer for Trulshik Rinpoche's longevity, His Holiness alludes to the Dzogchen teachings that he himself received from the master.
Long-Life Prayers 21 Oct 2021
Trulshilk Rinpoche wrote this prayer for the longevity of Lodi Gyari Rinpoche in December 2005 in France, at the request of Sogyal Rinpoche and the Rigpa saṅgha.
Long-Life Prayers 28 Jun 2018
This long-life prayer for Mayum Tsering Wangmo of the Lakar family, who was renowned as an emanation of Uṣṇīṣavijayā, was composed in France in 2003.
Long-Life Prayers 30 Dec 2018
A four-line prayer for the longevity of Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche (b. 1951), who is the seventh in the line of Gar Drupchen incarnations.
Long-Life Prayers
Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche wrote this prayer for the longevity of Urgyen Tenzin Jigme Lhundrup (b. 1993), the incarnation of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910–1991), at the sacred Māratika cave in Nepal on Friday, 29 December 1995.
Long-Life Prayers 2 Feb 2018
This five-line prayer is constructed around the syllables of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's full name: Jetsün Jampal Ngawang Lobzang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso.
Long-Life Prayers 26 Feb 2018
This prayer for the long life of Sogyal Rinpoche was composed in 1995 in Māratika Cave, Nepal. At that time, Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche had completed a retreat focused on longevity and gave a long-life empowerment to Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche, Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche and Sogyal Rinpoche.
Long-Life Prayers
Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche wrote this four-line prayer for the longevity of Sogyal Rinpoche in September 1999.
Long-Life Prayers
This longevity supplication, written in 2000, incorporates the syllables of Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche's full name: Shedrup Trinlé Nyinjé Pal Zangpo.
Long-Life Prayers 27 Jun 2018
This extensive prayer for Sogyal Rinpoche's longevity, entitled The Attainment of Immortality ('chi med grub pa), was written at Kyabje Rinpoche's monastery of Tupten Chöling in Nepal in 2005.
Long-Life Prayers 1 Mar 2007
This six-verse prayer for the longevity of Tulku Rigdzin Pema Tendzin Dorje (b. 1948) was written in June 2004 at the Māratika cave in Nepal.
Long-Life Prayers 3 Jan 2024

Praise

Written to coincide with Holiness the Dalai Lama's visit to Lerab Gar in France in 2000, this short text pays tribute to His Holiness's qualities and achievements in this and previous lifetimes.
Praise 5 Jul 2018
These verses of praise were written as a prologue to His Holiness the Dalai Lama's book The Vision of Enlightenment, published in 2006.
Praise Introductions 5 Jul 2018
Trulshik Rinpoche compiled these brief verses of praise and mantras so that all those connected with him could recite them daily or on special occasions. The deities included are Buddha Śākyamuni, Vajrasattva, Amitāyus, Amitābha, Ratnaśikhin, Medicine Buddha, Maitreya, Avalokiteśvara, Mañjuśrī, Vajravidāraṇa, Vijayā, Tārā, Guru Padmasambhava, and the union of Hayagrīva, Vajrapāṇi and Garuḍa.
Praise Buddha Śākyamuni Vajrasattva Amitāyus Amitābha Mañjuśrī Uṣṇīṣavijayā Avalokiteśvara Tārā 12 Jul 2010

Prayers

Written in verse, this is a list of Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche's previous incarnations and a prayer to receive their inspiration and blessing.
Prayers 5 Jun 2018
A supplication prayer that recalls Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche's thirty previous incarnations and their major accomplishments, as well as the master's own life and future emanations.
Prayers Biographical Prayers 5 Jun 2018

Sādhanas

The basic practice of Damdrip Nyepa Kunsel (which derives from the revelations of Trengpo Sherab Özer) based on the deity Ucchuṣma, with added preliminary and concluding sections.
Ucchuṣma Restricted 26 Jun 2019

Swift Rebirth Prayers

by Fourteenth Dalai Lama
His Holiness composed this prayer for the swift rebirth of his teacher Trulshik Rinpoche Ngawang Chökyi Lodrö (1924–2011) in an airport in Argentina in 2011, shortly after the master's parinirvāṇa.
Swift Rebirth Prayers 27 Apr 2018
Trulshik Rinpoche

Kyabje Trulshik Rinpoche

Name variants:

Dzarong Shadeu Trulshik
Gyurme Ngawang Chökyi Lodrö

Previous incarnation(s):

Trulshik Dongak Lingpa

Further information:

BDRC Author Profile (P626)

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