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A New Translation and Commentary of the Kalachakra Tantra by Niraj Kumar

Posted on July 25, 2022July 25, 2022by Teahouse

A new translation of the Kalachakra Tantra from Niraj Kumar

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  • Lyudmila Klasanova

Women in Indian Tantric Buddhism, Part One

Posted on July 3, 2021July 6, 2021by Teahouse

There are two Vajrayana paths that lead to the spiritual realization of women – the path of a nun (Skt. bhikshuni, Tib. gelongma) who has renounced worldly existence, and the path of a yogini (Tib. naljorma) who can perform spiritual practice in solitude or combine it with family life. In the Indian Tantric tradition, there […]

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  • Lyudmila Klasanova

Nairatmya, Part Two

Posted on April 1, 2021April 1, 2021by Teahouse

Nairatmya. From tibetshop.com The practice of the dakini Nairatmya was transmitted to Tibet and preserved in the Tengyur, the second part of the Tibetan Buddhist canon. In the Kagyu and Gelug schools, she appears mainly as a spiritual wife of the fierce protective deity Hevajra and very rarely as an independent deity. She is revered […]

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  • Lyudmila Klasanova

Mystery of Dakini’s Skull Cup

Posted on November 28, 2017November 30, 2017by Teahouse

According to tantra, the human body is perceived as a sacred temple in which all higher forces and the whole truth about existence are present. One of those truths, fundamental to Vajrayana Buddhism, is impermanence (Skt. anitya, Tib. mitagpa). The visual representation of the transience of the human body, and hence the Buddhist idea of […]

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  • Lyudmila Klasanova

Spontaneous Union

Posted on September 26, 2017December 1, 2017by Teahouse

Everything in nature is conditioned by the fundamental principle expressed in the unity of opposites: yin-yang. The fusion of the male and the female is a creative act and the source of life. Even though Buddha Nature is beyond genders, Buddhist iconography uses sexual polarity to symbolize the Mahayana and Vajrayana concept of the union […]

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  • Padma Drolma

Infinite Guru

Posted on August 23, 2017July 28, 2019by Teahouse

Nothing will remain It will be brief Still I want you inside The minutes I serve you In the water mirror I offer you Endless Mandalas Until the meeting of the suns I touch the unreal It makes me smile And sigh The stream goes by I weave my fingers into yours One Last Time […]

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  • Lyudmila Klasanova

Dharmodaya: The Source of Reality

Posted on June 7, 2017December 1, 2017by Teahouse

Lyudmila Klasanova The six-pointed geometric star or hexagram is considered one of the most ancient spiritual symbols in the world and has a deep meaning in Tantric Buddhism. In Vajrayana it appears as ritual diagram and symbolic emblem of the female deity Vajrayogini (Tib. Dorje Naljorma) who is emanation of the perfect state of Buddha […]

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  • Padma Drolma

Devotion to the Guru

Posted on April 5, 2017December 2, 2017by Teahouse

Padma Drolma   And if in all the beads nothing comes up I won’t forget you I’ll give another turn Despite my thousand stumbles For I know that thin are the lines which separate mastery from fear They are tiny and do not define Space is the shelter that does not welcome It afflicts me […]

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