Vajrayana Archives

An Introduction to the Twelve Deeds of the Buddha and the Fivefold Great Festival (Saga Dawa Düchen)

HE Sangay Dorji introduces the significance of Saga Dawa and what each Act of the Buddha means in the cosmic narrative of enlightenment

A range of powerful and meritorious pujas, initiations, retreats, and other ceremonies are unfolding across the Himalayas this year

An auspicious reunion between the Gelug and Jonang leaders took place on 1 May, marking an important Kalachakra date as well as Vesak

His Eminence Laytshog Lopen Sangay Dorji has written an extensive biography of the revered founder of the Bhutanese nation

HH Jonang Gyaltsab Rinpoche shared profound thoughts about a range of subjects over a period of two days in Taipei

The Parinirvana dates of Marpa and Milarepa – two of Tibetan Buddhism’s most important guru-disciple pairs – fall in the same month this year

The Jonang Kalachakra Meditation Institute is one of the few institutions in the world fully focused on the Kalachakra Tantra’s Sixfold Yoga

The Jonang’s lineage holder will grant the White Zambala, Kalachakra Vishvamata, and Four-Faced, Eight-Armed Vase Yamantaka empowerments

A Shinto-Buddhist dialogue about how spiritual presences, great and small, inhabit inanimate images is not too far-fetched

Veteran designer Dr. Neel Konwar discusses how he helped construct the central platform of the Festival’s Kalachakra empowerment