Bodhicharya Meditation Center

03/11/2025

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"We always talk and think and make concepts, but those concepts are not how things are. They are a little bit of explanation of how things are, but it is almost impossible to explain how things are using concepts. For example, if somebody had never tasted honey, and you wanted to explain how honey tasted, how could you do that? It is impossible."~ Ringu Tulku Rinpoche

Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, with Mary Heneghan, in “White Tara, Healing Light of Wisdom”, p51, Bodhicharya Publications, 2022.

31/10/2025

Ringu Tulku Rinpoche in Colorado, USA, October 2025. Photos thanks to Paul O'Connor

27/10/2025

"Acceptance does not mean I don’t do anything. I do whatever I think is helpful and useful, I do healing or whatever I can, but then I accept whatever happens, happens."~ Ringu Tulku Rinpoche

Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, with Mary Heneghan, in “White Tara, Healing Light of Wisdom”, p115, Bodhicharya Publications, 2022.

24/10/2025

The Archive reaches 1000 Published Teachings

"We are very happy to announce that The Ringu Tulku Archive has just reached 1000 published teachings, recorded between October 1989 and October 2025!

In addition to the video and audio recordings from Rinpoche’s teaching tours all over the world, the Archive is also the treasure house of several interesting courses, and, of course, hundreds of recorded jokes told by Rinpoche’s students.

We would like to thank Rinpoche for so kindly and generously sharing his wisdom and knowledge during all these years, and even recording his teachings on tour to ensure that we will have them in the Archive. Also thank you to everyone else involved in any way in the process of making them available.

And, finally, a warm thanks to you, all the Archive members for keeping it operational through your diligence and generosity. We hope you all continue to support this marvellous project well into the future.

As a new feature, we now also have the option to purchase a membership as a gift for your friends. Gift membership is valid for one year and can be found on all three of our subscriptions as a selectable option."

The Ringu Tulku Archive team.

24/10/2025

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བས་སེམས་ནི།
Refuge and Bodhicitta

བདག་ལ་ང་བར་ེད་པའི་ད། གནོད་པར་ེད་པའི་བགེགས།
dak la dang war che pay dra nö par che pay gek
All my mothers, all beings throughout space, especially the enemies who hate me,

ཐར་པ་དང་ཐམས་ཅད་མེན་པའི་བར་ ་གཅོད་པར་ེད་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ིས་གཙ་ས་པའི།
tar pa dang tam che khyen pay bar du chö par che pa tam che kyi tso che pay
obstructors who harm me, and all those who obstruct my liberation and omniscience,

མ་ནམ་མཁའ་དང་མཉམ་པའི་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་བདེ་བ་དང་ན།
ma nam kha dang nyam pay sem chen tam che de wa dang den
must have happiness, be free from suffering, and quickly attain precious,

ག་བལ་དང་ལ། ར་་་ན་མེད་པ་ཡང་དག་པར་ོགས་པའི་ ང་བ་རིན་པ་ཆ་ཐོབ་པར་།
duk ngel dang dral nyur du la na me pa yang dak par dzok pay jang chup rin po che top par ja
unsurpassable, complete and perfect awakening.

དེའི་ཆེད་་སངས་མ་ས་ི་བར་་ས་ངག་ཡིད་གམ་དགེ་བ་ལ་བཀོལ།
deyi che du sang ma gye kyi bar du lü ngak yi sum ge wa la köl
For that purpose, until buddhahood, I will employ my body, speech, and mind in virtue.

མ་ཤིའི་བར་་ས་ངག་ཡིད་གམ་དགེ་བ་ལ་བཀོལ།
ma shiyi bar du lü ngak yi sum ge wa la köl
Until death, I will employ my body, speech, and mind in virtue.

ས་དེ་རིང་ནས་བང་ེ་ཉི་མ་སང་ད་ཙམ་་ས་ངག་ཡིད་གམ་དགེ་བ་ལ་བཀོལ།་ི་བར
dü de ring ne sung te nyi ma sang da tsam gyi bar du lü ngak yi sum ge wa la köl
From today until this time tomorrow, I will employ my body, speech, and mind in virtue.

ནམ་མཁའི་མཐའ་དང་མཉམ་པའི་སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད།
nam khay ta dang nyam pay sem chen tam che
All beings throughout the reaches of space take refuge

ང་གཉིས་མས་ི་མཆོག་སངས་ས་བཅོམ་ན་འདས་མས་ལ་བས་་མཆིའོ། །
kang nyi nam kyi chok sang gye chom den de nam la kyab sum chi o
in the bhagavan buddhas, supreme among human beings.

འདོད་ཆགས་དང་ལ་བ་མས་ི་མཆོག་དམ་པའི་ཆོས་མས་ལ་བས་་མཆིའོ།
dö chak dang dral wa nam kyi chok dam pay chö nam la kyab sum chi o
We take refuge in the genuine Dharmas, supreme among all freedoms from attachment.

།ཚགས་མས་ི་མཆོག་འཕགས་པའི་དགེ་འན་མས་ལ་བས་་མཆིའོ། །
tsok nam kyi chok pak pay gen dün nam la kyab sum chi o
We take refuge in the arya Sanghas, supreme among assemblies.

from the Kagyu Monlam Prayer Book

Also in the Bodhicharya Prayer book, still few Pecha format available to order here:
https://bodhicharya.org/product/bodhicharya-prayer-book-pecha-format/

Photo: Thangka depicting the Refuge Tree of the Karma Kagyu Lineage by Sherab Palden Beru, c. 1972.

22/10/2025

General Announcement: His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama will attend a Long Life Prayer offered to him by Dhanglob in the morning at Thekchen Choeling Tsuglakhang in Dharamshala on 31 October 2025.